French Line Pier 10 at Staten Island in New York. French ship 'Ile De Re' at dock. Name and flags on side of ship on France. French flag on the stern. Freighter 'Leopold' chartered by the Red Cross to carry food to war-torn France during World War II. French flag on stern. Captain Lewis Thepaut going aboard Leopold. Leopold leaving dock. Coast Guard Escort near the ship. French ship 'Ile De Re' leaving dock. Leopold underway.
French Line Pier 10 at Staten Island in New York. Ship with French flag on stern. Flour being loaded aboard freighter 'Leopold' chartered by the Red Cross to carry food to France. Men aboard Leopold loading the sacks. A man sits on a bag. Sack bags in rows. Sacks read in French 'From America to France'.
Lockheed Hudson bombers sink at a pier in Staten Island, New York during World War II. Two American built Lockheed Hudson light bombers loaded on barges await shipment to England for the Royal Air Force. The bombers are damaged as the barges spring a leak and sink.
Launching of ships at Staten Island in New York, United States. A destroyer and a cruiser being launched. The ships get underway. Women stand holding bouquets.
The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )
Penicillin treatment of wounded American soldiers in action during World War II.at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Doctor packs penicillin into deep buttock wound. Nurse injects substance into a patient's arm. Doctor packs thigh wound with a penicillin.
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