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Ocean flooding causing destruction in a coastal area of California
Wind and waves pound a shore in California. A man stands near areas of a boardwalk that have been ripped up by the weather near ocean front homes. He looks over a seawall. View near an ocean inlet, where water floods the beach. A virtually destroyed structure teetering over the water. A lunch stand overturned and washed up against rocks. Closeup of the lunch stand with two men nearby. View from damaged home with a chair floating nearby. Severely damaged houses falling into the water. A Fletcher class U.S. destroyer underway offshore. A large ship run aground. Three men in a small boat pulling up to her. Other men are aboard the ship and working on her. Men ashore on a rocky beach, examine a small sail boat and a power boat driven aground. Cars are parked on a flat bluff in the background. A high hill dominates the far background. Two women stand in a sailboat washed up on a rocky shore. Closeup of a power boat and dingy on the rocky beach. Men tilt the dingy up revealing its bottom broken open.
Italian team of gymnasts performs at a gymnastic event in Germany.
Team of Italian gymnasts performs on the horizontal high bar, flying rings, parallel bars,free floor exercise, and side horse.Italian military officers in audience are pleased. Each gymnast has Italian flag on his shirt. Large German flag with Swastika in background
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).
Edward Andrew Deeds,Henry Ford,Orville Wright and Charles F Kettering present at the event in the United States
The 35th Anniversary celebration of the first Wright flight in the United States. Seats occupied in a NCR auditorium. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds,Founder of Ford Motor company Henry Ford,Aviator Orville Wright and Inventor Charles Franklin Kettering sitting on stage. Still photograph of Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright.
Retired General Pershing supports destroyers for bases deal; Charles Lindbergh supports U.S.neutrality in World War 2.
Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth speak to civilians and look at bombed buildings following Nazi blitz air attack in London, England.
London in Britain is bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Two men on a hydraulic ladder fighting fire. Smoke rises from the burning buildings following aerial blitzkrieg bombardment by the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Fire blazes out from the roof of a building. Smoke in the background. Firemen with fire hoses direct the water at a door way and upper windows. Heavy smoke billows from the upper windows. Buildings in the background. Bombed and fire gutted buildings. Smoke in the background. A man with a fire hose directs water at a demolished building. Rubble and debris on the streets due to the bombings. British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom look at the bombed buildings with other civilians. The bomb damaged buildings. The King and the Queen talk to a British civilian wearing a helmet. Bombed and fire gutted buildings in London include a wing of Buckingham Palace, with damage to the wing shown. The firemen direct fire hose streams of water on bombed and gutted buildings.
