Debate about admission of Argentina during San Francisco Conference working toward United Nations Charter. Disabled and injured United States war veterans from World War 2 combat (mostly Navy in this image) enter the Veterans Memorial Opera House (War Memorial Opera House). View of interior of hall. Ezequiel Padilla, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, addressing the gathering. Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov and an interpreter speaking, followed by secretary of States Edward Stettinius. Agenda of meeting is whether or not Argentina be invited for UN Security Conference. Chairman Anthony Eden calls for vote, Argentina is invited by a vote of 31 to 4. View of a parked Eastern Airlines silver liner parked at airfield in Washington DC, and new Ambassador Oscar Ibarra Garcia from Argentina emerges and is greeted by South American and United States officials. A person comes out of a U.S. aircraft and is received by authorities.
Five MIG-19 fighters in V formation and AN-8 assault transport flying by during Russian Tushino air show in 1956. A TU-104 passenger airplane and a YAK-26 fighter flying. Views of Ye-2 and Ye-4 test jets from the MiG Design Bureau flying singly. Eight Mi-1 helicopters flying by. U.S. Air Force General Nathan F.Twining in conversation with other USAF (United States Air Force) officials. Views of Soviet flags.
The Dieppe Raid, during World War 2. Relief map of France overlayed by Label "DIEPPE." Low-flying British Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft seen attacking German installations in the area, as German guns fire at them from deep fortifications. Closeup of German antiaircraft gunners on lookout for British aircraft as they fire a Bofors (4 cm Flak 28) point blank, from atop a hill. German gunners firing 2 cm Flakvierling 38 at the attacking aircraft. A German 12.8 cm Flak 40 antiaircraft gun firing. Views on the ground of smoke rising from bomb strikes. German soldiers gathered near a Renault FT tank (one inside it) on deserted street. One soldier holds a hand grenade. A huge explosion throwing up large amount of earth. German Soldier firing MG42 machine gun from inside a building. More huge explosions. Canadian soldiers on beachhead. Some carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher. A German Junkers Ju 88 aircraft bombs vessels near the beachhead. A Churchill tank of the Calgary Regiment near burning landing craft on the beachhead. Glimpse inland of bombed buildings. View shifts to beach, again, and fallen Canadian soldiers lying in front of a burning landing craft. Wounded Canadian soldiers lying on the beach in front of a knocked out Churchill tank. German soldier giving a drink to a wounded Canadian soldier on a landing craft. Canadian soldiers being rounded up as prisoners of war, on the beach and walking under guard with seaside Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours in the background. Some prisoners are barefoot. One is being carried on a stretcher. Abandoned Canadian military vehicles on the beach. Canadian prisoners of war with hands raised, being escorted under guard. View of town from beach. Bomb damaged buildings in town. views of allied prisoners under loose guard: walking across a town square; on the beach; and helping injured as they walk from beachhead. View of town from overlooking cliff. Bomb damage is seen. Camera pans across the beach showing beached landing craft and damaged and abandoned military vehicles and equipment littering the shore. View from shore with Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours and cliffs in background. Churchill tanks and other equipment at edge of surf. Damaged fortifications in cliffside. Numerous dead Canadian soldiers piled up against a cliff on the beach. Others lying in front of German fortifications. Camera pans across fallen soldiers on the beach. Closeup of surf lapping at two Canadian helmets. More knocked out Canadian armor. A destroyed German fortification and heavy gun near the beach. More destroyed Canadian armor and fallen soldiers lying nearby. More knocked out Churchill tanks. Closeup on one named "Beefy." Closup of manufacturer's label on Churchill tank. A stack of Canadian soldiers' boots. A British Spitfire airplane crashlanded on the beach. Wreckage of a destroyed British aircraft. Closup of bullet holes in fuselage near the aircraft's roundel. A landing craft drifting in the surf. Scene shifts to the town, where canadian prisoners of war are being processed. They remove their helmets. A group of French boys (some in boy scout uniforms) march along a road. Captured Canadian commandoes in black uniforms marching under guard. Ambulatory wounded civilians walking along a sidewalk. POWs assembled in a large open space near a building where a field kitchen has been set up. German soldier puts soup into the helmets of the prisoners. POWs seated on ground eating their meal. Another look at the shore and detritus thereon. View shifts to the undamaged areas of the town and waterfront. Residents continuing on with their lives, as normal. Some conversing as children stand near a street vendor, who appears to be selling ice cream. Other city street scenes. A German soldier at an anti aircraft gun in the hillside overlooking the port. A contingent of German soldiers marching in formation along a beach road. German officers looking over a 12.8 cm Flak 40 antiaircraft gun position overlooking the beach. German troops marching below in background.
Views of a vintage 1930s New York City police car on a busy street of Manhattan, New York City. At start of clip, the Columbus Circle statue of Columbus can be seen in distant background as car heads possibly down 59th Street and then down 7th Avenue. A policeman driving the car, and another cop sitting next to him looking out through the window. People walking on sidewalks, cars parked at the sides of road. Other 1930s vehicles on road including cars, taxis, trucks, and buses. A horse-drawn wagon or carriage is also seen. A corner shop with sign "Primadora" is seen. Near end of clip the car passes a Madison Square Garden entrance advertising the "National Horse Show. November 4 through November 5. International Military Jumping every night."
Various World War II War Bonds on table. Encourages soldiers to buy war bonds by saying 'For freedom's sake, buy War Bonds '. Views of a baseball match in a large stadium. Babe Ruth playing. Ship at port, 4-5 officials around a desk in office. Statue of a soldier. Soldiers in wooded area, U.S. flag can be seen. Lt General Somerwell, Commanding General ASF in his office, can be seen speaking.
September 1960: Fidel Castro disembarks from an airplane at New York airport, surrounded with people. He gets into car and departs. A small group of people greets him from behind the fences. Castro stops to meet them but New York police men stop him for security reasons and he goes. Prime communist leader of Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev arrives at a hotel to meet Castro. Castro welcomes Nikita as his car arrives down town, at hotel, on street. The United Nation's meeting spot building. Castro arrives at the 15th meeting of the United Nation's General Assembly. He comes forward for speech. He gives the longest speech in general assembly of the United Nations meeting, 4 hour long speech. Fredrick Henry Boland, President of the General Assembly interrupts him when he attacks the United States Presidential Candidates. Castro supports soviet ideology and Chinese admission to the UN. Fidel Castro meets Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita embraces Castro.
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