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Scenes from the Dole Derby or Dole Air Race from California to Hawaii in August, 1927
Opening scene shows several aircraft and aircrews on an Airfield in Oakland, California, readying for the Dole Air Race to Hawaii. A modified Travel Air 5000 aircraft, NX869, named "Woolaroc," is seen in the near foreground. Behind it is another Travel Air 5000, named "Oklahoma." Next, the "Oklahoma" and the "Aloha"(NX914), a Breese-Wilde 5 Monoplane are seen with engines running and taxiing. The "Aloha" takes off and climbs sharply after gaining airspeed. Several Wickes-class destroyers are seen steaming underway. (Slate reports they patrol the course to be flown over the Pacific.) Scene shifts to wreckage of the "Angel of Los Angeles" a twin engine Bryant Monoplane, which crashed on a test flight at Montebello, California. (Pilot, Arthur V. Rogers, bailed out at the last minute but his parachute didn't fully open and he was killed.) Next is shown the wreckage of the "Pride of Los Angeles," an International CF-10 Triplane, after crashing into San Francisco Bay on August 11th. Pilots J. L. Giffin and Theodore S. Lundgren are seen stepping from the water, unhurt. A crane, on a barge, lifts the wreckage from the shallow water.
Pilot avigation training at Rockwell Field, California.
Pilots receive 'avigation' training in Rockwell Field, California. Pilot students in an airplane, which departs for Rockwell Field. Pilot looks at a map. Aerial view of downtown San Diego and the Hotel del Coronado. View of the fields, mountains, and ship at sea. Student pilots disembark from plane. Two officers give instruction regarding instrument flying and navigation. A map on a board in the background. Various bullet points regarding ground and air instructions for instrument navigation appear on the screen.
Coordinating naval gunfire during U.S. invasion of Okinawa in World War II. Destroying enemy caves and hideouts
Animation graphic describing how land sea and air information was coordinated to enable precise targeting of enemy positions by naval gunfire during the U.S. invasion of Okinawa, Japan in World War 2. U.S. minesweepers enable capital ships with heavy guns to safely operate close to enemy targets. Views of heavy naval gunfire. Advance of the Marine 3rd Amphibious Corps. U.S. troops, advancing slowly, routing out Japanese defenders dug in to caves and holes throughout Okinawa. Naval heavy guns were called upon to destroy these caves. Detailed live images include: Mine sweepers off Okinawa, sweeping for mines; heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, CA-38, under a head of steam and using signal lights; battleships fire at Okinawa; A bow view of a Tennessee Class battleship; battleship USS Nevada, BB-36, fires its main battery; closeup of a Cleveland Class light cruiser's main aft battery firing at Okinawa; stern view of the heavy cruiser USS Pensacola, CA-24, fires her aft main 8-inch/55 main battery; U.S. Marines on the march and blowing up caves; battleship USS New York, BB-34, fires her main battery; time 03:36 shows a Cleveland Class light cruiser firing its forward main 6-inch battery; time 03:30 shows the USS New York, BB-34, again; various naval guns fire and explosions on Okinawa are shown; time 04:08 shows the forward main deck, looking aft, of the USS Nevada, BB-36, with a Tennessee Class battleship in the background.
Landmarks and construction in growing Tucson Arizona; scenes from parades and rodeos in Arizona.
Scenes of the town Tucson in Arizona, United States. Old houses and buildings in the town. Late 1930s cars driving on a road in Tucson and parked outside a building. The Mission San Xavier de Bac is shown. The Pima County Courthouse with old cars parked in front. Views of campus buildings at the University of Arizona. Students on the campus of the university. Construction workers building new brick buildings in Tucson. This is constrasted with view of a Mexican worker mixing clay and straw to make Adobe bricks. The man presses the mixture into forms to make large bricks or blocks. Mexican American children sit by the side and watch him work. 1930s era cars drive on the streets of Douglas Arizona. Mexican mariachi street musicians wearing sombreros play guitars and sing. A city parade (possibly in Phoenix) heads down a street with a marching band and men on horses. Women and children watch the parade. A rodeo event in Phoenix is shown with men on bucking broncos and bucking horses.
Logging and lumbering operations in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.
A forest service worker cuts and marks a tree for logging operations in Arizona, United States. Loggers cut down a large pine tree with a two man saw. The logs are loaded on a truck by heavy equipment loader. The logs are pushed off the back of the truck by a bulldozer. The logs are loaded in a train. Smoke rises from the locomotive engine of the train as it moves carrying large cut trees. Mountains in the background. A sawmill operation in Flagstaff, Arizona. Logs are brought to sawmills and dumped into a giant pool or pond area. Men with hooks move the logs up onto lifts that carry the logs into the saw mill. Men at the mill output side lift cut lumber off of the running belt track and stack it for pickup by a special lift machine that lifts the lumber bundles. Elevated view from a high ridge of the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. A woman and a child walk on a field with the mountains of the San Francisco Peaks rising in the background.
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, Campbell, makes temporary repairs, at sea, after collision with German submarine U-606 in World War II
Canadian corvette HMCS Dauphin (K 157) seen from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter George W Campbell, as the Campbell makes temporary repairs at sea, following collision with German submarine U-606, during World War 2. Crew of the Campbell lowering heavy canvas over the side to staunch flow of water into her engine room from the collision. Crew members look over her side as others place the canvas into position. Coastguardsmen swarm over the canvas as they nail it fast to the deck. Crew members run lines up over the ship's side to secure the repair tight against the hull. Crew tilt a fabricated cofferdam and lower it overboard, where it is then seen floating next to the ship. Two crewmen in rubber gear stand on the raft and use poles to stuff material into the gashed hull. Ship's crew runs to starboard to tilt the port hull up for repair crew.Then they run to the port side. Officers make final check on a diver in rubber suit, who then descends side of the ship on a rope ladder. Another diver, sans suit, descends the ladder. Divers back on deck after completing work. Officer on the Campbell hailing a merchantman on a megaphone as she comes abeam, underway. The HMCS Dauphin providing protection for the Campbell. Crew of Campbell securing the cofferdam in place. All hands pulling on lines with block and tackle to tighten the repairs in place.
