NASA Freedom Seven, America's first sub-orbital flight. Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain underway. Marine helicopter HUS-1 above the capsule as it descends down after the flight. Capsule near surface of water. HUS-1 lifts the capsule. Another HUS-1 in flight. Mercury capsule lowers. Crowd on aircraft carrier. Capsule lowered on special pad on carrier. Landing bag collapsed and tied-down. Landing on aircraft carrier deck. Commander Alan B Shepard assisted by copilot in the helicopter. Commander Alan B Shepard and others on flight deck. Commander Shepard retrieves his helmet from capsule and walks in Admiral's cabin. He gets out of his space suit. Doctor Robert Laning and Jerome Strong beside him. President Kennedy congratulates him on phone. He talks to other officers. He drinks from a glass. He climbs aboard a Grumman S2F/TF aircraft on deck. Personnel on super structure of carrier. The plane takes off.
USS Bennington (CVS-20) underway at sea near California's San Clemente Island in the United States. U.S. Navy Destroyer ships underway. Bow of USS Bennington. Two destroyer ships underway in column. Third destroyer ship in the background. P3V aircraft drops depth charge weapon. Depth charge explodes in water. UH-2B helicopter flies past USS Bennington. Rockets fired by aircrafts hit water.
Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.
Shadow details and flash burns caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. A granite lantern with a replaced wooden framework on upper section. Wooden frame with the flash burned area and the protected portion by an overhanging top of the lantern. Torii or the entrance to the Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan). Men and women move past the entrance.
Physical damage caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan in World War 2. Damaged Motoyasu Bridge across river in the foreground and the business center of Hiroshima in the background. Area covered with rubble and devastation, with wooden huts amid debris. Wide sweeping view of area between Ota River and Tenma River. People walk on the road and a bus moves past the rubble. Huts built in rubble covered areas.
Physical damage caused due to World War II atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan. A Torii at the entrance of the Hiroshia Gokoku Shinto Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan). People enter and exit the gateway or Torii. Men pulling hand cart enter the gateway. Statues on either side of the Torii. Woman on bicycle moves out. Men push a cart out of the gateway.
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