Meeting of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament (United Nations) on January 27, 1966, at the Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Seen among others are: William C. Foster, U.S. representative,and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Soviet chief negotiator, S.K.Tsarapkin; and British representative, Lord Chalfont (Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont). Views of the meeting starting with Mr. Tsarapkin as the Chair. Camera pans interior of the Palace of Nations. View of the outside of the building. Press briefing with closeup of Mr. Tsarapkin as he voices the USSR support for discussion of draft treaties to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Closeups of U.S. delegate William Forster standing by a lake as narrator speaks of the hope for progress. Next scene is three years later: shows Joan Baez singing her song "Last night I had the strangest dream," at a Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam rally near the Washington Monument, in Washington, DC, on November 15, 1969. This gathering of hundreds of thousands of antiwar citizens, in peaceful protest, was organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. View of peaceful crowd of demonstrators gathered on the Washington Monument Grounds, listening to Baez sing. Next scenes show views of various boy and girls all over the world. Children of many races and nationalities are seen including Indian, Middle eastern, African, Asian, European, and American children. Some of the children are smiling or playing. Some are standing near a radar or radio control tower. One boy is standing behind barbed wire. Clip ends with scene inside a United States nuclear missile silo (possibly Minuteman), with a team of two Air Force personnel on duty, always at the ready to launch missiles if required. Closeup view of a 24 hour clock is seen ticking, and one of the personnel in the silo watches it closely. A key hangs from the clock. Another airman is seated at a desk in the missile silo.
United States 8th Air Force Division attacks gasoline storage and munitions depot areas in Uelzen, Germany, in northeast Lower Saxony. U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers fly in formation and are seen as they drop bombs to destroy targets. World War II gun camera footage shows bombs away view as bombs drop emitting a vapor trail. Bombs impact. An dramatic, enormous explosion is seen among the many explosions.
Numerous clips of German gun camera footage from Focke Wulf FW-190 fighters attacking formations of United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 bombers, of the 8th Air Force, engaged in high altitude daylight bombing missions.
German gun camera footage of United States B-24 bombers being attacked by various Focke Wulf FW 190A fighter planes during WWII. Inserted slates indicate the name of the pilot (von Hinton) and the range at which each attack commences and is broken off. Shown are FW-190 attacks on individual and formations of U.S. B-24 bombers. Attacks are both head-on and from the rear of formations. Several B-24s are severely damaged and possibly destroyed in the air. Some views show other German fighter aircraft also attacking through the same B-24 formations
Scenes from German invasion of Poland. In the nighttime, Polish soldiers are seen marching out of their fortifications. (Narrator states that 130 thousand have fallen.) German soldiers search the Polish troops. A Polish soldier plays an accordian while another plays the saxaphone. Germans allow Polish railroad workers and firemen to proceed to their jobs. German soldiers escort Polish workers to begin salvage and repairs of bomb damage. Views of utter devastation, with nothing but skeletons of structures remaining and rubble everywhere. Huge numbers of Polish people assembled in an open city square, obtaining rations of food from the German Army.
United States Army Air Forces pilot fliesYR-4 Whirlaway helicopter duriing World War 2. He handles the control stick as instrument panel is seen. Helicopter lands in a grassy field. Helicopter in flight as pilot handles control stick. Whirlaway hovers over a crashed B-25J of the 83rd Bomb Squadron, 12th BG, in a grassy field.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.