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.
State Capitol building in Ohio United States. Views of downtown Columbus, the state capital. People walking on the campus of Ohio State University. Crowd of city people in the Ohio stadium. Ohio State Fair scenes. 'Ohio Welcomes You-ENTRANCE' seen on the gates of the State Fair. Men grooming a cow. City of Cleveland and buildings seen by Lake Erie. Rail terminal, train, busy downtown streets of Cleveland. People getting onto trains. Iron ore port is seen. Lake freighter coming to the port of Cleveland. Huge cranes loading raw materials in freighter. Birth place of Thomas A Edison, inventor of electric light bulb. Man in lighting institute shows working of light bulbs. World's largest lightbulb is shown in the General Electric Lighting Institute in Cleveland. World's smallest bulb also shown at the tip of thin stick. Memorial to Wilbur and Orville Wright brothers,inventors of the first powered heavier- than- air aircraft.. Air planes flying during the Cleveland Air Races annual sky carnival. A formation of Air Force Boeing B-29 superfortress bombers flies overhead. Other U.S. Air Force aircraft fly past, including one jet aircraft that flies low and fast over the assembly. On the ground, a Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" bomber is on static display.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS Enterprise moves slowly in the water. Views from an airborne helicopter of destruction from fire on the deck of the USS Enterprise. Burned out planes and portions of the deck caved in and shredded. Burned-out hulks of many aircraft parked on the flight deck area. Fire hoses on deck. Men walk across deck. Damaged wing section of a KA-3B visible, and hulk of a RA-5C visible. Green shirts working all over the flight deck assessing damage. A injured sailor is carried on a stretcher to a waiting U.S. Air Force CH-3B helicopter that has landed on the ship. Men bend over the litter carrying the injured person. Men lift up the litter and put it in the helicopter. U.S. Air Force written over the tail section of the helicopter. The helicopter takes off for Oahu mainland.
Aftermath of fire on USS Forrestal (CV-59) in Gulf of Tonkin,Vietnam. Debris of the charred F-4B Phantoms lies on the deck. Crew members inspect damage and clean up. Man in flight deck crane clears the debris of damaged F-4B. A man with broom cleans the deck surface while several other men walk in background. Crew on the ship's island look towards the damage and the debris of charred aircraft scattered all over the flight deck area. A slightly damaged SH-3A helicopter. Other intact aircraft near fore starboard including A-4C and A-6A. Crew members relaxing following the incident. Crew sunning themselves on the flight deck and in nets. One has a guitar. Others in quiet contemplation. Ship en route to Subic Bay.
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