A biographical documentary shows the life of Dwight David Eisenhower who was the President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. A Humber Pullman with a British flag driving. President Eisenhower is greeted by Konrad Adenauer, the Chancellor of Germany. Eisenhower talks to Adenauer. They sit and laugh. The Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. He is greeted by another person. He walks with soldiers standing in rows on either side. He sits with other men and talks to them. President Eisenhower arrives in Washington DC. He meets and kisses his wife, Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower. He holds one of his grandchildren. He presents his final report before the U.S. Congress.
Several Ford Motor Company GPA amphibious jeeps driven by U.S. Army soldiers, cause big splashes as they drive into a river during a demonstration and test.in World War 2. They are a sample of so-called "Seeps" or "Sea Jeeps," assembled at the company's River Rouge complex, near Detroit, Michigan, from 1942-1943. View from behind a soldier driving one of them. Various views of the Sea Jeeps navigating singly and in groups and formations in the water. The soldiers in them are dressed in battle gear with weapons and steel helmets. One by one, the Sea Jeeps are seen driving out of the river up onto the river bank. Scene shifts to an area with military trucks and other vehicles parked. Three Army soldiers on motorcycles lead a long line of Sea Jeeps filled with soldiers through that area and along a highway
Twenty one New B-17B bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps 19th Bombardment Group are parked at Hickam Field in Honolulu, after flying 2400 miles from San Francisco, on May 31, 1941. Several views of the B-17s on the field. One simply displays the number 96 on its tail. A momentary glimpse of a Lockheed P-38 aircraft taxiing away, past parked B-17s. (World War II period).
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States in World War II. A truck carries a part of a prefabricated portable house. The prefabricated house part is attached to other part stationed on a grassland. Women sit at the entrance of the house. A man uses a dumpy level to observe the contours of the land. Workers work at the community sewage disposal plant. A cemented pipe is lowered. Linemen at a tower erect telephone lines. A truck passes under the tower. Workers mix cement. Workers keep a grilled structure onto the truck. The truck carries the grilled structure. A truck drops lumber on the ground. Workers in a row pick the grilled structure. They erect the walls of the houses. A worker carries a wooden slab. He walks on the roof of the house with the wooden slab. Other workers work on the house roof. Stucco siding applied to homes.
A single funnel freighter, with two masts, is seen sinking from the stern, in U.S. waters, in 1919. Her aft section is already under water, with only her stern mast visible. There is no sign of life aboard the ship. Film is taken from another vessel nearby, that is rising and falling with surface waves. The sinking ship is going under rapidly, sternfirst. Next, only her bow is seen as it starts to slip beneath the surface of the water, rotating slightly to starboard, as she goes straight down, and disappears from view. (The clip is only 24 seconds long and no other information is available.)
Continental atomic tests in Nevada, United States. An Air Weather officer at podium speaks to the high ranking people that includes Dr. Alvin C Graves, scientific test director and Carol Tyler, test manager for atomic energy commission. They decide upon an atomic test. An army sentry stands guard as B-50 named "Rosebud" starts engines for the test mission. Wheels and bottom of the aircraft. U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress aircraft in flight. Pilot , radio navigator and bombadier at their crew positions inside the B-50. Monitoring personnel track progress of the B-50, against flight plan, at the Atomic Energy Commission control room. Navigator in the aircraft communicates to the pilot, who turns to align with final bomb run. The bomb bay of the aircraft opens. The Bombardier takes control of aircraft. Aerial view of the target to be hit by the bomb. When bomb is released, aircrew and all observers on ground don protective glasses or goggles. The bomb detonates on the target with blinding flash of light. Mushroom cloud seen from aircraft, above.
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