The need to develop air power in the United States. Battleships underway at sea. Eleven bi winged single engine aircraft fly in a V formation. A line of 6 battleships in water off the coast of New England, U.S. A 1920 vintage battleship fires a salvo from its guns at the enemy. The battleships fire guns. Shore batteries fire large guns. Sailors load a deck gun. An early model submarine. The submarine submerges. Its periscope visible above water surface. Naval crafts set their depth charges and fire them. Depth charges going off in the background. A ship sinks. A United States Army Air Service ( USAAS ) Curtiss PW-8 aircraft in flight. 4 bombs fall away from the aircraft. The bombs hit and explode on USS Alabama. Smoke rises as explosions occur on the ship. A ship rolls over and sinks. A USAAS Curtiss-Martin NBS-1 bomber in flight. Two bombs fall away from the aircraft. Explosions in water. Aerial and ground shots of a ship sinking. Large guns of a battleship fire. Animation of enemy airships and aircraft flying over water towards New York. Release of the aircraft from the airships. Aircraft flying over New York City. Aerial view of skyscrapers of the city. A Curtiss- Martin NBS-1 bomber in flight. Two bombs fall toward the ground. Animation of explosions against the New York skyline. A USAAS Curtiss JN-4 aircraft in flight. A bomb falls towards the ground. Animation of bombs hitting New York City. A machine gunner in a fighter aircraft fires at another aircraft. The aircraft falls and burns. Bomb explosions in the city. An observation balloon catches fire and falls. A man in a parachute descends near the balloon. Animation of a burning city. An early model submarine cruising. A bi winged twin pontooned aircraft in flight over a group of battleships and destroyers. A group of aircraft in flight. A Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight. Animation of an airship flying over a city and tying up to a mast located on the top of a tall building. A flag of the U.S. flutters in breeze.
The Great Buddha of Kamakura at the Kōtoku-in Temple (4 Chome-2-28 Hase, Kamakura, Kanagawa 248-0016, Japan). People worship in front of the statue. Monks in the temple. People walking in the courtyard of a shrine in Kamakura. Monks feed birds in front of th Higashi Hongan-Ji temple (Karasumadori Shichijo-agaru Kyoto, 600-8167 Japan) in Kyoto. Wood carvings on the ceiling of a temple. A monk touches the famous Hair Rope of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple. Back pose of a Japanese woman with traditional “icho-gaeshi” hair. The woman turns.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A flight surgeon does a preflight physical checkup of a pilot in the United States. The flight surgeon in a room. A pilot approaches him and sits down in a chair. The flight surgeon takes temperature and blood pressure readings of the pilot.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot eats steak and egg before a flight in the United States. He uses a fork and a knife to eat. An attendant brings a dish.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An airman takes a helmet and an MC-3A partial pressure suit from a rack and keeps them back after checking them in the United States. The airman helps a pilot in getting suited for a flight. He helps the pilot in donning the suit and putting on his shoes. Another airman comes in and hands over a helmet to the first airman who helps the pilot in putting it on. Another helmet is put on the previous one. The airmen helps the pilot in putting on gloves.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An airman helps a pilot. The pilot walks to a chair and sits in it. The airman helps the pilot in getting ready for a flight.
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