Refine Your Search

US-Gliders- stock footage and images

- Showing 17983 to 17988 of 21918 results
Mail transported by train and airmail by airplanes.

United States Post office employees sort mail sacks filled with letters. A locomotive train approaching camera position and passing by at high speed. Map of United States connecting destinations and a flying plane. A man examining models of various airplanes used for air mail service. Shows postmaster General James A. Farley emerging from a plane with other men to examine the latest technology and advances in airplanes for airmail service. View of exterior of Newark Air Mail Post Office building. Men emerging from plane. A plane takes off. Men load postal mail sacks on plane. View of a pilot reenacting the look of one of the original night mail pilots.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051774
Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk.

Various post offices across the nation. Postal employees at work. Shows a flying plane, men riding sleds, a boat by a ship, and a moving railroad train by which mail is transported. U.S. Capitol building. Postal trucks lined up at the Capitol. Shows Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk in his office. Farley signs a document.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051775
Ambassadors and diplomats of the United States in Europe and Asia.

Secretary of State Department, Cordell Hull at office with his staff. World map. Door sign 'Division of European Affairs. 'Officer with other men at work. Ambassador Hugh Wilson in Berlin and Ambassador William Phillips in Rome. British and French U.S. diplomats, Joseph P. Kennedy in London, England United Kingdom; and W.C. Bullitt at conference in Paris. Consul General George Wadsworth at American consulate in Jerusalem, Palestine; and J.C. Grew in Tokyo, Japan.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051778
Frank Knox arrives at Patuxent River; assorted other scenes of Japanese military leaders and allied military leaders

A government official arrives by a plane and greeted by military officer during World War 2. Next scene is unrelated and shows Japanese General Hideki Tojo and an aide seated at a ceremony, with Imperial Japanese navy pilots seated behind and others including civilians in the audience. Next scene shows officers of Navy of Imperial Japan in conference as they examine a map on a ship deck. Scene shifts to another greeting of unnamed Allied officials meeting and greeting at an airstrip. Next scene shows a Pacific Island battlefield with both dead troops on beach area and live American troops walking nearby. Next scenes shows U.S. Secretary of Navy, Frank Knox, as he arrives at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in a plane. Frank Knox and other officials leave. Various views of radio towers are seen in between scenes in the clip.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051791
President Roosevelt speaks to crowd in Ottawa. Montage of World War II milestones and military action.

President Franklin D Roosevelt speaking from steps of Parliament, in Ottawa, Canada, during World War 2. Behind him stands Canadian Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Large crowd gathered. Crowd waves at the President. The sequence then shifts to a montage of World War 2 milestones shown in newspaper headlines and battle scenes such as American battleships and destroyers firing on coastal targets; .troops in an amphibious assault; U.S.marines wading ashore, after leaving landing craft. Field artillery firing. Newspaper reads 'Italy Quits'. Newspaper slowly burns. The sequence returns to Roosevelt speaking on steps of Canadian Parliament. US, British and Canadian flags side by side. View of a very large gathering of Canadians at the event.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051794
President Franklin D Roosevelt at his desk in the White House.

Daytime exterior views of the U.S. Capitol building and exterior of the White House in Washington DC. President Franklin D Roosevelt at his desk in the White House. He appears to be writing correspondence and affixing a seal to written documents.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051811