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Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi visits the USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) tied up at pier in San Diego, California.
USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) tied up at pier in San Diego, California. Brow of ship. Passengers loading up to side of ship. Cars stop before brow. Shah and dignitaries exit. They climb up to the ship. Valley Forge tied up at pier. Saluting battery fire.
American industry focuses on defense and war materiel production during World War II
Film opens showing smoke pouring from industrial smoke stacks in American manufacturing plants, during World War 2. Sparks fly from crucible of molten steel. Steel workers silhouetted against fog as they leave on a shift change. Men tapping an open hearth furnace in a steel mill. Hot steel being poured in Crucibles and then into steel containers on rails. Huge overhead cranes moving in a mill. A Bessemer converter furnace tilted and blowing with flames extended from its mouth. ( A smoke ring leaves the converter.) Various views of activities in steel mills with flaming steel involved and processing such as extrusion and forging taking place. Closeups of hardworking steel workers handling white hot steel ingots. Sheets of aluminum being processed in rolling mills and then inspected. Scene shifts to an oil field with numerous derricks and then to a refinery, with 10 tall smoke stacks, where crude oil is made into gasoline. Views of Grand Coulee Dam, Bonneville, Boulder, and the Tennessee Valley, where hydroelectric power is produced. Churning waters being discharged through dam spillways. Huge number of men and women war factory workers seen in a shift change at a war production plant. Closeup of machines producing small arms and ammunition. A woman assembling an M1 Garand rifle. Others working on Browning 30 caliber M1919 machine guns and Browining Model 1917A1 water-cooled machine guns. Belts of machine gun ammunition being boxed for shipment. Shops where torpedoes, shells and bombs are machined. A worker checking out movement of a 40-mm Automatic Gun M1. Field artillery pieces covered outside a war plant. A 14 inch barrel, for a coastal gun or Navy ship, seen suspended from an overhead crane in a factory. Views of various such barrels including a view through one. Elements of mobile weapons being assembled. Jeeps being assembled and driven out of a factory at the rate of one per minute and temporarily stored in a yard. Special machinery grinding gears and other parts. Arc welders at work on weapons. M4A1 Sherman medium tanks being manufactured. View in factory of M3 Lee medium tanks being assembled. Rear view of one being fitted with its treads. Others are seen suspended from overhead crane.
Sketches of American colonist battles against the British, and enlistment of support from France
Struggle for American independence and the border between Canada and America. Sketches of British General Burgoyne in its efforts to defeat the American colonists and meet General Howe in Albany. Review of Burgoyne's campaign and his enlistment of indians against the colonists. Map shows battle strategy from Quebec to New York. British prisoners. Surrender of Burgoyne to American General Gates at Saratoga. General George Washington's efforts against the British. Washington's troops at Valley Forge in winter with inadequate resources. Benjamin Franklin as envoy in Paris with King Louis XVI convinced to aid the American cause. Addition of Spain and the Netherlands in the struggle against British rule in America. Discussion of the French and the Americans both with their sights set on winning Canada also. With commentary and narration by J. Frank Willis.
Army Documentary "The Big Picture", history of the U.S Infantry discussed and views of historic sites shown.
Sergeant James Mansfield hosts the program 'The Big Picture', the series depicting the combat infantrymen in United States. History of the United States Infantry is discussed.Scenes include: large formation of U.S. infantry on parade field; statue of minuteman; Concord Bridge; memorials at Wide shots of revolutionary War sites such as Valley Forge, Bunker Hill, Fort Ticonderoga,Trenton, Monmouth, and Yorktown. View of Manhattan Island and tall skyscrapers of New York City seen. View of Lake Champlain.
Film tracing the growth of the United States from 1607 to World War II
Waves crashing on a rocky shore. View of Plymouth Rock, with "1620" engraved on it. Coastline with hills and sea. A forest and primitive house of sticks. A church with watch tower. Reenactment of early immigrants felling trees and busy in a 17th Century settlement in Massachusetts. View upward of tall tree. Column on a building in Virginia; portico and clock on a building in Rhode Island;and a church in Carolina.The minuteman statue in Battle Green, Lexington,Massachusetts. Image of colonist James Otis. Statue of Thomas Jefferson. Image of Thomas Paine. Statue of Patrick Henry. Reenactment of British Red Coats charging up a hill during the American revolution. John Trumbull's painting, the "Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776" in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington,DC. A copy of the document. Reenactment of General Washington's troops and snowy encampment at Valley Forge, in 1777. The colonial troops marching in the snow.Painting of George Washington praying in a glen. Painting by John Trumbull of Lord Cornwallis surrendering to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, October 17, 1781. The Constitution of the United States in the National Archives, Washington, DC. Liberty bell swinging. Early American flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes. Animated map showing the original 13 States. Reenactment of early settlers, in wagon trains, pushing Westward from the original colonies. New States being added to the animated map, until all 48 continental American States are filled in. An American flag displaying 48 States.
Contribution of U.S. soldiers for American freedom in different wars since 1775.
A film titled: 'Ring of Steel' on the history of U.S. soldiers. Soldiers holding rifles marching on the ground in the United States. A statue. Sites, landmarks and painting from the battles since 1775. The Concord bridge. Men walking across the bridge. A painting of soldiers during a historic war. Mountains in the background. The contribution of the soldiers in the Battle of Valley Forge. A war memorial for the soldiers. Yorktown, Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga and Lake Champlain.
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