U.S.Air Force munitions handlers wait as an Air Force tractor pulls a flatbed trailer of M82 bombs into in a bomb assembly area. The team of Air Force and Thai workers manuallu unscrew caps from noses ot the bombs while a Thai worker uses a type of lug wrench on the fuze well of the bomb bodies. The scene is repeated in a re-take. The Air Force truck driver speaks on a mobile telephone. Closeup of Thai workers prying caps from rear of the bombs and inserting fuzes.
Brief glimpse of open limousine carrying President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, immediately after the President was shot in Dallas, Texas. Spectators at curbside wave, not realizing what has occurred. A white sedan is driving to the left of the President's car..Both are driving at high speed toward the hospital. It was filmed by amateur Jack Daniel,using an 8mm motion picture camera and was among things reviewed by the U.S.House of Representatives, Select Committee on Assassinations, in its investigations.
Red Premier Nikita Khrushchev addresses the delegates of Soviet Communist Congress in U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). He speaks about the mass production of ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile) in Russia. Delegates applaud him.
Slate describes the Italian armed steamer, "Stromboli" carrying bulk cargoes of iron, steel, and nickel for the Italian war ministry, from Baltimore, U.S.A. to Genoa, Italy. It states that the ship was sunk and her crew released. View from deck of German U-Boat,U-49, under command of Captain Hans von Mellanthin. Several crew seen in conning tower. The single stack ship "Stromboli," stopped in the background. The U-49 approaches portside of the Stromboli, where a 7.6 cm deck gun is seen astern. An explosives technician, is dispatched by dinghy from the U-Boat, and boards the Stromboli. The U-Boat crew members obtain fresh water from the STromboli, before setting explosives to sink her. The German explosives technician is seen lighting fuses on deck of the Stromboli. The charges explode at her waterline. The U-Boat then fires its deck gun to hasten sinking of the Stromboli. View from the submarine as the Stromboli settles lower in the water and finally sinks stern-first. The location is off Capo Mele, (43.57N, 08.12E) in the Mediterranean Sea. Scene shifts to view from the U-49 deck during sunrise at Algiers.
Invasion of U.S.S.R. on 22 June 1941 (German code name: Operation Barbarossa) during World War II. Early morning street activities in Berlin on the morning of invasion of USSR. Preparation for a broadcast at radio station. At 5:30 AM German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels sits at desk and makes an announcement. People listening. Foreign Minister of Germany, Joachim Von Ribbentrop walks into conference. Newspaper headline.
Exercise Jupiter activities at Wiesbaden Airbase, West Germany. (This was a three-day, French-directed war game involving Allied forces in Europe). An Italian Air Force officer and U.S.Air Force Sergeant J. Gormley stand on wing of an F-84E aircraft of the USAF 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (86th Fighter-Bomber Wing). The Sergeant opens the plane's canopy and steps into the cockpit, as the Italian officer stands on a ladder to lean in and observe. The aircraft is No. 49-2220. Sergeant Gormley points out features of the cockpit.
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