Rear Admiral A S Merrill talks about target illumination and recognition of Commander Task Force 39 during the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay. Enemy drop star shells. He talks about the speed ships should maintain, the accessibility of CIC to the Captain and planning a tactical plot. (World War II period).
Chicago police officials burn a quarter-million dollars worth of packaged heroin, opium, marijuana in Chicago, Illinois. Officials mound captured illegal drugs into a pile. They display paraphernalia including pipes and needles that are used by addicts. Police officers inspect pipes. They pour liquid fuel over the drugs and ignite it on fire. The pile of narcotics going up in flames.
Picketing demonstrators clash with police at textile workers strike during the Great Depression. Pickets march outside the Knitting Mill in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Police fire huge quantities of tear gas. A picket sign is held by a police officer.
Pilot Jim Ray lands with his aerobile Autogiro (early helicopter) at a street in Washington DC, United States. Jim Ray folds Autogiro's wings and drives it on the road with vehicles following him. View of the U.S. Capitol in the background.
A reversible aircraft propeller tested at Burbank, California. Demonstration of airplane screw with varying pitch, permits plane to back up, climb at greater angles and come to short stops after landing. Man gives a flag signal. View of the biplane aircraft taking off and landing. On landing it comes to a quick stop and immediately into a brisk reverse back toward a hangar.
Pan Am Clipper technical advisor, Colonel Charles A Lindbergh, pilots 32-passenger Sikorsky S-42 Flying Boat during test flight. S-42 Pan Am Clipper aircraft on land just before test at Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It was built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation in Stratford, Connecticut. View of Charles Lindbergh on land before flight. View from land or nearby ship as the passenger aircraft takes off with boats sailing in the background. Aircraft just above water surface. Juan Trippe, founder of Pan America World Airways, and Charles Lindbergh seated in passenger cabin. Colonel Charles Lindbergh in cockpit at controls, inside aircraft cockpit during flight. Aerial view of Sikorsky S-42 flying boat in flight.
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