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President Roosevelt addresses congress after attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941; civilians enlist in U.S. military for World War 2

World-wide wartime activities during 1941 and 1942. President Roosevelt addresses Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Crowd applauds. Citizens and cars stopped in busy New York listening to the news on the radio being broadcast regarding the declaration of war against Japan. Long queues and lines of civilian men get registered in the U.S. army as recruits are called up. Men taking oath of U.S. military service in New York and Washington DC (on U.S. Capitol steps) and other cities in mass recruitment events. New recruits stand in line in a city to register for U.S. Navy or U.S. Army service. New recruits shown include baseball star Joe Dimaggio, boxer Joe Louis, John Aspinwall Roosevelt (who was President Roosevelt's youngest son), Tyrone Power, Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks Junior, and Warren Pershing (son of famed General John Pershing) all seen registering to enter military service. Justice Frank Murphy of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen operating a machine gun during training. Another scene with a mass group of recruits standing and taking an oath of military service.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051746
U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine forces in Guadalcanal campaign versus Japanese forces during World War II

Map shows Solomon Islands in South Pacific. Truk and Australia are highlighted. Tulagi and Guadalcanal are shown. American Naval task force, including Attack Transports and warships seen underway in stormy Pacific waters. Sailors loading heavy naval guns aboard a U.S. warship. Ship's guns firing. Smoke rising from explosions on island. shows smoke rising. USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) is seen at time 1:34, firing its main battery. Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft flying low overhead. U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal. Marines wading ashore. American Douglas SBD lands at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. B-17s on Henderson Field, including B-17E Serial number 41-9145 of the 26th Bombardment Squadron.Long column of U.S. marines snakes across edge of airfield headed towards interior of Guadalcanal. Scene shifts to jungle interior, where they march two abreast over captured terrain. A building in the background. Marines firing a 105mm Howitzers. A B-25 bomber taking off. B-26 bombers in flight. Closeup of B-26 flying over water. View from cockpit of U.S. aircraft strafing Japanese held island, striking targets at shoreline and aircraft and supplies on a Japanese airfield. Japanese marines taken prisoner on Guadalcanal. Views of groups of Japanese prisoners of war. Japanese soldiers stand in formation and are also seen sitting in confined areas.US marines patrolling shore where numerous Japanese soldiers are seen dead.

Location: Solomon Islands
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051760
Funeral services for Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington DC and at Hyde Park, New York (WW2)

Funeral procession of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the streets of Washington DC. Horse drawn carriage with casket escorted by men on motorcycles. Crowd lined up on sidewalks. Various U.S. military units march. Funeral procession arrives at White House. Casket is carried into building. Casket is placed in East Room, lying in state. Scene change to funeral services for FDR at Hyde Park, New York. President Truman and Franklin D Roosevelt's wife among the mourners. A volley is fired over the president's grave. Symphonic music track in background is interspersed with audio quotations from Roosevelt, including, from his State of the Union on January 7, 1943: "Therefore, let us all have confidence, let us redouble our efforts. A tremendous, costly, long-enduring task in peace as well as in war is still ahead of us. But, as we face that continuing task, we may know that the state of this Nation is good--the heart of this Nation is sound--the spirit of this Nation is strong--the faith of this Nation is eternal." Also heard at the beginning of the clip is Roosevelt saying, "American fighting men looked to the statesmen of the world to finish the work of peace for which they fought and suffered. We failed them then. We cannot fail them again, and expect the world again to survive," from his address to Congress on Yalta, March 1, 1945 (World War II).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1945, April 24
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051765
U.S. Air Force Airlift Operations in Dominican Republic, Caribbean, and Republic of Chad, West Africa

C-130 aircraft with opened cargo hatch and supplies being loaded. A C-130 cargo plane taxies and another one takes off in the background. U.S. troops march on airfield. U.S. Air Force personnel help a Catholic Priest arriving at airfield on a school bus. Foreign nationals are being evacuated and supplies are being brought in by U.S. Air Force Cargo planes. Long lines of C-130s taxi for takeoff. In West Africa, view from cockpit of a C-130 and from inside the cargo hold as the aircraft deploys extraction parachute with connected cargo of grain for the local population suffering severe drought. People gather around a town center square, where grain is being distributed. Woman carries basket of grain on her head.

Location: Dominican Republic Caribbean
Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051880
French Marshal Joseph Joffre welcomed in Yokohama by Japanese military officers and government officials.

French Marshal Joseph Joffre arrives in a long boat, at a dock in Yokohama, Japan. Steamships seen in the harbor, in the background. Japanese military officers await the arrival. Joffre, and his staff officers, are accompanied by a Japanese diplomat in a high hat, and Japanese military officers, as they walk along a pier. Two young Japanese girls present Joffre with bouquets of flowers. A train carrying Marshal Joffre and his staff and welcoming party arrives at the Tokyo railroad station, which is decorated with French and Japanese flags. Joffre is welcomed by an Honor Guard of the Empire and escorted across the platform toward the city, proper. Spectators line a platform on the other side of the tracks.

Location: Yokohama Japan
Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051993
MATS C-124 and Navy R5D aircraft operating in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze

During U.S. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. A tracked vehicle moves on snow in front of Observation Hill. (This area would become Mcmurdo Station.) A Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-124C Aircraft taxis down sea-ice runway and turns around to takeoff . It makes makes a long takeoff roll and breaks ground with slow rate of climb, churning up a fog of snow in the process. . Small weasel with small trailer with fire extinguisher on it. Navy R5D Aircraft in the background taxiing for take off. R5D taxis. Yellow fuel truck is seen. R5D makes a jet assisted takeoff. Flame is seen from the JATO bottles under the aircraft during takeoff roll and much trailing smoke, as the aircraft breaks ground with a high rate of climb.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052043
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