Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah arrives at Washington National Airport for an official visit with U.S. President John F. Kennedy. President Kwame Nkrumah climbs down air stair from Military Air Transport Lockheed Constellation as an attendant holds an umbrella behind him. President Kennedy talks with the Ghanaian president at bottom of stairs while Clement Conger (wearing glasses), assistant chief of protocol, stands over his shoulder. At frame left, in dark hat, Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke listens in. Photographers taking pictures of Kennedy and Kwame Nkrumah while the two leaders walk to the hangar of the airport. United States military and government officials meet Presidents Kennedy and Kwame Nkrumah inside hanger.
President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia arrives at Washington National Airport for a state visit to the United States. State flags of the United States and its territories held by troops in airfield. President Habib Bourguiba climbs down air stair of a Military Air Transport Service jet airplane and shakes hands with President John F. Kennedy. President Bourguiba’s wife, Mrs. Moufida Bourguiba (née Mathilde Lorrain), shakes hands with Mrs.Jacqueline Kennedy. While President Habib Bourguiba shakes hands with a military officer while Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke is seen between them making introductions. A motorcade with the United States presidential parade car in Washington DC. Presidents Kennedy and Bourguiba leave the presidential car while Jackie Kennedy and Moufida Bourguiba meet their husbands.
Brief views of Allied bombing raids in Japan during World War II. A group of United States Army Air Force aircraft flying over Japan. An army cemetery in front of a building in the Pacific. United States Army Air Force aerial machine gun strafe Japanese positions on the Aleutian Islands. A chaplain praying over a coffin with the American flag draped over it. Aerial view of bombs falling and exploding into Japanese positions in China. Consolidated B-24 Liberator dropping bombs over Wake Island. View of Wake Island. Graves of U.S. troops on Wake Island, Burma, and other recaptured Pacific islands. Allied Airborne Infantry on the jungles of Burma (Myanmar). Gunshots are heard on the background. Two United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft flying to the Philippines. Allied bombardment of Hollandia (present day Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia). Grave of an unidentified soldier. United States troops land on a beach. A Howitzer is towed across a river. Soldiers rolling a barrel of oil. Snowplow truck clearing snow in front of a bomber. United States troops unload supplies at a snow-covered airbase.
A group of United States Army Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers taking off towards Foggia, Italy during World War II. Wheels retracting into B-24s as they take off. Rear view of Consolidated B-24 Liberator as it ascends. One is a Consolidated B-24 D Liberator noted as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” of the 9th Air Force, 98th Bomb Group, and 343rd Bomb Squadron in flight.
Mrs. Iris Rose Hansen, wife of Assistant Air Force Secretary (R&D) Grant L. Hansen christens a McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter in Saint Louis, Missouri. United States Air Force generals and VIPs witness the christening event. A “No Smoking” sign is seen behind the USAF VIPs. Grant L. Hansen talks to his wife on the tarmac after the aircraft christening. A general speaks to other officials. Some VIPs inspect the cockpit and body of the F-15 fighter.
The Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California. Air blast heat exchangers where hot sodium is cooled at the power plant. Tubes located in the air stream of electrically driven fans in the facility. Tubes where sodium flows directly to the steam plant through the secondary non-radioactive sodium loop. Loops and tubes of the Sodium Reactor Experiment plant. The Southern California Edison Company run electrical generating plant used in conjunction with the Sodium Reactor Experiment. A steam generator inside the electrical generating plant. A steam condenser. Water pipes supplying the steam condenser with water. Induced draught cooling water tower. Conventional turbine generator feeding a step-up transformer. A generator in power plant. Powerlines in Southern California. The Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant with the Santa Susana Mountains in the background. Scientists working at a control center. Aerial view of the the Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant.
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