U.S. bomber aircraft sinks German Capitol ship, Ostfriesland under the command of General Billy Mitchell. 1000 pound bombs strike near the battleship, Ostfriesland. Direct hits on the ship. American Destroyer USS Shawmut gives signal to cease bombing. USS Shawmut underway in sea. Heavy smoke rises from funnel. U.S. Navy C-2 blimp or airship dirigible flies over the Ostfriesland and the Shawmut. U.S. Navy C-2 blimp in the air. Boarding party climbs aboard the "Ostfriesland". Scenes taken from navy blimp as it flies slowly over the bombed battleship. General Mitchell, pilot, and Captain Saint C1air Street come down to note the effect of the bombs. General Mitchell's plane and the SE-5 fly low across the Ostfriesland. Bomb strikes on and near the battleship.
Events related to the Casablanca Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated on lawn wearing civilian clothes. Several officers including U.S. Army Air Force Chief, General Henry H (Hap) Arnold, U. S. Admiral Ernest J King, U.S. Army General George C Marshall, British Admiral Sir Andrew B Cunningham, British Field Marshal Sir Alan Francis Brooke, British Lord Louis Mountbatten, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Harry Hopkins, advisor to President Roosevelt, in the background.
Sun rises from the east. Cloudy skies. Chairman Mao Zedong waves at large crowd during a function in China. Chinese cheerleaders perform and march in the function. Cadets lined up at attention. Thousands of hot air balloons are released in the air. Images of programs started during China's "Great Leap Forward" program: Aerial view of step farming in fields. View of crops in a Chinese farm. Chinese harvesters work in farms. View of an industrial refinery plant. An oil rig and Chinese workers at the oil rig. View inside various factories and manufacturing centers with heavy machinery (with year 1961 inscribed on it) pressing and forming molten steel, and factory workers at work. Railroad train moves on track. Convoy of truck-trailers loaded with burlap covered Chinese military equipment moves on a twisting dirt road. Elevated view of a military camp. Footage is from in between "Great Leap Forward" and Chinese Cultural Revolution. English translation overlays Chinese narration.
The joint force assault by the American Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force against the Japanese on the island of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in the Marianas Islands. U.S. mortar crew fires at the Japanese. Tanks and infantrymen advance ahead. American troops fire mortar guns, artillery guns and machine guns. Troops advance toward a Japanese airbase. The airbase is captured. Many of the Japanese planes are captured. U.S. forces advance north towards another Japanese airbase. Tanks and mortar guns are fired at enemy positions. View of destroyed Japanese tanks and dead Japanese soldiers. U.S. Naval fleet shelling Japanese installations on the island. A Japanese ammunition dump explodes. Massive cloud of the explosion rises in the air. (World War II period).
A film 'This is Bandung' shows preparations in Bandung, Indonesia for the first Asian-African Conference in April 1955. Fields in western Java province of Indonesia. The preparations for the conference underway. Cars on highways leading to Bandung. People in a market place. Open air cafes on the sides of streets. People buy fruits and vegetables in an open air market. A board reads 'Kebun Binatang Zoological Garden Bandung'. People look at animals in the zoological garden. People swim in a swimming pool. A car drives on a road. People on horses. Women look at flowers in a park. People at a lakeside. Ducks in the lake. Hotels in the city. Interior of a hotel. Women in gowns in a fashion show. A woman performs a traditional dance. A puppet show being performed. Places of worship of different religions in the city. The conference building under renovation. Delegates of Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan, Ceylon and India, who are responsible for organizing the conference, in meetings. A blind people's institute. Blind people reading from Braille books. A deaf mute girl child is taught. A teacher writes on a blackboard in a classroom. A man teaches a blind and deaf child.
Allied aircraft practice aerial bombing in Canada during World War II. U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight as they bombard the ground and water targets during a mock run. Royal Canadian Air Force NA-64 Yale trainers scramble to intercept a formation of Avro Ansons making a mock attack on Camp Borden. The close-up shots show pilots getting into Northrop A-17A Nomad attack bombers. The Yales fly in formation and practice mock dogfighting.
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