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Eisenhower with wife Mamie and his appointment as the Supreme Commander of the Western Union Defense Force in the U.S.

A biographical documentary shows the life of Dwight David Eisenhower who was the President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. The Royal Palace of Brussels (Pl. des Palais 7, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium). Eisenhower attends a conference in the Palace. U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, talks about the steps taken in Brussels. Dwight David Eisenhower smiles as he is being appointed as the Supreme Commander of the Western Union Defense Force. Earl Eisenhower, brother of Dwight Eisenhower, seated with his family on a sofa and viewing old family photographs. View of the home of Dwight David Eisenhower in Texas. Pictures of his childhood, cadet years and with his wife Marie Geneva Doud Eisenhower. Soldiers carrying flags march. Officers seated on chairs watch another officer pointing at a map on a wall. Dwight David Eisenhower walks with women. He sits and talks to other officers.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031852
President Dwight D. Eisenhower meets Konrad Adenauer in Europe and presents his final report before the U.S. Congress.

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.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031856
Ford motor Company GPA amphibious jeeps are demonstrated and tested by the U.S. Army during World War II

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

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031864
B-17 bombers of the U.S. 19th Bombardment Group arrive at Hickam Field after flying from San Francisco

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).

Date: 1941, May 31
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031872
A prefabricated house is assembled and construction of sewage disposal plant, telephone lines and houses in the U.S. (WW2)

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.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031937
Brief views of a commercial steam ship sinking in U.S. waters, in 1919

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.)

Date: 1919
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031981