Firing of a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. An XP-84 jet aircraft on a test flight in California. Scenes of devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An atomic bomb test conducted in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Large smoke cloud rises. Americans expressing disgust with war and confidence in ability to protect against it in future. Newspaper headline about Armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918. Victory parade in New York City. Close up view of Adolf Hitler as he speaks forcefully to a German audience. V2 rocket being launched in Germany. German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane in flight. Map depicting uranium deposits world wide. An XB-36 bomber in flight with landing gear extended. A huge formation of various warplanes in flight, high overhead. A wartime tank assembly plant. American army troops on parade. A United Nations meeting in session. Peaceful scenes of American soldiers in Hawaii before World War II in the Pacific. Hawaiian Hula dancers. Japanese carrier-based Aichi D3A1 dive bomber in flight during attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Bombed U.S. warships and facilities in Pearl Harbor. American Army officer and civilian discussing wisdom of maintaing large standing army. Army recruits are seen in the U.S. Army Universal Military Training Experimental Unit at Fort Knox, in 1947. They are seen in quarters, studying; taking part in sports (baseball); and attending religious services in a base chapel. Several trainees in a field tent, working with numerous tape decks in some kind of military communications activity.
Funeral for U.S. President William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C. Casket containing the body of President Taft is taken to the U.S. Capitol Building via horse drawn carriage. The casket is carried up the steps of the capitol and placed in the rotunda for viewing. Crowds climb the steps of the capitol to to pay homage to President William Howard Taft. President Taft's body is brought to All Souls Church at 1500 Harvard St. for the family funeral.
Farmers refuse to submit their cattle to tuberculin examinations, bring on U.S. troops to enforce the order in Tipton, Iowa. Passenger railroad train carrying U.S. Army troops arriving at station with platform crowded with people in Iowa. People wait. Cars and traffic near the station. Soldiers in train and at the station. Armed soldiers march through the city and patrol the highways. Veterinarians inject cows. Soldiers set up machine gun in middle of road.
The Golden Gates Naval guards of the U.S. Navy march in San Francisco, California during World War I. A board over the passing guards reads "Headquarters Naval Port Guard". Slate indicates that these U.S. Navy Golden Gate Naval guards' surveillance prevails over all arrivals and departures at the port.
John Phillip Sousa conducts an open air band concert before a large crowd, in Illinois. He wears uniform of a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and conducts the U.S. Naval Reserve Band.
Small boat comes alongside carrying naked U.S. air crew from downed plane during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) visible. U.S. ships fire at beach targets. Tracers visible. Smoke rises from multiple targets. (World War II period).
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