United States soldiers in Pietravairano, Italy during World War II. Protestant services at Christmas are held in the open. Soldiers seated near a building. A chaplain leads the congregation in a song. A soldier at a portable organ. The Catholic chaplain prays during the outdoor Mass at the 30th Infantry Regiment 3rd Division. A jeep hood serves as an altar. The chaplain delivers a sermon.
A film on training of U.S. paratroopers. A paratrooper in a jumping uniform in the United States. He is equipped with two parachutes. A parachute being placed on a table. Men standing nearby and working on the parachute. They pack the parachute. The parachute is folded step by step and is placed inside a pack.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC, United States during World War II. Churchill seated with U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a desk. Some officers standing behind them. Churchill and Roosevelt talk and pose.
Canadian air cadets at Mitchel Field in Long Island, United States. The cadets standing at attention. Buildings in the background. Officers inspect the cadets. The cadets inspect U.S. pursuit airplanes. They stand near an aircraft. A man seated in the cockpit of an aircraft.
Launching of ships at Staten Island in New York, United States. A destroyer and a cruiser being launched. The ships get underway. Women stand holding bouquets.
The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )
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