Mine workers load a chute car at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Workers use removable end-boards to prevent ore chunks from falling off the ends of chute car. Few workers avoid use of end-boards on the chute car. As a result an ore chunk falls on a worker's foot.
Miners drill holes to place dynamite inside a stope at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Shift boss inspects the holes and orders miners to place proper amount of dynamite. A miner prepares to tamp dynamite with a drill steel bar. The boss stops him and instructs him to use a wooden tamping stick instead. Miner breaks the wooden stick. Fellow miner uses steel bar to tamp the dynamite and causes an explosion. Injured miner with his face covered with gunpowder.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower decorates the outgoing Secretary of State, Charles E. Wilson with Medal of Freedom at White House in Washington DC. Neil H. McElroy is sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States. McElroy takes his seat in his new office. U.S. Department of Defense seal and US-flag can be seen in background .
U.S. Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover is honored aboard the USS Nautilus in Groton,Connecticut. Participating VIPs include: French Ambassador Herve Alphand; Secretary of US-Navy(SECNAV) William B. Franke; President of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation.Carleton Shugg; and Vice Admiral(VADM) Hyman G. Rickover. They arrive aboard the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) for the ceremony. Vice Admiral Rickover is saluted by Navy officers. standing on a podium set up on deck of the submarine. Officers and men on the Nautilus stand at attention. LT. J.F. Laboon, JR. Chaplain, gives a short invocation. Commander of Nautilus, Lando W. Zech, introduces Vice Admiral Grenfell who steps up to the mike. French Ambassador Alphand gives remarks. SECNAV gives his address and presents the Distinguished Service Medal to VADM Rickover.
Shows American parachute troops accompanied with armed Arab guides in a desert near Tebourba in Tunisia, during World War 2. Troops take shelter from sun under a large rock. Troops rest on sand in open. Allied convoy comprising of U.S. M3 Grant tanks, half-tracks and jeeps rolls near Tebourba in Tunisia. The convoy crosses a bridge guarded by French soldiers. U.S. P-38s circle the skies above the convoy. (November 1942-December 1942).
Thanksgiving Day celebrations at Oum El Aguareb in Algeria, North Africa, during World War 2. American soldiers chase a flock of turkeys. Natives gift turkey to U.S. soldiers. U.S. soldiers roll up copies of detailed war maps meant for tank commanders. Allied tanks deployed near Tebourba in Tunisia. Convoy of Allied tanks, half tracks and jeeps move.
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