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Front of Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown U.S.
Front gate of Dumbarton Oaks with a car driving inside. A plaque outside inscribed with "Dumbarton Oaks" is there. Front of the building where men with military police walking inside. Exterior of State department building. September 1944.
Captain Prien and crew of German submarine U-47 greeted on return to Kiel, after sinking the British battleship, Royal Oak
Views of the British battleship Royal Oak, in Scapa Flow, Scotland, and underway at sea. . The German submarine, U-47, commanded by Captain Gunter Prien, underway and saluting as they are greeted as they return to base at Kiel, Germany, on October 23, 1939, after successfully penetrating Scapa Flow and torpedoing the British battleship, Royal Oak (and also, the British battle cruiser, Repulse, they believed), on October 14, 1939.
U.S. 5th Marine Regiment combat with enemy in Takabanare Island, Okinawa.
U.S. 5th Marine Regiment Able Company fights the enemy atop a ridge in Takabanare Island, Okinawa. Two Marines armed with rifles firing over top of ridge. They fire weapons from behind embankment. Marine fires bazooka over embankment. Marine with flamethrower moves up on caves on side of valley. Marines along-side of ridge fire at enemy. Marines move out over top of ridge. Marines move down hillside into valley. (World War II period).
Twenty millionth Ford automobile parade pass on road as a crowd gather around the car in Tennessee.
Twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford in Tennessee. The band and a crowd around a monument in Lebanon, Tennessee. Police escort the twenty millionth Ford, a black Town Sedan, during a parade. An elderly man in uniform and others in front of the twenty millionth Ford. A group pose in front of the twenty millionth Ford at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Men in front of the car, one of them signs the logbook at Franklin, Tennessee. Spectators watch the motorcade and band pass by at Columbia, Tennessee. A sign over an old car at the roadside reads 'Welcome 20,000,000 Ford my number is 602765, I was born in 1913'. The band play in front of the Ford car. The drum major twirls the baton.
Military and civilian applications of radar and electronics
1946 Film about military and civilian applications of radar and electronics. View of the LaGuardia Airport Administration Building (passenger terminal) in New York, with control tower and various antennas on its roof. A TWA Constellation and DC-3 airplane on the airport ramp, as another aircraft is on the final approach to land. Commercial cargo vessels in New York harbor (Statue of Liberty barely seen in the misty background). A passenger railroad train speeding along the tracks. Radar returns shown on a plan position radar scope, tracking weather returns. Tropical storm hitting a seaside area. Scientists and technicians at work in a laboratory filled with electronic equipment. View of buildings at U.S. Army Signal Corps' Camp Evans, New Jersey. Sign above one entrance reads: "Evans Signal Laboratory." Inside the laboratory, images created by radar signals bounced off the moon are seen on a radar scope, during "Project Diana," on January 10, 1946. View of the Army's GB-4 radio controlled television glide bomb, suspended on a chain inside a building. It rotates around showing various views. Scene shifts to a launching track outdoors at a coastal facility, where a glide bomb takes off raising smoke as it accelerates along the launch path. Next, a GB-4 glide bomb is released from underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. It is seen flying away from the aircraft. Inside the aircraft, a crew member views its progress by means of television images received from a transmitter in the front of the bomb. Glimpse of the television images. View from the ground of the GB-4 bomb gliding to the ground and exploding. Views of a German V-2 rocket at Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Ground , New Mexico, where it was being tested by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1946. Inside a control room, an Army technician gives the signal to launch, and the V-2 rocket fires and rises straight into the sky, with its fiery tail visible as it gains altitude. More views of scientists, engineers, and technicians inside a Signal Corps electronics laboratory. Soldiers being trained in radar technology, seated at an electronic array. An army staff sergeant technician working on radar components. A variety of different radar antennas rotating outdoors.
American citizens gather around living room console radios and portable radios in other locations, listening to news.
Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.
