'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.
The Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippine Islands in World War II. An aerial view of Corregidor island. A map shows places. Rubbled buildings and destroyed trees in the area, including bombed Middle Barracks of Fort Mills. Mountains in the foreground. Japanese Soldiers dumping ammunition in gun pits. A destroyed rail road station and wrecked wagons and rails. Prisoner of war soldiers with some of the Japanese forces. Destroyed houses and buildings.
Waist Gunner firing single shots and short bursts from a B-17 Flying Fortress airplane. Two B-17s flying in formation. View of ocean. Scenes shot during filming of "Combat America,." during World War 2.
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The ship underway in the Pacific ocean. Flags flying atop flag poles on the mast of the ship. An airplane in flight overhead. A sailor stands near the controls of the ship. Other men aboard the ship. The ship convoy underway in the Pacific ocean.
Clip shows several still images extracted from moving images of the USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) burning in the Sulu Sea off the shore of Luzon, Philippines, following a strike by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft during World War 2. The moving film from which the stills were extracted can be seen at clips 65675072050 and 65675072051. Several stills of the USS Ommaney Bay burning. Stills of navy sailors watching through binoculars and additional destroyer and support ships in the background.
American Army soldiers of the 104th Infantry Division, 104th Reconnaissance Troop, drive along a road, deep in Germany, near the end of World War 2 in Europe. According to signposts, they are 3 Km from Bennstedt and 11Km from Halle, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. An M18 Hellcat tank destroyer follows behind the jeeps, carrying 4 soldiers atop its turret. Another behind it carries 6 soldiers on it.
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