Unloading and beachhead activities during the invasion of France. A damaged LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) and a bulldozer stranded on the beach. Barrage balloons in flight. Allied soldiers walk on the beach. Soldiers unload supplies from a Rhino onto trucks. Boxes sled down wooden ramps in trucks. (World War II period).
Beachhead activities during the invasion of France. A barrage balloon in flight over the coast. Allied troops in and around military trucks. Wood logs spread in an area as a jeep pulls away. Damaged buildings on the beach. Men loaded in a DUKW, an amphibious truck move towards the beach. (World War II period).
A motor launch approaches a gangplank at the port side of the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during a Fleet Review on Christmas Day, 1918, in New York harbor. Her crew is formed up on her deck and she is returning her triple battery guns to their normal position, after having them turned and raised in salute. Scene shifts to the USS Texas (BB-35) as she drops her signal flags, while moving forward. Other warships can be seen behind her. Scene shifts again, to bow view of a stationary heavy cruiser belching heavy black smoke from her stack. Port-side view of a sleek two-stack cruiser. Sailors crowd the deck of a warship. A 4-stack destroyer is seen to her starboard. Sailors launch some kind of a floating device from a davit. Officers look over the ship's side at the device in the water. Officers being saluted and piped off the ship. Long pennants streaming from ship's tower. A fairly large rapidly moving boat filled with sailors.
A camouflaged freighter escorted by the destroyer USS Schenck (DD-159) in the Atlantic. Several other vessels underway. DD-159 moves in the sea.
Exteriors of the White House. Men picket the White House. Men hold banners in their hands, promoting anti-war messages with the Korean War looming. Few of the banners read, 'Keep Our Fleet At Home- No Convoys No AEFs', 'Student Union Supports Peace Mobilization' and many other anti-war and pacifist banners.
Exteriors of the Fords Theater in Washington DC, USA. View of the house opposite to the theater. Sign board reads "House in which Abraham Lincoln died. Contains the Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection of over 3000 articles. Open at all hours."
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