Explosion on flight deck of USS Hancock as bomb falls from landing plane in the Pacific Theater. VT-7 TBF Avenger taxing in for landing drops a 500 pound bomb by mistake on flight deck on an island. Fire fighters struggle to extinguish fire. Men spraying water on burning aircraft with large pipes. Dead Marines on the deck. Wounded men being taken for medical assistance. Damaged flight deck. Group of people repairing the deck. The dead Marines being thrown into sea with honor. (World War II period).
United States 9th Infantry Division troops in Cambodia during the Cambodian Campaign of the Vietnam War. Troops aboard an M113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier). The Armored Personnel Carrier with troops moves through a forest area.
Achievements of American women in 1935. Eleanor Holm Jarrett in a Miami swim meet. She performs backstroke and breaks her own record. A close up of Jarrett. Next segment: Amelia Earhart conquers the Pacific in a historic flight from Hawaii to Oakland California. Earhart emerges from cockpit. People crowd around the plane. A close up of Amelia Earhart receiving flowers from crowd and later posing for photographers. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses Hitler youth at the Poststadion (Lehrter Str. 59, 10557 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Hitler is introduced by Nazi Party national youth leader Baldur von Schirach. Hitler makes an impassioned speech at a podium. Stadium is filled with German boys standing in formations. Hitler speaks to the youth.
Two months after the Kristallnacht events, speaking to the Reichtag in a meeting at the Kroll Opera House, Hitler predicts the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe if a war occurs. The insignia of the Nazi Party in the background. People cheer and applaud Hitler's anti-Jewish speech.
Bulgaria joins Axis powers in March 1940 during World War II. Bulgarian delegate signs a document to join Axis. German aircraft taxis at an airfield. Prime Minister of Bulgaria Prof. Dr. Bogdan Filov debarks and shakes hands with Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop. Band plays group walks past honor guard.. Ribbentrop, Filov, and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Galeazzo Ciano take seats at a conference table. German and Bulgarian signatories sign. Ribbentrop and Filov shake hands. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and various delegates shake hands. Hitler speaks to Filov.
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