U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. Officers standing on the deck of submarine. They talk amongst themselves. Another submarine sailing along the broadside. U.S. Navy PBY Catalina in flight overhead. Small Japanese flags flying on the conning tower. A U.S. flag flying atop the conning tower. PBY Catalina in flight. Man looking through binoculars on bridge. Bow of the submarine.
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.
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