Use of Norden bombsight by United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Shows Norden bomb sight being unloaded from an aircraft. U.S. planes in flight. A bombardier at a bombsight aboard a U.S. bomber plane. U.S. pilots being briefed in England. Bombs are loaded on planes. United States Army Air Force B-24J Liberator bomber planes in flight. The bombardier at a bombsight aboard a USAAF B-17G Flying Fortress bomber plane. B-24Js under attack by German Messerschmitt planes. Bombs are released from a plane. The bombs explode over targets on the ground.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito officially declares that Japan would no longer abide by the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Hiroshi Saito steps from his car and enters the Old Executive Office building (Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C., United States) in Washington DC. Exterior view of Executive Office building. He descends the steps of the building and enters his car.
Slate states the new Germany honors its dead by means of State Funeral. Brief views of the Berlin Cathedral (Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin, Germany). View of a resting (dead) Hans Eberhard Maikowski, Leader of a Storm Trooper unit (SA Sturm 33), who was fatally shot, along with Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, January 30th, during a melee with Communists after parading to celebrate Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Hermann Göring (or Goering) talking with Nazi officials on steps of building. Adolf Hitler stands near a car with large contingent of Storm Troopers. View from a high point of a funeral procession surrounded by huge crowd. The procession includes the hearses of Maikowski and Sauritz, pulled by horses. Close view of elaborate hearse of Zauritz, drawn by covered horses and escorted by Berlin policemen, and that of Maikowski, escorted by Nazi Stormtroopers. Procession of mourners including Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering, followed by Stormtroopers carrying wreaths. Pallbearers in top hats carry a coffin.
Large crowd gathers in front of City Hall in New York City, to celebrate the founding of the State of Israel. People seated in park area and standing behind police barricades. Flag of Israel flies from City Hall. Crowd stands and applauds for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. New York City mounted police in parade along 5th Avenue. The horses legs are taped in white. They are followed in parade by New York City patrolmen on foot. Honor guard in parade carry flags of United States, Israel, and City of New York and a flag with cluster of stars on dark field in canton, with three dark stripes and two white stripes in the field.
A woman holds a rosary and prays in St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in Manhattan, New York City, United States. Wood carvings depict the Stations of the Cross. Flags with stars on them, representing U.S. servicemen in World War II, adorn a wall inside the Cathedral. View of 5th Avenue, outside the Cathedral, as large numbers of churchgoers enter and leave. An American flag flies at front of the Cathedral. Most of the visitors are women, although a few men are seen. View of the portal from inside the Cathedral, with visitors entering and leaving the building, and 5th Avenue seen in background. View from outside, as large numbers of visitors ascend steps of the Cathedral.
United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) C-47 aircraft in Burma during World War II. Two United States soldiers clear brush and lay out identification panels. A soldier signals to an aircraft with a blinker light. The aircraft circles in the background.
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