Documentary titled "The Secret Land" on the U.S. polar expedition,Operation High Jump. Clip opens with aerial and elevated views of landmark buildings and sites in Washington DC, including U.S. Capitol, White House,and the National Mall area. Elevated view looking back toward Virginia, with Potomac River and Key Bridge in the distance. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal makes a speech explaining the purpose of the polar expedition. Chief of U.S. Naval operations Chester W. Nimitz talks to U.S. Navy officers in his office. The Norfolk Naval base in Virginia. U.S. Navy officers and personnel aboard a vessel. Sailors prepare huskies (sledge dogs) in New Hampshire, for the polar expedition. Convoy of U.S. ships and several other vessels leave the naval base and head for the expedition. Animated map shows designated landing zone in Antarctica. Helicopters and planes will serve as scouts and transportation medium for the expedition.
World War I: U.S. Army 6th Field Artillery batteries fire at German enemy positions in Exermont, Ardennes, France, across a wide field and valley. U.S. Army artillery being fired, and explosions across the field as shells impact. American doughboys hold position under heavy German shelling. View of additional artillery and horse and foot traffic on the road below in the valley, beneath the shelling. U.S. Artillery guns are rolled down the hill and moved to new positions. World War 1 U.S. Army soldiers carry wounded soldier on a stretcher, moving on a road around the bodies of two dead combatants, dead horses, and a tipped horse carriage.
An Allied 8 inch artillery battery in France during World War 1 Grand Offensive. British troops load shell into the gun. Commanding officer writes a message on the shell before it is loaded: "From Times Square New York." Allied howitzers are fired at the enemy. A British 6 inch heavy gun is seen firing at enemy positions.
Views underneath the chassis of a Ford truck, showing torque tube and radius rods, showing attachment to front axle, and how rear springs are devoted entirely to absorbing road shocks. Cutaway animated view of the Ford 3/4 type floating rear axle, with various gears in motion. Cutaway internal views of Double roller-type rear wheel bearings are shown and external view with double wheels.Front tranverse springs are shown. New semi-elliptic rear springs are shown. Brake cables and drum-type brakes are demonstrated.
New Ford trucks moving on assembly line in factory. Several drive out of the factory without final rear bodies. A truck equipped with stake bed sitting at a farm. views of the truck bed, and removable stake sides and back. Various configurations shown. Views of small dump truck with dual rear wheels sitting outside a factory. Demonstration of dumping with truck bed elevated by hydraulic cylinder.Another truck shown with open sides, covered roof, and bench seats along both sides of the truck body. A similar truck covered with tarpaulin cover. A pickup truck with tailgate. A bus built on a Ford truck chassis. Views of the bus, including demonstration of driver opening its door, and views of interior and seats. Examples of several different Ford bus body styles and several different truck body styles, including a wrecker-tow truck.
The National Women's Conference held at Houston, Texas, promoting equal rights for women. Thousands of American women and women of other countries gather, cheer and clap during the event. Women hold American flags and banners. Some signs are in favor of ERA and others are against the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment). A news reporter at the venue summarizes the events of the conference. Empty conference hall in her background. Several proposals for women's rights put forward.
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