Refine Your Search

Dayton Ohio USA 1947 stock footage and images

- Showing 11527 to 11532 of 25603 results
U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal arrives by a C-54 aircraft in Honolulu, Hawaii.

A U.S. C-54 transport aircraft approaching Honolulu to land, with faint rainbow visible behind it. The aircraft lands and taxis in with outboard engines shut down, to the Military Air Transport Terminal on the airfield. An anchor and four stars on field of blue are displayed below the pilot's window. The aircraft parks and sailors quickly form an honor guard as the cabin door opens. Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, wearing a tropical pith helmet, steps from the airplane and is greeted by Rear Admiral John Towers and other officers. Secretary Forrestal is accompanied by Admiral Towers across the tarmac to a waiting car. He stops briefly to converse with Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, before he and Admiral Towers enter the car.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059734
Tennis champion, Bobbie Riggs, demonstrates, to a sailor, the correct way to hold a tennis racquet

Demonstration of how to grip a tennis racquet, on tennis court of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in Waikiki, Hawaii. Tennis champion, Bobby Riggs,demonstrates the way to grip the tennis racket. A sailor watches and listens to his instructions. ( Note: Bobbie Riggs won the Wimbledon singles, doubles and mixed doubles championship in 1939.)

Date: 1945, August 29
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059779
United States Navy sailors at separation center as they demobilize after World War II, in California,United States.

United States sailors being demobilized in California, United States after World War II. Sailors gathered outside a building at Camp Shoemaker. Cars drive past them in the foreground. A sign reads 'Separation Center incoming draft'. Another sign reads 'incoming dischargees report here'. A bus arrives and sailors get off the bus. A sign reads ' Receipt section'. The sailors lined up at the counter.

Date: 1945, October 19
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059792
Students learn to draw and work on equipment in the United States.

Students in the United States. Boys in a classroom as they learn and practice sending morse code messages by keyed radio signals. Students learn architectural drafting. They use pencils and triangles, among other drafting tools.

Date: 1923
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059828
Ships being built and launched in the United States; Steel titan Charles M. Schwab at a launching.

Ship building in the United States. A shipyard worker drills holes in steel plate of a ship. Another worker welds a section of steel. People gathered in large number for the launching of two ships. Charles M. Schwab of the shipping board addresses gathering of shipyard workers and guests, at the launching of a ship. (Steel titan Schwab was then the Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a Congressionally appointed board over all shipbuilding in the United States). American flags in the background. Ship is launched and moves slowly down the ways.

Date: 1923
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059829
Captain of U.S.Battleship reads orders. USS Arkansas steams under Brooklyn Bridge in NY

Crew is assembled in formation on deck of a U.S. Nevada Class battleship as the Captain reads his orders. Triple guns in turret are visible in foreground. In unrelated scene, likely viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York City, the USS Arkansas (BB-33) is being assisted by numerous tug boats as it makes its way out to sea. Final scene shows sailors feeding their pet goat (mascot) aboard a U.S. Naval vessel. (Ford Motor Company, 1923)

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059830