An oil pipe line from Texas to Illinois is laid in Arkansas, United States. An oil pumping station. Oil tanks in the background. Oil is pumped out using an oil pump. The tanks filled directly from a well. Engineers use different machines to dig a trench for laying the oil pipeline from Texas to Illinois. An engineer welds a pipeline. The engineers wrap the pipe with a protective covering. The pipe is laid in the trench using machines. Mud is put in the trench.
A new route links the United States and Alaska during World War II. Trucks parked on a highway. Men stand holding the U.S. flags. Canadian Mounted Police men stand in formation. The U.S. flag is raised up. The soldiers stand wearing woolen hats and coats. Officials cut a ribbon and pay tribute to the U.S. Army. The soldiers applaud. The Alaskan Highway Alaska is officially opened. A truck convoy rolls northward.
Activities of Native American Indian Navaho women in the United States during World War II . Women come out of a building. Navaho women bring home cooked food for U.S. soldiers at a railway station. The soldiers take the food. A woman with her child and a U.S. soldier. Two women look at a board which tells the name of the Indians serving in the U.S. Army. Women at a handicraft shop make gifts and games for Red Cross packages. The home of a Navaho family. A close up of a Navaho chief.
A documentary titled 'OSS Training Group' shows a training program of U.S. hand picked volunteer soldiers in a OSS secret training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. A explosion and smoke rises due to explosion. The U.S. troops carrying guns and advance from the smoky area. A soldier attaches a wire and explosion occurs. A training camp. A U.S. military policeman walk towards a truck and salutes. He checks the documents and all the truck to enter the camp. The policeman opens a barricade. The truck enters the camp area and the selected students get down from the truck. The student trainees, all wearing masks to conceal their identity, stand in formation in front of a building and an OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officer instructs them. The students receive pins with names on them. A badge on the uniform of a student. They receive instructions. The students receive necessary supplies.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a speech on nuclear tests in the United States, in the wake of recent Soviet nuclear tests, during the cold war arms race. Kennedy seated at a platform. He speaks over a microphone. A U.S. flag in the background. He speaks about the development of the nuclear weapons for the defense of the nation. He also talks that the U.S. will conduct nuclear tests if necessary for defense, in light of recent nuclear tests conducted by the Soviet Union.
View of the buildings and grounds of the U.S. National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. A U.S. Air Force technician working with NSSL meteorologists at computers and radar monitoring stations. Several outdoor radar domes on towers. A horse grazing on the NSSL grounds. A sign identifying the NSSL with NOAA logo and words: "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" and "U.S. Department of Commerce." Radar images of the continental United States showing severe weather areas. Meteorologists tracking the severe weather by radar and typing real-time reports of observations.
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