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Sailor dangles on cable beneath the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron, following a mooring accident

View from the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) as Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart secures his position, suspended on a cable from the airship, 2000 feet above the ground following a cable ring failure that left three sailors dangling beneath the Akron, at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California.(The other two fell to their deaths.) Large group of sailors stand on ground below, watching. Crew of the Akron reel in the cable carrying Cowart and pull him aboard. View of Cowart, inside the Akron, calmly speaking of his experience.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1932, May 16
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070494
Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart is rescued after dangling from the airship, USS Akron, two thousand feet above ground

Original footage and supplemental reenactment of event that took place about a week earlier when the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) attempted to dock for refueling at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California. In clips from that actual event, spectators watch as a hundred Navy ground crew sailors attempt to hold down the dirigible. But one of the Akron cable rings breaks and the sailors are unable to hold her. All let go of the lines except for three sailors, two of whom fell to their deaths. Scenes are shown of the remaining sailor, Bud Cowart of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, as he hangs on for more than an hour until the USS Akron crew pulls him through a port hole to safety aboard the air ship. Views shot about a week later show officers inside the Akron and Sailor Cowart aboard the airship.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1932, May 16
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046022
USS Akron zeppelin dirigible in flight and trapeze-hook equipped Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes fly near it

USS Akron, helium filled Zeppelin dirigible in the United States. Aerial view of USS Akron. Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes, trapeze-hook equipped , fly near USS Akron. Belly of USS Akron dirigible

Location: New Jersey United States USA
Date: 1932, January 19
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031699
Three Consolidated N2Y-1aircraft follow the USS Akron (ZRS-4) off the New Jersey Coast in the United States.

Maneuvers of the USS Akron (ZRS-4) , helium filled Zeppelin dirigible, off the Jersey Coast in the United States. The USS Akron in flight. Three Consolidated N2Y-1aircraft follow it. They are equipped with special gear for hooking onto the Akron's trapeze fixture. One plane successfully hooks on to the dirigible. The USS Akron, viewed behind vertical stabilizer of aircraft proceeding away from her.

Location: New Jersey United States USA
Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031711
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists on tour of tire manufacturing units in Akron Ohio.

Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists visit tire manufacturing plant in Akron Ohio. In Brazil a man collects rubber from trees. A man tends the liquid rubber into rubber balls over fire,large balls laid on the ground and men loading rubber balls on horsebacks. Map showing route from Brazil to Akron,Ohio. Women workers prepare sheets of rubber while men pull out rubber tiers from spinning wheels and place the tires in assembly line.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030523
Goodyear tire company managers attend conference in Akron Ohio and ramp up wartime production

Superintendents and development men from Goodyear tire companies come for a conference in Akron Ohio. They disembark from the train, take their belongings and proceed towards the venue. View of downtown street of Akron. Goodyear managers from all over the world attend the conference. Sam Steere and his cotton mill men, Kox and Kavenagh from Windsor, along with Harry Post are seen. , Cormen and Peperika from South America are seen. Views of tire production underway at Goodyear plants. Old rubber tires seen at a reclamation plant. View of an Airplane wheel being constructed. Tank treads stockpiled at St. Marys, Ohio. View of tanks crossing a field and warplanes soaring over them. View of back of St. Mary's Goodyear molded rubber plant.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030561
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