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U.S. Navy PT boats and fighter airplanes engage in a mock battle at the Panama Canal.
Maneuvers of U.S. Navy motor torpedo boats in the Panama Canal. U.S. Navy PT boats underway. Aerial view of the boats. U.S. fighter airplanes in flight overhead. They engage in a mock battle. (World War II period).
President Roosevelt addresses graduates of University of Virginia and talks about U.S. decision to aid the Allies.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses graduates of the class of 1940 at the University of Virginia, before the U.S. entrance into World War II. Speaking in Memorial Gymnasium, the President speaks into a microphone and addresses the University community and graduates, including his son Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who was graduating with a law degree. He speaks about the United States' decision to aid the Allies by extending to them the material resources of the United States in the war. He says that the U.S. took the decision after Italian Government's back-stab decision to engage in the war, after having earlier worked for the preservation of peace in the Mediterranean area. (Roosevelt had learned that morning of Italy's declaration of war on France.)
U.S. shuttle-bombing of German positions and military installations under Operation Frantic during World War II.
Film title slate indicates "Operation Titanic" but it, in fact, depicts "Operation Frantic" with U.S. shuttle bombing operations over Germany from bases in Great Britain, Italy and Russia during World War II. United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight. Aerial view of bombers in flight with several aircraft flying in formation leaving behind contrails. View inside bomber aircraft with bombardier preparing to drop bombs. View of bomb bay door opening and closeup of hand near bomb drop switch. Bombs awawy view as bombs are dropped from American aircraft. German defenses are bombed along the invasion coast of France (just prior to D-Day) on June 2, 1944. Aerial views of B-24 and B-17 bombers also in flight bombing German military installations in German-occupied northwestern Europe. Aerial view of a target area. Smoke rising up from bombardment. Two different U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Liberator aircraft are seen falling from the sky toward crashes after being hit by German enemy fire. One of them has smoke trailing from it, and the other is in a free fall. Railroad and marshaling yards are also bombed over Debrecen, Hungary on June 2, 1944, with aircraft continuing on (shuttle bombing) rather than returning to base. United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator flying in formation on June 21, 1944. Aerial view as they bomb the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 engine aircraft factory near Basdorf, Germany. German factories are bombed. B-17 aircraft on the same date are seeing in formation and bomb railway stations, freight yards, and factory targets, along with the Nazi German Ministry of War, Ministry of Propaganda, and Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Heavy flak bursts seen in the air near the aircraft. Dogfight scenes as several German airplanes are shot down. Machine gunners aboard U.S. bomber aircraft firing at German fighter aircraft and shooting down 43 of them, according to narrator. Aerial view of ball turret rotating below bomber and firing guns at German fighter aircraft. The B-17s and B-24s bombing the targets. Synthetic oil plants and refineries are bombed at Ruhland Germany, east of Leipzig. Planning for the operation was done on December 7, 1943. A document about the operation is typed. Animated map shows Nazi positions and method of shuttle-bombing, allowing American aircraft to bomb from Soviet bases, and allies broadly to bomb German targets from bases in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Soviet Ukraine.
A training film in the U.S. shows extraction of a ground team from the enemy territory with the help of a McGuire rig.
A training film in the United States on tactical operations of U.S. Air Force UH-1 Iroquois helicopters. A helicopter in a low flight over enemy territory. Ex filtration of forces from the area. If the helicopter cannot get close enough to use a rope ladder, a McGuire rig is used. Pilots at the controls of the helicopters. The helicopter crew locates the team as a smoke signal is given by them . A man looks at the helicopter. The helicopter in low flight over a landing zone. A crew member lowers the McGuire rig in the area. Men hold the rig. 3 persons may be recovered at a time by the rig. Coordination between the pilot and the crew chief is very important at this time. The helicopter carries the men holding the rig. They arrive near a safe landing zone. The helicopter descends vertically and the team members settle on the ground. Ground fire by the enemy. The helicopter in flight overhead.
Cooks and bakers prepare food for U.S. sailors in kitchen of Great Lakes Naval Training Station during World War I
Food is prepared for U.S. Navy sailors in training during World War 1 in the United States. Interior of a galley or kitchen of the Naval Station Great Lakes. Cooks give large pots of food to waiters. Big ovens in the galley. Bakers pull out trays of baked food out of an oven. They place trays on a shelf. Men stand around a mixer being turned by hand. A man stirs a large pot at the end of the mixer. Men dump dough into a large trough. The cooks smooths out the dough. Four sailors seated outside peel potatoes. Aerial view of the parade ground and buildings at the Naval Station Great Lakes as U.S. Navy sailors parade and drill. A U.S. flag in the foreground. Men march.
Anti-war protestors rally at U.S. Capitol against the war in Vietnam.
April 24, 1971 rally organized by the National Peace Action Coalition against the Vietnam War, held in Washington DC. Feet with shoes and 1970s fashion pants legs of peace marchers on streets of Washington DC. Hippie protestors holding the North Vietnamese flag and the flag of the Vietcong National Liberation Front and yelling chants against the war. Reporter sitting atop a truck photographs the marching crowd of anti-war citizens. A sign reads "Veterans". Protestors seen marching from the White House to the U.S. Capitol. Narrator indicates that protestors are also highlighting civil rights issues. Aerial view of U.S. Capitol building. Protestors crossing mall lawn areas. Elevated view of densely packed crowd on Mall grounds. Demonstrators cheering and yelling and shaking their fists. Police and officials lean against U.S. Capitol walkway railings and observe the crowd. Some protestors are seen perched on limbs of a tree, and the tree is moving as the crowd swings the tree back and forth. Crowd seated around a flag made of red flowers. Crowd waving Vietcong flag. Some protestors seen scaling a wooden fence barrier on the Capitol grounds.
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