Observation of weather data collected from weather satellites. U.S. Air Force woman looking at photographs related to weather data. She works on an instrument. Airmen and women working to prepare a weather forecast. The weather forecast is prepared and transmitted to regional centers. Air Force weather centers located in the US, UK and Japan. Observations are sent to operating locations. Officers discussing. Men standing near an airplane. The airplane in flight overhead. High speed equipment are used for weather observation.
A meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC, United States during the Great Depression. Elected officials and dignitaries seated inside the U.S. Capitol House chamber. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's emergency bank bill is passed, following a four day banking holiday. The bank bill being read. Speaker reading the President's words, "the causes of this failure of our banking system is unnecessary," and, "the government has been compelled to step in for the protection of depositors and the business of the nation." He further says that the first task is to open all sound banks. Immediate changes in banking legislation are made: The Banking Act of 1933 and the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara leaves the office in the United States. Honor guards stand in formation. U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, U.S. Army General Earle Gilmore Wheeler and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Henry Nitze on a review stand. President Johnson and other officials get down from the reviewing stand and arrive near soldiers. The honor guards stand in formation. Cameramen record the event.
U.S. Army Air Corps Third Aviation Instruction Center in Issoudun, France during World War I. U.S. Army pilots aim machine guns at moving target consisting of an aircraft model traveling horizontally along a wire or string. The soldiers track the moving target with their machine guns. A student or officer shows one of the machine guns up close and demonstrates techniques to load and adjust the the machine gun on a tripod stand. Another student seated in an airplane cockpit behind the same type of machine gun. A target board used for target practice, with images of enemy aircraft in various positions, to simulate dogfight battle.
U.S. 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry soldiers moving through an open field during Operation Wallowa (Vietnam War). Vietnamese farmer wearing loose black clothes walking. U.S. 1st Brigade, 7th Cavalry soldiers moving past a white stone carving. Soldier walks past a large headstone-like stone carving with Chinese motifs. A soldier talks using a field phone attached to another soldier’s AN/PRC-25 radio backpack set.
'The Big Picture' an official television report of the U.S. Army. U.S. soldiers shown in Korea, Germany, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Captain Carl Zimmerman sits at a table to talk about the American soldier fighting wars in various countries. He begins with a day in the life of a soldier in Korea during the Korean War. Soldiers wake up to the sound of artillery fire on a hill. Soldier looks through binoculars. Explosions on hills. 8 feet camouflaged bunkers on a hill. Soldiers come out of bunkers to take in some fresh air. They eat and drink. South Koreans help them unload ration and supply boxes from a jeep. They open the boxes and pass the supplies around. White and African American soldiers glad to receive postal mail from home during mail call. A Stars and Stripes newsletter. A soldier wearing his helmet with a dent in it from shrapnel that it blocked. He takes a tablet for his headache. Another one smokes a cigar.
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