Launching of German guided missiles at Peenemunde, Usedom island during World War 2. Sign: Peenemunde. German technician working on instrument at base of German V-2 rocket. Missile is shown in transporting trailer and elevating device. V-2 being elevated into launching position. Two technicians are standing on special ramp fixing access door onto warhead of missile.
Activities aboard a ship docked at Philadelphia Naval Base in Philadelphia. Ships in Reserve Fleet Basin. USS Brooklyn (CL-40) light cruiser in the foreground. Stern view of USS Brooklyn and USS Nashville (CL-43). Camera pans over ships, including the heavy cruisers USS Louisville CA 28, USS Augusta CA 31, and USS Portland CA 33, in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. United States and Chile Naval officials with State Department representatives on deck of USS Brooklyn. Navy band plays. American flag lowered and the Chilean Flag is raised aboard the USS Brooklyn. Chilean flag raised aboard the USS Nashville. United States Navy Rear Admiral Roscoe E Schuirmann hands ships papers to Chilean Ambassador Felix Nieto Del Rio. Chilean flag fly at masts of the USS Nashville and USS Brooklyn. Chilean officers inspect. Ambassador Del Rio and Vice Admiral of the Chilean Navy, Immanuel Holger come up gangway of USS Brooklyn. Rear Admiral Schuirmann greets them. Yni Louis Rivas Voisin and Yoeman Felix Labbe of the Chilean Navy raise flag aboard USS Brooklyn.
The Airlift Memorial in Berlin, Germany. View of the Airlift Memorial at Tempelhof. Two American soldiers, a German couple and a crowd of children at the base of the monument. An American eagle on top of the building in the background.
Victory in Europe Day celebration in London, England at the end of World War II. 'The Glorious Dead' written at the Cenotaph (Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET, United Kingdom). Building in the background. People place flowers at the base of the Cenotaph. People purchase flags from a street vendor. Large crowd of civilians gathered at a street square for Victory in Europe (V-E) day celebration. Soldier on a horse back. People wave and hold flags.
View of Manitou Mountain Resort at the base of Pikes Peak in Colorado. The Valley from a mountain. View of tourist's cog railroad car being pushed up Pikes Peak by a steam locomotive. Tourists loaded on the railway car with lettering on the side "Manitou and Pikes Peak RY". Steam pouring from locomotive smokestack. Rugged terrain.
View from porthole of a ship, of dock facilities and freighters in Bordeaux, France. Freighters and cranes at dock receiving supplies for American Army base section number 2 during World War I. Some ships are painted in camouflage patterns. Broad view from deck of American ship where United States flag flutters in wind from ship mast. Tugboat in harbor.
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