U.S. Army Engineers and their role in the preparations for the atomic bomb tests on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Sandstone in April-May 1948. View of site for nuclear bomb testing. Engineer personnel leave the site and are transported by landing crafts. Landing crafts comes along side a ship. Crew climb cargo net up and come aboard the ship. Bombs explode on the site and smoke cloud rise during tests. Detonations shown include Test X-Ray, Test Yoke, and Test Zebra. The scenes that follow are all from before the tests, as engineers and personnel work to prepare the test site. Engineers work. Palm trees are removed. Crew works at construction site. Crane hoist construction material. Cubic yards of material are hoisted and placed by crane. Airstrips are built. Planes in flight. Various units in Joint Task Force 7 are recognized for their efforts in contributing to the success of the United States nuclear testing program in Operation Sandstone.
Representatives of nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,President of the United States Harry S. Truman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin walk towards the conference building. Officers escort them. Representatives pose as the photographers take pictures. Trees seen in the background.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,President of the United States Harry S Truman and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin seated at the Cecilienh of garden for the Potsdam Conference.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov and staff enter building. President of the United States Harry S. Truman ,Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin shake hands as they pose for the photographers in front of the doorway. They enter the building.
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ibn Youssef, and French officers, arrive at a reviewing stand in open cars accompanied by honor guard of Spahi, light cavalry, on horseback. They step from the cars and greet French officers. They walk to stand to review parade. Tanks drive through streets. Spahis, Royal Marines, United States soldiers, Free French soldiers and sailors march past in parade. Soldiers stand at the Le Mausolée de Lyautey in Rabat, Morocco. Wreaths lay by a draped French tricolor flag containing symbols of various military units and dates. British and American soldiers place wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The British and American contingents salute, do about face, and march back from the memorial. (World War II period).
An emergency practice training of U.S. Army National Guardmen in the United States. A car drives through streets and arrives at a National Guard Armory. A National Guard soldier, not yet in uniform, gets out of a mid 1950s sedan car and runs into the building, where he and other uniformed National Guardsmen are issued rifles from a rack and depart on their mission. They run up a flight of stairs. They get in jeeps and advance through streets of New York City, near the United Nations building, during a practice training alert. An officer issues instructions and is saluted. A National Guard sentry guards an essential military site.
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