United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower on vacation in Puerto Rico. President Eisenhower takes a four days’ vacation in Puerto Rico on returning to Washington DC from South America. Golf carts in Dorado Beach. Two men walk on a beach. President Eisenhower plays golf and relaxes in Puerto Rico. Eisenhower rides a golf cart while Secret Service agents follow behind.
Brazilians in a boat in Brazil. Two Brazilian men in a small boat. A man throws a fishing net. Children with overturned bats on a beach. Small huts on the beach. A group of people seated on the steps of a church. Men pray inside the church. A group of people in a boat. (Other clips on this same reel show verified scenes of the Fordlandia community built by Ford Motor Company in Brazil. Though this community does not appear to be Fordlandia, it may be a nearby community of Ford rubber plantation workers. Data accompanying this reel of film gives a date of 1940, but this may be from circa 1934 near the time that Fordlandia operations stopped and Belterra operations began).
Amphibian assault on Oran, Morocco, during Operation Torch, in World War 2. U.S. troops descend rope ladders from Troop ships and enter assault boats. Major General Terry Allen, (Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr.) Commander of the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division, descends rope ladder, followed by his Deputy, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. A Colonel follows them. Views from inside the assault boat carrying them and other officers and soldiers, including some Military Policemen. View from that boat, of troops entering assault boats from a large Attack Transport Ship (APA). A jeep being lowered from the APA to a boat. The assault boat carrying First Infantry Division Commander and staff reaches the beach in Oran, and discharges them onto the beach. There is no opposing force evident.
Beachhead and surf in North Africa, during the Allied invasion (Operation Torch) in World War 2. Large amounts of war materiel on the beach. An explosion behind the beachhead. Invasion convoy ships underway. Sailor signals with semaphore flags. Many ships and boats near the shore, including the U.S. submarine, USS Barb, displaying the number "220." Numerous assault boats seen in distance, headed toward the beach.
U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft painted in D-Day stripes, seen taking off at nightfall on June 5, 1944, carrying Airborne troopers from a base in England, during World War 2. Large formations of U.S. B-17 bombers en route to targets in Europe. Clusters of indendiary bombs falling from a U.S. bomber. View from a bomber of explosions on the ground from bombing at a coastline. Allied paratroopers fill the sky with their parachutes as they jump from formations of C-47 transport aircraft. Thirty minutes before the amphibious assaults at Normandy, Allied warships bombard the shore with heavy naval guns. Troops leave their transport ships and board small landing craft (Higgins boats). Soldiers try to stabilize the rope nets for others climbing down, as their small craft pitch in choppy seas. The boats speed away from their transport ships, and head toward the shore. Smoke rising from the shore where naval shelling has caused explosions and fire. Troops from landing craft of the USS, Samuel Chase (APA-26), wade ashore under enemy machine gun fire, at "Fox Green" section of Omaha Beach. They are far away from the beach itself, because of steel and concrete obstacles placed by the Germans, and relatively low tide.
U.S. Navy carrier operations off Iwo Jima during World War II. The U.S. Navy TBM Avenger aircraft in formation flight. Aircraft in flight over water. Amphibious landing craft circle in water prior to invasion assault. Landing craft head towards a beach. Three TBMs in flight in close formation. Landing crafts circle. Several TBMs in flight. Invasion ships and landing crafts off the coast of Iwo Jima. Hits made on the beach. Landing crafts in water. Smoke rising up from Mount Suribachi.
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