The Strategic Air Command Base in Omaha. View of lawn and building with rocket in front. Press and United States Air Force Officers on airfield. Officers are greeted by Mary Peach and Rock Hudson, stars of the movie 'A gathering of Eagles' which is set against Strategic Air Command background. They see the master switchboard connecting SAC bases around the world. Billboard of new movie 'A gathering of Eagles' at the World Premiere in Chicago. Crowd at Premiere. Stars Mary Peach and Rock Hudson getting out of the car to enter the theater.
First lady of United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, visits U.S. Base Hospitals in South Pacific areas including Australia and New Zealand during World War 2. Base hospital's wards are seen including some in thatched huts. Mrs. Roosevelt wearing Red Cross uniform. A soldier seen in a wheel chair. Mrs. Roosevelt waves goodbye to United States soldiers.
Local Pacific Islanders are seen in wooden dugout boats in the vicinity of U.S. Navy warships, in a bay during World War 2. Closeup of a man in one canoe with an outrigger. A boy sitting in one carrying a box of fruit. U.S. military engineers aboard a ship, look at shore with binoculars. Sailors in stern of a boat flying Naval ensign. Sailors on a barge, transport the fuselage and float of a OS2U Kingfisher Floatplane to an island, where they bring it ashore amidst grove of palm trees. Sailors roll 55gallon drums of fuel shore from a barge. A jeep is lowered over the side of a ship and driven ashore. Supplies, including foodstuffs, are brought ashore. Cartons containing canned corned beef; canned cherries, and many other foods, are stacked up in a warehouse. Engineers chart water depth in a bay as they mark boundaries for construction of a seaplane base. Caterpillar tractors level trees and clear land for the base. Soldiers install a 155mm long tom gun in position for coastal defense. Marines prepare temporary shelters of palm fronds. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina seaplane flies overhead.
U.S. Navy pilots keep a cage of pigeon in aircraft. A motor trouble in plane. A man opens the cage. Another man writes a message with information about the plane's forced landing. Men send carrier pigeon with distress signal to the base. Aircraft mechanist works on engine of bomber aircraft. A man at the base takes the message from the pigeon.
Shadow details and flash burns caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. Base of a stone lantern indicates flash burned area and shadow cast by an additional stone which rested atop at the time of the blast. Corners with flash burned and protected parts. A stone railing. Shadow cast on the base of Shinto shrine entrance by a post which was swept by the blasts.
Damage caused due to Allied aerial bombings in Nagasaki, Japan. Manner in which a machine was torn from its base. An uprooted concrete base and the point at which the failure occurred. A telephone and power line and the effect of explosion on public utilities. A group of Japanese laborers, men and women load a coal car with coal using shovels and baskets.
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