United States Navy aircraft carrier Langley (CVL-27) being activated at Philadelphia Navy shipyard in Pennsylvania prior to transfer to France. The aircraft carrier Langley alongside the dock as a large crane swings outboard. Men on a scaffold as they sand blast the hull from a barge. Cocoons being removed from around a gun. Yard workers assist in removing the cocoons and lower them to the pier. An armor plate being removed from around the gun. A large cocoon being removed from a gun mount by a crane. The cocoon being lowered to the pier.
Shipboard activities of United States sailors while underway in the Pacific Ocean. American sailors stand in a geedunk line (canteen or snack bar) aboard a ship. Men behind a counter as they serve ice cream sundae to one of the sailors. The sailors carry gallon pitchers with them. A man behind a fountain fills orders. A man scoops ice cream from a container and puts it in a paper cup. He squirts chocolate syrup on it. Geedunks at the counter pick up by the U.S. Navy sailors. A sailor eats his ice cream.
Hurricane Janet hits Mexico. An officer loads relief material on a United States Navy HUP 2 helicopter. People on top of a Mexican hut submerged in water. A portion of the city of Tampico. The helicopter parked in a street as many Mexicans gather around it.
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt returns from a vacation in Galveston, Texas. Presidential yacht Potomac pulls up at the coast in Galveston, Texas. Sailors aboard the yacht. President Roosevelt and others aboard the yacht as he returns after a vacation. Officers salute the President. President talks to men aboard the Potomac and smiles.
Allied military vehicles being unloaded at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during World War II. United States Army jeeps being unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank at Fox Green beachhead in Normandy, France. An American soldier on the beach as jeeps and other military vehicles are unloaded. A jeep get stranded in high waters and the soldier wades through surf towards the jeep. German prisoners on the beach. One of the injured German prisoners being carried away on a litter. Dead American soldiers on the beach. Wounded prisoners seated on the beach.
Allied landings at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during D-Day of World War II. United States soldiers loaded in a Landing Craft Tank as they move shore wards. Smoke rises from the Omaha beach in the background. Soldiers wade through water and land on Fox Green beach head in Normandy, France.
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