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Cleveland Indians at baseball spring training, Fort Myers Florida, 1941
Newsreel clip titled "Cleveland Indians Coming Along Fine at Training Camp" from baseball spring training in 1941. Players come running around corner of wooden fence. Close up of Indians manager Roger Peckinpaugh. Shots of coach talking to players, batters warming up. Close up of outfielder Hal Trosky. Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller hurls curveball at catcher Rollie Hemsley. Close up of Feller pitching. Feller throws fastball at Hemsley.
First flight of Convair XB-36 in Fort Worth, Texas
First flight of Convair XB-36, on August 8, 1946, piloted by Chief test pilot Beryl Erickson and copilot Gus Green. Air and ground crews doing extensive inspections and preflight checks of the XB-36 parked on ramp. Two of the team standing on horizontal stabilizer examining the vertical stabilizer. Tail number 213570 clearly painted on vertical stabilizer. Two Air Force personnel standing next to one of the huge single main gear tires. Engines are started and XB-36 taxis toward runway. It spins around on active runway towards direction of takeoff, and commences takeoff roll, gradually breaking ground in a shallow climb angle.
U.S. 4th Engineers troops ferry a Jeep across river at Fort Benning.
Shows four soldiers from U.S. 4th Engineers division ferry a Bantam Car or 'The jeep' across river stream..Driver carefully reverses jeep onto a tarpaulin sheet. Soldiers wrap up jeep and tie it up. Waterproofed Jeep is successfully ferried across river by troops. July 1941. (World War II period).
Visiting Latin American military officers become acquainted with firing of 155mm howitzer at Fort Sill Oklahoma.
U.S. Army Soldiers load a 155mm howitzer. Visiting Latin American officers from Chile, Columbia and Brazil, and several other nations, each take turns giving command for firing the 155mm howitzer, while the others watch. Afterwards, the visiting officers gather around U.S. Army Brigadier General Allen as he describes the gun and points out its features. The battery continues firing several rounds, which are seen exploding in the target field. (World War II period).
9th Bomb Squadron officers in their briefing room at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas
USAF flying officers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 9th Bomb Squadron, enteri their briefing room. 9th Bomb Squadron written on wall panel. Large maps on the wall. An Officer addresses the group.
U.S. President Kennedy speaks at Chamber of Commerce Breakfast meeting, in the Texas Hotel, in Fort Worth, Texas
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy accompanied by Vice President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, at Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting in the Texas Hotel, on the morning of the day that the President was assassinated. Those present include Texas Governor Connally, Senator Yarborough, Men take pictures. The officials, Chamber of Commerce members and dignitaries applaud as President Kennedy walks on the stage. The Presidential Seal is displayed on the Podium. First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, is late arriving and applauded when she does. The President and Vice President greet her. Men take pictures. The President speaks to the assembly.