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Statues of Great American leaders and Views of American buildings.
Descriptions of American ideals. Animated map of United States with its different States. Globe with North and South America on it. The Holy books of Bible, Kuran and Bhagwat Gita, The Declaration of Independence document. Statues of Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson, Lafayette, sculpture of soldiers. View of the American flag. The bell rings. View of White house and U.S. Capitol in Washington DC, and the Statue of Liberty in New York. Tomb of Unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Narrator describing virtues on which the United States was founded. (World War II period).
Allies demand the unconditional surrender of Japan in World War II. Entry of Soviets and use of atomic bomb ends the war.
Representatives of three nations, seated around table at Potsdam Conference held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany. British prime minister, Clement Attlee; President of United States, Harry Truman; and representative of Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. They deliver an ultimatum of unconditional surrender to Japan. Swarms of B-29 bombers and Aircraft Carrier Task Forces destroy Japanese homeland. Planes on carrier decks.Navy Grumman carrier-based TBF aircraft dropping bombs.. Destruction of ships at sea. Mushroom cloud due to atomic bombing. Chart depicts the power of one atomic bomb. Britain's 'grand slam' bomb, most destructive conventional bomb ever produced. Doctor Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron (atom smashing machine). A man works at the Cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley. General Leslie Groves, head of the project speaks. He is seated with Dr Vannevar Bush, government director of science and research, and Dr Richard Tolman, technical expert. Quantities of uranium shipped from Alberta, Canada are used in bombs. The atomic bomb process (Manhattan Project) is developed in widely separated areas; scenes from Hanford Project plant in Richmond, Washington. Project personnel exit cars and enter into the search area before starting their work day. Lieutenant colonel Franklin T Matthias with the army corps of engineers, appointed to the Hanford Project. Sign of 'Oak Ridge' in Tennessee. Largest of the three atomic bomb plants located near the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam. Employed personnel in atomic bomb plants are seen going to work. Man and woman employees at the plan read and smile at a Knoxville Journal newspaper in August 1945 with news headline "Power of Oak Ridge Atomic Bomb hits Japs" after the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. View of dense prefabricated home communities to house large number of Oak Ridge plant workers. View of families setting up their houses in trailer towns after the prefabricated homes were full. People come out from the Henebry's Jewelers and supermarket, among stores setup to meet the needs of the quickly built city. Scenes changes to show view of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at conference. Russian artillery and troops in a parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia (these parade scenes are from the May 1, 1945 May Day parade, just days before Germany's surrender). President Harry Truman reports on the latest developments regarding the war with Japan. He states that the United States is prepared to destroy every productive enterprise in Japan and the U.S. shall completely destroy its power to make war. He warns of an attack by the U.S. due to the rejection of the July 26th ultimatum at Potsdam. He warns that Japan "should expect a rain of ruin from the air; the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Truman notes that it will be followed by an unprecedented sea and land invasion of Japan.
Elections of U.S. National Labor Relation Board, voting is done.
Interior of the U.S. National Labor Relation Board office, men in suits seated around a giant conference table, discussing. A United States flag in the corner. Man points out southeastern states in the United States on a map where union branches are needed. A car on road and a road sign for route 411 in Georgia. A union organizer man gets out of the car goes to a house, speaks to a worker, already seated, shows him some paper. Woman washing a young child at the house. A gathering of 12-15 people outside a textile mill, beside a railroad yard, as the new union is taking shape. Train goes by on tracks behind the men. Music "union train a coming" plays in background. Union organizers hand out leaflets at the textile mill gates, informing workers of the union idea. Views of campaigning of election. Banners can be seen saying 'Protect your job'. Voting is done, ballet paper is seen with title "National Labor Relations Board." Close up views of hands of workers putting ballots into voting box. Views of a union meeting of wool workers that are planning to negotiate with labor management on behalf of workers.
Officers and selected workers of Selective Service System, and a man discusses with his father about its various streams.
The Selective Service System (SSS) in United States, its functioning and effects. Officials of selection boards and assembly of people selected for various services. Women workers busy working in an office. Map of United States shows distribution of SSS offices in various states, in New York and in Washington DC. A man discusses with his father various streams of work under different departments of Selective Service System. His mother arrives and talks to them.
U.S. Army Anti-aircraft batteries respond to threat from unknown aircraft sighted near Alaska and the Eastern seaboard.
U.S. Army Air Defense elements respond to threats from an unidentified (possibly hostile) aircraft detected, near Alaska and over the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Closeup of a rotating radar antenna. High altitude contrails (vapor condensation trails) seen overhead. Two U.S. Army technicians tracking aircraft and making notes in an anti-aircraft operations center. Two soldiers in a control center at positions labeled "Intelligence Teller" and "AAA Opns Off" respectively. A Lieutenant joins them and directs one to push an alert button. Soldiers respond from their barracks and take up positions at a large tracking map table. They move markers to positions corresponding to incoming reports. A Colonel joins the Lieutenant, already at the control center, and takes up a position labeled, "Deputy Defense CO," (Deputy Defense Commanding Officer). In the background, reports can be heard coming into the control center about five aircraft at 18 thousand feet. Two soldiers plot information on vertical plexiglass display, showing radial lines and distances. . A sign above the boards reads, "Early Warning Op." More reports in the background refer to three aircraft. The Lieutenant has now moved to the position of "AAA Opns Off." View of a soldier markiing grease pencil entries of aircraft sighting reports, on a plexiglass display, at his work station. More views of information being reflected by soldiers moving markers on the map plotting table and the large vertical display. Closeup of the aircraft position markers being moved on the plotting table. A Battery Attack light flashes on another display. The Lieutenant wearing a headset, announces to all units the change of readiness condition to "battle attack." (He also states, "this is not an exercise," and adds "alert all batteries.") An alarm bell rings at an aircraft battery. Soldiers are awakened in their quarters and scramble to their respective guns in a 120 mm Gun M1 anti-aircraft battery. Each gun crew reports being ready, as they raise their gun barrels. More views of aircraft positions being plotted. One appears to reflect a threat to New York City. Computers record data necessary to aim anti-aircraft batteries. Range and azimuth data being displayed. Gunners load shells and propellant charges into their weapons. Gunners looking up and awaiting further instructions. View of all battery guns pointed skywards. Apartment houses in the background. Changing firing and wind azimuth plus fuze information being displayed. A radar antenna turning at the battery location. Narrator states that the aircraft near Alaska has disappeared over the Pacific and the Eastern Seaboard sightings turn out to be commercial aircraft forced off course by strong winds. View of a Lockheed Constellation flying through some clouds, and then landing at an airfield. Alert lights go out in the Anti-aircraft control center, returning to normal status. View of soldiers manning their positions in the center begin wrapping up their activities. One lights a pipe.
London suburb dwellers on their new allotments to produce their own vegetables in London, England during World War II.
Efforts for additional cultivation of food crops in London, England during World War II. Richmond Park being plowed up to grow potatoes during an effort to put an additional million and a half acres into cultivation. Group of children examining a tractor on a field. Farmer starts the tractor and the children run along beside as the tractor plows a field. Other civilians walking on the field and two dogs playing. View of tractor approaching low camera position and stopping just before the camera. View of new furrows plowed in land as seen from camera looking backward on moving tractor. The farm being plowed by the tractor at night. London suburb dwellers on their new garden allotments for production of their own vegetables. Families and children help planting gardens. (Similar to "Victory Garden" program in the United States.) The sites are in Brockwell, Dulwich, and Battersea Parks in the southeast suburbs of London.
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