During World War II, Major John W. Mitchell (339th Fighter Squadron) is seated in the cockpit, the cockpit canopy opened. Smiling briefly, Mitchell puts on and adjusts his helmet with goggles. Mitchell closes the cockpit canopy. Another United States Army Air Force pilot of the 339th Fighter Squadron is seated and gives a thumbs-up at the camera. The pilot smiles and adjusts his helmet before closing the cockpit canopy. Another pilot adjusts his helmet as he smiles to the camera and closes the cockpit canopy. Pilots smiling at the camera before adjusting their helmets and closing their cockpit canopies. These are the 339th Fighter Squadron Pilots who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. View of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
A group of United States Army Air Force pilots belonging to the 339th Fighter Squadron, who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, walk together beside a Lockheed P-38 Lightning during World War 2. They sit together near the aircraft and discuss with a map. The commander, Major John Mitchell, holding the map points straight to his comrades before pointing something on the map. On his right are Lieutenants Besby Holmes and Rex Barber. To the left of Major Mitchell is Captain Tom Lanphier. The pilots are standing again near the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, discussing together. Major John W. Mitchell, wearing helmet and goggles, poses and smiles while holding a propeller’s blade.
Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.
Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.
Artist illustration of Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of future United State President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, reading from a book. A page from a Roosevelt heirloom Dutch Bible turns to show an illustration of Sara Roosevelt holding Franklin Roosevelt as a baby circa 1882. The page turns to show a photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a young child. Another page turns to show a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a boy wearing a sailor collar shirt. Image of Franklin Delano Roosevelt wearing a miniature sailor suit, fashionable children’s wear during the 19th century.
United States soldier of the 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry and South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldier speaks to Vietnamese child wearing nón lá (leaf hat) in field in Que Son Valley during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldier explains to Vietnamese child. Vietnamese child listens while chewing candy. American soldier points to his right while talking to the Vietnamese child. The soldiers and the child stand up and leave the field together. Squatting Vietnamese girl in the field looks at the camera and begins to talk.
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