Scenes in and around Yerevan, Armenia, photographed during visit of the U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, in 1919. Camera pans across imposing old forts that overlook the area. View shifts to position upon wall of a fort, where the camera pans across forest at the base of the fort and the city of Yerevan spread out below. Final sequence shows local Armenian people going about their ordinary activities. Some walk along a dirt road, next to masonry buildings. A man and woman sit in the shade of a stone wall, with a young child seen crouched between them.
U.S. destroyers carry Greek and Armenian refugees from Turkey to temporary refuge camp at Athens orphanage in Greece, during the period of the Greco-Turkish War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Sailors carry a sick refugee on a stretcher. More refugees arrive on the ship. Refugees with belongings embark the ship.
U.S. Admiral Mark L. Bristol and two other officials climb up a hill in Constantinople, Turkey. Officials examine a chart in the field. Officials look down from the side of the hill. Horse on the field.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt on his way to 3rd 'campaign' speech in Boston. He is greeted by a large crowd in Hartford, Connecticut. The President addresses the crowd. People take cover under umbrellas. A group of people waves to the President. The President speaks into a microphone from an open car. Other officials seated with the President in the car. Woman with a campaign sign that says "Forward with Roosevelt" A procession of cars moves along a street. President Roosevelt inspects Pratt & Whitney airplane engine factory. He also views a number of rifles and various armament on display. A crowd assembled on a street.
Sea burials of American sailors during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Wounded men are carried off. Many dead bodies sewed up in canvas are ready for burial at sea, aboard a U.S. ship. A church flag flies above colors on the ship. Men attend a Catholic mass aboard the ship. A photographer stands behind his movie camera on a tripod. Burial crew carries bodies draped in American flag. Flags are removed and bodies are slid off the board into the sea.
U.S. ships underway during the Pacific campaign of World War II. A man stands on the deck of a ship. Supply ships of Task Force in background. Ships' guns fire during a night battle. Night sky shows tracers. Flames on flight deck of a ship after it is hit by a Japanese Kamikaze plane.
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