A film on workings and general features of DUKWs. Men carry wounded on stretchers in the United States. The wounded are loaded aboard a DUKW in a wooded area. The wounded on litters in the DUKW. The amphibious truck gets into water. It approaches a ship. The DUKW is carried onto the ship. Trucks move along a beach. Men stand at attention near parked DUKWs.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. A U.S. Navy Loening amphibian aircraft in flight over a water body during tests performed prior to a U.S. Navy three year expedition to Alaska. The aircraft lowers its landing gear. By folding the wheels the ship is converted into a hydroplane. The Loening aircraft in flight. It raises its landing gear. It lands on water, taxis and rolls out of the water onto a beach.
A fashion show in Chicago, Illinois. Models display the dresses from Dame Fashion for to be brides during a fashion show at Edgewater Beach Hotel (975 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, IL 60640, United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Models display bridal wear, gowns and swimsuits at the fashion show. Flanked by models wearing matching bridesmaid dresses, a model in a bias cut, floor-length wedding dress poses during a fashion show. Bouquet of white flowers. Model in bridal attire is wearing a wedding veil with a fashionable 1930s tulle and pearls headpiece. A model shows off her dark backless maillot swimsuit. A model wearing a feathery lingerie set. Models showing two different black tulle evening wear. Film ends showing a model spinning a parasol.
Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.
After failing to find Bermuda on their first flight frim North Beach,Queens, New York, pilot, Mrs. Beryl Hart, and navigator, Lieutenant William S.MacLaren, U.S. Naval Reserve, were forced back to the U.S. where they landed at Norfolk, Virginia. MacLaren replaced his broken sextant, and the pair are seen starting out on their second attempt (this one successful). The pair are seen in flight clothing, with helmets and goggles prepare for the flight. They pose in the cockpit of their Bellanca CH 300, high wing, twin float seaplane, the "Tradewinds." They smile and wave to the camera. The engine starts, and the seaplane taxis over the water and accelerates to flying speed. They break contact with the water and fly off at a moderate rate of climb.
The Cold War from perspective of U.S. military. Industry in the United States. Exterior of a factory shows stacks belching smoke. Scenes of heavy manufacturing.Steel furnace; flywheel; moving parts; machinists using drill press and lathe. Milling machine in operation. Steel fabrication; ingots; forging operations;gear cutting. Steel Bridge construction. Man rides girders suspended by cables. Concrete building construction. Electric transmission lines and facilities. Capitol building in Washington DC. The Kremlin in Soviet Union and Soviet military parade in Red Square. U.S. C-130 aircraft takes off. Helicopters fly in formation. Artillery is fired. Paratroops drop from C-130 aircraft in formation. Aircraft catapulted from carrier's deck. Rockets launched from ships. Polaris missile fired from submarine breaks surface of ocean. B-52 taking off. Formation of F-105s in flight. F-102s in flight. Troops in amphibious assault on beach. Helicopters in formation. Various missiles launched. U.S. surveyors working in an Asian country. President Lyndon B Johnson speaks at mike.
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