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U.S. forces plan airbase construction after the battle of Saipan during World War II

America forces begin preparing Saipan as an advance base in the Pacific campaign against Japan in World War 2. Japanese military prisoners as well as civilian women and children are seated on the ground, shaded by a tree on a coastal plain in Saipan. American officers review a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. They converse in a group as they stand near a rudimentary small gauge railroad track in the sand. Sheer cliffs are close behind them and the ocean is nearby. A jeep is seen parked and another moves along a bumpy path. Officers and soldiers stand on and near the small gauge rail line. Several jeeps are parked. Camera pans over sheer cliffs behind. (Some contain openings that housed Japanese fortifications.) Camera pans over wide flat area where the Japanese were building an airfield near Marpi Point on the northern end of the island of Saipan. Construction materials cover the area and several jeeps travel through it. Final scene shows more Japanese civilians in a group where several American soldiers are attending to their needs.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050875
Activities of German sailors aboard a submarine in the Atlantic near the Saint Lawrence River in North America during World War II.

A German submarine underway off the Canadian coast near the Saint Lawrence River in North America, during World War 2. A map shows the area of interest. The German submarine underway on the surface in calm waters. Crew members play cards below decks of the U-boat. A sailor cooks food. Others eat the food. The submarine submerges and the Canadian coast is scanned through a periscope. Torpedoes are fired and an oil tanker is hit. The oil tanker burns. Black smoke arises as the tanker burns.

Location: Saint Lawrence River North America
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675062717
Sargent Shriver delivers a speech in New York, United States.

Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps, speaking in New York, United States.He talks about visiting Peace Corps sites all over the world and mentions that President Johnson asked him to convey his greetings to various world leaders during these visits, including one to the Pope who was visiting Israel. Of that he says:"When a Southern Prostestant President sends a Northern Roman Catholic (that was me) to deliver a message to an Italian Pope, in Jeruselem, that's the sign of an election year." He narrates several other illustrations of America's unique and improving tolerance regarding religion and race relations. And he narrates an amusing incident that took place with President Kennedy when he was campaigning for his election as a President, .

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1965, December 7
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049008
Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in Washington D.C. and is welcomed by President Eisenhower.

'Khrushchev's American journey' about Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Washington D.C., United States. An aircraft lands at an airport in Washington D.C., United States and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives on September 15, 1959. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower welcomes him. Khrushchev being greeted by officials and girls present him with flowers. An honor guard lined up to welcome the Soviet Premier. 21 guns being fired to honor him. President Eisenhower delivers a welcome note as he expresses his gladness on Premier Khrushchev's visit to America. He also mentions about the talks between the two leaders about unresolved international questions. Premier Khrushchev in his address thanks President Eisenhower for giving him a warm welcome. Mr. And Mrs. Khrushchev along with the President leave in a car. Motorcade moves past a large crowd in the streets. They get off the car outside the President's guest house where Premier Khrushchev will stay. Khrushchev arrives at the White House where he presents a memento to President Eisenhower as Vice President Richard Nixon and others look on. President Eisenhower and the Soviet Premier board a helicopter and go for an aerial tour of the Washington D.C. Aerial views of the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, U.S. Capitol, Key Bridge over Potomac River, local highways, suburban residential area and suburban shopping center as seen from the air.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1959, September 15
Duration: 8 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051254
South Vietnamese rebuild and enlist; Eisenhower speaks about Vietnam.

South Vietnamese farmers spray rice field with pesticide before the U.S. Vietnam War. Farmers pound rice using a foot-powered rice pounder. Steam shovel bucket scoops rubble. Vietnamese miners strip mining coal. They push a cart filled with coal. A man extracts natural rubber from a tree. Workers at a latex processing facility. South Vietnamese women working at a textile factory with a large loom. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the graduates at Gettysburg College in April 4, 1959. “We have learned, too, that the cost of defending freedom--of defending America--must be paid in many forms and in many places. They are assessed in all parts of the world--in Berlin, in Viet-Nam, in the Middle East--here at home.” President Eisenhower said. South Vietnamese men line up to enlist and gather their uniforms. Newly enlisted South Vietnamese soldiers climb into a truck for transport.

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080606
President John F. Kennedy inaugurates Voice of America transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy at his office desk. Photographers and media men take photographs of president. President addresses on microphones on his table. President inaugurates Voice of America transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina.

Location: Greenville North Carolina USA
Date: 1963, February 8
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033238
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