Dinner for U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn in Washington DC. Dignitaries seated on table. Speaker Rayburn of Texas with former U.S. President Harry S Truman and Adlai Stevenson. Rayburn seated on a table. William Averell Harriman attends the dinner. Speaker Rayburn talks to dignitaries. Flags in the background. Dignitaries seated around a table applaud. Sam Rayburn waves at them. A flag of United States on the wall. Speaker Rayburn starts his dinner.
General activities at Eglin Field show the preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. A sign reads 'Headquarters Air Crops Proving Ground, Eglin Field, Florida'. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers parked on the Eglin Air Force Base. Insignia of the United States Army Air Forces. A crewman on a tug. Two pilots talk and one of them drinks. Crewmen stand in a group. U.S. pilot at controls. A propeller rotates. Another pilot looks out from the window of a B-25. Crewmen stand around the B-25 and one of them works under the wing. A pilot in the cockpit. Two crewmen stand near a ladder. A pilot in the cockpit.
General activities at Eglin Field show preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. U.S. General Doolittle stands with the pilots and talk. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell parked in the background. Crewmen work on the wheel of a B-25 and General Doolittle looks at them. A pilot looks out from the window of the plane. General Doolittle stands with a pilot and talks to him. Crewmen and pilot stand around a B-25. A B-25 inside a hangar. Crewmen seated on a trolley. B-25s parked in a line. A crewman on a ladder works on a jet engine.
U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers prepare for the raid on Tokyo, Japan. B-25 Mitchell on the deck of USS Hornet in the Pacific. A bomb comes up on a small elevator. USAAF Lieutenant Colonel James Harold Doolittle and U.S. Navy Captain Marc A. Mitscher stand near the bomb and talk. USAAF men seated around the bomb. Close up of Captain Marc A. Mitscher. Lt Col. Doolittle wires a Japanese medal on the bomb for its return to its originators. (World War II period).
U.S Army Air Service bombing exercises using the former USS New Jersey (BB-16) anchored in Diamond Shoals North Carolina. A bomb strikes near the stern of the ship causing her to capsize and sink.
Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat and Oman and French Ambassador, Rene Saint-Quentin, in Washington DC. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stands with the dignitaries and attends a special service at St. John's Church Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, near the White House. The Sultan in a car. Military greetings are given to them. A close up of the Sultan arriving at an event beside U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The United States Capitol building in the background. The military soldiers march. Cars parked at the side of a road. The new French Ambassador, René Doynel de Saint-Quentin, at the White House. Press personnel take pictures.
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