Flight of DH-4 biwing bombers aloft in loose formation. Group of observers behind battery of antiaircraft artillery firing at sleeve target towed by aircraft. shells bursting behind the sleeve target. Batteries of machine guns being fired at "toy" balloons. Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, with another officer, smiles as he points at the single bullet hole sustained by sleeve target after having been fired at by batteries of antiaircraft artillery and machine guns.
Slate says "After Jack saw a South Sea Island picture made near Fort Lauderdale, the effect startled his whole family." View of a sandy beach. A young boy enters the frame dressed in a girl's hula costume with grass skirt, lei, and flowers in his hair, as if he is from Hawaii. He dances a hula dance on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
Manager and several persons enter Suite Eight Fifty in Hotel Texas (815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102, United States) in Fort Worth, Texas, where President and Mrs. Kennedy stayed the night of November 21, 1963 (the night before the President's assassination). Brass plate on door says: "Suite Eight Fifty." Women clean a table and the manager supervises them. A painting on the wall. A photographer takes still flash pictures. A woman cleans the bed. She puts a bed cover on the bed. The official inspects the work done by the women. A close view of the painting on the wall. A view of a drawing room.
WW2-evacuated children in German at a Hitler Youth camp. Teenage boys in swimming trunks head to Chiemsee lake in Chieming, Bavaria, Germany. The three teenagers talk and shake hands before joining a mock naval flotilla. Hitler Youth boys begin rowing and paddling boats. A Hitler Youth boy plays drums on one of the boats. Two German boys from another Hitler Youth group on a boat notice the flotilla. The two boys head back to shore to warn other boys. German boy climbs a tree to call a teenager standing on top of the tree. Teenager uses binoculars to watch the mock flotilla. Boys head to a Hitler Youth straw fort to raise alarm. Hitler Youth boys assume prone position in front of the straw fort. Mock flotilla heads towards lakeshore. Hitler Youth boys on boats push a swimming boy’s head under the water. Boy swims towards a boat and knocks the rower out. Boy takes over the boat. Boy on boat dives into the water. Another boy snatches the paddle from a boat rower, taking the boy from the boat into the water. Boys tackle and wrestle each other during a mock battle in the lake. More reinforcements run to the lake to overpower mock flotilla. Boys with ladder on raft lower their mast and wade to the shore. Hitler Youth boys wrestle in mock combat on lakeside. Groups of German boys tackling each other roughly. Some of the boys bring an improvised ladder sneak away from the brawl, climbing up the straw fort and cheering. Boys inside the fort opens the gate and run. A single sig rune (emblem of the Hitler Youth) adorns some flags. Hitler Youth boys standing behind an enclosure watch the fighting. Hitler Youth boys climb a straw wall and pull the guard away. "Captured" Hitler Youth boys in enclosure are rescued while another boy takes the Hitler Youth flag inside the fort. A Hitler Youth teenager waves their flag on top of the straw fort, showing they have captured the opposing fort. Hitler Youth groups stop their mock battle and begin to cheer.
An outline of U.S. military canal defense and base security requirements and future requirements regarding proposed canal relocations in Panama. A U.S. officer conducts a JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) briefing in the United States. Maps of the Canal Zone and Panama shows military installations, communications facilities and training areas. An officer points out Quarry Heights, Fort Amador, Howard AFB, Fort Kobbe, Rodman Naval Air Station and Fort Clayton on the map of Panama. An aerial photograph of Quarry Heights which will provide operational support for United States Southern Command Headquarters. An aerial picture of a bridge in Panama City and Quarry Heights in the background. Aerial photographs of Bridge of the Americas, Albrook AFB, Rodman Naval Station, Howard AFB and Fort Amador. An officer briefs. Maps of Fort Sherman and Galeta Island. Aerial photographs of Fort Sherman and Galeta Island.
Operation New Life and Operation New Arrival in the United States at the end of the Vietnam War. A building in a receiving area of Fort Indiantown Gap (FIG) near Jonestown, Pennsylvania. A sign board near the building reads: 'US Army Task Force New Arrivals Receiving Station'. Members of the 401st Personnel Service Company lining up in formation. Troops and Women's Army Corps (WACs) enter the building to prepare for the arrival of Vietnamese refugees. Members being briefed by an officer. Officer explains the use of paper forms. Soldiers and WACs listen. Officer addresses them. Members look at the forms. I believe the date this was shot was in late April we were there to stock all of the building before the refugees arrived. These solders and WACs were flown in from Ft. Carson. That day the fort was nearly a banded maybe 25 regular stationed there until our plane landed. We stocked every barracks with everything from tooth brushes, toilet paper to sheet and blankets. In a couple weeks we changed a ghost town into a town of about 30,000 people. I was in the second platoon front line next to the shortest WACs in the army.