U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) in Wiesbaden, Germany. Lt. General Thomas S. Power, Commanding Officer of ARDC, gets off a plane and is greeted by Lt. General Clarence S. Irvine, Director Chief of Staff USAF. General William H. Tuner, Commander in Chief USAFE and General Mark E. Bradley, Junior Deputy Commander USAFE stand nearby. Four Generals are lined up and salute. A C-54 Skymaster in the background. Lt. General Thomas S. Power inspects the honor guard and a band. He talks to General Tunner near a car and enters a staff car. The band stands on a ramp. Lt. General Power and Lt. General Clarence S. Irvine arrive. All the Generals salute the colors. Lt. General Irvine and Lt. General Power inspect the honor guard. Lt. General Power leaves in the staff car.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) in Wiesbaden, Germany. Senator Richard B. Russell accompanied by Lt. Colonel Capers Holmes of USAFE operations walk from a staff car to the headquarters. On the steps of the headquarter building the Senator talks to W.B. Tomberlin and N.W. Howington. Senator Russell and others enter the headquarters.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) in Wiesbaden, Germany. Two U.S. Army soldiers wearing blue raincoats salute. Five soldiers in blue raincoats standing at attention on a flight line salute. A C-47 Skytrain taxis behind a truck. General Orval R. Cook Deputy Commander in Chief of United States Deputy Command climbs out of the aircraft. He is greeted by Lt. General William H. Tunner and three other officer. General Cook reviews the honor guard. General Cook and Lt. General Tunner stand at attention. The two Generals walk towards a staff car and leave. A band stands on a wet flight line.
Germany ten years after World War II. Construction of a bridge on the Rhine River in Wiesbaden, Germany.Men heat rivets. An air hammer is used in riveting. A worker rakes a red hot rivet from the fire with a pair of tongs. He places it on the ground to clean it. Men place a large girder into position using a crane. A man uses an acetylene torch for cutting. A man uses a drill. A forge is used to heat the rivets. A worker changes an automatic wrench. Piers to which the bridge will be connected. Men work around.
Twenty one New B-17B bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps 19th Bombardment Group are parked at Hickam Field in Honolulu, after flying 2400 miles from San Francisco, on May 31, 1941. Several views of the B-17s on the field. One simply displays the number 96 on its tail. A momentary glimpse of a Lockheed P-38 aircraft taxiing away, past parked B-17s. (World War II period).
Parking lot of a hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A limousine pulls up on its circular drive and a passenger steps into the car. A fashionably dressed woman walks her dog on grounds of the hotel, pausing near a palm tree. Two men chat in background and the ocean is seen behind them. Two women are seen window shopping at Peck & Peck store and two others at another window of the same store. Pedestrians walk past the window shoppers. Scene shifts to the open air yard of a shop selling pottery, where a woman is conversing with the shopkeeper. Next, a uniformed chauffeur picks a purchase made by the woman and carries it for her as they leave the shop. Shoppers are seen in an alcove near another store. The scene shifts to a restaurant patio where patrons are seated in a shady setting. (Note: The shopping scenes were filmed along Worth Avenue in its various alcoves.)
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