Allied troops on the French coast shortly after the Allied Invasion of Europe in World War 2. Abandoned fortifications built by slave labor. A soldier looks at metal fences. Officers and soldiers walk through the fort. German weaponry destroyed by retreating German forces. A soldier walks on rubble in Granville. Observation post of the U.S. Navy. A lighthouse that separates Normandy from Brittany. A U.S. soldier on the lighthouse looks out to the sea.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. An OSS officer instructs Burmese students on ambush and traps. Students seated on benches outside a hut. The instructor uses a black board. He explains the written matter and diagrams on the board. A Burmese instructor translates the information. A student stands up and asks a question. The instructor responds.
U.S. Marines of 7th Marine Regiment hitch rides on U.S. Army tanks advancing towards Japanese positions on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War 2. View of Japanese writing on a sign. Marines riding on M4 Sherman tank advance on road. View of machine gun with turret over M4 Sherman. Marines with M1 rifles walk along beside tanks.
Brief scene inside an atomic facility. A technician stands on platform above fuel pool where elements are partially submerged. Mr. Arch N. Booth, Executive Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speaks about the peaceful benefits of nuclear energy. Scenes of a typical American town, with commercial district and residential areas. A woman converses with a friend, as she working in a kitchen containing electric appliances like oven, cooking range, egg beater and tea kettle. Housewife talks about the use of electricity in her home. Men in a factory working on machines talk to each other about prospects of atomic power. Women playing cards or bridge at a table discuss the building of atomic power plants.
A man with a briefcase gets off a airplane and sets his brief case down. A plastic sheet production factory and rolls of colored plastic being created with the aid of a "Atom Ray" thickness gauge used in manufacturing. An oil drilling site. Drilling core samples of rock are extracted from the bottom of the hole. They are collected and sent to laboratory in a van. The core samples are irradiated in a particle accelerator or atom smasher and the response of different elements in the samples is observed, providing information about their composition. Activity is recorded on paper and a needle moves over a graph during particle acceleration. Engineer shows an experimental well logging device that contains a radiation source for use deep in the hole to determine nature of the strata without having to remove a core. Geologists examine a graph. Engineers subject oil samples to bombardment by neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Test apparatus is lowered down in a water pool. It is anchored to a movable rack and water is filled in the pool. The test apparatus is moved into position beside the atomic reactor uranium core. The core goes critical and irradiates the test sample with neutrons. Control equipment is switched on. Red sign illuminates with message "Reactor on." The core glows. An engineer looks to observe the test apparatus. Another engineer operates control equipment in front of a General Electric Reactor Control panel. Summary of role of radioactivity in ordinary life, in medicine, food production, manufacturing, transportation, and the home. Exterior of a a nuclear reactor is shown beside power transmission equipment. A man in a hospital room receiving treatment from cobalt machine radiotherapy or radiation therapy. (External beam radiotherapy, or EBRT machine, also called a teletherapy machine). Several cows on a farm walking beside grain silos with a farm house nearby. A man applying stain or varnish to wood with a brush. A rack of automobile whitewall tires in a warehouse. A woman or housewife in a 1950s kitchen pouring coffee for a another woman. A van passes by a suburban house on a street in a 1950s American town and a mail man or post man delivers to the house. Scenes of a main street or downtown area busy with pedestrian and street traffic in White Plains, New York. Light post on pedestal in front of a municipal building with People's National Bank and Trust Company Building in background, at 31 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, New York. Elevated, wide view of city of White Plains, New York. AT&T Telecommunications Tower and Switching Center (then in the Bell Telephone system network), at 400 Hamilton Avenue, seen rising above all other buildings.
Military Embarkation center office in Hoboken, New Jersey, during World War I. Views from above of large stretch of buildings. Scenes inside the Military Embarkation Center. Large number of women at work in clerical and typing pool. Several U.S. Army officers at their desks, including a Colonel and other field grade officers. Army personnel discuss official orders and other matters with civilians. Many file cabinets line a wall of the Center. Large contingent of U.S. Naval Reserve Yeoman (F) women in uniform walk up from River Street, through Hudson Park, towards the corner of 5th and Hudson Street. The female military group pose for camera.
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