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Charles Lindbergh and others review troops at Fort Amador in Panama.
Colonel Charles Lindbergh along with Major General William S Graves, Commanding General of Canal Zone, Major General Malin Craig and Brigadier General William Cruikshank review troops at United States Army base, Fort Amador in Canal Zone, Panama on January 11, 1928.
Allied aircraft lay mines in Pacific Theater during World War II.
'Aerial mine laying blockades Japanese shipping' depicts Allied preparations and Operations of the 21st Bomber Command, for aerial dropping of mines in the Pacific ocean to thwart Japanese shipping in World War 2. . Rows of stacked bombs are shown in a munitions dump at Tinian Air Base in the Mariana Islands. Camera focuses on a 2000 pound MK25 mine. Men demonstrate hydrostatic safety devices on the mine, including an extender that holds the detonator away from the booster charge until sufficiently immersed, and a clock delay mechanism. MK 25 transported to B-29 aircraft named Flak Alley Sally. (This is B-29 Number 42-24878 of the 40th Bomb Squadron, 6th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing.) Airmen attach a parachute to the end of the mine. Another inserts the detonator and its extender plus the timer device into the side of the mine. Soluble washers are then placed in arming device ports. Scene shifts to Army and Navy planners working with maps, dividers, and a Weems plotter to mark the target location and mine laying pattern. 313th Bombardment Wing Group Commanders are seen being briefed in a war room. Next, engines are seen starting on a B-29, that then takes off and is seen in flight.(Narrator notes that missions are flown at night, but this one is photographed in the day to show how it is done. View of B-29 cruising above clouds. View from inside the aircraft, of bomb bay slowly opening. View of the target area below. The parachute of a mine opens by a static line as it falls from the bomb bay. Scene shifts to water level closeup of a mine striking the water. ('Presumably a demonstration inserted here.) Final scene shows a Navy Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger torpedo bomber dropping a parachute equipped mine. in the same location.
Blohm and Voss Bv 138 German float plane takes off and flies over a German convoy in the North Sea.
Nazi seaplane patrols the North Sea. A sketch of the German Blohm and Voss Bv 138 floatplane. A BV 138 seaplane takes off, by catapult, from a base in the North Sea. Views of aircraft in flight. Observer-gunner uses binoculars to observe area. Pilot and copilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. Plane in flight over German ships in the North Sea. Views from the BV 138 flying over ships putting up smoke screens.
German reconnaissance plane takes off on Eastern front during World War II. German forces mount offensive with heavy weapons.
German offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II. Nazi officers look at a map and discuss plans for attack on Soviet positions. A German reconnaissance plane takes off from an air base. German Stug III Assault Gun being re-armed. Nazi soldiers loaded on Panther tanks advance, with a Sdkfz.251halftrack in Kursk markings, to the battle field. SS commander in Sdkfz.222 armored car. Pz.IV tank of 2.Pz.Div. with skirts in village. Heavy firing takes place. StuH42 105mm artillery mounted on tank fired. Explosions occur and smoke rises.
American Expeditionary Forces soldiers show techniques for coping with gas attacks
Several soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) are seen moving through a trench, carrying supplies to their sector. Snow is on the ground all around the trench. Suddenly they stop and don their gas masks. The sit down in the trench as a gas cloud comes over them. Scene changes to a group of soldiers digging defenses at the base of a earthen berm. A lookout sentry standing above them sees a gas cloud headed their way and alerts everyone. All stop what they are doing, don their gas masks, and take up positions to better observe. Some remain behind the berm and other stand upon it. The next sequence illustrates the use of Ayrton fans to clear gas from a trench. Soldiers waving the fans move, one behind the other, low in a deep trench. In the next scene, drifting gas partially obscures a dugout entrance in a trench. A soldier, uses an Ayrton fan to dispel the gas. In the final scene, soldiers in gas masks are in firing positions in a trench. A gas cloud appears to have dissipated. One soldier removes his gas mask make sure it is safe, and then tells the others, who remove their masks and stow them away. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Construction of first Boeing Model 717 (KC-135) U.S. Air Force military jet tanker, at Renton, Washington. USA
The first U.S. Air Force jet tanker prototype being assembled in the Boeing Renton plant in Washington, USA. Like the Boeing 707, Its design is based on the Boeing Model 367-80 ("Dash 80"). But it is smaller, overall, than the 707, has a narrower, windowless fuselage, different cockpit window configuration, etc. Engineers are seen looking at design drawings placed on a wing. A worker climbs partway out of cockpit window.. A woman works on an engine nacelle. Several views of the plant interior with all activity concentrated on construction of this single aircraft.
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