Exterior view of Kiel Municipal Auditorium in St Louis, Missouri. Sign reads "On This Site Was Born The American Legion May 8-9-10, 1919." Interiors of the Kiel Auditorium. The American Legion convention draws to a close with the election of Connecticut's Arthur J Connell as new National Commander. Crowd cheers.
Debut of the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft in St Louis, Missouri. The F-15 fighter taxiing to display area of airfield. The fighter stops in front of the display area at the McDonnell Douglas headquarters. People watch the F-15 fighter in display area. A couple climbs stair to view F-15 cockpit. Cameramen are seen in the front and back of parked F-15 aircraft.
People view debut of the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle aircraft, shown on display at an airfield in St Louis, Missouri. A cameraman setting up equipment in front of the F-15 and crowds. A “No Smoking” sign is also seen. USAF empennage and body of the F-15 fighter. F-15 aircraft in front of hangar at McDonnell Douglas headquarters.
A McDonnell Douglas F-15 aircraft on display at the McDonnell Douglas headquarters during debut of the aircraft in in St Louis, Missouri. Pitot tube on the nose of the F-15 fighter. F-15 fighter parked in front of a McDonnell Douglas hangar. Some people view the parked F-15 fighter. Rear view of parked F-15 fighter.
Various uses of General Motors Company trucks in daily life. A truck driver collects empty milk jars from houses and arrives at a St Louis Dairy bottling plant (dairy established 1868 according to sign on truck). Large jugs and bottles refilled and truck drives again for delivery of milk at households and in a town. A baby drinks milk in a bottle.
Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.
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