USS Honolulu (CL-48) and other Light Cruisers fire at Kolombangara Island in the Pacific. Baker's flag on the USS Honolulu CL-48. SOC Seagull aircraft catapulted from it. CL (Light Cruiser) underway in background. A sailor looks out of the turret. The sailor looks through binoculars. Signal flags on the CL. The SOC approaches. Sailors on deck of the USS Honolulu. View of the nearby USS Helena (CL-50) underway as part of the task force. Sailors on the deck of the USS Honolulu. One sailor gets a hair cut. A sailor operating a film movie camera on a tripod, positioned above the gun turret. (World War II period).
The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks across a garden in the British Embassy, Tehran, Iran. He is followed by dignitaries including the young Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Churchill reviews the British and Indian Colonial troops. Three soldiers representing the British and Indian Colonial Regiments hold gifts for Winston Churchill celebrating his 69th birthday. Each man steps forward, delivers a speech and hands a gift to Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill addresses the soldiers. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi again visible behind Churchill. Soldiers raise their hats and cheer. Winston Churchill salutes and walks off. (World War II period, during Tehran Conference).
United States President Franklin Roosevelt seated on a chair after the Tehran Conference (Project Eureka) during World War 2. Seated on his right is Harry Hopkins. Seated on his left is General Dwight Eisenhower. President Franklin Roosevelt's two sons stand behind him. Both his sons, Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Junior are in uniforms.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt seated in a car, in Egypt, during his World War 2 visit for the Cairo Conference. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in civilian dress stands alongside the car. General Dwight Eisenhower, President Franklin Roosevelt and Sarah Churchill lunch on sandwiches. A view of the pyramids. A native points out the pyramids.
United States soldiers share a Christmas dinner with five poor Chinese children during World War II. The group is seated around a restaurant table. Chinese calligraphy adorns the restaurant wall. The soldiers and Chinese children eat with chopsticks. Soldiers and children take noodles and other dishes from a common plate. Soldier offers a dish to a girl. Girl takes morsels of meat from the soldier’s plate. People with chopsticks taking noodles from a common plate.
United States soldiers treating five poor Chinese children to Christmas dinner during World War II. They are seated around a restaurant table. Soldiers and children take noodles from a common plate. A Chinese boy eating noodles from a small bowl. A Chinese woman puts some noodles on American soldier’s bowl. The soldiers and Chinese children eat with chopsticks. After the meal steaming hot towels are brought. A soldier wipes the face of a Chinese boy with the towel.
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