A flight of three Curtiss P-40 aircraft, from the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group, make a formation takeoff at Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. Next, two flights of three aircraft each, take off in a formation of six P-40s. Scene shifts to a formation of 15 P-40s in flight overhead. The aircraft return and land by flights of three, in formation. Closeup of several taxiing, with canopies open, after landing. A flight of three with landing gears down, flying on a downwind leg in formation. Closeup of two P-40s touching down on the runway. All three squadrons of the Group (33rd, 35th & 36th) appear to be represented.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew Republican election campaign for the Presidency in United States. United States citizens. A huge crowd gathered on streets. Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Chinese leader Mao Zedong and North Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh. French leader Charles de Gaulle. Cuban leader Fidel Castro. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Hot-line telephones. Men seated with notepads in a press conference. Presidential Seal. Buildings and monuments in view. Washington Monument seen behind the White House. Nixon-Agnew Presidential election campaign states that Nixon will speak for United States and its citizens in the world.
A film titled 'The war' about military activities in the United States during World War II. A bomb explosion on the Christmas eve. A wounded child cries. A blind man walks past the bombed houses. Soldiers present arms. People cry and walk as they are rendered homeless. The German troops march. People cry near the dead bodies. An animation of a globe depicting German,Italy and Japan occupation through out the world. The Japanese troops cheer. The United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull tries to stop the conflict. Newspapers stacked in a printing machine. The Japanese Ambassador to the United States Kichisaburo Nomura disembark from aircraft in Washington DC. The officials enter a building. The officials come out of a building. A Japanese aircraft carrier at sea. The Japanese aircraft bomb Pearl Harbor. A damaged aircraft. The dead bodies of the U.S. Navy men.
Trucks arrive at Toddington Manor (Toddington, Cheltenham GL54 5DN, United Kingdom) in Gloucestershire, England. British children playing jump rope as vehicles transport tanks on the road. Rows of aircraft are transported by vehicles into town. The preparations for the D-Day invasion of France by Allied Forces, during World War II. A crane moves boxes. Boxes move in conveyer belts. Sacks, boxes, and crates stored at a distribution point. A man drives a forklift transporting boxes inside a warehouse. Military supplies arriving in Britain from the United States. Piles of tires, barbed wires, concrete tubes stored in docks and warehouses. Cranes move oil barrels into a pile. Military locomotives and freight cars bound for continental Europe at a railway yard. Soldiers open a crate containing a United States Army truck. A crane lowers a tank. A man inspects a row of military trucks. Rows of M3 half-track armored personnel carriers and M4 Tractors in England. A man helps a tank back up. Rows of tanks, artillery, and guns from the United States. Men stocking shells inside an underground storage. Piles of shells outdoors. A truck transports shell. Rows of fighters at an airfield. A man moves a search light at night. Anti-aircraft guns fire at German night bombers attempting to attack bases in the United Kingdom. Barrage balloons fly above warships. A sailor drops an anti-ship mine in the sea. Minesweepers seek and destroy such mines from the sea. Consolidated PBY-5A attacks a German ship.
Northeastern States of the United States serve as an industrial regions. Interior of a motor manufacturing plant shows workers at a giant motor. Workers at aircraft motors. A range of products produced in Northeastern States as a woman wears a wrist watch, a wall clock, and a woman holds camera. Animated map of Northeastern United States shows distribution of finished products all over the country.
The election of the Secretary General of the United Nations in New York. The headquarters of the United Nations. Flags fluttering on flag poles outside the building. Interior of the building. Officials cast their votes for the election of the Secretary General. Burmese diplomat U-Thant is elected as the new Secretary-General. The officials applaud as U-Thant comes on a platform after being elected as the Secretary General.
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