The United States Army Quartermaster Corps in the United States during World War 2. Supplies for the Quartermaster Corps like boots, dresses, cigarettes and hardware. A tent encampment. A soldier standing in a wooded region. An officer seated at a table in an office. The flag with the Quartermaster Corps insignia flutters from a pole. Point of view shot at nearly eye level with large column of U.S. Army soldiers marching toward camera position, holding rifles as they march in formation. The soldiers eat seated at tables in a dining hall or mess area. The Quartermaster Corps unload boxes of supplies during a war overseas. A number of boxes of supplies on a beach. Several Quartermaster Corps unloading boxes from landing crafts on the beach. View of a pair of boots which is part of the necessary uniform equipment. A large number of cabbages in a heap. Pieces of hardware hung on stands on a wall. The boxes of supplies are stacked in a store before distribution. The corps distributed uniforms. United States Army Soldiers on tanks moving on a path. The soldiers arrive at landing crafts on a beach. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers march in formation. Women's Army Corps (WAC) and nurses move in formation. Women working in textile webbing factory with large spools of webbing or string during manufacture process. The soldiers march. Ships in a harbor. Supplies at a dock for army and navy requirements.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962, during the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. Top advisors of U.S. President John Kennedy arrive at the White House. Americans buy newspapers. President Kennedy makes a TV announcement about the crisis and what has been happening. He states that a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated to halt offensive buildup of nuclear arms. He says that all ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation and port , if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, will be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers. He further states that it shall be the policy of the United States to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union. Exteriors of the White House. An electronic billboard flashing news. Americans being interviewed by newsmen along a street.
A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr, the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. A U.S. Air Force Military Air Transport airplane lands at an airport. People gather at the airport to greet John Glenn after his journey. He comes out of the airplane. Glenn seated in a car with his wife and U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. The car drives along. People gathered along the sides of the streets wave and cheer as the car moves past. Arrival of U.S. President Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, where President Kennedy descends the steps of the Air Force One aicraft. U.S. President John F Kennedy presents Astronaut John Glenn with NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. Astronauts applaud. Several officials and dignitaries at the ceremony. Glenn arrives in Washington DC. Crowds gathered to greet Glenn, with some standing on bridges and overpasses in the rain to cheer him. Interior of the White House. Astronaut Alan Shepard, John Glenn and his wife at the White House with the President and first lady Jackie Kennedy, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Glenn seated in a car. A crowd gathers on a street of Washington DC during a parade to honor John Glenn. They wave and greet him. Buildings along street sides. A ticker tape parade in New York. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol. The speaker of the house addresses the members of the Congress. He talks about the achievement of Glenn. Members of the Congress applaud and cheer. Glenn addresses the Congress. The members applaud. Cameramen record the event.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 4, 1964, announcing that he is ordering U.S. military forces to respond to an incident involving hostile action by North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin. View of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Constellation (CV-64) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam. Next, pilots are seen walking on flight deck of the carrier,USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14). Behind them are A-3B Skywarriors of VAH-4 "Fourrunners," Det. B (tail code "ZB"). One displays BuNo 142255. Clear view, from another aircraft overhead, of a U.S. carrier-based Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircraft diving and firing a rocket at a target in North Vietnam and pulling out over hills afterwards. View of another rocket headed toward a target in hills, followed by fairly close views of an A-4 making another attack. U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert MacNamara, broadcasting that "We seek no wider war."
A film 'The Agriculture Story' showing various projects carried out by U.S. Department of Agriculture in the United States. Views of Capitol. Statue of Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Views of farm. Agriculture machinery plow field. Horse drawn plow, plows field. Machinery work in farms. Dust storm in the background of farm land. Car being driven on road. Damaged agriculture machinery on barren land. Fire blazes in forest. U.S. Department of Agriculture showing loss in agriculture in papers. Seal of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). It conducts programs including research, education, conservation, stabilization, regulatory functions, credit and marketing here and abroad.
U.S. Navy Training film' Air Crewmen of the Navy'. A U.S. Navy pilot named Lieutenant Grant Evans, played by Hollywood actor Robert Stack, enters a building. 'KTWM' written on the building. He is interviewed. Both men sit across the table. He talks about air crew of the U.S. Navy. He describes his work. A Navy Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft is inspected. The Navy pilot meets his crew members. Other planes in the background. The men talk to each other. The air crew climbs the plane and takes off. The pilot reaches the 'Naval Air Gunners School'. The gunners are trained. U.S. Navy Captain presents U.S. Navy aircrew wings to the trainees. Planes in flight. Planes land on flight deck.
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