The Imperial Iranian Navy in Iran. Imperial Iranian Navy marines with machine guns in patrol swift boats. A machine gun pointing upwards. View of the Imperial Iranian Navy destroyer. Iranian marines wearing life vests rush to their positions on board. A gunner adjusts naval artillery. A marine brings an artillery shell. Naval gun crew fire anti-aircraft gun. Marine viewing the target from artillery stand. The artillery officer gives out order to fire. Marines use binoculars to view the Persian Gulf. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, speaks about the role of the Imperial Iranian Navy in helping Iran’s independence and modernization. An English dubbing translates the Shah’s comments. The Shah speaks in French.
August 1943: Animated map depicts Allied ground advances, 5th AAF air fleet stations, Japanese opposition base at Rabaul as well as Japanese positions and network in Papua New Guinea. Map depicting strategic Japanese positions of Wewak and Boram. 5th AAF soldiers decide to raid the two posts. 17 August 1943: USAAF B-25 Mitchell bombers and P-38 Lightning fighters attack the Japanese post of Wewak. Heavy bombardment by the American bombers. Smoke and explosion from the bombardment. Aerial view of the Japanese airplanes parked on the airstrip. 20 August 1943: USAAF B-24 Liberatoor bombers and P-38 Lightning fighters attack the Japanese position at Boram. Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Mitsubishi Zeros attack the B-24s, P-38s intervene. Bombs dropped on the target. Smoke and explosion from the bombardment. (World War II period).
British engineer and oil explorer,George Reynolds, smokes a pipe as he surveys the area for oil drilling. Drilling operations at an oil derrick. Workers Carry containers of granulated oil drilling mud, to the drill pipe. Turning pages in George Reynolds' daily journal. Sun overhead in the sky as men continue to work at the derrick. A man sprays water with a hose as workers add dry mud compound to facilitate drilling.. Black smoke billows from burning oil at edge of oil derrick. An official letter from the office of the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, informing William D' Arcy that the operators of his Syndicate struck oil at a depth of 1200 feet. plumes of black smoke intensify from burning oil at the drill site.
A caravan of camels moves near ruins of ancient Persian City of Pasarguadae, near Masjid-i-Suleiman. View of ancient columns, steps, bas relief art sculptures, winged sculpture, and horse head sculpture.
Sand dunes in desert of Iran, Persia. The oil exploration team led by Geroge B. Reynolds, working for William Know D'Arcy, moves across the countryside in search of oil. A group of men pull their horses across dunes and climb a hill. Desert sand all over. Men on horsebacks cross a small river flowing through the desert. Notebook of George Reynolds with a photograph in it.
Group of villagers who were attacked by a rabid wolf, in Sahneh, Iran. Wounds on a young boy, and others on an older man, are pointed out by an elder in white clothing. Wounds on another man are shown. (Slate states that he later died of rabies.)
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