U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon visits the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The Pentagon building with military units in the foreground. A gun salute. Color guard standing with flags. President Nixon and other officers standing beside the building. Photographers take photos. Various service honor guards standing.
Russian troops on eastern front during World War II. Russian troops use sleds in snow covered area to transport supplies. Reindeer team pulls sled or sleigh. Side and front views of deer teams pulling supply sleds. A Russian cook prepares food at field kitchen. Russian troops and snipers fire at Germans. Firing and smoke. Russian soldiers wear all-white winter uniform and outerwear for camouflage in snow. Kitchen unit puts supplies on horse-drawn sled to deliver hot food to Soviet soldier snipers dug into snow embankments. Russian soldiers take turns to eat food, as other continue to fire at German positions. Soldiers enter into shower tent and take off heavy woolen outer clothes. View of hole in lake ice with hose carrying water to truck with heating apparatus to warm the water. Soviet soldiers take warm showers. They comb their hair. They exit the tent to return to their mission.
Civilian alien enemy detention facility in Crystal City, Texas, during World War 2, for relocation and internment. Train arrives in Crystal city. Japanese-American and German-American women and children disembark from train at Crystal city facility, to voluntarily join their husbands and fathers who were detained at the facility during World War 2. They board a bus. A bus is driven to the camp facility. Children and women at detention facility of Crystal city. Bags are examines as detainees arrive. They receive food in cafeteria. Views of utility and recreation buildings including housing units, hospitals and maintenance buildings.
Alien enemy detention facility in Crystal City, Texas. Truck loaded with cartons of supplies. A man delivers milk bottles outside the gate of housing units. Ice are unloaded from truck. Ice is delivered for use by internees. The facility is for relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans during World War 2.
Several of the U.S. Destroyers transferred to the United Kingdom, in September, 1940. Seen on the high seas, and after docking in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are: USS Harden (DD-183), USS Aaron Ward (DD-132), and USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193). A Royal Navy Captain examines one of the newly arrived destroyers.
Opening ceremony of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in Quebec, Canada. U.S. President Dwight D.Eisenhower together with Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, aboard the Royal yacht, Britannia, during the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. President Eisenhower looks through binoculars as the Britannia moves through the seaway. View of Britannia entering a lock. The Britannia moves very close to the face wall of the lock, almost scraping it. Several persons on board put their hands out and touch the concrete side of the lock. View from above, of Britannia officers looking over side, as the yacht passes very close to the side of lock. Views of Britannia, tied up at dock and passing through locks. Queen Elizabeth II, disembarking from the Royal Yacht, Britannia, followed by President Eisenhower, Mrs. Eisenhower, and Prince Philip.
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