India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru being welcomed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Washington DC. U.S. Secretary of Defense Johnson confers with President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of States Dean Acheson and other men. PM Nehru gets off from an air plane. Photographers take photographs of Nehru and other dignitaries. President Truman on speaker stand with mikes as he welcomes Prime Minister Nehru and invites him to make his speech. Nehru makes a speech and talks about east and west coming together. He opes that together they will work for betterment of humanity. Truman and Nehru shakes hands, pose and go off the platform.
U.S. Submarines being decommissioned in San Francisco, California. Us sailors at the San Francisco Navy yard clean and lubricate parts and equipment prior to storage. Bridge over a river. Submarines at a port. Honor flag being brought down during a ceremony. Flag being presented to submarine's oldest man. Sailor plays a trumpet. Seaman looks through a periscope. View of a blast through periscope. Vessel being retired. Submarine being painted to protect it against corrosion. Deck guns being covered with cocoon type plastic sheet. Engines, air compressor and other parts of submarine being cleaned, oiled and left in working a condition. Submarines parked at a port.
U.S. submarine Squalus being raised up by rescuers and it goes down again in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Crew members of submarine rescue ship Falcon work with McCann Rescue Chambers. Seaman push the chamber down and get on to the ship. Air-pumps on ship. A diver wearing scuba helmet and diving suit goes in water with the help of a pulley. The chambers float above the water. Men seated on chambers. Hull of the submarine rises up to the surface of the water and then goes down again. Cables in the water.
Wife of British RAF (Royal Air Force) pilot who was awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down an enemy aircraft while his own aircraft was burning. She lifts her baby from a pram in front of her house. She displays her husband's burned shoe and flight gear. She then reads formal letters about award of the Victoria Cross. Her husband pilot is seen with two other RAF fliers relaxing amongst other service personnel at a medical recuperation facility. They sit at a small table and smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).
American sports persons show daring skills in the United States. A ski jumper loses control in mid air and crashes to the ground during competition. Another ski jumping man successfully lands a ski jump. An man athlete poses for camera slope side. People during small boat motor boat racing including a young woman riding on top of the boat bow and a boater going over a jump during a race around a curve. A man and a woman are shown water skiing and each one crashes as they negotiate a jump ramp. Men racing sail boats on ice. One of the ice sailing boats almost flips over on a sharp turn. Cowboys ride bucking horses and broncos during a rodeo, and fall from their rides. Car stunts being exhibited: Car on a football field drives up a ramp on the left side only and flips over. A Ford Model A Tudor car circa early 1930s is jumped over other parked cars, hits the last parked car in the line, and flips over dramatically. A car is driven through a wall of fire.
The invasion of the Philippines by Japanese troops during World War II. Japanese troops, tractors and tanks advance along a road to Orani, Bataan under an air cover. They pass a sign board. Mountains in the background. Cattle on a farm. Trenches and barbed wires on which tin cans are hanging are inspected at Samal, Bataan. Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma and other Japanese officials and soldiers on a field. The soldiers discuss a map.
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