Sultan Salman bin Al Saud becomes the first Saudi Arabian in space. A news anchor speaks to Prince Salman through video conferencing during his space flight in U.S. space shuttle Discovery. Prince Salman speaks to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia through teleconferencing. The King extends his greetings to the President of the United States and thanks them for sending Salman in the space in Discovery. Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Prince Sultan Salman's father also speaks to him.
Sultan Salman bin Al Saud becomes the first Saudi Arabian in space. A news anchor speaks. King Fahd speaks over the phone line. Prince Salman speaks to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia through teleconferencing. The King extends his greetings to the President of the United States and thanks them for sending Salman in the space in U.S. space shuttle Discovery. Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Prince Sultan Salman's father also speaks to him.
People celebrate on the streets of New York after the Germans sign the armistice agreement ending World War 1 on November 11, 1918. People cheer and wave their caps. A French couple thanks Allied soldiers for rescuing them from Germany. Allied soldiers lined up in a field in France as U.S. General John J. Pershing decorates them. Troops of the United States 42nd Division march at a parade as General Pershing reviews them. Soldiers carry American flags at the parade.
United States Army Field Artillery Battalion of 92nd Infantry Division (Colored), "Buffalo Soldiers," equipped with tractor-drawn 8-inch Howitzers, in Mantes de Gassicourt, France during World War 2. Opening scene shows an 8-inch howitzer shell on a stand. It has the words: "Harlem to Hitler" written on it in chalk. A gunner screws a fuse into its nose. Closeup of the shell and chalk message. Four soldiers then pick up the shell and walk it towards the breech of their 8-inch howitzer. Cloeup of the gun breech as gunner locks breech and then unlocks and opens it for the camera. Scene shifts to gun crew member communicating on field telephone. Camouflage netting is visible behind him. Next, a gun crew member is seen holding his ears as if to protect against the noise of a gun firing. Change of scene shows members of gun crew relaxing near their 8-inch howitzer, near a grove of trees. New scene shows brief glimpse of a shell exploding in hill above Mantes. (The tower of the Mantes Notre Dame cathedral is seen in lower left of the shot.) (Note: These scenes probably show members of the 795th or the 999th Field Artillery Battalion)
Newsreel "Office wife turns cook in New City Fad." A business man working at a desk in an office in Chicago. A woman typing at a typewriter in the same office. The man looks at his watch and appears to signal to the woman a request to prepare a meal. The woman, who is also his wife, gets up and dons an apron in a kitchen area. She lays a table for breakfast or lunch at the same table where she had been typing earlier. The man and the woman eat the meal together. The man kisses the woman and gets up from the table to return to work. (Themes include role of women in 1930s America, and working women in the United States.)
United States Army Boeing B-29 Superfortress air raid over Japan during World War II. A map shows target area in Japan. View of destroyed buildings and harbor in Japan. Japanese crowds in streets of Yawata, Japan. B-29 is displayed. Diagram of new B-29 bomber shows its dimensions and scenes of B-29 in flight.
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