The role of women in the armed forces in the United States. A U.S. Army sniper fires a 1903 Springfield rifle on the Korean front during the Korean War. A woman in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) inspecting such a rifle in the U.S. Several Patton Tanks moving up a hilly road in Korean War. A WAC testing the turret of a Patton tank. U.S. Army women at desks as they work with Army men in an office. Picture depicts Molly Pitcher, wife of a fallen U.S. Revolutionary War artilleryman. Depiction of George Washington at desk. Depiction of Clara Barton, an American nurse with a wounded soldier. Reenactment of Clara Barton working with another women. A man holds the flag of the American red cross. Actual footage of a Wright Brothers aircraft in flight. Women in long dresses pushing an early model of car. A group of American soldiers in World War I running on a battlefield.. U.S. Army troops wearing gas masks and firing rifles from trench in World War I. American women war production workers assembling belts of machine gun bullets during World War I in a munitions factory in the United States. A nurse tending a wounded soldier. A woman nurse helping place a wounded soldiers into an ambulance in Europe, in World War I. Nurses in an operating theater in a hospital during World War I. Women march in victory parade at end of World War I. Women's suffrage demonstration by suffragettes in front of the White House and then women and men entering a polling place to vote around time of of 19th amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart climbing down from an airplane. Swimmer Gertrude Ederle on an award stand. U.S. Navy Vought SB2U-2 planes in flight as they drop bombs. Scene of Pearl Harbor attack by Japanese during World War 2. Army nurses look out from deck of ship in World War II. Soldiers fire artillery. View of mountains and scenes of combat on islands in the Pacific during WWII. General Mark Clark awards nurse Silver Star medal. Repatriated Army nurses, who were prisoners, are loaded onto an aircraft by means of a fork lift. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation establishing the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Secretary of State George Marshall and others witness the signing. Depiction of Godess Athena. Women volunteering for WAAC move in a line carrying bags. American women in military uniform marching. WAAC volunteers being processed. Women receive physical exams and receive inoculations. WAAC personnel being trained: working on X rays, in medical pharmacy laboratories, food service, and radio work. Women on board warships in World War 2.
Atrocities against prisoners in Nazi camps at different places in and occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2. Wounded and emaciated Americans are fed and given medical care by Yank Armies of Liberation in Grasleben, Germany. Masked grave diggers open graves in Hadamar, Germany. Around 35,000 political prisoners found buried. Soldiers question Nazi German Chief physician Adolf Wahlmann at Hadamar Killing Centre. General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley inspect Camp Ohrdruf (a Nazi Camp) in Germany. Heaps of human bodies and lime pits filled with corpses can be seen. 21,000 prisoners stumble around with their broken skulls in Buchenwald Concentration Camp (a Nazi camp in Germany). Corpses lie everywhere with large tattooed numbers on their stomachs. Two crematory ovens that were used. Starved people loaded into ambulances for treatment. (World War II period).
First day of the San Francisco Conference of United Nations (United Nations Conference on International Organization). Representatives from 46 nations attended the conference, some can be seen entering the hall. Representatives seated inside the hall. Conference is officially opened by Secretary of States Edward Stettinius. President Harry S. Truman gives a speech.
The San Francisco Conference. U.S. Secretary of States Edward Stettinius addresses the other representatives of nations gathered for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Foreign Commissioner Molotov of Russia addresses the gathering followed by T.V. Soong, Foreign Minister of China. Crowds on roads.
United States Army Major General Hardigg speaks about the need for saving waste fats and oils for recycling and reuse in the war effort during World War 2. Kitchen of Halloran Army Hospital is shown with Chefs preparing chicken and other foods, and saving fats. Homemakers and housewives shown straining fats through strainers to reserve and save fats. A housewife speaks to another woman. A girl presents a can of reserved fats to a store clerk who weighs it and gives the girl back a ration receipt.
Debate about admission of Argentina during San Francisco Conference working toward United Nations Charter. Disabled and injured United States war veterans from World War 2 combat (mostly Navy in this image) enter the Veterans Memorial Opera House (War Memorial Opera House). View of interior of hall. Ezequiel Padilla, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, addressing the gathering. Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov and an interpreter speaking, followed by secretary of States Edward Stettinius. Agenda of meeting is whether or not Argentina be invited for UN Security Conference. Chairman Anthony Eden calls for vote, Argentina is invited by a vote of 31 to 4. View of a parked Eastern Airlines silver liner parked at airfield in Washington DC, and new Ambassador Oscar Ibarra Garcia from Argentina emerges and is greeted by South American and United States officials. A person comes out of a U.S. aircraft and is received by authorities.
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