A documentary depicts Admiral Hyman G. Rickover explaining the first nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus, with the help of a model submarine in the United States. He explains how the nuclear power works. A woman assistant in uniform opens the top of the model submarine. Adm Rickover explains the mechanics of the nuclear power using a pointer. He points at a uranium filled container and a boiler that produces steam for the turbine to start. Adm Rickover demonstrates the opening the turbine valve. He further talks about how the power plant works. The assistant places a shield near the power plant to show how one is used to protect crew from atomic radiation.
U.S. airmen load guns and bombs under the wings of U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft in Europe during World War II. United States airmen load guns of P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. Other crew members load bombs on the wing of the aircraft.
Scenes in Germany near the end of World War II. A Sherman tank moving along a dirt road. A blown and twisted railroad track. An American convoy of trucks and other vehicles moving along the dirt road. German ammunition in an open railway car. A U.S. soldier walks past a German railroad train. Several wrecked German wrecked German utility vehicles, including a Citroen staff car lying in an open field. A U.S. soldier examines an 88mm antitank round for a German Panzerschreck (antitank recoilless gun, like a bazooka).
U.S. paratroopers descend from U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft in Germany during World War II. Day light close up view just outside aircraft door as paratroopers jump from aircraft and descend to ground. Aerial view of green fields on the ground. The paratroopers land next to a small village.
United States and British officers in Germany during World War II. United States and British soldiers march with the American and the British flag. U.S. aircraft parked in the background. Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe General Dwight D Eisenhower along with staff walks on a runway at an airfield. Commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe General Carl Andrew Spaatz and British Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder walk towards General Eisenhower. The officers salute General Eisenhower. A U.S. soldier stands with a flag in hand. General Eisenhower shakes hands with officers and converses with them. United States Army Air Force General James Harold Doolittle stands with other British officers. An aircraft parked on the ground. A tent pitched on a field with soldiers in the foreground.
View of Amelia Earhart walking up the wing of her Lockheed Electra, parked in a hangar at the U.S. Navy Air Station, Oakland, California. She climbs into the cockpit. In the hangar, near the aircraft, she is seen talking with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz and Fred Noonan are seen briefly. Earhart and Mantz begin weighing each piece of equipment, while George Putnam records the weights. Mechanic Bo McKneely appears in white coverall, with "Grand Canyon Airlines" written on back. He converses with Mantz and moves to the airplane. Putnam playfully puts a tropical pith helmet on Earhart's head. Putnam brings a rubber life raft to Mantz and Earhart, who examine it. Fred Noonan joins the other three. Earhart gives Noonan a card on the end of a long pole. He reads and pockets it. (Note: The space, in the airplane, between cockpit and cabin, was so crowded with fuel tanks, etc. that Noonan was unable to reach it. So he would use the pole to pass position reports to Earhart during flight.) The four, Amelia Earhart, Paul Mantz, George Putnam, and Fred Noonan, begin placing the equipment into the aircraft cabin.
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