A memorial plaque "Walter Reed who gave man control over Yellow Fever died in a hospital on this site November 23, 1902". Located in Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC. A view of building number 54, situated behind the plaque can be seen. The location is on B Street, between the Inter-American Defense College and the Fort's health clinic
View from driveway leading to Inter-American Defense College, on Fort Lesley J McNair, in Washington, DC. Flags of the Americas fluttering on the building. Exterior of the building seen from different angles. Historic cannons and cannon balls are seen. The American flag flying from the Fort's main flag pole at end of 3rd Avenue at B Street. (A squirrel is seen jumping past the camera.)
An eight day clock on aircraft instrument panel. U.S. Air Force flight crew member packing gear, including cold weather clothing into his A-3 flight bag. Cargo being by means of the elevator into the cargo compartment of a Second Strategic Support Squadron C-124 Globemaster tail # 49-244, at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. B-36 strategic bomber seen in background. The men and equipment are headed to the Strategic Air Command's 509th Bomb Wing Forward Detachments at RAF Stations Mildenhall and Lakenheath, in England. (Note: This same aircraft, performing the same mission, successfully ditched in the North Atlantic on 23 Mar 1951, but no passengers or crew were ever recovered.).
Sign 'Thule Air Base, Greenland, Base Operations' can be seen. Views of Thule Air Base, the northern most USAF (United States Air Force) base in Greenland. Base surrounded by high hills. Some snow on the ground. Aircrews inside a building doing flight planning. Navigators and pilots using E6B flight computers, and referring to fuel consumption tables. Crew members computing weight and balance with slide rules.
Mission No. 45 of human downward ejection test. Nose section of B-47 Stratojet in flight. Views of parachutists descending towards coastline.
Flight line preparation of crew for flight at Yokota Air Force Base in Fussa, Japan. RB-45 Tornado, an USAF (United States Air Force) jet bomber. Man on small tractor carrying wheel for landing gear of RB-45. Men preparing to put the wheel on RB-45 using a large jack. Flight line mechanics jack up B-45 to remove wheel from landing gear. Flight line mechanics put new wheel on landing gear of RB-45.
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