A ship blows up at sea (presumably torpedoed by a German submarine). Newspaper of April 2, 1917 announces the United States and Germany at War. U.S. Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, speaking on a public platform, outdoors.. General John J. Pershing, Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1, is seen seated behind Secretary Newton. Scene shifts to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signing papers his his desk at the White House, Washington, DC. Next, Red Cross women are seen serving coffee into the mess of American soldiers about to embark for Europe. Another Red Cross woman carries a basket of baked goods. The soldiers are checked off by officers at the pier, and then embark on a troop ship. View of the troop ship in camouflage paint, moving away from the pier Scene shifts to glimpse of a town in France, where an American officer and some soldiers are seen walking past French inhabitants on a street corner Other American soldiers stand near a large canvas covered army truck. They salute as the American officer passes them.
A Russian cosmonaut orbits the earth 17 times. Civilians purchase newspapers on the streets in the United States. Newspaper headlines about the successful landing of Russian cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov after orbiting the earth 17 times. A previous film of the launch of a Rusian missile. A man at a recording device. An animation depicts the orbiting around the earth.
Rural life in the Southern Mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky, the United States. Men sit on porch of a wooden building. Men play checkers on a porch, holding the checker board on their knees. A man sits nearby and watches the game. Other men sit on stools (one on a piano stool) and chat.One of the men whittles on a stick with a penknife.
United States increases aid to South Vietnam in its war against Vietcong rebels, early in Vietnam War period. A group of military commanders take over the civilian government. U.S. soldiers stand near helicopter and listen to instructions from their commander. Soldiers board helicopters and patrol dense jungles and search out for Vietcong using helicopters. South Vietnamese soldiers with their rifles aboard a helicopter. Gunner in a helicopter points his machine gun towards ground. Vietnamese soldiers jump from helicopter as it lowers and run in the jungles.
Princess Margaret of Britain waves towards a large crowd of people in England after her marriage to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, a commoner photographer later styled as the 1st Earl of Snowdon. British crowd cheering for Princess Margaret. Scene change to King Baudouin of Belgium as he marries Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón of Spain during a traditional Catholic ceremony at the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula (Place Sainte-Gudule, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium) in Brussels, Belgium. Queen of England Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip introduce little toddler Prince Andrew, sitting with his family on shore of a lake. Next scene shows Crown Prince Akihito of Japan playing with his newborn son Prince Naruhito at the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan). The next scene is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, with his wife, Farah Pahlavi, at a ceremony after the birth of their first son, Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince of Iran. Final scene is United States President John Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline in a hospital on the birth of their son John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
United States Navy loads war materiel aboard an LST,in the Pacific theater, during World War II. A four wheeled trailer, artillery and equipment hoisted by a crane aboard an LST(Landing Ship Tank) at the loading dock. Artillery gun raised at the dock as men assist. A soldier stands on a ship and watches the dock area. An operator in the control room of a ship. Other ships and group of marines on the deck.
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