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Post War
1945 - 1949
Rebuilding War-torn Europe and Asia
Episode 9 of the documentary
series US Army in Action
Mortgaged to the Yanks
2007 BBC documentary with Christopher Meyers, former British ambassador
to the U. S.
The Improbable Mr Attlee
BBC documentary by David Reynolds about Clement Attlee, British Prime
Minister from 1945 to 1951
The Aftermath of War Production
A Study of Surplus War Materials
By the Automotive Council for War Production for War Material (c. 1946)
Paris 1945
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The United Nations
The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly,
Central Hall, London on 10
January 1946
First meeting of the U. N. Security Council,
Church House, Westminster, London, on 17January 1946
United Nations:
In Pursuit of Peace
The
United Nations:
History
and Functions
Les
Nations Unies:
Son
histoire et ses fonctions
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Tex Beneke
1946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3VY-OtcCvg
Tex Beneke
Post AAF Glenn Miller Band
1946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72tWeXqCZj0
Interview
25 July 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5CAWvbAldg
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Howard Hughes and the Spuce Goose
Howard Hughes in the pilot's seat of the Spruce Goose in November
1947.
Howard Hughes in the pilot's seat of the Spruce Goose in November 1947.
The Hughes H-4 Hercules, a flying boat designed to
convey troops and tanks, was completed aftet the war. It was the biggest plane ever built before 1982. It was nicknamed
the Spruce Goose because it was made of wood.
It flew only once, in Long Beach Harbor, on 2
November 1947. Howard Hughes had the plane airborne for 22 seconds. It flew one mile. It reached
a height of 70 feet above the ocean surface. It reached a speed of 135 miles per hour. It never flew again.
Spruce Goose Cross-LA Transport & Test Flight
The Spruce Goose
Episode from the documentary series History's Greatest
Blunders
Howard Hughes and the H-4 Hercules
Excerpt from a documentary
Color footage of the flight
Silent
Hughes Tests
Plane on Eve of Inquiry
Newsreel
Senate Committee Hearing
1947
Senate committe questions Howard Hughes during its investigation
into a $40 million government contract to Hughes
War Plane Contracts Under Fire
Newsreel
Hughes' Plane Inquiry
Newsreel
Howard Hughes Testifies On Capitol Hill
Film footage
Charges Fly as Hughes Testifies
Newsreel
Hughes Probe Called Off
Newsreel
Howard Hughes and the Flying Boat
Dream to Fly
Documentary
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Chuck Yaeger
Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqLOBPl_zLc
Chuck Yaeger
About air combat
WW2, Korea and Vietnam
1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh_mKBVzpA8
Breaking the Sound Barrier
US Air Force film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rFAo358bU
We Flew the Mig
Chuck Yeager
1953
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIUQB3XptKA
Col. Chuck Yeager
Lost control of an NF-104A and ejected
December 10, 1963
Edwards Air Force Base
California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha_WSiSIRTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY23_WBE4Pg
Tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFy8gYw-eJM
Breaking
the Sound Barrier
U.
S. Air Force Captain Charles (Chuck) Yaeger, a test pilot, in the Bell X-1 rocket plane, was the first to fly at
supersonic speed, breaking the sound barrier, over the Mojave Desert in California on 14 October 1947.
Yaeger reached the
speed of Mach 1.06 (813 mph) at an altitude of 45,000 feet.
Reaching Mach 1 (767
mph), the X-1 flew at the speed of sound.
Flying at supersonic
speed, the X-1 broke through the sound barrier and created a sonic boom.
Chuck
Yeager and the X-1
X-1
Rocketplane "Glamorus Glennis"
The
speed of sound is 1,236 kph (768 mph) (Mach 1)
Chuck Yeager breaks
the sound barrier 1947 X 1
Sonic Booms
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Documentary
The Right Stuff
Excerpt
from 1983 Hollywood movie
(Clip
1 of 7):
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Research Project X-15
Development of the X-15 Rocket Plane
(1962 NASA
documentary film)
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Post-War Baby Boom
Soldiers returned home and babies were born
Graph shows the post-war baby
boom, which peaked in 1959, in Canada. The boom was similar throughout the western world.
Best Years
1946 - 1952
Episode from the ABC News documentary
series The Century: America's Time with Peter
Jennings
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ROYAL WEDDING
Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
The
Royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
24th November 1947
The Princess
Weds
Newsreel
Mariage Royale
The Wedding
Documentary
Part 1 of 2
Part 2 of 2
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Birth of a son, Prince Charles, to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
14 November 1948
From left to right: King George VI; Princess Elizabeth with the infant Prince Charles; Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (standing); and Queen
Elizabeth, at the christening of Prince Charles in Buckingham Palace in December 1948
Birth of Prince Charles
Christening of Prince Charles
Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (CNRRA) Air
Transport
Civil Air Transport (CAT)
Maj.-Gen. Claire Chennault, U. S. Army Air Force, retired, co-founder and president
of Civil Air Transport, in
his office in Shanghai (or Hong Kong), c. 1949
C. A. T. was founded by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, American ambassador
to Costa Rica, in 1946 to fly relief supplies to China. The airline was headquartered in Shanghai.
Civil AirTransport (C. A. T.)
Chén Xiāngméi (Anna), Chinese war correspondent, younger sister of Cynthia Chan, U. S. Army nurse with the Flying
Tigers in Kunming.
Chén
Xiāngméi (Anna) and Claire Chennault in
Kunming in 1947
Claire Chennault, right, with wife Chén Xiāngméi (Anna Chennault) and
Whiting Willauer
Claire and Anna Chennault with daughter in Hong Kong on 1 March
1949.
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Claire Chennault
Episode from the documentary series
Legends of Air Power / 1999 - 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_xZMXJiN_Y
Nell Calloway
Granddaughter of Claire Chennault
Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nl0JcluNA4
Madame Anna Chennault
Journalist and widow of Claire Lee Chennault
Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7mwWPb4jLY
In Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO39Om1Wt6w
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German rocket scientists in America
Captured German rocket scientists at the U. S. army base
at Fort Bliss in Texas, north of El Paso, in 1946.
Wernher von Braun, Germany's leading rocket scientist
during the war, is in the front row, seventh on the right.
The German scientists conducted research and tested V-2
rockets captured in Germany at the adjacent White
Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. They trained American military and civilians in rocketry.
Because they could not leave the base without a military escort, they called themselves
"Prisoners of Peace" ("PoP").
Living quarters at Fort Bliss.
Wernher von Braun, right, at Fort Bliss in 1946
The V-2 at White Sands in 1946.
Wehrner Von Braun at White Sands
in 1946
Post-War tests of the V-2 by the Americans, British
and Soviets V-2 rocket tests at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
The German A4
Rocket
British documentary
about the V-2
1946 (?) (40:37)
German rocket scientists at White Sands
Film footage
November 1946
V-2 Rocket Launch
White Sands, New Mexico
November 21, 1946
Universal Newsreel
V-2
Rocket
Assembling and Launching
White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
War Department Film Bulletin
1947
V-2 launched from an American aircraft carrier
1947 Test of the R-1 rocket - a Soviet copy of the V-2 rocket
1948 Film from V-2 rocket launched in New Mexico
1950
The V-2 Rocket
Round 59
White Sands, New Mexico
20 May 1952
US Army Ordnance Corps documentary (1952)
The V-2 in America
Documentary
Excerpt
1950
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