Men and women playing golf on various Park Department courses in Washington DC area, including one scene of golfers at Hains Point, with a sailboat in the background, underway in the Washington Channel. Local organized teams playing baseball with the White House in the background and spectators watching the game. Local teams playing football in a park. A rack full of fishing rods at the edge of a pond and anglers competing as they try to cast into floating rings on the pond. Several fountains spray water and the Washington Monument can be seen in background. Children playing on swings and slides and families picnicking in a park. The fountain in lower Senate Park, between the Capitol and Union Station. View with Union Station in the background and view with the Capitol in background.
The Arcadia Conference in Washington, DC, during World War 2, from December 22, 1941 to January 14, 1942. American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, are seated in chairs on a portico of the White House. ( Roosevelt wears a black arm band, in mourning for his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who died on September 7, 1941.) Behind them stand representatives from various Allied nations. Scene shifts abruptly to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, June 24, 1942, where Prime Minister Churchill and U.S. Army Brigadier General William C. Lee, ride in back of an open white convertible car to inspect U.S. Army troops at attention in a massive formation. Next, the troops are seen marching. Churchill smoking a cigar is seated on a bench watching as the parade continues, to include soldiers in jeeps, and trucks. Closeup of U.S. Army chief of Staff, General George Marshall, conversing with Prime Minister Churchill. Next, Churchill, accompanied by General Lee, personally inspects Army paratroopers in their jump gear. Among others accompanying him is U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, wearing a pith helmet. Churchill listens on a portable radio, as paratroop commanders in flight give orders for their paratroopers to jump. Formations of U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft are seen overhead, as hundreds of paratroopers jump from them and descend by parachutes. Churchill, seated on a chair, next to General Lee, watches the paratrooper demonstration. Secretary Stimson, sits behind him. British and American officers and soldiers stand behind and watch, as well. Closeup of Churchill with cigar in his mouth, shielding his eyes, with his hands as he watches the demonstration. The second person seated behind Churchill is British Field Marshal Sir John Dill, with his hand on an upright wood support. More views of parachutes floating down into an area of trees, and of more C-47s dropping paratroops from overhead.
The Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC. Exterior of the Office of Atomic Information. People enter and leave the building. An insert sign on the building : 'Federation of American Scientists, National Committee on Atomic Information'. J. W. Bush, Jr. , Mr. William A. Higinbotham and Mr. Albert Cahan (members of the Federation of American Scientists) sitting at a conference table. They discuss about atomic power. Mr. William A. Higinbotham and Daniel Meltcher (Head of Office of Atomic Information) at a desk in conversation. A bulletin sheet on 'National Committee on Atomic Information'.
Study kits on atomic energy are made in Washington DC. In a mail room three fellows and a girl making up study kits on atomic energy which they mail to the public. The girl arranges the kits. Various pamphlets being assembled. Another group of pamphlets being put in envelopes. Pamphlets on atomic information. A hand underlines a sentence on the pamphlet.
New England fishing ship offshore Boston, Massachusetts. New England fishing ship underway at sea. Ice-coated equipment and riggings on the ship due to frigid gales. A man attaches a crate to a cargo net and supplies cargo aboard the ship.
Navy personnel aboard an aircraft carrier underway off the shore of Honolulu, Hawaii. Naval aircraft on the aircraft carrier. Navy enlisted men run on the flight deck. They stand at attention. The navy personnel drill as a naval officer instructs in front of them. Another aircraft carrier in the background.
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