Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and other leaders attends an award ceremony at St. George Hall in the Great Kremlin Palace,in Moscow, Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin,Georgy Malenkov, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin and others seated in a box. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov seated elsewhere, with other officials. A speaker announces Molotov's name and the assembly applauds. A woman speaks from the podium. Many other names are called and applauded. Winners of various awards stand before the assembly and are applauded.
USS Bluegill SS-242 off the coast of Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A man fires at a mine with a rifle from the deck of USS Bluegill SS-242. CPO (Chief Petty Officer) and an enlisted man on the deck of USS Bluegill. A U.S. ship off Saipan Island. Stowing rope in a stowage space on the deck of USS Bluegill. A sailor paints on the deck of the boat. Saipan Island in the background. Men shoot at a mine with a 40mm gun and rifles. A man on the deck looks through binoculars.
Rescue of U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber crew in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Men in a lifeboat taken aboard the American submarine, USS Batfish (SS-310). An airplane circling overhead. The crew of the B-29 in the life boat being rescued at sea. Injured crewman of B-29 being helped aboard USS Batfish. Injured airman strapped to a board being lowered aboard the submarine. Hatch of the submarine being secured. Wounded airmen being transferred in stretchers from USS Batfish to a motor launch. Red Cross-marked boats with wounded men shove off.
Animated map shows Northern Pacific with line from Japan to the Aleutians and thence to the West coast of the United States. View zooms in on the Aleutian Islands. View, from Japanese transport ship, of several Japanese warships underway in Northern Pacific ocean during World War 2. Japanese Naval officer steering in the wheelhouse of the ship. A light cruiser and two more warships in a column. A company of Japanese marines receive instructions from an officer and board a landing craft.View of marines in landing craft, underway, with their rifles resting on the gunnels.
Salvage operations off the coast of Palomares, Spain by the United States after the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash. A small boat in water. Line handlers aboard an LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) tending lines attached to divers, being towed through water during salvage operations. A man on the stern of the LCM holds a tow line attached to divers underwater in the far background. A small boat patrols in the background. Men on stern of the LCM grouped around. A diver swims towards the stern of the LCM. A piece of gear is brought aboard by the men on the stern. The man on the stern of the LCM holding onto the line extended out into water. Four men on the stern of the LCM tend lines which are extended out into the wake of a boat.
Salvage operations off the coast of Palomares, Spain by the United States after 1966 Palomares B-52 crash incident. Motorized Alvin craft moves through water. The coastline of Palomares in the background. Alvin moves underway on the surface. Two lines run out to Alvin which is being towed. Divers are in the water next to Alvin. U.S. personnel on the deck of a ship and Alvin being pulled towards the side of the ship. Alvin enters the flooded well deck of an LSD (Landing Ship, Dock).
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