Refine Your Search

United States USA 1941 stock footage and images

- Showing 19 to 24 of 35100 results
Coast Guard saves rescues passengers of SS Manhattan as the ship gets stuck on a reef off Florida in the United States.

The ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield) runs aground off West Palm Beach in Florida, United States. Scenes from January 12,1941: People at a beach. USS Wakefield (Manhattan) in the background. During her third voyage to California the ship runs aground off West Palm Beach, Florida. A sign on the ship: 'Manhattan United States Lines'. Coast Guard personnel save the passengers of the ship.

Date: 1941, January 12
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070727
Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Winston Churchill,Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin at different events in different continents.

Life of the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt is greeted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Conference for signing of the Atlantic Charter off Newfoundland in 1941. The ship approaches the harbor. Soldiers present arms aboard a ship. Prime Minister Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt talk. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses congress members after the Pearl Harbor attack. The President signs a document. President Roosevelt reviews troops in Casablanca. The troops march. Franklin Roosevelt salutes troops. Vehicles driven in the foreground. Cairo: Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill with the Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Tehran : Franklin D Roosevelt,Winston Churchill and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin pose. United States : The exteriors of the White House. People enter White House. President Franklin Roosevelt with Vice President Harry S. Truman at the 1945 inaugural ceremony. Yalta : President Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin pose. Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a conference. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068118
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford at Ford Motor Company Willow Run bomber production facility, and workers sign a new B-24 off the line

Bomber aircraft production by the Ford Motor Company in the United States at the Willow Run plant between Ypsilanti and Belleville Michigan. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford sitting on a wall, conversing. A building under construction in the background. A sign on the building reads: 'United States National Defense Willow Run Airplane Plant, Dedicated June 16, 1941. Designed and erected for Bomber Production by Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Founder-Edsel Ford President'. A United States Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber flying over a field. A group of workers posing outside the plant with a new bomber. The group includes Henry Ford II and Army Officers. Henry Ford II signing his name on the side of the last bomber built at Willow Run Several other people signing. Women workers signing. A crowd around the bomber. Aerial views of the plant.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076822
USS Wakefield carrying thousands of troops arrives and they disembark from the ship in New York City, United States.

A large number of troops aboard USS Wakefield in the United States during World War II. On August 12,1941: USS Wakefield, formerly the ocean liner SS Manhattan, is seen carrying thousands of troops and arriving back in New York following maneuvers. The American soldiers disembark from the ship in New York.

Date: 1941, August 12
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070728
The discovery and production of penicillin and its first import to the United States

Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming isolates antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus at St Mary's Hospital in London, United Kingdom. A petri dish with penicillin. Articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy are published. Pharmacologist Howard Walter Florey extracts penicillin at Oxford University. In June 1941, tiny flask of penicillin brought to the United States. Chemists work and develop penicillin in refined form. Penicillin Production Factory. Penicillin is built in many forms. Penicillin is made in huge fermentation tanks and passed through many machines for purifying and refining. Quantities of penicillin reduced in gallons to recover it. It is concentrated in the laboratory. Water contained penicillin, evaporated at laboratory. Penicillin transferred to sterilized vials and packed in boxes. Penicillin prepared for use.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024752
United States passes and implements the Lend Lease Act during World War II. War materiel flows to Allies.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing Congress on January 6, 1941, asking for authority to supply war materiel to Britain and allies. Animated map showing streams of war materiel going to china and to European allies. Views of transport ships, Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft with British roundel on them. A U.S. light tank M2; a large artillery barrel; and sacks of goods, being loaded on a ship. View of U.S. Capitol. Lend Lease Act passed. Animated map shows German forces overrunning Yugoslavia and Greece, and attacking Soviet Union. German troops in small boats crossing river to invade. German tanks and artillery operating on the Eastern front. Civilian men and women digging fortifications. Lend lease war materiel being unloaded in Britain, and at Red Sea port for British in Africa.Trucks carrying supplies over the Burma road to China. Lend lease supplies piled up in Murmansk, Russia, and Iran. "Hammer and Sickle 'em" chalked on a shipment.Stevedores rolling large tires.Hitler speaking. Head of Statue of Liberty. Animated illustrations about effects of Axis victory. U.S. Forces entering Greenland and Iceland, with consent of their governments.

Date: 1941
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046115