British Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks to General George C Marshall and General Dwight D Eisenhower in North Africa. British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill, General Marshall and General Eisenhower sit around a table and chat. Churchill, Eden and Brooke sit on top of a stairway and talk to the correspondents.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A Coast Guards officer speaks into a microphone. Two officers on the bridge of a cutter as they talk. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) with an LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) tied alongside. Equipment on the deck of an LCI. A patrol boat with an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) tied up alongside. The patrol boat pulls up along side other patrol boats. The bows of the patrol boats with Liberty ships anchored in the background. A patrol boat underway. Another patrol boat passes in the background. American and Coast Guard flag fly aboard a patrol boat.
Scenes from the Harvest Moon Ball Amateur Dance Championship held in 1943 at Madison Square Garden, New York City. A Viennese Waltz performance is shown first, with dancing pairs waltzing. Audiences enjoy the different performances. A band plays music. Dancing couples in the Lindy Hop Division perform next. Many scenes of jazz and swing era Lindy hop dancing with acrobatic swings, dips and twists.
7th War Bond drive opens at Times Square in New York City, during World War 2. A large number of people gathered at the occasion. Crowd gathered around a statue of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan. (This is the original plaster edition created by sculptor Dr. Felix W. de Weldon, which served as the model for the future Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington Virginia). Soldiers seated as they look at the flag raising statue. Three survivors of the flag raising raise the American flag at the ceremony to promote the sale of bonds during the 7th War Bond drive: Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and PhM 2/c John H. Bradley, USN.
Caisson bearing the flag draped coffin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, parked in front of an entrance to the White House, during his funeral, in Washington, DC. Marine Guard in the foreground. President Roosevelt's casket being taken off the caisson by military guards and taken into the White House.
An Allied aircraft attacks a German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Gun Sight Aiming Point view of a German U boat underway. The aircraft attacks the U boat and an explosion is seen. The submarine then surfaces and bombs hit near it, as seen through gun camera. German submarine as it moves from the target area. Oil and debris in water. The conning tower of the submarine is seen as it breaks over the water surface. At end of clip, the submarine is strafed as it sits on the surface.
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