Operation Cue (part of Operation Teapot) nuclear test by the United States conducted at Nevada test site in the United States. Vehicles driven on a road early in the morning. Television equipment is hailed at the test site. Media persons and Civil Defense observers gather to study the results of a nuclear blast. Civil Defense personnel assemble with their equipment. A small group of Civil Defense volunteers occupy a trench close to the ground level. Media persons have coffee. Instructions are given on a loudspeaker. Personnel put on eye gear. A countdown starts. Atomic bomb explosion occurs. Test homes being blown away by explosion of a bomb. Power lines burst.
Two U.S. Marines in a Jeep during a training exercise in Nevada, United States, during the Vietnam War. United States Marine Corps naval infantry gather in front of an army medical truck. They organize backpacks, rifles, and helmets on the ground. Marine Corps backpacks, rifles, equipment, rocket launchers, and helmets neatly placed in front of the soldiers. An African American Marine examines the sight on a machine gun before placing it back on the ground. Officers training the Marines inspect them and their equipment. A Marine laughs beside other men.
The beginning of the construction of Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River in the United States. Rocks on the side of the river. A boat in the river. A map shows the course of the Colorado River through different states of the country. The river causes floods in towns and farming districts of California. The dam site in the Black Canyon, where the river forms a boundary between Nevada and Arizona. A map shows the dam site. Materials at the dam site. Trains bring supplies. Power lines to the dam site. Men assemble materials for construction work. Men at a survey. Workmen come to the dam site in trucks from other states.
The crew team 8-Oar finals in the United States, qualifying for the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Germany. Teams participate to win the rowing finals for Olympic team. People watch the event. Trees in the foreground. The Washington Husky crew team from the University of Washington wins the finals. People applaud.
Activities in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States during Armistice Day commemorations on November 11, 1936. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Arlington Cemetery, standing beside U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn. A large crowd gathered at the amphitheater near Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. U.S. Army General John Pershing speaks at amphitheater in Arlington.
Damage caused due to hurricanes on the East Coast of the United States in 1936. The roads flooded with water. Damaged electric poles. Cameramen stand in a line taking pictures in the rain. A car stuck in water. Dramatic scene of a boy and a policeman riding their bicycles in very high water. wind damaged and flood damaged buildings and houses. Men walk near the rubble and look at a damaged house. In Texas, views of flooding from rivers. A damaged railway track. A wrecked car. Men at the railway station board a train. American industrialist and billionaire John D. Rockefeller makes his annual trip to the South. He gets out of a car and boards the train. At age 97, John Rockefeller is escorted by his personnel.
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