Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan, United States. U.S. Army soldier on guard in a street. Ground views - demolished buildings and wrecked autos. A building. Two soldiers patrol the street. Vehicles move on road. Vehicles in front of a building. Soldier walks out from the building. Men carry out cartons from the building.
Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan. A man walks on a side walk. Building in the background. Sign on building:'7- Bruesser & Co.'. Insignia of Michigan Bell Telephone Company on a van. Barbed wire and a sign board of 'Restricted Area'. U.S. soldiers stand on guard duty.
Aftermath of Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan. U.S. soldiers on guard duty at Gratiot Avenue and Beaubien Street. Vehicles move on road in the background. Soldier stops the pedestrians and drives them back. Sign 'Wayne County' on a wall. Vehicles on a road. A jeep is seen, turning off Clinton Street onto Beaubien.
Aftermath of Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Two men walk down. A woman comes out from a building. Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct building. U.S. soldiers stand guard at entrance of the building.
Troops coming home to America at the end of World War 2. An Army Sergeant just returned from Europe, at the end of World War 2, stands on a pier, beside the troop ship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). With him is a woman who wearing a jacket emblazoned with many emblems of U.S. military units. The sergeant places the insignia of the 10th Armored Division on her back. They hug and laugh. Scene shifts completely to 9th Armored Division soldiers at Camp Patrick Henry, Newport News, Virginia, holding the large sign originally placed on the Ludendorff bridge in Germany, by C Company of the 9th Armored Engineer Battalion during the war. It reads:"Cross the Rhine with dry feet, courtesy of 9th Arm'd Div." The soldiers carry the sign past a wooden building at the camp. Change of scene shows Ninth Armored Division troops arriving by train at Camp Patrick Henry. They march in loose order on train platform, with troop transport railroad train pulled into station. The happy soldiers march through a Victory Arch bearing words, "Welcome Home" at an entrance to the camp. More views of the troops marching into Camp Patrick Henry, where the 9th Division is to be deactivated. In the camp grounds, Sergeant reaches into his dufflebag and takes out a small puppy. ( Note: Vehicles: seen in this clip include: MB GPW, and CCKW)
Launching of first liquid fuel rocket on a Staten Island New York beach in 1933. U.S. rocket experimenters including George Edward Pendray launch the first liquid fuel missile. They prepare for launching of the rocket and fill fuel of rocket which is powered with gasoline and liquid oxygen. Missile being launched and its fuel tank explodes due to over heating. Rocket crashes down on beach. Experimenters stand with pieces of the broken rocket. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
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