Discussion of the Tillamook Forest Fire of 1933 in Oregon. Men cutting huge fallen tree with two-man saw. A man works on a Steam Donkey, dragging cut logs. The end of a log in flames. Lumberjacks try to put out the fire. A ranger spots smoke rising from the forest. A phone call being made and organized firefighting crews including the Civilian Conservation Corps respond to fight fire. CCC men cross a log bridge and climb steep hill into the forest. Other responders seen in mule trains. Forester atop a burned out telephone pole, where wire had been destroyed. Firefighters using wireless radios. Smoke rises from the forests. Smoke rises from the hill. Suddenly, wind changes and fire explodes. Views of the actual Tillamook Forest fire storm of August 1933. Two weeks later, rain suppresses the fire. View of firefighters using shovels, axes and other tools to dig fire line by hand, next to smoking underbrush. View of man holding a "Pulaski" tool, half axe and half hoe. Men looking over the aftermath of the Tillamook burn. Lumberjacks chopping a huge standing tree with axes. Cut logs suspended from cables, being moved. Forester with backpack, hiking along trail. Firefighters suppressing small wild fires with hand tools. (Great Depression period)
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. View from carrier Akagi of two other Japanese aircraft carriers, the Kaga (front), and the Zuikaku (rear) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese naval officers aboard a carrier. Japanese deck crews work on Japanese aircraft aboard a carrier. Japanese pilots assembled on the flight deck to receive final briefings before taking off. Information posted on a large blackboard as pilots are briefed. Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes take off from the aircraft carrier. Planes in flight. View from Japanese airplanes as the attack on Pearl Harbor takes place. Smoke rising from explosions. View from aircraft flying directly overhead as bombs explode on Ford Island airbase.
The Henry Dreyfuss New York Central Mercury locomotive in Harmon, New York. A man works on controls as he operates the new streamlined steam engine, Mercury. Mercury being run along side an old steam engine during a test by the New York Central. Mercury races ahead of the old engine. Mercury on track.
Hank Polakis wear an air conditioned suit to beat the heat in summers in Gila Centre, Arizona. Hank Polakis displays a self designed clothes with air pumps below his shoes and pipes from the pumps run to different parts of the body. Polakis walks down a street as the air pumps supply constant breeze to him lowering the temperatures.
Various track stars compete at the National American Association of Universities meet in Princeton, New Jersey. Athletes compete at a hurdle race during the meet. Jesse Owens from Ohio poses after winning the race. Another hurdle race underway and winner poses after the race. Participants run around the track during an event.
Operation Plumbbob atomic bomb testing in Nevada, United States. A plastic balloon carries an atom bomb at the Yucca Flats proving ground. A technician at the controls with a monitor showing the image of the balloon. Engineers and newsmen wear dark glasses. An atomic explosion occurs, and a mushroom cloud is formed. Marines huddle in a trench. Helicopters in flight as they carry the marines to the site of the explosion.
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