Training of U.S. midshipmen aboard aircraft carrier USS America underway at sea in Istanbul, Turkey. Several aircraft parked at the flight deck. Midshipman J. F. Higgins and Lieutenant junior grade C. C. Parish inspect a U.S. Navy F-4B Phantom aircraft. The pilot moves around the nose to the starboard side of the aircraft. He explains something to the midshipman during a preflight check of the aircraft. The pilot and the midshipman move down the starboard side. Men explain about the tail portion of the aircraft to the midshipman. The midshipman stands behind the tail pipe of the aircraft. He climbs up the side of the aircraft and into the cockpit. The pilot explains about the cockpit area to the midshipman. The midshipman then climbs into the cockpit. The pilot stands along side the cockpit as he watches the midshipman securing himself into a seat. The pilot gives the midshipman check out of the cockpit area. He assists the midshipman as he secures himself into a seat in the cockpit. The pilot in the flight gear climbs up into the cockpit. He hooks up an intercom for the midshipman. The midshipman dons his helmet. The pilot explains to the midshipman.
USS Ticonderoga in the Gulf of Tonkin. A U.S. Navy A-3B Skywarrior aircraft lands on the flight deck of the carrier ship. A U.S. Navy E-1B Tracer aircraft lands and taxis forward to right. A U.S. Navy F-8E Crusader aircraft lands on the deck. A U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk aircraft lands and taxis forward. The A-4E aircraft takes wave off over the deck of the ship. A U.S. F-8E aircraft lands on the deck. The A-4E lands on the flight deck of the carrier ship. (Vietnam War period.)
Company F of the1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Army, initiates a new soldier in Tampa, Florida. A group of men bounces a recruit up and down on a blanket. Nineteen times he bounces on the blanket. This is an initiative by Company F of the 1st Ohio Volunteers during the Spanish-American War to welcome a new recruit to their unit. (Edison Company, 1898)
A swearing in ceremony in the United States. New Secretary of State James F. Byrnes being sworn into office by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. The oath of office being administered to Secretary Byrnes. President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with Byrnes. U.S. representative in the United Nations Edward Stettinius greets Secretary Byrnes. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs the World Security Charter. Signatures of representatives of different nations on the charter.
French Marshal Philipppe Petain in France. French airmen lined up at an airfield. A Farman F.220 bomber takes off and flies past the military assembly. Marshal Petain reviews the troops. French Farman F.220 bomber aircraft parked in the background. An officer being decorated at a ceremony. The troops march past the reviewing party.
United States Navy F-18 Hornet aircraft aboard a ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean. An F-18A aircraft being moved onto an elevator. The aircraft being raised to the flight deck. A pilot gets in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis on the flight deck to a catapult for a hook up. It taxis along the deck and takes off.
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