Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat, in water at a port in California,United States Howard Hughes is seen on platform in top hatch of the flying boat, communicating by radio. Ship underway in the background.. A helicopter in flight overhead. View from inside through window shows engines starting , beginning with inboards and working outward until all 8 are running. Howard Hughes inside the cockpit at the controls. Engineers and technicians are also seen and a copilot in the right seat of the cockpit. Hughes speaks on radio and then removes his headset and looks around.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. A United states B-26 aircraft in flight. F-86 aircraft on an airfield with jet engines. United States F-86 D aircraft. X-1 plane takes off at supersonic speed. Men dressed in protective clothing fuel X-1 aircraft, one of them stands under a shower to wash away rocket fuel from protective clothing. X-1 aircraft in area near rocket fuel stands at Muroc Air force Base in California. X-1 in flight, nose and wheels down as it prepares to land. Martin Matador, a guided missile launched, missile in flight. A document titled ' Nuclear Powered Aircraft' stamped as ' Top Secret' A mosaic of five scenes showing F-59 As diving in low, Matador launched, X-1 aircraft in flight and F-86 D stationary. A top secret document titled ' Nuclear Powered air craft'
Major events of the year 1951. Republican Party nominees Robert Taft, Senator of Ohio and Earl Warren, Governor of California begin their preparations for the 1952 Presidential elections in United States. They address a press conference. Eisenhower remains silent on the issue. President Harry S Truman while addressing the Women's National Democratic Committee refuses to reveal the name of Democratic candidate for Presidential elections.
Shows Milton S Eisenhower speaking about the threat posed by Nisei or Japanese American people in United States during World War II. Japanese residents along the west coast have direct access to American oil fields and harbors. Views of harbors with boats and ships. This heightens the need to migrate the Nisei to interiors of America. Commander General of Western Command at his office plans the migration (internment) of Nisei people. Signs and notice banners with headlines "Civilian Exclusion Order number 6" and "Instructions to all persons of Japanese Ancestry." The signs inform the people of the compulsory mass migration. Nisei people fill up documents and submit it to war relocation authority. People undergo medical examination. They sell their property through 'Evacuee property department'. Japanese load their belongings onto trucks and buses. Deserted shops and homes of Japanese Americans. Rows of temporary houses at Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, California. People of Japanese ancestry eat in a large dining hall and attend church service. Men prepare houses for the Nisei. Japanese Americans boarding railroad trains at train stations, and boarding buses to be moved to relocation centers (internment centers).
Franklin D Roosevelt's early political life. Delegates elect Franklin D Roosevelt as the Vice Presidential candidate at Democratic convention in San Francisco, California. Crowds cheer the decision. A smiling female delegate. The woman political activist cheering enthusiastically. Democratic Presidential candidate James Cox stands with Vice-Presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt as they review a parade in San Francisco from a bandstand. Views of a parade in Marion, Ohio supporting the democratic ticket. Sign says "We're Here Jim, We're Marion." Bands play at the rally and women political activists also march at the parade, wearing "Marion" sashes. Scene changes to show Franklin D Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, with her children and a dog at her home. Roosevelt at various public meetings and rallies campaigns for the elections. Franklin D Roosevelt at his home in New York with his mother. He meets a number of visitors.
Training of America's fliers, at start of World War 2. Brief scene of Congress in session. A Link trainer in motion at Randolph Field, Texas. Line of training planes with engines running, at the Advanced Flying School, Kelly Field, Texas. (Aircraft 33 & 34 are AT-6s, and the rest in the line-up are earlier BC-1s.) A Northrop A-17 taxiing on the tarmac, at March Field, California. Several views of B-17s taking off.
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