View from Douglas Island looking across Gastineau Channel at the city of Juneau nestled at the foot of Mount Juneau (left) and Mount Roberts (right). At the time (1954) Juneau was the Capital of the Territory of Alaska. (Note: Gastineau Channel is a part of the "Inside Passage" of SE Alaska, a naturally protected waterway of the North Pacific Ocean.)
USS Midway CVA-41 at sea in Vietnam. A-4C takes off from the flight deck of USS Midway. Officer seated in a chair on a bridge, looks through window watching aircraft catapult. Pilot seated in the cockpit of F-8E on the deck. Officer reads from a type written sheet of paper. UH-2B lands on flight deck. Crewman sleeps on tool boxes next to Island.
Two ordnance men stand at bomb elevator aboard USS Constellation in North Vietnam. The elevator comes to flight deck level with bombs on a bomb cart. Ordnance men, one backing off with a bomb cart loaded with bombs. Man walks backwards over flight deck with two bombs on a bomb cart. AO backs off elevator with two bombs on a bomb cart. He wheels the cart over flight deck toward the aircraft. Bull pup attached under wing of an A-4C plane. A man in red shirt off to left and other men under wing of aircraft. The man in red shirt pulls on a bomb cart. Three bombs on pylon under A-4C. Bomb carts on flight area next to island ready for loading aboard aircraft. AO wheels two bombs. Red shirt man under wing of an aircraft. AO works with two bombs. Bombs and rockets on pylon. Men work around aircraft F4B, getting it ready for flight. Box on bomb cart loaded with fuses. AO wheels box. Two AO hoist up a section of the rocket pod and secure it to the rack. AO wheels up two bombs. AO works around under wing of aircraft. AO with his red shirt tied around his waist, working over after section of port engine. Flight deck area shows tractors moving about. Two F-4B planes stationary in the background. A-3B in the background. AO with a belt of 2Omm ammo walks.
Saluting battery fires a salute to President Chiang Kai Shek. Vice Admiral Thomas Moorer (COMCARDIV Five), Chiang Kai Shek, Madam Chiang Kai Shek and party walk off elevator into hangar bay of aircraft carrier. Vice Admiral Moorer with Chiang Kai Shek inside hangar. President's flag. The Republic of China's flag flying from mast; the U.S. flag off to left. Port side of U.S. Navy ship USS Constellation (CVA-64) shows deck loaded with aircraft. The ship at anchor. Around port side of ship, showing a party on flight deck beside island structure. Many aircraft parked on stern area of flight deck. Helicopter arrives on flight deck, bringing Chiang Kai Shek aboard. Saluting battery fires a salute.
Opening scene shows Chiang Kai-Shek standing next to U.S. Vice Admiral Thomas Moorer aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Constellation. They are both saluting, as are other officers at various positions on the flight deck. Next, Admiral Moorer is seen standing next to Madame Chang Kai-Shek as officers are still seen saluting on the flight deck. Closeup of a Navy Captain standing with Madam Chiang Kai-Shek next to a USMC HMM-163 Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse helicopter. She holds a parasol matching her blue outfit. Officers on the flight deck are still saluting in military ceremony. Vice Admiral Moorer and other senior U.S.Naval officers stand and salute with Chiang Kai-shek and a military aide. Another view of ship's company saluting on the flight deck. A brass band of sailors is assembled near the ship's island, in front of a Douglas A-3 Sky warrior aircraft. Camera pans across the flight deck where Admiral Moorer and Chiang Kai-Chek are saluting in a flag ceremony. Numerous other officers are also participating. Chiang Kai-Shek walks through a line of U.S. sailors on a cursory inspection. Next, his aide helps him to don a life vest, and Admiral Moorer shakes hands with him and salutes as he sees him off, boarding the marine UH-34D helicopter. The helicopter takes off. Admiral Moorer strolls along the flight deck with Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, while an attendant shields her from the sun with her parasol. The formal ceremonies having finished, Officers stroll the flight deck and observe a Terrier Missile being raised into firing position from below the flight deck. Republic of China officials, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, walk about,l informally across the ship's deck. They then ride an elevator section of the deck down to another part of the carrier. Officers pose, lined up in front of a line of A-3 Sky warrier aircraft with wings folded. The Marine helicopter returns and lands, bringing Chiang Kai-Shek back on the Constellation, where he is formally greeted, again. He inspects a Marine guard of honor.
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. Wrecker truck and other vehicles on the runway. Mechanics on hoist, work to remove engines of a B-29 bomber which crashed while take off. One mechanic sets the hoist at right position beneath a wing of the bomber. Another mechanic on hoist tries to get the belts of hoists.
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