Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.
Nearly 75,000 New Yorkers throng Broadway to watch French President Vincent Auriol’s welcome parade towards the City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States). Parade of soldiers carrying flags of United States and playing drums, march on lower Broadway. At the New York City Hall, Mayor Vincent Richard Impellitteri confers a Distinguished Service scroll on the French president. Impellitteri is awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Auriol. Photographers take pictures of the ceremony. The French president and the Mayor Impellitteri along with other officials come out in the gallery of the hall and shake hands as soldiers parade down the street and crowds cheer them on.
Refugee children, displaced children, and war orphan boys and girls arrive in New York harbor, United States during World War II. The European refugee children aboard the passenger ship Serpa Pinto as they arrive in New York to begin a new life after fleeing war and persecution in Europe. Children, including many Jewish children, from much of war torn Europe, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Germany disembark from the ocean liner operated under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). A group of children poses for camera. Red Cross provides food and fresh milk to refugee children. The children eat the food.
A map of United States of America. Greyhound passenger bus pasing through toll booth on highway between Boston and New York. Tourist bus arrives in New York, USA. View of tourists inside the bus. Buildings in New York City. View of the Statue of Liberty from a boat. Heavy traffic outside the New York Public Library. Tourist couples travels on busy streets sitting in open top level of a double decker bus. View of the Empire State building and Will's building. Tourist couple enjoys view of the city from rooftop of Empire State Building. A telescope on the rooftop. Wide, sweeping, elevated views of skyscrapers and buildings of Manhattan, New York City, as seen from atop the Empire State Building in the early 1940s.
A new mechanized mine layer being used at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, United States. United States Army engineers display an automatic mine layer which digs the divot. Man works on a mine and mine being planted automatically. Earth being replaced over the mine by a bulldozer.
U.S. Army Cavalry moving across desert terrain in Mexico, during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. They proceed single file down a hill followed by pack horses carrying supplies. Closeup of the (only) Jeffery Armored Car Number One. (Built for evaluation, in 1916. It is armed with four .30 cal Benet-Mercie machine rifles and had two fully revolving turrets.) Here it is deployed in the Mexican desert. View of it coming along a dirt road, down a hill. Next, armed cavalrymen are seen running to their horses, mounting up and riding in loose formation. They are then seen in formations making a cavalry charge. A wagon train of covered wagons carries supplies across a bridge. Several views of such supplies in wagon trains raising dust as they proceed along dirt roads.
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