Animated illustration of rapid improvements in GE jet engine designs. Views of the GE plant at Lockland, Ohio. Interior of a jet passenger liner airplane, as envisioned in 1951. View of flight attendant or stewardess in uniform, delivering tray of food to a passenger in the cabin of an aircraft in flight. View of Dr. Sanford A. Moss, standing in front of the Collier Trophy, looking at his award certificate, in 1941. The trophy was awarded to him and the U.S. Army Air Corps for development of the aircraft engine supercharger. Discussion of Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Air Force, General Electric and Convair ideas about building an atomic powered airplane. Views of the GE gas turbine laboratory. Montage of jet aircraft of the early 1950s. Among those seen are: Convair SF-92 delta wing fighter plane; The Chase XCG-20A 4-engine cargo plane; North American F-86 sabrejet; Grumman F9F panther; F-89 Scorpion; and B-36 bomber, plus several unidentified experimental aircraft. Several scenes of B-47s in rocket assisted takeoffs.
Corntones Blood Donation Show at AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) Radio Studio in Tokyo, Japan. Lieutenant Bill Glaza reads from a paper and introduces the Corn Tones. The Corntones play music and sing a song. Bill Glaza speaks into a microphone and the band leader Lieutenant Dickinson introduces his group.
Corn Tones Blood Donation Show at AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) Radio Studio in Tokyo, Japan. The Corn Tones play music and sing a song. Members of the Corn Tones who are the Signal Corps Officers introduce themselves. They play their own song called 'Heartbreak Ridge'. The song is about a wounded man who is spotted by the medics on the Heartbreak Ridge, brought in and given a transfusion that saves his life. Lieutenant Bill Glaza signs off stating that this show commemorates National Blood Donor Campaign. He makes a final appeal for blood donation.
Corn Tones Blood Donation Show at AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) Radio Studio in Tokyo, Japan. The Corn Tones play music and sing a song. Members of the Corn Tones who are the Signal Corps play their own song called 'Heartbreak Ridge'. The song is about a wounded man who is spotted by the medics on Heartbreak Ridge, brought in and given a transfusion that saves his life. Lieutenant Bill Glaza signs off stating that this show commemorates National Blood Donor Campaign. He makes a final appeal for blood donation.
A U.S. mine sweep boat operation in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Wonsan in Korea. Mine sweep boats underway immediately after backing out of an LSD-16 (Landing Ship Dock). A mine sweep boat backs out of the LSD-16. The mine sweep boats hook onto the magnetic tail. Boats in sweep formation. A boat pulls the magnetic tail through the water. A smoking ship in the background. The boat pulls the magnetic tail through the water. The coast in the background.
A U.S. mine sweep boat operation in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Wonsan in Korea. Two men of Underwater Demolition Team padding in a rubber boat toward a mine sweep boat. Men aboard a craft as they put a pig or a marking buoy over the side of the craft. A man puts a depressor over the side. A United States destroyer underway as it fires at the coast. A large spray of water in the foreground as the destroyer continues to fire in the background.