Quality of petroleum products is checked and scientific research for further improvement is carried out in the United States. A man carries out an experiment to check the quality of a petroleum product. He heats the product on a Bunsen burner using a pair of tongs. Then he lights a lamp using the petroleum product. Another researcher looks through a tube at a screen and makes some adjustments. He makes a note on a container and pours in the container. Scientific glass apparatus in a box on a stand. A man looks at them. He makes a note on a paper and takes a look at a paper in his hand.
U.S. Military officers and Chinese Army officers in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. Military officers on a bridge. They walk away together. Chinese soldiers near a field. Military personnel walk together. A tent. The path to the tent is marked with bricks. A military area with thatched huts. Soldiers and officers outside a thatched hut. Jeeps parked nearby. U.S. and Chinese military officers come out of a tent. The military personnel walk together.
American Jewish Tercentenary Delegation presents a medal to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington DC. The President with the members of the delegation. Ralph Samuel presents the medal to the President. Close up of the medal which is presented to the President to commemorate the 1st Jewish settlement in the U.S.
The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, during World War 2. A railroad train pulls into a train station. Delegates of the member nations at the station. A van brings the delegates to the venue. Representatives from China. The representatives from the U.S. are headed by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. He opens the conference. The conference in progress. All the delegates pose together after the conference. (Led to establishment of International Monetary Fund. Bretton Woods System was precursor to World Bank.)
Views from the adjacent Hammond Army Air Field, as U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft fly very low and engage in live fire training over the Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range. Antiaircraft gunners of the 55th Brigade AAA practice sighting and tracking these aircraft as part of their own training. Gun sight view from a 40 mm Bofors gun tracking incoming aircraft. Formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder aircraft high above the training area (probably engaged in bombing training)..
Japanese Kamikaze pilots attack U.S. warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A U.S. aircraft carrier underway at sea. Smoke rises from near the carrier as it fires guns at the kamikaze aircraft Anti aircraft guns being fired. Japanese Kamikaze aircraft in flight is hit, on fire, and begins falling toward the ocean.
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