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Soldiers march on streets holding rifles during World War I and veterans return to farming and dairying in United States.
A United States troop transport ship at sea during the first World War. U.S. Army troops (aka dough boys) aboard the ship. U.S. Army soldiers march in formation in a large city square area in Europe (likely France) holding rifles during World War 1. United States troop ships being loaded with American soldiers for World War I, and scenes of U.S. troops in WWI marching in the streets of a European city. Scenes from earlier during combat in the war. World War I allied soldiers on battle front in France. Soldiers run to a bomb crater area for shelter when crossing no man's land. Soldiers fire artillery. Artillery shells explode. Allied soldiers running across a battlefield as tanks run beside them toward the German enemy. People wave U.S. flags as First World War war ends with Armistice. Large crowd gathers in New York celebrating WWI armistice. Newspaper held high by a man with headline "Germany Surrenders". Views in the United States of hard times in American towns after World War I ended and war industries were no longer providing money. View of forests. Girl draws water from a well. Man and a boy operate a grindstone sharpening a saw. Farmers plowing fields with horse drawn plows during great depression era. People do agricultural works at fields. White farmer tilling a field. African American farmers working in fields and harvesting hay with help of a horse. African American farmers at cotton office. Cattle in field. Man and a woman milk cows with hands. Man pours milk in vessels. Milk processing before bottling including pouring milk through a cooling device. Men on tractor at fields. A board reads 'For the common defense'. Views of a factory. A man operates a switch on a switchboard for generating electricity. Views of a power generation plant. Narrator describes how America will prevent a slide into hard financial times again after World War 2 ends. From a 1942 production with footage from 1917 through 1942.
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.
Senator Kennedy gives his closing statement during the fourth presidential election debate held in New York, United States.
The fourth presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in New York, United States on 21st October 1960. ABC news correspondent Quincy Howe asks Senator Kennedy to give his closing statement. Senator Kennedy says if he loses the election he would continue in the Senate to try and build a stronger country. He says that the year is of importance for the United States. He speaks about the present situation of the U.S. in regard to education, science, and diplomatic relations. He says that the Republican party has stood still really for twenty-five years and opposed all of the programs of President Roosevelt and others. He further says that the U.S. should get a party which believes in going ahead so that the country can reestablish its position in the world with strong defense, economic development, justice for people and should particularly to try to reestablish the atmosphere which existed in Latin America at the time of Franklin Roosevelt.
Photograph of Orville Wright honored by Judson Harmon and delegates leave after flag raising ceremony in the United States
Honors bestowed on Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft in the United States. Still photo of Governor Judson Harmon standing at base of large grandstand. Grandstand completely filled with spectators. Spectators are lined up in the stand in a formation resembling the flag. Various dignitaries sit in booths in stand with the Wright brothers. Wright Field, Dayton: The flag raising ceremony shows aviator Orville Wright pulling the rope which raises flag upon mast. Various military and civil leaders present. The flag being raised. Firing cannon salute at the ceremony. Orville Wright,General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds stand on platform. Washington DC: members of the party enroute to conference at Washington DC , members get into Colonel Deeds aircraft. 'The King Bird' taxis. Washington: Delegates stand in front of a building. Orville Wright in whose honor the conference is held. Orville Wright flanked by various delegates. (World War II period).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress during "Four Freedoms" speech of 1942; also war production scenes
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the U.S. Congress in his "Four Freedoms" speech during the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, in Washington DC, United States. During his address, various war production worker and war materiel manufacturing images are also shown (before the entry of America into World War 2, but during lend-lease production): Tanks, airplanes and flying boat aircraft are shown. Workers at war production factories making artillery shells and munitions. Scenes at a manufacturing plant building bomber aircraft warplanes during World War 2. They appear to be B-25 Mitchell bombers. Workers work installing plexiglass nose cone gunner shield. They assemble various parts of airplanes. Scenes of biplane aircraft in formation and diving. Large, flat landing barge filled with American soldiers approaches a landing area.
Band plays and large crowd gathers for the launch of the USS Hancock (CV-19) at Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Celebration for the launch of the U.S. Aircraft carrier USS Hanock (CV-19) at Bethlehem Steel Shipyards, Fore Rive, Massachusetts. Band plays on the pier. Band members dressed in white. Large crowd on the pier. Views from the deck of the USS Hancock as she goes down the ways during launch.
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