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.
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.
Flight operations at Torokina Air Strip on Bougainville Island during World War 2. U.S. Marine First Lieutenant Marshall, and another airman stand and smoke by the tail of the bullet-riddled F4U Corsair aircraft that he just landed on Torokina airfield. The aircraft, Corsair number 25 (BuNo 17736) is from Lieutenant Marshall's unit, VMF-216. They examine the damage on the aircraft. Lt. Marshall, who suffered head injury from cockpit shrapnel is being given first aid in an army tent. Views of damage to the aircraft, including tattered wing, flaps shot up, holes in the fuselage, and huge pieces shot out of the rudder. ( This mission took place on 19 Dec 1943. After flying cover for B-24 bombers over Rabaul, Three U.S. Marine Corps F4Us flown by Capt. Lawrence 'Cloudy" Faulkner, and First Lieutenants Marshal and Guv Kemper, were surprised and engaged by 20-30 Japanese Zekes (Zeros) diving from behind clouds . Lieutenant Marshal was the sole survivor of the encounter.)
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