U.S. aircraft at Anacostia Naval Air Station( NAS ) in Anacostia, Washington DC. United States Navy F4H Phantom aircraft takes off from a runway. The aircraft in flight overhead. United States Navy A4D-2 Skyhawk is removed from a hangar by a small tractor. Letters 'Navy and Marines' painted on a side of the aircraft. The tractor tows the aircraft from the hangar. A pilot seated in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and is in flight overhead.
U.S. aircraft at Anacostia Naval Air Station in Anacostia, Washington DC. United States Navy F4H Phantom aircraft parked at the base. A pilot walks from an Operations building towards the aircraft. The pilot climbs up a ladder to the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis on a runway and takes off.
U.S. aircraft at Anacostia Naval Air Station in Anacostia, Washington DC. United States Navy A4D-2 Skyhawk aircraft parked at the base. A pilot walks towards the aircraft. He climbs up a ladder into the cockpit. He dons his hard hat. The aircraft takes off from a runway.
Policemen rush to contain the resistance by the Bonus Marchers, a group of demonstrators made up of 17 000 United States World War I veterans demanding early cash redemption of their service certificates during the Great Depression. Bonus Expeditionary Force demonstrators throw smoke bombs and fight with police in their trashed Hooverville camp on the Anacostia Flats (now Section C of Anacostia Park in Washington DC). Bonus Expeditionary Force Hooverville camp in flames during confrontation with army sent by General Douglas MacArthur. American soldiers confronting the Bonus Marchers in Anacostia Park. Remnants of Bonus Army camp in smoke. Bonus Expeditionary Force demonstrators cover faces to protect themselves from smoke. Bonus camp in flames, with the United States Capitol dome in the background.
U.S. Navy officers inspect captured Japanese Mitsubishi A6M, the infamous "Zero" fighter plane. The captured enemy aircraft has been painted over with U.S. markings and tested at Naval Air Station in Anacostia . A test pilot prepares to fly the captured plane. The captured Japanese Zero taxiing out for take off. Japanese Zero in flight. (World War II period).
An original 1912 U.S. Navy Curtiss pusher bamboo seaplane is parked on the shore of the Anacostia River, at the United States Naval Base in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. Its flight controls are seen moving as sailors (unseen) check their movements. Next, with the engine running, Captain "Dick" Richardson, climbs aboard and makes his own quick flight control check. Closeup of him at the controls giving a nod that he is ready to be pushed into the water for a demonstration flight. Sailors maneuver the craft to the edge of shore and push it into the river. Roosevelt Hall, at U.S. Army Fort Lesley J. McNair, is seen across the river in the background. The seaplane's lower left wing dips into the water momentarily, as Captain Richardson taxis it away from the shore. Scene shifts to the seaplane taking off from the river, after which, Captain Richardson Quickly brings it back down to a water landing, near the Washington Channel.
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