An interview of United States Air Force Lieutenant General Ira Eaker conducted by Dr. Maurer in the United States. Dr Maurer and General Eaker seated at a desk. Dr Maurer talks about the work and the contribution of General Eaker in the U.S. Air Force. He says that General Eaker was the Commander of the 8th Air Force. In 1944, he became the Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force. Then from 1945 until his retirement in 1947, he was the deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and chief of the Air Staff. General Eaker talks about his experiences. He talks about the first airplane flight he saw. He further speaks that he was sent to a training camp in 1917. A man came in the camp looking for some fliers. He was already selected for an examination of regular army. He says that in November 1917, he was on a parade grounds. An airplane was in flight overhead. The aircraft landed and he looked at the engine of the aircraft.
Postwar (after World War II) agriculture activities in the United States. Farming equipment in operation on farms. Canned food in a store. Flashback scenes to the Great Depression during the 1930s: A man carries a banner which reads 'Unemployed Will Take Any Job'. Unemployed men lying on a bench. A sign on a gate : 'No Men Wanted'. Shabby housing tenements and shacks of poverty victims falling apart in a rural farm area. Forward again to the post war 1940s: Smoke comes out off chimneys of a factory. American workers busy at a auto assembly line finishing new cars (appears to be 1946 or 1947 Chevrolet cars). Factory workers line up at a pay window to receive pay checks. An industrialist works in his office. Crowds of American citizens on busy city streets with pedestrians and automobiles, and shoppers looking in store windows, including store windows showing elaborate Christmas displays. A cooperative farm plan to produce what the industrial and consumer markets demand. A man milks a cow with an automatic milking machine. A woman using electricity on a farm to power a new open top clothes washing machine. Farm machines are used.
Activities of the United States secret service agents in Washington D.C., United States. Visit of French President Auriol, in 1947. Secret Service mingle and occupy vehicles at edge of gathering. Motorcade leaving White House with Secret Service agents riding on outsides of cars. In crowd secret servicemen are on an alert for the protection of the President or foreign head of State. They operate on a two way radio and keep a record about the route and timings when the motorcade will approach the crowd. During public gathering secret service agents stay close to U.S. President Harry S Truman. They watch individuals and maintain vigilance for unusual movements, or activities. Phalanx of agents escorts President's motorcade through the streets.
U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff at SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Nebraska, United States. Chairman Joint Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer, USAF Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George W Anderson, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps Commandant David M Shoup alight from a U.S. Air Forces VC-135 aircraft at Offutt Air Force Base. The officers being greeted by Commander of SAC General Thomas S Power and Vice Commander Lieutenant General John P McConell. The officers talk and shake hands. The officers leave the air force base in staff cars as SAC elite guards salute.
U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff meets to discuss Project Guard Rail at SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Nebraska, United States. Chairman Joint Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer, USAF Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George W Anderson, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps Commandant David M Shoup arrive at the Offutt Air Force Base in staff cars. A few officers board the flight. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Deputy Secretary Roswell Gilpatric arrive in a car. Secretary McNamara shakes hands with an officer and boards the aircraft. The officers shake hands before boarding the flight.
Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop
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