Five Hot air balloons preparing for a race from Catalina Island, to the mainland, California. Views of gas tanks and flames that create the hot air for the balloons. Participant, Barbara R. Keith,a 42 year old grandmother, from Hartford, Connecticut, seen wearing an inflatable life jacket and donning her helmet. She boards her balloon and tucks her goodluck mascot (a stuffed toy dog) into the gondola. she is seen rising in her balloon. Brief view of the ground and sightseers from a balloon about 50 feet in the air. Famed balloonist, Donald Louis Piccard, is seen igniting his heater and leaving the ground aboard his balloon. (Note: This was an ill fated venture. Only one balloonist successfully reached the mainland, California. The rest had to be rescued from the water. Mrs. Keith lost her life and her body was recovered days later.)
A Task Group of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet captures and tows a German Submarine (U-505) to Bermuda. Views of captured German crew members being rescued. Destroyer USS Pillsbury passing a line to the U.S. boarding party aboard the U-505, which then collides with the Pillsbury, damaging her hull, and must be cut loose. Because a destroyer appears unable to tow the sea laden submarine, the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) does so herself. Views of captured German crew members exercising and bathing on deck of the Guadalcanal. View of the U-505 flying the American flag and entering harbor in Bermuda, on June 19, 1944..
Belgian soldiers load equipment and baggage onto a C -130 E plane and board it in Leopoldville, Republic of Congo. TAC C-130 E planes parked along the runway and tents erected at Ascension Island airstrip
Aerial view of the newly completed Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Several cars and motor vehicles parked near a man made island of the complex. A ship underway in the bay. Buses lined up at toll plaza to cross bridge following dedication. Opening ceremony of the new bridge and tunnel. A TrailWays bus passes through the toll booth area. POV through windshield of a car as it enters the tunnel and bridge complex. Sign seen, 'Tunnel 1/2 mile.' As the car enters a tunnel sign above reads, 'Thimble Shoal Channel Tunnel.'
Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada and United States President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) meet at White House. Helicopter of Prime Minister Pearson lands in the White House. President Johnson welcomes Prime Minister Pearson. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Pearson sign a multi-million dollar power and flood control project in the Pacific Northwest. Dignitaries at the meeting watch and clap at the signing off the pact. Another pact signed between the two leaders on making an international park at the summer camp of late President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Campobello Island off the Coast of New Brunswick.
U.S. Navy conducts experiment underwater to test man's ability to live under water in the Atlantic Ocean. A sign 'SEALAB I' written on an underwater sea laboratory. A scuba diver wearing oxygen mask swims underwater near the laboratory. U.S. Navy written on SEALAB I. Fishes swim underwater. The scuba diver stands on a platform. The Augus Island platform. The men look at the close circuit television. A scuba diver with supplies descends in water. A sign reads 'Welcome to Inner Space'. Lieutenant Commander Robert Thompson, Medical Doctor seated on a chair inside SEALAB I. He checks the carbon dioxide level. Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning reads a book. Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson speaks into a microphone. He communicates with Commander of SEALAB I Captain George F. Bond. They both talk to each other. A man wearing special equipment leaves the underwater sea laboratory. He takes reading from a meter. The fishes swim in water. They approach the man.
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