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).
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.
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.
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.
Steam locomotive pulls long passenger train up to dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.Visitors crowded aroung outside the hangar to see the German dirigible, LZ 129, Hindenburg, parked inside the hangar. Crowd enters the gate of the building. Sign overhead reads 'No Packages or Cameras allowed inside hangar'. The visitors are monitored by U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy personnel, as they enter the hangar.
Steam locomotive pulls long passenger train up to dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey. Engine of train emits smoke. People leave the train after arrival and walk to side entrance of the hangar, where they queue up to enter and view the dirigible Hindenburg (LZ-129) parked inside.
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