A documentary on occurrence of a tornado in the United States, during Super Outbreak of tornadoes in April 1974 that hit regions in many states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and also the Canadian province of Ontario. Focus of clip is on areas of Xenia Ohio and Dayton Ohio. Exterior of a building. Interior of National Weather Service office. A man talking over a radio. Other men at a broadcast station warning about the tornado. Radars trying to locate the positions of the tornado. Information about the center of the tornado and the areas towards which the tornado is heading is shown. A train on a railway track. The tornado hits the train. Ambulances and rescue workers working to help them. Men in discussion. Cars driving on the street. The rescue workers searching for wounded and dead people. The tornado heading towards other areas. Men locating the areas of the tornado on a map. Warning being given out in other areas about the tornado. The wounded being taken to a hospital. Doctors treating the injured. A man plotting the location of the tornado on a map.
Japanese aircraft attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. Times Square marquee announces the attack at Pearl Harbor. Newspaper headlines read: "Japs bomb Hawaii" and "War is declared on U.S. by Japs." Close-up views of radio news commentators and reporters at their microphones as they report the story of the attack to radio listeners. Scenes from Pearl Harbor after the attack as soldiers and civilans help the wounded reach safe places. Children in a nursery school building. Rubbled houses and buildings in the area. Wrecked vehicles, equipment and wrecked ships in the Pearl Harbor area after the attack. A Japanese midget submarine involved in the attack is seen beached. From a May 1963 newsreel recounting the events from years prior.
Sergeant James Mansfield hosts the program 'The Big Picture', the series depicting the combat infantrymen in United States. History of the United States Infantry is discussed.Scenes include: large formation of U.S. infantry on parade field; statue of minuteman; Concord Bridge; memorials at Wide shots of revolutionary War sites such as Valley Forge, Bunker Hill, Fort Ticonderoga,Trenton, Monmouth, and Yorktown. View of Manhattan Island and tall skyscrapers of New York City seen. View of Lake Champlain.
Swedish track star Gunder Hagg watches a professional baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. He takes pictures of the game with a camera. A huge crowd of spectators gathered to watch the game. Gunder Hagg with young American boys viewing the Minute Man sculpture in Concord. The track athlete sets new record for running mile at Harvard University stadium. Spectators cheer him.
Former American war correspondents in Paris, France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A helicopter lifts off. A newly delivered Boeing 747 aircraft at Le Bourget Airport. Correspondents stand under an umbrella near the aircraft. They examine the exterior and interior of the new 747. Civilians stand behind barricades. The first Concorde prototype, Concorde F-WTSS, also on display for the crowds. Correspondents seated in a Pan Am lounge at the airport.
Company F of the1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry initiates a new man in Tampa, Florida. A group of men bounces a recruit up and down on a blanket. Nineteen times he bounces on the blanket. This is an initiative by Company F of the 1st Ohio Volunteers during the Spanish-American War to welcome a new recruit to their unit. (Edison Company, 1898)
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