U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at Saint Louis, Missouri. F-4J test flight aircraft #155557 MAC 2833 lifts off from runway, climbs steeply and goes into a vertical attitude. Pilot and co-pilot eject. Plane continues climbing and levels off. F-4J crashes, wheels down, and explodes into a big fireball. Black smoke billows upward from flames, and drifts upward. (Both crew members survived the ejection: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.)
A flood in Quebec, Canada. Ice-choked rivers get swollen by spring rains in wide areas of eastern Canada. Wrecked homes due to ice floes. Collapsed electricity poles and damaged houses due to floods. Destroyed houses in the flooded area.
Partially disabled amputees of World War II meet U.S. President Truman in Washington. A World War II veteran who has both his legs amputated walks in front of President Harry S. Truman with the help of prosthesis artificial limbs. Another veteran with amputated hands lights a cigarette. Both of them shake hands with Truman.
A German soldier moves into a camouflaged position. Launch of a Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1 flying bomb or buzz bomb) from a position in German-occupied western Europe toward Great Britain. View of the V-1 in flight. (World War II period).
Italian women working in a factory in Italy under U.S. Army auspices. They wrap the propaganda leaflets into bundles for insertion into artillery shells and airdrop to citizens (psychological warfare in World War 2).
Dr. Wilhelm Frick, newly appointed Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, inspects troops in a formal ceremony as he assumes his new duties during World War II. Seen with him is Karl Hermann Frank, the Reichminister for Bohemia and Moravia. Dr. Frick is seen greeting various officials and giving an address before a gathering in a large auditorium, where many attendees are dressed in traditional Bohemian or Moravian costume.
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