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WWII - 1945, USA, Homefront: Senate Commerce Committee Hearing; Navy Yard Fire; Buzz Bombs

Reel Number: 220471-59

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945,1940s

Country: Germany,USA

Location: Norfolk, Virginia,Washington, DC

TC Begins: 08:15:36

TC Ends: 08:17:57

Duration: 00:02:21

WWII - 1945, USA, Homefront: Senate Commerce Committee Hearing; Navy Yard Fire; Buzz Bombs Title: 20th Century Fox - Movietone News (over military montage). 08:16:00 Intertitle: News of The Nation 08:16:04 Intertitle: Senate Commerce Committee hears Jesse Jones. 08:16:09 LS of Senator Arthur Vandenberg & other senators at table. Crowd & photographers. 08:16:21 Intertitle: Henry Wallace Appears Before The Committee, 08:16:26 MS & LS Wallace sitting down at table for hearing on bill to removed Federal Loan Administration from the Department of Commerce to fight President Roosevelt’s appointment of ex-Vice President Wallace as Secretary of Commerce after ousting Jones who challenges Wallace’s abilities to manage large reconstruction finance budget. 08:16:39 Intertitle: Navy Yard Fire 08:16:42 Firefighters & civilians combat huge flames & heavy black smoke of burning Norfolk Navy Yard dock fire after its spread from ship. Navy Coast Guard w/ fireboats. 08:17:12 Intertitle: U.S. Robot Bombs 08:17:15 Welders welding; assembling & manufacturing missiles adapted from German V-1s. 08:17:29 Multiple buzz-bombs launched & tested from platforms on sand dunes over ocean. 1940s; WW2; Missiles; Captured Rockets; Technology Testing; Politics;

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