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The U.S. Army motor transport convoy of 1919 crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains into California
View from just beside and below a mountain road in Sierra Nevada mountains, as trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army motor transport convoy make their way from Nevada into California. View from ahead, and below of the trucks. The narrow mountain road is lined with rock boulders and the mountain rises almost vertically beside it. A Holt tractor pulling a truck by a chain, along a stretch of the road. Trucks proceeding successfully on their own on other parts of the road. Several picturesque views by the camera operator.
1919 U.S. Army motor transport convoy in Sierra Nevada Mountains of California
Picturesque views of the 1919 U.S. Army motor transport convoy making its way through the beautiful forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Tall evergreen trees and dramatic mountain views frame many pictures of the convoy. The convoy stopped at Kybury, California, for dinner.
American soldiers fire the .30 caliber Browning M1919 A4 Machine gun as part of their training in the United States.
American soldiers undergoing weapon identification training in the United States. Soldiers lying on ground, fire the .30 caliber Browning M1919 A4 Machine gun. Riflemen can fire 60 rounds per minute. Soldiers seated in trenches with rifles in hand. Sandbag wall behind them. They carefully listen to the firing. Soldier in the trench carefully looks out of the trench and points in the direction of fire. Bullets hitting the ground. (World War II period).
First joint flight by Wright Brothers in 1910 near Dayton Ohio. Also scenes from other "firsts" in early aviation history up until 1919.
Wright brothers' first aircraft flight together near Dayton Ohio in 1910. Wilbur Wright is in the pilot's seat with Orville Wright as passenger to his right. (Until this flight, the Wrights had never flown together so that if one of them was killed, the other could continue their work.) Next, a view of Alberto Santos-Dumont, and the first European flight made by him on 13 September 1909. Following segment shows crowds gathered at Washington DC Polo field as truck arrives carrying mail to be loaded on the first U.S. Air mail flight, May 15, 1918. Army pilot, Lieutenant Webb, in his JN-4H airplane, on Southbound flight from New York, takes off from Philadelphia, where he stopped to pick up more mail. He flies over the Washington Polo Field upon arrival. We see his airplane being unloaded as he jumps down from cockpit and crowds watch. Views of first transatlantic flight begins with takeoff of three out of four existing United States Navy Curtiss flying boat aircraft from Newfoundland, on May 16, 1919. Curtiss flying boats NC-1, NC-3, NC-4 are seen at takeoff from Newfoundland on first leg of the transatlantic journey. Flying Boat NC-4 is also seen at one of its foreign ports, though which is unclear (Azores, Lisbon, or England).
The 1919 U.S. Army coast-to-coast motor convoy leaving Wyoming and entering Utah
The U.S. Army cross-continental motor convoy leaving Fort Bridger, in the Southwest corner of Wyoming and proceeding into Utah. Trucks drive on a narrow dirt road alongside a mountain with trees on other side of the road. The whole convoy stops for a meal break in Utah, where fifty or more vehicles are seen parked near a dry riverbed beside a mountain. Next, trucks are seen moving slowly along a narrow mountainside road, past huge rock outcroppings. View from ahead of trucks negotiating narrow road beside an almost dry river bed in mountains of Utah.
Soldiers in U.S. Army 1919 motor transport convoy spread sagebrush to improve truck traction in sandy part of Utah
The U.S. Army cross-continental motor transport convoy stops in a barren part of Utah, while soldiers cut sagebrush to lay over a sandy area so trucks can gain traction and pass through the area. Soldiers help as a truck drives slowly over the sagebrush. The truck accelerates when leaving the sandy stretch. Other trucks moving through the area, are chained together for mutual assistance. Dust raised by passage of trucks.