Celebration of the 38th anniversary of the U.S. Army Air Forces, dating back to establishment of the Aeronautical Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, in 1907. Airmen of the Army Air Forces march in formation on the flight line at Wright Field in Dayton,Ohio. Aviation pioneer, Orville Wright, is seen in the reviewing stand. A color guard marches past the the reviewing stand. A 4-engine German Junkers JU-290 transport aircraft is seen parked on the field. (It arrived on July 31, 1945, after being flown to Wright Field from Europe, by U.S. Air Forces Colonel Harold E. Watson and co-pilot Captain Fred McIntosh,who were delivering it to Air Technical Intelligence Headquarters.) The crew of the JU-290 (named "Alles Kaputt") pose in front of it. Colonel Watson, is seen holding a Dachshund dog. The JU-290 takes off on a demonstration flight. A new U.S. P-80 "Shooting Star" jet airplane (serial number 44-84995) is rolled out for all to see. It takes off in a demonstration flight. (Late in World War 2.)
Full-scale thermonuclear test of ultracold liquid deuterium, codenamed Ivy MIKE at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok). (Left to right) Chief engineering and firing commander, Stan Burris -- later the leader of the Strategic Ballistic Missile development, including Polaris and later editions; retired as CEO of Rockwell Aerospace -- military firing and security commander, Colonel Richard Lunger, and ultracold refrigeration engineering commander for thermonuclear liquid fuel state monitoring, Robert Gibney. The intense nuclear radiation ignited the atmosphere around the device, creating a fireball 4.2 miles across. A remote firing control was created, using a televison tower beam signal to safely trigger the detonation from the USS Estes, approximately 35 miles south/southeast of the detonation. White hot device remnant specks are visible throughout the surface of the fireball. Shockwave from Operation Ivy Mike explosion is seen spreading across the water, then a white mushroom cloud spreading above. View of crew on ship deck observing blast. Device yield: 10.4 megatons.
U.S.Sailors on Liberty visit Portland, Dorset, England. U.S. sailors Harry Graham and Robert Silvertsen of the USS Holder (DD-819), talk to an English resident. Graham and Silvertsen stand at a corner. An elderly woman stands nearby, and talks with the two sailors. A man with a small dog walks past, behind them. Both sailors walk to and enter the doorway of the Brittania Inn, at 17 Fortuneswell. (This sequence is repeated four times). They stand at a railing overlooking a vacant area (where shops and homes had been destroyed in an air raid during World War 2). Several apartment buildings are seen on Hambro Road in the background. Ocean in far background.
Japanese Prime Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma holds a meeting inside his office in Tokyo, Japan. The Prime Minster in his office at his official residence, Sōri Daijin Kantei (2-3-1 Nagatachō Chiyoda-ku 100-8968). He talks to the Chief of Cabinet Information Department Yokomizo. A man brings papers to the Prime Minister. Hiranuma drinks tea and look at the papers.
Internment of Japanese-Americans at assembly center in Tanforan race track,San Bruno, California. Views of former betting office windows at the race track. "Win", "place" and 'Show" signs above the windows.Sign on former betting office door reads "Tanforan Totalizer Office Room 4, Hours 8:30am to 5:30pm' A view of hands typing on a typewriter at the editor's desk of the Tanforan Totalizer Newspaper, a newspaper published by and for Japanese-Americans citizens at relocation or internment centers during World War 2.
Internment of Japanese-Americans at Tanforan assembly center in former race track at San Bruno,California. Young Japanese-American men and women internees work in the newsroom at the Tanforan Totalizer Newspaper office. The editor works on a typewriter. A man gives him a paper. A young man repairs a typewriter. The newspaper reached relocation or internment center held Japanese-Americans during World War 2.
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