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The chiefs of the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force at a conference in Quebec, Canada.
Chiefs of Staff at a conference in Quebec, Canada. U.S. Army General George Catlett Marshall Jr. ; U.S. Air Force General Henry Harley Arnold; U.S. Navy Admiral William Daniel Leahy ; Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, Commander in Chief of the United States fleet and others sitting around a conference table.
Figure skaters perform during the first Canadian Winter Games in Quebec City, Canada.
Figure skating during the first Canadian Winter Games in Quebec City, Canada. Men and women on ice during pair dance. Spectators watch. A girl on ice during solo free style skating. Toller Cranston gives a solo performance.
Fencers fence and compete in an international meet for the McConnell Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Fencers compete in an international meet for the McConnell Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Two participants fence during the competition. Spectators watch.
Canada's Olympic swimming team at Montreal, Quebec.
Shows Canada's Olympic swimming team at Montreal, Quebec. Some swimmers from the Canadian women’s swimming team including Phyllis Dewar and Irene Pirie-Miltson. The athletes perform somersaults from a high ramp into a pool. Spectators gather in large numbers around the pool and cheer for their team.
Canada's largest hydroelectric generator is installed
Canada's largest hydroelectric generator is installed at Beauharnois generating station. Several men supervise the installation of Canada's largest generator for electricity at Beauharnois in Quebec.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in many meetings before and after America's entry into World War II
Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.
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