A U.S. Air Force officer shakes hands with a French officer in reception center canteen at Hickam Air Force Base,Oahu, Hawaiian Territory, as French troops pass through on their way home from Indochina. A civilian converses with a wounded French soldier, on a stretcher. A U.S. Navy admiral greets wounded soldiers. The hangar is seen crowded with French troops and American greeters. View shifts to interior of a Red Cross bus set up as an ambulance. Nurses and other medical staff are seen in the bus. U.S. Airmen lift wounded French soldiers into the ambulance bus. In next scene, military police on motorcycles lead two ambulance buses out a gate from the airfield. In another scene where wounded are being loaded aboard an ambulance bus, Hula dancers stand beside the bus and entertain them. The loaded bus moves out with its rear open and medics attending to the wounded passengers. Back in the Air Evac Canteen, greeters and French troops continue to mingle. Closeup of a wounded French soldier on a stretcher, being greeted. A microphone is held near as he converses with the civilian and the admiral, seen earlier.
Aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during World War 2. An animated map shows Japan in the Pacific Ocean. Nagasaki, Kobe and Otaru in Japan. U.S. propaganda scenes with caricature voice of a fictional "Mr. Tojo" of Japan declaring various U.S. Navy ships destroyed after the Pearl Harbor attack. Scenes of various capsized and damaged ships in Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack. United States naval personnel and civilian personnel work on salvage and repair. Engineers and personnel recruited. Navy divers get into scuba diving suits and helmets and go under water to collect salvage and make repairs. Destroyed USS Nevada, USS West Virginia, USS California. Salvage crew work aboard these ships. Refloated and refitted U.S. Navy ships departing Pearl Harbor in the war effort. View of the Aloha Clock Tower. Sailors stand with Lurline ship in background. View of people enjoying Waikiki Beach in 1940 or 1941 before the attack. Later scene of the same beach with two young boys playing in the sand, but barbed wire between the beach and the ocean, following America's entry into World War 2. Empty streets of Honolulu at dusk as blackout time hours begin. Narrator speaks out against Japan and states that all they that take the sword shall perish the sword, and text "This is not the End" appears at the end of the film, following by text, "This is but the Beginning!"
Ruins of Hitler's Berghof residence in Berchtesgaden after bombing by Allied forces near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Goering's stolen collection of paintings and art pieces taken from all over Europe. The stolen collection was hidden in air raid shelters and loaded on battle trains. View of U.S. soldiers retrieving the stolen works of art. Book 'Mein Kampf' written by Adolf Hitler in Landsberg prison. Portrait of Adolf Hitler with a Nazi symbol. German military officials including General Herman Gred Von Runstedt, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, and Hermann Goering surrender to the American Army. Views of Hermann Göring after having been flown from Austria to U.S. Army headquarters in Augsburg, Germany on May 9, 1945, where he is seen handing over his handgun. Göring talking to U.S. 7th Army officials.
A ceremony aboard the light cruiser, USS Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Brazilian dignitary shakes hands with U.S. naval officers. The deck is completely filled with U.S. and Brazilian sailors and honored guests. A Catholic Priest blesses the newly commissioned ship. A U.S. Navy Admiral gives a speech. A sailor hoists the Brazilian flag on the mast of the former USS Philadelphia, now the Brazilian Barrosa (C-11) . The Brazilian official gives a speech. View from across the docks, of the Barrosa.
George Herbert Walker Bush speaks to the 1984 Republican National Convention as the nominee for Vice President. Supporters cheer holding banners. Childhood pictures of George W. Bush with his family. He is shown as a fighter in a squadron in the U.S. Navy in World War II. Footage of his rescue by submarine after he is shot down. Footage of Yale University and a photo of Bush wearing a Yale sweatshirt. George H W Bush starting in the oil business in Texas. Shots of oil workers drilling for oil and an offshore platform. A reporter interviews Bush in the 1960's in front of the U.S. Capitol building in the background. Footage of Bush speaking before the United Nations in his role as U.N. Ambassador. Vice President Bush meets Chinese officials. George H. W. Bush with Barbara Bush and their five children, including George W. Bush, as he announces his candidacy for President in 1979. Bush during his campaign, before abandoning it to join the Republican ticket as Vice President with Ronald Reagan for President. The Vice President circa 1983 with U.S. President Ronald Reagan at Reagan's ranch, in a meeting with Tip O'Neill, and on the steps of United States Capitol building, as George Bush was on the campaign trail with President Reagan running on the Reagan/Bush ticket for 1984.
Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Jobless American men wait in unemployment relief lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the United States, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps and tenement dwellings during migration (usually migration west). Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol Building framed by tree limbs. Men in an office empty heavy mailbags filled with letters (presumably to congress and senate). Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting trees with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker as they are put to work in a variety of projects. Women and men, including white and African American men are seen getting assigned to work projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a suspension bridge work project of the Works Progress Administration in Los Angeles, California. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Four steam railroad locomotives preparing to run on parallel tracks. Close up views of railroad train locomotive wheels as they start moving and the train on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks, groups of workers entering factory for work shift and two different closeup views of a steam whistle blowing to mark the start or end of a work shift. A coal mining operation. Automated tools dig coal in shaft. Two coal miners take a break and eat. Crane hoists material at mine. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.
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