The series 'The Big Picture' about armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. A board reads 'Nelson Pass Tactical Area'. An instructor briefs trainees. The trainees sit and listen. They move out of a hall and pick up ammunition from the ground. Tanks are driven away. Instructors in a jeep along with the tanks. A trainee speaks over a radio device. High ranking officers observe from an observation pole. An aircraft spreads a smoke screen. The tanks are driven forward. One of the tanks fires artillery mounted on it. The tanks are driven back after the completion of the task. A trainee writes a letter to his parents. Master Sergeant Stewart Queen speaks about the successful completion of the training.
Japanese people and Japanese Americans in Honolulu, Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Japanese workers. Narrator discusses origins of Japanese workers and various trades and businesses in which they work. A street with houses on either sides and clothes hanging. Japanese people walking on the street. People walk in front of shops. Automobile traffic in the background. Japanese men pour from a container. People in a flower shop. Children outside their houses. Clothes drying on ropes. Japanese children outside a school. The 1941 telephone book in Japanese. A daily newspaper printed on machines. Stacked newspapers. Japanese workers work in a sugarcane field. They load cargo on a cart. Boards of the various Japanese financial institutions. People enter a bank. Women fishing and boats in a river. Japanese people work as shopkeepers. A Japanese doctor. Workers carry cargo on a trolley. A man sits in a dentist clinic. The dentist opens a door. Japanese nurses come out of a building. People on a street. Exterior of a Japanese hotel. Boards read Japanese people in various occupation.
Paper print. Early motion picture documentary. A crowd at a horse race track in Saint Louis, Missouri in the year 1904. A large crowd of spectators gathered at the race track. They take their seats in the stands. Trees in the background. Many persons carry umbrellas and parasols to shade them. A huge tent is set up in a field at the track.
Chief of Staff of the Honduras Armed Forces Colonel Armando Velasquez Cerrato arrives in Washington DC. Military troops lined up on a field. Colonel Armando Velasquez Cerrato deplanes from an aircraft. U.S. Defense Department officers greet him. Colonel Cerrato receives military honors, including firing of artillery guns in salute. He inspects the honor guard troops.
Cargo loaded aboard a merchant vessel in San Francisco, California. Merchant vessel 'Korea' docked at a harbor. A large crowd of civilians gathered at the harbor. Men haul a trolley loaded with barrels and bags. A crane loads cargo aboard the vessel. A flag flutters in wind atop the vessel mast.
The Presidential Lockheed Constellation aircraft, "Columbine", taxis to the ramp at Washington National Airport, with number one engine shut down. It taxis with props on numbers 2,3, and 4 engines turning. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Press Secretary, James Hagerty, step down from the aircraft and depart in a waiting car. A portal sign identifying Gate 19 of the Military Air Transport Command's Special Missions Squadron facility.
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