U.S. President Woodrow Wilson inaugurates airmail service as it commences in the U.S. A Curtis JN-4 airmail airplane parked on the Polo field, in Washington, DC.. Van of United States Air Mail Service arrives. Mail is loaded into the airplane. Pilots Lieutenant George L. Boyle and Major Reuben H. Fleet standing beside the airplane conferring over a map. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, and Post-master General Albert Sidney Burleson inspect the airmail airplane that will carry mail to New York. . A man shows first official piece of airmail. He and his wife greets pilot. Wilson talks with pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet . Pilot George L. Boyle gets into airplane. Airplane takes off. Airmail airplane piloted by lieutenant Webb leaves New York from Belmont Park and takes off. The airplane stops at Philadelphia to pick up more mail. Mail is loaded into the airplane. The airplane takes off. It arrives in Washington. Mail is unloaded from the airplane. Pilot gets out of the airplane.
President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall attend an American Federation of Labor conference in Buffalo, New York. President Samuel Gompers and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor meet. The Labor parade in Buffalo. U.S. Army soldiers and motorcars participate in the parade. Views of President Samuel Gompers and Secretary Frank Morrison. Hugh Frayne, General organizer of the American Federation of Labor, joins the group. They all take out their hats.
American Federation of Labor Convention in Buffalo, New York. A band plays musical instruments and a bandmaster instructs the band in the parade. The president of American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers sitting in car. The car passes along the streets of the city during the parade. Railroad tracks on a road. Delegates participate in the parade with miniature flags of the U.S.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson arrives and departs from the Convention Hall during the American Federation of Labor Convention in Buffalo, New York. President Wilson and his wife, the First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson arrive at the Convention Hall. Troops enter the hall (during World War I). The President and his wife leave the hall. They get into a car. The Labor convention moves through the streets of the city. Railroad tracks on a road. The troops march.
A U.S. Navy Task Force underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Saipan of World War II. The task force at anchor. APs (Transports), BBs (Battleships) and CLs (Light Cruisers) underway as the task force leaves Kwajalein and is en route to Saipan. Guard mail transferred from a DD (Destroyer) alongside. A formation of airplanes passes. An airplane lands aboard a CVE (Escort Aircraft Carrier).
A U.S. Navy Task Force underway in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Saipan, Mariana Islands during the Battle of Saipan of World War 2. Closeup of triple gun turrets turned to port on a U.S. warship in the task force. Shells striking at shoreline of the island in distance. View of warship in the distance firing its naval guns to port. A Flush deck destroyer escort firing to port, from close to the island. Sailors in position with a twin Bofors 40mm gun. At TC:00:37 mark is the USS Indianapolis CA 35 heavy cruiser.Landing craft approaching the shore, where smoke is rising. A huge explosion in the water near the shore. Shell bursts in the water short of the island. Landing craft underway.
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