Caskets of Astronauts Lt Col Virgil I Grissom and Lt Roger B Chaffee at Andrews air force base in Maryland. MAC C -135B taxiing in at Andrews. Covered ambulatory ramp being rolled up to aircraft. Pallbearers followed by USN seaman board aircraft. They carry the Astronauts caskets off of aircraft. Caskets carried side by side through honor guard and loaded into hearses. Cars parked in the background. Soldiers standing with flags in hands.
History of the SR-71 development from conferences, through assembly, to operational flights of the aircraft, United States. SR-71 in flight with gear lowered. SR-71 B lands. Crew leaves SR-71 B and welcomed by officers. Crew boards SR-71 in hangar and aircraft taxis out. Aircraft in flight. Crew leaves SR-71 and awarded MACH 3 pins and SR-7 models.
United States troops pass in a convoy of trucks, jeeps, trailers, and an M36B1 tank destroyer through the streets of Tambach in Germany. during World War 2. Townsmen gathered across the streets watch as the convoy passes. Officially named the M36B1 Gun Motor Carriage this tank destroyer is based on the M4A3 Sherman hull with a tank destroyer (TD) turret housing a 90mm gun. Only 187 were manufactured. Based on the registration number on the side of the hull (W40190915) this one is serial number 616 and was manufactured by Fisher Body Div. of the General Motors Corp. There are very few combat photos of this rare TD variant.
A KC-135 takes off from an airstrip. View of KC-135's cockpit. In flight checks of the refueling boom of KC-135. Showing KC-135 performing several refueling tests with a B-52 receiver airplane at a high altitude. KC-135 in flight at high altitude with the B-52 at its tail.
Japanese battleships and aircraft carriers including Kaga (ahead) and Zuikaku (trailing to port) underway in the Pacific Ocean towards Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes line up on aircraft carrier. Japanese pilots briefed. Japanese pilots run for their planes, board and take off from carrier. Two Nakajima B5N (Kate) Dive bombers taking off, in succession, from aircraft carrier deck. A Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" taking off. A formation, of B5N aircraft , in flight, carrying torpedoes underneath. View from Japanese attacking airplanes as they bomb the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Heavy black smoke rising from the ground. Next bombers attack the capital ships on Battleship Row. Burning U.S. battleships. Still photographs annotated (in Japanese) point to the various ships targeted, including the USS California, USS Arizona, USS Maryland, USS Utah, and USS West Virginia.
U.S. President Warren G Harding visits the homestead of former President Rutherford B Hayes in Fremont, Ohio. Colonel Webb Hayes (James Webb Cook Hayes), son of former President Hayes, greets them at Spiegel Grove house. Dignitaries proceed for the unveiling ceremony of Sandusky County war memorial on the portico of the Rutherford B Hayes Museum Library. They approach the ceremony area followed by a military band. Colonel Hayes in Army uniform and his wife, Mrs. Hayes (Mary Otis Miller Brinkerhoff Hayes), in YWCA uniform, standing near President Harding. Mrs Hayes does the honor of unveiling the Sandusky County Honor Roll that lists war dead from the region, including those lost in the recently ended World War 1.
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