Helipad traffic at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. A USAF (United States Air Force) UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter approaches and lands on a helipad. View of a control tower. The Pentagon in the background. The helicopter takes off.
U.S. President-Elect Jimmy Carter arrives at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld greets U.S. President-Elect Jimmy Carter as he arrives in a car. Interior of the Pentagon shows Jimmy Carter, U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff George Brown, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Bernard W. Rogers, U.S. Navy Admiral James Holloway, U.S. Air Force General David Jones and United States Marine Corps General Louis Wilson tour the Pentagon. Officials take their seats at a dining table.
U.S. President-Elect Jimmy Carter at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. A sign reads 'Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff'. Carter is accompanied by Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force General George Brown and other officials. Jimmy Carter talks to Pentagon employees. Views at night showing Carter making remarks to Pentagon employees. Carter speaks into a microphone.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird visits General Printing Office exhibit at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. Melvin R. Laird visits GPO display in the concourse of the Pentagon and is greeted by members of the Printing Office and U.S. Marine Corp Commandant General Leonard F. Chapman and U.S. Air Force Director of Information Major General William C. Garland. Secretary Laird looks at Marine combat art. A sign reads 'Government Book Store'. Secretary Laird speaks to Major General Garland.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington D.C., United States. Officials at the platform. The graduates seated in chairs. Johnson stands at the podium. Other officials seated in chairs at the platform. Johnson addresses the class of graduates. British Air Marshall Arthur William Tedder seated next to an American officer. Secretary Johnson shakes hands with an officer. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General J. Lawton Collins, hands out diploma.
New U.S. army recruits seated at benches in the classification center, taking notes, as an instructor at a blackboard tells them how to fill out their classification questionnaires, during World War 2. View of machines processing the questionnaires. Hollerith 88 column punch cards being sorted by machine. Newspaper article about the Air Force efforts to improve classification and assignments of new airmen. A recruit being counseled. An Airmen in barracks, filling out a post card form to complain about his assignment. Servicemen working with sewing machines and at long cobbler's benches repairing shoes. U.S. soldiers in pith helmets, laying communications cable from a truck. A soldier recording information about a shipment of supplies. Soldiers filling 5-gallon "jerry cans" with fuel from a hose. Others serving at a communications center in woods. A soldier fastening a cable to a tank. Soldier standing on a truck. Large group of soldiers gathered to listen to a lecture about explosives. Army draftsmen at their work tables. Soldiers using information and training materials.(Narrator states these materials are often ignored.) An army newsmap for Monday, August 31, 1942 posted on an Army office wall. A sergeant points to July, 1943, on a current calendar next to it, illustrating that the newsmap is long out-of-date. View of another news map and narrator notes they are produced weekly. An officer speaking to an auditorium of soldiers. A soldier arranging his personal gear. Infantry on field maneuvers, firing rifles as they advance across a field. Soldiers firing a Browning water-cooled machine gun; a mortar; and a 105mm M101A1 howitzer. The sergeant using a newsmap to brief his staff about the progress of the war. Opening frames of a War Department Film Bulletin, and soldiers in a theater, watching the film. Opening frames of the film,"Why We Fight," that goes on to show animated map of the German advance across Europe in World War 2. Scenes of German forces on the move, towing artillery, riding on tanks, and entering towns as they invade countries of Europe. Women and children running in streets under bombardment, and civilians fleeing from their homes during aerial bombing. A Bombed out city and civilian corpses lying on the ground. Women in Poland, identifying their dead and grieving over them. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft dropping bombs. Norwegians evacuating the city in trucks, and other vehicles and on foot, during the German invasion. A squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in flight. German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers diving on targets. Civilians rushing to a bomb shelter, and other refugees boarding a truck to evacuate. More He-111 bombers dropping bombs. A Ju-52 trimotor transport (type used to transport German paratroopers). Buildings ablaze in a town. Large formations of German aircraft of various types flying overhead. Building destroyed and burning from bombing. Ju-87s flying close past the camera.
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