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Life in the U.S. soon after World War II; quiet midwest streets, markets, milk delivery.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. A man in the midwest United States walks in sidewalk of a neighborhood street. Narrator discusses the comfort of living in an area where buildings, homes, and farms were not affected by war. Buildings along the sides of the street. People shop in a grocery store and views of produce and vegetables in the store. A sign reads: 'No Butter Today' and narrator mentions shortages as being small inconveniences compared to shortages and starvation in war-torn Europe. Children play in a playground enjoying jungle gym bars and a slide. Boys and girls enjoying swing sets. Exteriors of St. Louis Cathedral church building with its two steeples, in St. Louis, Missouri. A delivery horse-cart of a milk man moves on a quiet neighborhood street. The draft horse has feathered fetlocks. Sign on side of delivery wagon reads, "Insist on Clover Leaf Pasteurized Milk. It's Safe." (Cloverleaf Dairy was in Springfield, Missouri.) A milk man walks towards a house in the midwestern town. View of a hand giving a telegram to a woman. View of a sign with 3 blue stars in window, showing that home has a man serving in war. Narrator describes blue stars having given way to gold stars, meaning killed in war. Photographs of soldiers on the table in a home where they lost a loved one at war.
Refugee forms being processed by U.S. Army personnel and copies of the forms made during Operation New Life in Pennsylvani
Check-in registration activities at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania during Operation New Life and Operation New Arrival for Vietnamese refugees, in Pennsylvania, United States. The interiors of a building at the fort. A Vietnamese refugee family looks over forms and forms are being processed by the military personnel. Meal identification cards on the desk. Soldiers making copies of the forms on the photocopy machine.
Officials place wreaths at memorial marking the grave of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his home, Springwood, in Hyde Park
Officials and visitors place wreaths at the marble memorial marking the grave of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the rose garden of his home, Springwood, in Hyde Park, New York. Cars carrying the visitors drive up to the main house. Several views of Springwood.
A U.S. Navy ship caught in a storm. Later, sailors prepare a deck gun for firing
An American ship being pummeled by wind and wave in a storm at sea. Next, sailors are seen preparing to fire a 4-inch / 50 caliber Mark 9 deck gun mounted near the ship's stern.. The sailors work on the gun, while an Officer holding a log book, of sorts, observes. The sailors raise the gun barrel and rotate it to starboard. They ram a shell into the breech, and rapidly close it. (The breech is equipped with an Ausbury mechanism for rapid opening and closing.) They continue to open and close the breech, loading multiple powder charges. Closeup from a different viewpoint of the gunners loading the gun, as a sailor at the gun maneuvering controls elevates the barrel with a hand crank
Chinese airmen board a U.S. troop carrier aircraft at Austin, Texas
United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation engineers under contract to the U.S. Navy, assemble prototype nuclear power plant for USS Nautilus (SSN 571).
Several zirconium-clad fuel rods of highly enriched uranium (HEU) are seen on a table. A hand rolls more beside the others, making a total of 6 rods. An engineer is seen at a work station associated with testing of the prototype pressurized water reactor plant for the USS Nautilus (SSN 571). Scene shifts to the Atomic Energy Commission's National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, where a truck is delivering a hydraulic cooling pump for the prototype reactor. View across barren terrain of a building at the site, where the prototype reactor is being tested. Closer view of the building and monitoring equipment housed in a small structure outside. Closeup of reactor pressure vessel being moved on an overhead crane and lowered into position and installed inside the facility. Instrumented control panel for the prototype reactor. A man steps to the panel and manipulates the main control wheel. Closeup of gauge reflecting effects of control movements.
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