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The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) is dedicated in Virginia Beach, United States.

Aerial view of the newly completed Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Several cars and motor vehicles parked near a man made island of the complex. A ship underway in the bay. Buses lined up at toll plaza to cross bridge following dedication. Opening ceremony of the new bridge and tunnel. A TrailWays bus passes through the toll booth area. POV through windshield of a car as it enters the tunnel and bridge complex. Sign seen, 'Tunnel 1/2 mile.' As the car enters a tunnel sign above reads, 'Thimble Shoal Channel Tunnel.'

Location: Virginia Beach United States USA
Date: 1964, April 15
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031135
U.S. Army DH-4 bomber drops 2,000 pound bombs on the practice target USS Alabama, BB-8, and destroys it in the Chesapeake Bay

Side view of a U.S. Army 1st Provisional Air Brigade DH-4 single-engine bomber aircraft taking off from an Aircraft Carrier. 2,000 pound bombs are dropped on the USS Alabama, BB-8, an intentional practice target in the Chesapeake Bay. Huge explosions on the target. Dense cloud of smoke rises and tall masts come toppling down. The battleship rolls partially and sinks in shallow water.

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1921, September
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049969
Keystone planes drop bundles of food to Tangier Island residents cut-off by ice jams in Chesapeake Bay, United States.

Ice jams in areas of Tangier Island and Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay Maryland, leave resident fishing community cut-off from supplies for weeks and starving. A truck drives up in front of a U.S. Army Air Corps Keystone B-6A biplane bomber at a hangar of Langley Field. The U.S. airmen transfer bundles of food supplies from truck to aircraft. The B-6A in flight. Aerial view of ice-jammed area showing houses and barns surrounded by ice jam. The bundles of food being dropped from B-6A onto Tangier Island. The B-6A in flight.

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1936, February
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069576
USS Intrepid (CVS-11) passes over the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel complex in the United States.

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) departs for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. USS Intrepid underway at a sea. Aircraft parked on the center portion of the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. NOB piers and shoreline of Norfolk in far background. A view of the starboard quarter. The ship passes over the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel complex.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1967, May
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054310
A full rigged ship 'Amerigo Vespucci' sails up the Chesapeake Bay near Virginia

A full rigged ship 'Amerigo Vespucci' sails up the Chesapeake Bay near Virginia. The ship surrounded by Italian destroyer ships. The ship inspected by the American Navy Officers. Officers trained to join Italian Navy on the ship.

Location: Virginia United States USA
Date: 1951, August 24
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041350
Aerial bombing of battleship USS Alabama (BB-8) in the Chesapeake Bay under direction of General Billy Mitchell

'Aerial bombing of obsolete battleship'. Bombing of an old United States Navy battleship USS Alabama (BB-8) in the Chesapeake Bay of the Atlantic Ocean in 1921. General William L Mitchell on the bridge of United States Mine Planter Schofield. Secretary of Navy Denby's yacht underway at sea. Planes maneuver off to Tangier Island, Virginia. A plane drops a chemical bomb, it strikes the forward deck and explosion occurs. An aircraft drops smoke bombs in water and smoke rises. White phosphorus bombs dropped and a massive explosion occurs.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1921, September 27
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049048
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