Role of United States Coast Guards. A United States Coast Guard cutter patrols in the iceberg rich area of the North Atlantic Ocean. Men aboard the cutter fire an artillery at an iceberg and it breaks.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise Operation Strikeback. A support ship, with number 91 painted on hull, underway at sea. Fleet Oiler, underway, between a destroyer and a cruiser. USS Nantahala (AO-60) refueling the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) in Atlantic. Destroyer USS Forest Royal (DD-872) alongside another vessel. Transfer of cargo from one ship to other. Unloading of cargo nets aboard the ship. Destroyer next to a support ship, underway in the Atlantic Ocean.
The history of the United States. A pictorial map shows the path followed by Christopher Columbus in 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean. He found a group of islands where other explorers from Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, England, Italy and France found two continents. The representation of the area in the northern continent over which the English and the French fought and the French were defeated. The French gave up their colonies and in 1763 they belonged to England. People in the English colonies at work. English officials during a meet. The workers rebelling against English troops. Farmers, who became soldiers, moving with guns. The army led by George Washington moving against the English Army. The thirteen colonies of the English became independent, during the American Revolution, leading to the birth of American nation.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet for the Atlantic Conference aboard American Heavy Cruiser, USS Augusta (CA-31), anchored in Placentia Bay, Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada. High ranking American military officers and officials attending include Presidential advisor, Harry Hopkins; U.S. Army Air Corps Chief, General Henry Arnold; U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Harold R. Stark; Vice Admiral Ernest J. King, and Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. President Franklin Roosevelt stands with his son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., to meet the Prime Minister. FDR also greets other members of the British delegation, including British Minister of Supply, Lord Beaverbrook. British and American sailors mingling together. Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt are seen seated on deck, for a church service, aboard the British Battleship, Prince of Wales. They read documents and conclude agreements known as the Atlantic Charter.
Atlantic Conference during World War II. High ranking Royal Navy officers in a meeting aboard the battleship Prince of Wales in Atlantic Ocean. They look at a map and confer before the Atlantic Conference. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joins in the meeting. He also confers with the officers.
A group of officers and personnel of the President's party, stand on weather deck of USS North Hampton underway in the Atlantic Ocean following a Presidential Fleet Review. A HUS1 (UH-34D Seahorse)helicopter comes in for landing on after deck of USS North Hampton. Spot marked off for helicopters. Officers and men in the foreground of deck watch. Helicopter lands. Officer with baggage walks toward helicopter followed by rest of the party. Some of them board helicopters. (The President had already departed for the USS Enterprise.)
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