P-38 Lightning aircraft of the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, at Schwimmer Field near Port Moresby, New Guinea, during World War 2. Crew chiefs attend to P-38 aircraft, some with engines running. Ground crewmen manually maneuver nose wheel using towbar. Crew chief cleans the aircraft of American Ace, Captain Richard I. Bong. His P-38, named "Marge," displays large picture of woman and 27 Japanese victory flags ( Bong having just broken Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 victories). Staff in control tower use light signals. Aerial view from airplane flying among cumulus clouds.
Bruno R Hauptmann gets electric chair sentence for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's child, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., in Flemington, New Jersey. Aerial and ground views of Lindbergh's residence and scenes of Anne Morrow Lindberh with Charles Jr. in a baby pram taking a stroll in garden before the kidnapping. Wooden ladder near the window and empty nursery. Scenes of the ransom note and the manhunt. Citizens view "Wanted" signs on street corners. Views of the ransom money. Officials arrest Hauptmann and show hideout shed and ransom money found. Crowds gathered outside courthouse. Lindbergh's enter. Kidnapper, lawyers, judges and other people in courthouse. Justice Thomas Trenchard seated in tribunal hears the lawyers statements. Jury foreman reads aloud the decision in the Hunterdon County Courthouse. Hauptmann led out of courthouse by many guards, and through large crowd gathered outside courthouse at night. Aerial and inside views of prison, cell, and empty electric chair.
White Sands Proving Ground and the Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The white drifting sand dunes. The entrance sign reads 'White Sands National Monument, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service'. A building in the premises with the American flag in the foreground. Soldier walks on the sand dunes with a gun. Tracks made by motor vehicle. Sandy desert area with a cactus bush. Soldier runs over sand dunes. Soldier throws sand out of the camera. Sign reads 'Air Material Command Alamogordo AAF Special Range'. (World War II period).
The Holloman Air force Base, first atomic bomb testing site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Base, also known as Trinity Site. Large grounds at the Base. Fused sand shows the blast region. Mountain ridges in the background. (World War II period).
The Holloman Air Force Base, site for the first atomic bomb test, known as the Trinity test, in Alamogordo, New Mexico. White sand with little vegetation. The test site surrounded by mountains. Mountain ridges and peaks. Wild horses move across the ground. (World War II period).
V-2 rocket, first ballistic missile launched at Holloman Air Force Base Alamogordo, New Mexico. View of buildings where the assembling of rockets takes place. An airman stands near the rocket on a trailer. The V-2 rocket on stand at the site. Personnel make preparations at the launching site. Calibration equipment at the launching site.
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