VC-137 Stratoliner residential aircraft of the United States Air Force One. The Air Force One plane carrying United States President Richard Nixon and others, takes off at dusk. Flash lamps and crewmen at the runway. The Presidential plane flies towards its left. Plane flying in dusk sky.
United States President Richard Nixon on tour to Romania. Bucharest Otopeni Airport (Henri Coandă International Airport, Calea Bucureştilor 224E, Otopeni 075150, Romania) during the arrival of President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon. Poster on terminal building reads 'Long Live Peace and Friendship between people'. Military band musicians play. The United States Air Force One, a Boeing C-137 Stratoliner aircraft (VC-137), on the runway. President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon arrive at the terminal along with Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and other dignitaries. They are presented various gifts and bouquets. The couple moves up the stairs and waves towards the people at the terminal. Honor guards watch as the Air Force One flies away.
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation from White House in Washington DC. He talks about the position of United States in World War II. He shows faith in his forces. He talks about rumors of damages versus actual damages by Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt provides death toll as 2340 people; regarding damages to navy ships, only 3 were permanently destroyed, others are repairable. He rejects rumors of massive damage to air forces, and says that Americans have destroyed more Japanese planes on and since Pearl Harbor attack than Japan has destroyed of U.S. planes.
Flags of Allied nations hoisted by soldiers at a ceremony at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Military Generals of England and the United States descend from a plane. Lord Tedder and United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shake hands and talk with Russian officers including Marshal Sokolovsky. German Field Marshal Keitel and others in his delegation arrive at the airport. Military band plays and Russian honor guard marches as British, American, and Soviet officials observe, while Keitel and his staff consult over paperwork in a car. Motorcade drives through ruined city of Berlin. Many views of various damaged and destroyed buildings and bridges filmed from a moving vehicle in the motorcade. Rubble all over the city roads and citizens moving about the streets, some observing the motorcade. Views of the building in Karlshorst, in a suburb of Berlin, where signing of the Nazi surrender takes place. Views of the Meeting hall (converted from a mess hall) before the signing . Views of the various military officials in the building before the signing of the surrender. Excerpt from Japanese newsreel. (World War II period).
Opening slate reads: "ANCIENT ART SAVED, Engineers To Move Treasures of the Nile." A sightseeing river boat plies waters of the Nile river approaching the Egyptian Temples of Ramses II, on its banks, in Nubia. Visitors are seen taking photographs in front of the four 65 foot statues of Ramses II in the facade of the Temple, while engineers are cutting them into pieces that will be reassembled 200 feet above the coming flood created by the new Aswan Dam in Egypt. Camera pans over smaller images and inscriptions at the site, and many embossed images cut into huge stone pillars. Statues inside the Temple tower above a man standing near them. Closeup of two of them. View of engineers making measurements on a wall filled with hieroglyphics. Four more interior statues well as the exterior statues of Ramses II are seen in stages of disassembly A worker standing beside the huge head of Ramses II statue .Camera pans over the ancient site. (Narrator states that the international effort to save and move the temple will cost 36 million dollars, with Egypt and the United States, each contributing one third, and the United Nations obtaining the rest from member nations.)
Launching of United States Navy Ship USS Saratoga (CV-3) from New York Shipbuilding Company yard in Camden, New Jersey. U.S. military and naval officers lined up on the deck of the ship. Commissioning ceremonies underway. The ship slides down the ways into the Delaware River. Boats sail near the ship in water. United States warplane aircraft fly over the ship.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.