1955 air disasters in the United States. Wreckage of United Air Lines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft (N37559, Mainliner Denver) that was blown up over Longmont, Colorado on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The crash site of United Air Lines Flight, a Douglas DC-4 propline (N30062), in Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming. Dead bodies carried out from wrecked plane. Crowd watches.
U.S. Marines of 'B' Company, 1rd Battalion, 7th Regiment advance in Okinawa. Casualty is assisted by two Marines over ridge. Casualty with shoulder wound receives first aid and is carried away on a stretcher. U.S. Self Propelled howitzers on field. SP howitzer fire. Marines in foreground. Marines move on hillside and SP howitzers fire. (World War II period).
Prince George, Duke of Kent, from Great Britain, arrives at Martin aircraft plant in Middle River, Maryland during World War II. Prince George is dressed in his Air Commodore uniform and is accompanied by officers. Aircraft in the background. The workers of the plant cheer. He inspects the bomber aircraft including a parked Martin B-26 Marauder bomber. The Duke of Kent tries his hand at a new jeep.
National Academy Convention held in Palo Alto, California. Several conventioneers wearing aprons stand in a group. 'Bar-B-Q' written on the chef's hat. Men talk and laugh. A man holds a container. Men prepare for a barbecue lunch. A group of men and women stands. Men and women drink beverages. Several conventioneers smoke. Men stand on an open field.
Wounded soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) being carried aboard a British ship for evacuation from Boulogne during the Battle of France in World War 2. Ship in the background. Ambulances stand on the port. Wounded soldiers are carried on stretchers. Other soldiers carry belongings of the wounded.
Carrier activity aboard USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) in the Pacific ocean, during the Korean War. Flight deck of the aircraft carrier. Grumman F9F-2 Panther aircraft of VF-112 on flight deck. An F4U-4B, of Fighter Squadron VF-113, is towed past the F9F-2. An AD4 Skyraider of Attack Squadron VA-115, with bombs under its folded wings, is backed into line on the deck. Deck crew maneuvers F9F-2 into position at side of deck. Star rockets brought on deck by small rocket cart. More views of AD4s with bombs under folded wings. Many AD4s, on the flight deck, with wings folded and engines running or cranking with props turning.
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