1936: Rocket testing in Greenwood Lake, New York. A rocket experimenter working at mail-carrying 'rocket plane'. Rocket plane launched through a catapult. Rocket plane in flight.
Visitors board and crowd the deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in June, 1945, near the end of world War II. The Wasp is about to depart again, for the Western Pacific, following repairs at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Two U.S. marines are escorting two women, and showing them an F4U Corsair airplane on the deck. Some of the visitors look up toward the camera. The aircraft on deck have been arranged for this static display. visitors are seen departing across a gangplank. Views from deck of the Wasp, of Navy personnel on the pier, below. Camera pans across the pier where spectators still stand. A few people stand on the water side of a building. A large group of visitors coming up from the hangar deck. Civilians and sailors wave at the camera. Visitors leaving the carrier on the gangplank.
A Nazi gathering of men, women, and children members of the German-American Bund at Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, Long Island, New York, United States. The gathering is to celebrate "Deutscher Tag von Long Island 1937," aka Long Island German Day. Boys and girls and young men and women dressed in uniforms of the German-American Bund display Nazi salutes as they march on the grounds of Camp Siegfried in front of a memorial commemorating Long Island German Day. Nazi and American flag banners displayed on either side of the memorial.
Destruction caused by a pre-winter blizzard in New York City and in cities all along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. Cars and streets covered with thick snow. A man clears the snow with a shovel. Bulldozer clears the snow on the streets. Buildings on either side of the street. People working to free stuck vehicles.
Tokle Memorial Ski Jump at Bear Mountain,New York. Ski jumpers jump.. Actor Jean Stanback jumps. Art Tokle wins the championship and poses with the trophy. Spectators cheer the winner.
All-Star College Basketball Game in New York. Spectators seated in a stadium. Basket ball match starts. Lennie Rosenbluth from University of North Carolina,Dick Duckett from St Jones University and Charlie Tyra from University of Louisville play for Eastern Conference. Spectators cheer their teams. Eastern Conference wins against the Western Conference by 73-63.
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