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| keywords: rockets, president peron, spruce goose seaplane, howard hughes, jews in palestine |
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Synopsis: Rocket Weapons Air Sea And Land, President Peron Is Inaugurated In Buenos Aires, Prototype Military Seaplane Becomes The Spruce Goose, Foreign Ministers Meet In Paris For Conference, Jewish Refugees From Europe Land In Palestine, Conference On International Atomic Control... (read more) |
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Information: 1946 10 min BW |
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U.S demonstrates latest rockets. Rockets are fired from ground launchers, from aircraft, and from landing craft. Rockets give planes and ground forces the firepower of a large naval gun. A rapid fire rocket launcher is demonstrated. Shows rapid-fire rocket launchers firing from a landing craft.
Present Peron is inaugurated and reviews a military parade in Buenos Aires.
The fuselage of an 8-motor seaplane is hauled to the ocean in California. The design and construction of this prototype military seaplane was the work of Howard Hughes and Henry Kaiser. After Kaiser withdrew from the project the aircraft was completed by Howard Hughes and would later become known as the Spruce Goose.
Foreign Ministers meet in Paris. Bidault, Bevin, Molotov and Byrnes arrive as the Council of Foreign Ministers reconvenes in Paris June 15, 1946.
Latest news from the Middle East. Shows European Jewish refugees landing in Palestine. Only 1500 refugees per month are allowed to enter Palestine. In related news, Citizens of Amman, Transjordan celebrates their forthcoming independence from Britain. Shows map of the Middle East countries in 1946. Amir Abdullah reviews Arab troops. Shows troops on horseback and on camels.
At New York City Hunter College comes the UN Atomic Energy Commission. Bernard Baruch speaks to the Commission on international atomic control. Shows General Groves and Trygve Lie.
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