Aftermaths of a tornado in Minnesota. Uprooted trees and leveled homes due to the tornado. A car under a house. A capsized trolley and a damaged tow are the evidences of the fury of the tornado. Smashed United States Air Force aircraft at an airport.
A forest in Caracas, Venezuela. Clouds in the sky. A man in the forest . A road near the forest. Branches of a tree sway. The tree falls after being cut down down. View of a an oil rig tower atop an oil well. Oil appears to be gushing at the well, surging into the air halfway up the height of the tower. Views of a different oil well tower rising up in the forest. A curve in a road and a car approaching on the dirt road. Trees on both the sides of the road. Vehicles being driven past on a road.
Charles de Gaulle visits the United States. An aircraft lands at Washington National Airport in Washington DC. People at the airport. The leader of the Free French Forces General Charles de Gaulle disembarks from the aircraft. He is greeted by dignitaries. U.S. Army General George Marshall, U.S. Army Air Forces General Henry Arnold and U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King salute as the French National Anthem is sung. De Gulle also salutes and shakes hands with these and other dignitaries. He gets in a car and leaves for the White House. At the White House he is greeted by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, his daughter, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal. He visits Arlington National Cemetery to pay tribute at the Grave of Unknown Soldier. In Manhattan people line the streets and cheer as De Gaulle's car moves towards the New York City Hall. He addresses the people of the New York City from the top of the RCA Building. (World War II period).
Graduation ceremony at the United States Military Academy at West Point in the United States. Cadets seated during the ceremony. Collin Kelly III seated with other graduates. Past events show Colin Kelly III as a toddler. His mother with a letter from the then U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A photograph of his father, who was a national hero who was killed in the sinking of a Japanese battleship, on a table. His mother with the letter. Colin Kelly III, who is now grown up, at the West Point Military Academy. He marches with other cadets. At the graduation ceremony he is commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. The cadets fly their hats in the air.
United States President John F. Kennedy visits West Germany. Men rolling out the red carpet in Cologne Bonn Airport (Kennedystraße, 51147 Köln, Germany). President Kennedy disembarks from the Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000, Boeing 707-353B). German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer welcomes President Kennedy. Kennedy and Adenauer review the honor guard. Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard greets Kennedy. They board in a car. People on the sides of streets in Cologne as the President's motorcade passes. A large crowd cheers and waves U.S. flags. President Kennedy attends a Catholic mass at Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany). Police try to control the people. German men and women running to meet President Kennedy. A banner read ' Welcome President Kennedy'. Another one reads 'common struggle for peace and freedom'. President Kennedy addresses people in front of Bonn City Hall (Markt 2, 53111 Bonn, Germany). People wave small United States flags.
A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain aircraft lays wires in the United States during World War II. Men work on an equipment as they prepare for aerial wire laying. A C-47 aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight as it lays wires over a difficult terrain. A man speaks over a field phone after the communication wires have been laid.
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