Preparations made for participants and visitors to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Aerial view of a large passenger aircraft in flight. Congested highway traffic scenes: Aerial view of automobile, truck, and bus traffic on 101 freeway east of downtown Los Angeles. Skyscrapers of Los Angeles. A crowded sidewalk. Cars parked in a parking lot. The stewardess or flight attendant announces to people aboard a passenger aircraft. Sketches of the famous personalities of Los Angeles. A trailer truck being driven off in the foreground. Traffic on fly overs and overpass bridges. Houses in the city. Palm trees on a beach area. Cars parked in front of shops. People at a marketplace. A teenage boy dancing in a toprock breakdancing style. People watch the boy perform his break dance. People dance wearing skates. A woman dances. A man plays piano in an open ocean front market. A man performs a stunt and weightlifters workout lifting heavy weights at Venice Beach. Boys play racket sports. People ride bicycles and skate on a beach. An aircraft in flight and the airplane preparing to land at Los Angeles International Airport. People gathered at the 1932 Olympics watching runners leap hurdles in a race. Seats in stadium at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Entrance of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037). Views of the Santa Anita Racetrack facility (285 W Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91007, United States). A man plays a bugle on the racetrack at the start of an event. People in the stadium watch the horse race. Exteriors of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A sign for "UCLA".
American strike over Japanese forces in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Cape Engano of World War 2 (part of Battle of Leyte Gulf). Animation depicts Commander of 7th Fleet Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid sending a signal that Task Force 77 has been attacked by Japanese forces. Animation depicts Commander of U.S. Third Fleet Admiral William Halsey Jr. directing Task Force 38.1 to aid Task Force 77. Animation depicts Task Force 38.1 attacking Japanese forces. A Japanese soldier studies radar readings. Animation depicts Japanese forces diverting as Task Force 38.1 approaches. Animation depicts damaged Northern force. Animation depicts Task Force 37 and 38.2 proceeding towards the south and the other Task Forces continuing the attack. Animation depicts the division of Task Force 34. Officers work on the plan. Animation depicts Japanese forces dividing their task force into two groups. Aircraft in flight. Japanese carriers bombed. Japanese aircraft carrier Zuiho sinking.
Life of people in Barbados as seen by passengers visiting on an ocean liner of the Hamburg-American line during a cruise of the South Seas. Boys and girls row boats and dive for coins thrown by passenger aboard a visiting ocean liner anchored in the bay. A small sailboat glides through the group of row boats. . Boys in the boats dive for coins. Group of German tourists motor by, with a Nazi swastika flag mounted at the stern of their boat. The Horatio Nelson Monument in Bridgetown. The native police officers (Bobbies) walk past buildings. Sign for "Henry" street visible. Shops visible including "R.S. Nicholls" and "Collins". A vertical sign "Candy, Cigars, Drugs, Kodaks". Civilians on streets. Cars parked in the background. A police officer on horse back. A cart drawn by a donkey hauling wood. Man walks beside the cart. Sign on cart includes word "yearwood". Another donkey cart with wood and sign includes words, "James Blunt" and "St. Michael". Ships and people at a harbor. Women carrying goods for sale upon large trays on their heads. The Bridgetown Parliament building and clock tower. A view of coral Island, beach and tropical sea of Bath and Conset Bays from the Hackleton's Cliff and St Johns Church. Brief glimpse of Hamburg-American line passengers in a tender, returning to their ship.
Troop movements and preparations for D-Day Invasion of France during World War II. U.S. 82nd Airborne Division troops walk in a squad and move past a British guard . They walk down to a harbor where they board a Landing Craft Vehicle (LCV). Boats at the south England harbor in the background. The troops in the LCV leave the harbor.
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. View from moving vehicle in the park. Many 1960s cars and recreational vehicles (RV) drive past on a road. Trees on either side of the road. The cars stop at the South Entrance station and then move one after the other. They drive past a lake. Trees in the foreground. A car drives across a small bridge. The cars driving past. A dense forest on either side. The lake in the foreground. A road alongside the lake. Sign for West Thumb area.The car moves on the road. A village area and information center and cars parked at a parking lot. People walk on a pathway.
Early days of Operation Market Garden in Nijmegen, Holland, Netherlands during World war II. Animated map of France, Belgium, and Netherlands. Allied transport and resupply aircraft in flight over clouds. Aerial view of Nijmegen Netherlands. Allied parachutes carrying supplies floating toward ground. The aircraft drop supplies in the south of Nijmegen. First Allied Airborne Army troops arrive by parachutes and gliders. The parachutists jump from the aircraft and descend towards the land. Unusual scene from camera strapped to the chest of a paratrooper. Shows view upon first jumping, and then view from paratrooper in sky descending and surrounded by other paratroopers with aircraft overhead and ground nearing below. U.S. aircraft parked on a field. The sky if filled with parachutists who are landing. German antiaircraft fire targets Allied planes. An Allied aircraft plunges toward the earth and crashes with a fireball. The Allied troops advance. Explosion in the foreground due to bombing. The aircraft drops bombs. Smoke raises in the foreground due to the bombardment. Gliders in flight. British 1st Airborne Division soldiers advance, engaging in Battle of Arnhem.
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