U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson bars Korean peace of dishonor in the UN assembly in New York City. Acheson addresses the Political Committee of the United Nations in United Nations Building. He says the UN will not accept Korean War truce terms involving dishonorable compromise.
The United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, United States. Delegates discuss the issue of invasion of South Korea by North Korea (Korean War period). Soviet representative Yakov Malik boycotts the presence of Nationalist Chinese representative and walks out of the meeting.
The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. View of the United Stats Military Academy building. Cadets in uniform come on a field. They march with rifles in hand. Spectators watch the parade. Officers march with the American flag. Civilians seated on bleachers. A dignitary shakes hands with the officers.
United StatesNavy training film 'Aircraft Familiarization in the A3J Vigilante' shows operating procedures on ground and in flight. Aircraft in flight. Ground procedures show pilot getting inside cockpit. He checks the control panel and the ejection seat. Assistant checks the oxygen pipe while pilot dons the helmet. Pilot checks each item on pre-start check list. Pilot switches on the number 1 switch. Exhaust gas arrow moves to 10. Pilot extends the speed breaks. He switches on the electrical button and returns the flap to cruise position. He also checks the alternate and normal trim systems. Aircraft taxis out towards the runway.
Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.
United States troops in England during World War II. United States Coast Guardsmen bring sacks of mail from United States aboard a Coast Guard Troop Ship at a port in England in April, 1944. They carry sacks from one of the Troop ship's Higgins boats and carry them up the ship's ladder, to the deck.
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