Street view in Seattle with large American flag and a Red Cross flag hanging over street center (during World War I). Streetcar in Downtown Seattle, Washington. People move on busy streets, and various automobiles on street. A car moves across at the street corner. View of the Securities Building at intersection of 3rd Avenue and Stewart Street. A man rides a bicycle. Buildings along the road side. Views of 4th Avenue including White-Henry-Stuart Building. Flags hoisted on top of buildings. Aerial view of buildings and traffic on the street. A building with an American flag hoisted atop it. Elevated, wide view of buildings of downtown Seattle.
President Franklin D Roosevelt during the Rearmament speech before the Congress in Washington DC, United States talks about the superiority of the United States Armed Forces. He says that security must be absolute. He also talks about the possibility of an emergency session of the Congress in case of National Emergency. He declares peace as the main objective of America. Congressmen stand and applaud in appreciation after the speech ends.
United States Navy divers undergo training. A Navy diver trainee aboard a boat. He goes over gunwale into water and man on the boat gives him diving helmet, connected to an air pump on the boat. The diver dons the helmet and then descends, under water, as the man on the boat plays out his breathing hose and security line.
United States LVT-N-2 Loon 777 and 785 missiles prepared and launched in United States. A Loon missile hoisted in a sling is taken on board. Men attach beacon antenna check line to the wing of the missile. Men check out rig and rockets. They attach air pressure lines. Man uses link meter on check. Final securing of covers and wing support by men. A man makes final checks on radio.
President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the Congress before entering World War II. President Roosevelt during his address urges the Congress to amend the Law of Neutrality to avert the danger of war looming large on America. He says that the primary function of American foreign policy has been to avert war and the government will try to keep out of the war. He states that America has always believed in neutrality and peace but with the outbreak of war in Europe there is a threat to peace and security of United States.
Allied invasion of Europe during World War 2. Opening scene shows sailors preparing to launch a landing craft. Skies are dark above and some barrage balloons are aloft. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT), filled with soldiers, slowly approaches a secure beachhead where U.S. Army trucks are driving along the beach. Next, the LCT has beached and lowered its front ramp. It is still some way from the beach. Soldiers ride jeeps down the ramp and through the water toward the shore. Some soldiers are seen dug in on the beach. Others march informally along the beach. Jeeps and trucks drive along the beach. Dark black smoke rises in the background An M4 Sherman of the 70th Tank Battalion, fitted with a bulldozer blade, moves past a fallen (dead) soldier partially covered with a tarp, lying on the sand. Small clusters of soldiers are setting up positions in the sand. Medics carry two stretchers towards a landing craft as they wade through the surf. Soldiers wade ashore from a stranded LCT.
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