U.S. 769th Field Artillery and the 761st Tank Battalions, as well as other African American units battling enemy together with other Army units in the European Theater during World War 2. Tanks advance along a rough terrain. Soldiers run across a field. Column of African American soldiers of 370th Infantry march along a road toward an attack in the Po Valley, supported by the 695th Field Artillery, who are seen loading and firing an artillery piece. African American soldiers of 761st Tank Battalion running interference for the 409th Infantry as it is seen crossing the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line in March of 1945. U.S. Army tanks fire at enemy targets on a field. Soldiers advance. African American soldiers of 761st Tank Battalion loading shells into a tank near battlefield and then participating in battle, firing from tanks during battle. Close view of African American soldiers with their tanks, and firing rifles.
A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Earhart back to New York. Thousands of New Yorkers gather on streets and join the parade. Ticket tapes being showered on the parade. Earhart with New York Mayor Jimmy Walker. Holding flowers she christens a car.
Exteriors of Fort Monmouth and its Camp Evans Signal Laboratory in New Jersey. Radar dishes revolving in fenced area. Visit of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, Chairman of Senate Subcommittee investigating "Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage.". Among those accompanying Senator McCarthy are Roy Cohn, chief counsel to the Senate Subcommittee , Senator H. Alexander Smith, of New Jersey, Robert T. Stevens,Secretary of the Army, Congressman James O. Auchincloss, of New Jersey, and Major General K.B.Lawton, Commanding General of Fort Monmouth. McCarthy and companions board a Military Air Transport C-47 aircraft to depart.
Theodore Roosevelt and other dignitaries watch new inductees, in civilian clothes, march in a parade on 5th Avenue, New York City during World War 1. Thousands of inductees march from the recruit draft center carrying the U.S. flags. Men on rooftops watch the parade. U.S. flags hand from several buildings. Back at the recruiting center, new recruits, with their baggage, are escorted to curbside by an official. Several young women well-wishers speak to them. Other recruits are directed by Army soldiers, at a railroad yard, where a train waits to carry them to camp. Some passing railroad workers taunt the recruits and an Army soldier has to step in to quell the start of a fight. Another quick view of recruits leaving the center. (WWI; WW1)
The campaign of the Fusion party for the election of Mayor of the New York City at the Manhattan Opera Center, New York City. The chairperson gives an introductory note. There are banners supporting F.H. LaGuardia's candidature for the Mayorship of New York. 1934.
Lighting on the buildings, shops and streets of Manhattan. Montage mixes Times Square lights with scenes of people dancing, enjoying music in clubs. Door man hails taxi for couple at night. A musician puts his trombone into its case. The lights turn out exterior of apartment building. A police man twirls his night stick as he "walks the beat" at night. Lighted 'Port Authority of New York' sign. Trucks come off of ferry at night in New York City. Workers from country towns load fruits and vegetables in a truck. Truck carries milk cans before dawn. A milk tanker pulls up to dairy at night. An Esso fuel tanker truck pumping gasoline into gas station tanks at night. Bread is loaded into a bread truck at night. Flowers removed from green house loaded into truck at night. Commodities of daily requirement like newspaper, bread, building material transported by trucks in midnight. New cars transported on a car carrier truck at night. Man shoveling sand from dump truck at night.
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