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Charles Augustus Lindbergh successfully completes first nonstop crossing from New York to Paris, and is celebrated worldwide.

Opens with scenes of aviators unsuccessful attempts to cross the Atlantic in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Failed attempt by Fonck in his Sikorsky aircraft as he headed for Paris on September 21, 1926. French aviator René Paul Fonck standing beside his aircraft before takeoff. Fonck's plane taxiing for takeoff. View of the plane crashed and consumed in fire and smoke. Crash of Byrd's Fokker plane on April 16, 1927, injuring Byrd and crewmen Noville and Bennett. View of Byrd in uniform before the crash. View of the crash as Byrd's plane is seen tumbling nose over on landing. Failure of Chamberlin's Bellanca aircraft carrying Chamberlin and two little girl passengers. The plane stalls at landing but passengers are safe. Next scene of crash of plane carrying Davis and Wooster on April 26, 1927 near Langley Field, Virginia, killing both men. The crashed plane beside a swamp. View of France's Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli before their attempt in L'Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird). Plane with Nungesser and Coli taking off; it disappeared after taking off from Paris, with the last sighting of it over Ireland. View of Charles Lindbergh and then also of Lindbergh and his mother, and of the Spirit of Saint Louis on May 20, 1927 before his successful Atlantic Crossing to Le Bourget at Paris on May 21, 1927. The aircraft being backed out of a hangar and being fueled. Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh enters the cockpit. The Spirit of Saint Louis Wright Whirlwind powered monoplane taxiing and taking off slowly from Roosevelt Field in New York, heavily burdened by fuel. Aerial view of the Spirit of St Louis in flight, taken from another airplane. Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic in the plane 'Spirit of St. Louis'. Charles Lindbergh is greeted by huge crowd in Paris. Views of crowds, dignitaries and celebrations as he is welcomed by people in Paris, Brussels and London. Also views of his receptions in Washington DC and New York City in the United States in June 1927.

Date: 1927, May 20
Duration: 10 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041030
A group of citizens visits the U.S. Aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal.

The USS Forrestal is seen tied up at a pier in her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia. View of a metal plaque reading: U.S.S. Forrestal CVA-59. Rear Admiral, Charles D. Griffin, Commander of Carrier Division 4, welcomes the visitors aboard the Forrestal (his flagship). Scene shifts to the aircraft carrier deck, where numerous McDonnell F3H-2 Demon aircraft are parked. View of visitors on the flight deck near the Island with many aircraft parked with wings folded in background. The narrator visitor seen with his guide, Lieutenant Kirk Carter. Nose view of an A4D-2 aircraft of VA-72 (Hawks), being worked on by plane captain. Hawks painted on the nose. Red shirt armorers loading ammunition. The civilian guests conversing with ship's personnel. Ship's captain, Richard E. Kibbe, talking with a visitor. The order to cast off being sent from the bridge. Ship's company lined up in formation in dress whites. A group of Blue shirt flight deck crewmen conversing. View of a landing mirror landing aid. View from the air, of the Forrestal underway. Some AD-6 Skyraider aircraft start engines, with wings folded. A Piasecki HUP-2 helicopter preparing for takeoff. Several Douglas A-3 Skywarrior aircraft are catapulted from the Forrestal. The Guided Missile Cruiser, USS Boston (CAG-1) passing the Forrestal.

Date: 1958
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042339
Douglas A4D aircraft from the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) demonstrates Loft bombing technique

View from deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal (CV-59) as a U.S. Navy Douglas A4 D aircraft demonstrates Loft bombing (AKA tossed bombing). The aircraft pulls up as if beginning a loop, and then releases the bomb as the aircraft starts to reverse direction inverted. The bomb is seen in flight leaving a condensation trail.

Date: 1958
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042340
A U.S. Navy Douglas AD-5 aircraft tosses a bomb at a ground target

A United States Douglas AD-5 SkyRaider releases a bomb toward a land target after taking off from United States aircraft carrier Forrestal. The bomb drops leaving a pink colored smoke trail behind. Bomb impact and an explosion occurs.

Date: 1958
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042341
Regulus missile being launched from submarine USS Barbero (SS-317)

The surfaced submarine USS Barbero (SS-317) seen from the deck of the USS Forrestal, with a U.S. warship behind it. The Barbero prepares and fires a SSM-N-8A Regulus missile. Closeup of a regulus missile with launcher on deck of the Barbero. it launches with smoke streaming from its twin rocket booster engines.

Date: 1959
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042345
The USS Coral Sea practices radiation washdown at sea

The Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea (CV-43), is almost totally obscured by water and vapor clouds during a practice atomic radiation washdown, at sea.

Date: 1956
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042346