A training film of the U.S. Navy in the United States. Facilities available at Navy Port Terminals like internal rail system, wide roads, huge warehouses, open storage spaces, motorized mobile cranes and gantry cranes. Rail cars go in a hangar. Mail packed and freight placed.
Views, from observation boat, of Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat,as it taxis in the water during engine startup, beginning with the inboard engines. The flying boat is photographed as it accelerates to flying speed and then as it maneuvers in the water after completing its short flight.
Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat taxiing on two inboard engines in water moments before its maiden flight. A ship in the background and a Sikorsky R-4B Luzon helicopter ("Hoverfly") in flight in the background. The aircraft starts all eight engines, accelerates toward flying speed and her hull rises in the water as she approaches lift off on maiden flight.
Former White House Counsel John Dean testifies in front of the Senate-Watergate Committee hearings, Washington DC. View of Senator Daniel Inouye from Hawaii. Former Counsel Dean sitting in the court speaks about his meetings with various other persons convicted in the Watergate scandal beginning with events of February 9. Members of the Committee during John Dean's testimony. The house breaks into laughter on some of his revealing. Dean presents the time line of important discussions with other counsels regarding the hearings.
United States Navy ship salvage activities at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Harbor tug USS Geronimo (YTM-119) and another tug moving the USS Califonia (BB-44) to Drydock number 2, a month after she was successfully refloated. Repair crews watch from her decks as tugs move the battleship. (World War II period).
Launching of the United States Navy cruise missile Regulus from United States Navy submarine USS Tunny (SS-282) in California, United States. The United States Navy Gato-class submarine USS Tunny gets underway in the Pacific Ocean and moves out of Port Hueneme, California. Tunny submerges in water. Aboard the submarine, missile men check the umbilical cable and electronic check out cable being plugged in. The missile circuits being energized. Men work on controls. Various automatic functions being checked. A man takes down readings as he monitors the results. The Commanding Officer at the periscope as he checks the launch area. Ignitors being installed in the booster. The missile being buttoned up and the umbilical cable being disconnected inside the hangar. A navigator checks the position. The USS tunny comes on the water surface. Hangar doors open and Regulus missile emerges from the hangar. Men on the deck in the foreground. Umbilical cable used for pre-umbilical launch check. The wings of the Regulus being unfolded and locked. External fuel being attached to the missile for warm up before take off. An air eject system being connected to detach umbilical cable. A black reflector shield being fitted out. Launcher being elevated to the firing position. Final checks being made. The umbilical cable ejects and missile being launched. USS Tunny submerges in water. Men at controls in the missile room. Radar and radio antennas aboard USS Tunny break through the water surface. A plot being maintained on the position of Tunny. A missile guidance officer guides men as they work on a plot.
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