Allied operations in Germany during World War II. A map of Germany. A headline in a newspaper reads 'Russians strike Berlin'. People stand on a bridge in Cologne. View of Cologne cathedral. Past events show Nazi troops during a parade in March, 1936, crossing the River Rhine during rearmament of Germany. U.S. soldiers in advance in Germany in 1945, in combat from house to house in a German town. The German soldiers being taken as prisoners of war. Scenes with Nazi German soldiers with their hands up in the air. A large group of German Prisoners of War being marched on a road under guard by American soldiers. Allied aircraft bombard German towns. P-38 aircraft taking off and gun camera footage while strafing a target. P-38 landing on a snow covered airfield. An American single-propeller fighter aircraft crash lands with difficulty and slides into another parked aircraft on the snow. Aerial views of B-24 and B-17 aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped in night bombing raids and day bombing raids over Berlin, Germany. Smoke rises. Aircraft in flight as they leave behind vapor trails. United States soldiers on the ground in combat with enemy Germans in a German town. Infantrymen fire rifles and advance house to house. Wounded Americans being carried on litters for medical care. Germans fire at the wounded Americans.Sergeant Peter Di Guiseppi, from Pennsylvania, of 1st Armored Division, being interviewed. Private Pat Brady of Hollywood California narrates an incident where a gunner aboard a tank fired fiercely at the enemy. He talks about tanks getting caught in a fire and the following rescue efforts.
Royal British yacht "Britannia" moving slowly in the St. Lawrence Seaway as part of the Seaway's opening ceremony festivities. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip seen on the forward bridge waving to the crowd and press along the sides of the Seaway. Novelty British flags hooked to small parachutes are shot in the air from ships and float down to the crowd. Close-up of the Britannia's ship's plaque. U.S. Navy crew at quarters aboard the USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931), serving as an escort ship. Many sailors at the rails of the U.S. Navy ship USS Forrest Sherman, with the Royal Yacht Brittania in the background. The official gates at the seaway are seen. A choir of high school or college students sings at the ceremony. View of First Lady Mrs. Eisenhower entering a Cadillac sedan, and Queen Elizabeth going to a second Cadillac sedan with President Eisenhower. Large crowd watches the officials enter the cars. Prince Philip and Mrs. Eisenhower ride away in a Cadillac and are followed by Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower in a second sedan.
Bandleader-Aviator, Roger Wolfe Kahn, son of multimillionaire banker, Otto Kahn, sits in a 1930 Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket airplane. He taxis and takes off, flying from New York to Norfolk Virginia, where he makes a daring low altitude test of system for in-flight pickup of mail. He swoops to within a few yards of the pickup point, and snags a mail satchel suspended atop a building only 102 feet high, The mail pouch is delivered by air drop in a field, where it is picked up by a man who places it in a car and drives away. (Note: This actual airplane, Bellanca NC 7084, is being restored by its owner, Dan Cullman of Kent, Washington.)
Wright Brothers demonstrate their airplane in public at Hunaudieres horse racing track near the town of Le Mans, France. The "Wright Flyer" is brought to the field in center of the track, by horses. French audience sits and talks. Two men rotate blades of the "flyer" to start it. A team of men pull a rope to raise a weight in a launching derrick. When the weight drops it catapults the airplane into the air. Views of the airplane in flight, with Wilbur Wright at the controls accompanied by a passenger.
Security system and procedures for access to unmanned Minuteman Missile sites of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). Shown are procedures used by Security escort accompanying a maintenance team to a site. View of soldier typing on a typewriter and answering phone at the security dispatch office. The security form, called the 'pre-dispatch security notification' is shown. Military escort receiving codes on a card given to him at the dispatch window is also issued and M-16 rifle with 54 rounds. The military escort, dressed in a winter parka, shows that he knows the lock combination using a simulated lock at the dispatch desk. A separate detail goes through similar measures at a separate dispatch desk. Map shows radio check points that will be used by the escort during the missile maintenance activity. Green M1 Dodge truck driving in the desert to missile silo site. Military escort and maintenance crew dressed in winter coats arrive at chain link fence surrounding missile silo in the desert. They unlock the chain link fence gate. They open ground level security hatch. Soldier at missile command answers phone call from them and authorizes. Close up of combination lock set into the ground of the missile silo. Guard unlocks the combination lock and lifts the tube door cover out of the ground. Soldier wearing winter parka with M16 rifle watches as men open hatches to missile silo and descend into silo to perform maintenance. After procedure, men get into the back of the military truck and leave the missile area. Aerial view of minuteman missile site. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
1st Anniversary of Japan Bombing celebrated on Tinian Island, Marianas Island. Commanding General Henry Harley 'Hap' Arnold, Army Air Force and 20th Bomber Command arrives for the ceremony. Roger Ramey, Barney Giles and Colonel Alva Harvey in position for ceremony. General Arnold stands and looks at medal in his hand. He pins medals on troops uniform. Troop salutes the General. Arnold addresses troops. (World War II period).
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