Jeannette Rankin, Republican member of Congress from Montana, and first woman representative elected in the United States, is seen standing with women's suffrage movement activists in Chicago, Illinois, just before America's entry into World War 1. The leading slate mentions her forthcoming participation in a special session of Congress (referring to the Joint Session of Congress on April 2, when President Wilson will ask for a declaration of war against Germany). Rankin holds a bouquet of flowers and stands with another woman wearing a large corsage of flowers. A dozen women suffragists stand behind them. The building behind seems to be a hotel, containing several mirrored doors. Several men passersby walk past the camera while it photographing the group. Jeannette Rankin moves forward and another woman helps her to step into a vehicle (unseen).
Men work at an ammunition factory in Germany during World War 2. German war production worker seen working on a machine. Preparation of gun barrels. Gun barrels are lathed and milled. Other men work in the factory. They construct the rifles and barrels. Views of bullets being manufactured at munitions factory.
German men working in a munitions and war materiel factory in Nazi Germany during World War 2. Industrial steel melting operations. Metal being melted and molded in the factory. Artillery and gun barrels being manufactured. Metal ingots in process in the factory. Close up views of workers watching the whole process and working. Manufacturing of ordnance shells in the factory. The metal ingots inserted into a container and manufacture of shells takes place.
Ruins and devastation caused by the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. Members of a United States mission inspect the ruins. Effect of the ruins on the Russo-Japanese War Memorial. Trees in the field destroyed due to the explosion. Rubble and ruins in the city. Wrecked houses and buildings. A destroyed statue amidst the city. Damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall with Motoyasu Bridge in the background. People walk on a street.
A double mouth fire plug used all over Tokyo, Japan. Buildings and houses in the background in post-war Japan. Small air raid shelters made of earth, wood beams and cross bars, seen soon after the end of World War 2. Japanese people including women, and men in military uniforms, walk on the Shinbashi Bridge along The Ginza Street, Chuo-Ward, Tokyo.
German soldiers fight in and around the ruins of Aachen in Germany during World War 2. A map shows places. Soldiers on an Sdkfz.250 Neue halftrack arrive on the war front armed with Panzerfaust recoilless antitank weapon and Assault Rifle. Wrecked buildings and houses near battle area. Soldiers walk on the field. They walk in the trench and fire a mortar (several running out of the trench before it goes off). Numerous close-up views of faces of German soldiers as they talk, move, or fire weapons at Allied forces.
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