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Montage of German rocketry scenes from 1930s through World War II. Nazi surrender. Atomic bomb. Japanese surrender
German rocket pioneer, Gerhard Zucker, attempting to develop postal rockets in the 1930s. Location is Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven, on April 9, 1933, where Zucker follows Nazi Sturmabteilung (also called SA or Stormtroopers) carrying the mail rocket across wet sands. The rocket is set up on a launch stand. Zucker and an assistant ignite the 8 side rockets and the mail rocket takes off. It noses up and loops over backwards, falling to the sand. German Stormtroopers lift up the damaged device. Next, is seen a later, more modern, rocket trial ending in failure. Two German engineers display a model similar to the pulse-jet-powered "buzz bomb" (V-1) employed by the Nazis in World War 2. A brief glimpse of similar American machine on sand flat, as narrator states German acknowledgement of knowledge gleaned from Dr. Robert Goddard's work. A German V-1 flying bomb (aka Doodle Bug) being launched in 1944, during World War 2. View of British houses of Parliament, London, England; an air raid shelter sign in City of Westminster. Londoners waiting out a raid in the shelter. Scenes of fire and destruction during German bombing of London, as narrator speaks about the more advanced German V-2 ballistic missiles employed later in the war. Londoners trudging through debris amongst bombed out buildings. Change of scene to U.S. infantry and armor advancing deep into Germany. Narrator refers to them overrunning rocket bases and other vital war-making facilities, near the end of the war. Glimpse of large number of German prisoners of war. Documents of military surrender being signed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, in Berlin, May 8, 1945. Closeup of Keitel. Scenes of American forces operating in Pacific theater. Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion. Japanese surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. U.S. soldiers and other service personnel return home and greeting loved ones at end of war. Aerial view of Pentagon building and surrounding area in Arlington Virginia near Washington DC. U.S. troops boarding a ship in San Francisco, bound for war again, this time in Korea (1950).
Soldiers board boats and advance during the Spanish American War in Cuba
Scenes of the Spanish American War, Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns, in the year 1898. U.S. troops coming ashore in small boats, assembling on the beach, and advancing inland, during the Spanish American War U.S. infantry capture the San Juan Blockhouse where the Spanish flag is lowered and the American flag is raised.
News report and informational programs are broadcast to a large majority of servicemen in the United States.
American servicemen are kept informed by American Forces Radio and Television Station facilities. A soldier listens to a radio and writes a letter. Another soldier in southeast Asia looks at a post with directional arrows showing distances thousands of miles away to cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Denver. He sits on a bench and listens to the radio. Aerial view of the broadcasting station part of the American Forces Radio and Television Station. Power is supplied by portable generators housed in wooden shacks. View of radio studios, control rooms and administrative blocks. A man serving as Disc Jockey or DJ operates a control panel and a phonograph turntable to play a record. He turns dials on the control panel and works on a program schedule. View of a reel to reel tape machine running. News report and informational programs are broadcast to a large majority of servicemen. Military cooks working in a kitchen to prepare food. Army soldier standing at washroom sink and shaving, while listening to a portable radio. Two Army soldiers, one white and one African American, playing pool or billiards while listening to a portable radio. Soldiers on a rest break during a patrol in the Vietnam War listen to a radio.
Houseboats docked in Sausalito, California
Houseboats along water front in Sausalito. View of the San Francisco Bay. View of the houses and buildings in Sausalito. Boats at dock. People enter a house boat in Sausalito.
Landmarks in the old city of Cartagena, Colombia.
Scenes of the old City in Cartagena, Columbia. An antique gun in the San Felipe de Barajas Castle, overlooking the harbor below. The Torre del Reloj (Boca del Puente, Centro, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia) or clock tower and Puerta del Reloj, main entrance gate to the old walled city which was founded in 1533. The Cathedral of Cartegena (the Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Calle de los Santos de Piedra, Cra. 4, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia). Local people in a horse-drawn wagon pass by the gateway to a public park, flanked by Doric columns and topped with a statue of Vulcan at a forge. A man walks toward the entrance of the House of the Inquisition (Inquisition Palace 46, Plaza de Bolivar Carrera 3 33, Bolívar, Colombia). The camera pans upward to the decorative seal and stonework above doorway. A local woman doing laundry at stone sinks. views of pedestrians walking along narrow streets, balconies of houses project overhead.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's early years in politics before becoming President of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt seen, well-dressed, in overcoat and hamburg hat, as a successful New York lawyer, in 1910, when he decides to run for a seat in the New York State Senate. He is seen greeting supporters outside his family home, Springwood, in Hyde Park New York, after winning the election. Very brief glimpse of Eleanor Roosevelt. Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, Democratic Party candidate for President, is seen with Franklin Roosevelt,Assistant Secretary of the Navy, whom he selects as his running mate, in 1920. View of Eleanor Roosevelt being recognized in the Democratic National Convention at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California. Views of Franklin Roosevelt driving in an open car and speaking before crowds during the campaign of 1920. One crowd is notable for the preponderance of straw boater hats worn and waved by the men in the audience. Scenes of family life, after defeat of the Cox-Roosevelt ticket. Eleanor Roosevelt with children: Anna Eleanor;Franklin Delano Jr. II; Elliot; James; and Anna's dog, in 1921, at their summer retreat on Campabello Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), seated in a wicker chair in front yard of the Campobello house, smoking a pipe and writing on some papers. FDR standing with a cane.His mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, seated and conversing with FDR. Eleanor, with them, knitting as they converse. Political aid,Louis McHenry Howe.FDR posing with cane, alone, and with wife, Eleanor. Mrs. Roosevelt hosting a gathering at Springwood, to promote FDR's political future. Eleanor speaking at a political gathering.
