Draft and mobilization activities for WWI in 1918. Decorated floats, band, German and Hungarian citizens march in a parade in New York City, United States. Men carry American flags and banners that read 'Born in Germany made in America' in the parade to support draft under selective service system.
United States sailors stand on the stern of USS Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) tied up at the dock on its commissioning day. Name of the carrier on the stern of the ship. Sailors stand on the flight deck of the ship as they wave. People board the carrier as they climb up a ladder. Secretary of Navy, James Forrestal and Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D Roosevelt's wife, on the carrier. Crowd on the dock waves. President Harry S Truman and party stand at attention. Navy Captain speaks at the microphone and salutes. President Harry S Truman speaks over the microphone. Eleanor Roosevelt, large crowd. An officer salutes and dignitaries shake hands with President Harry S Truman. Sailors on flight deck of the ship. They wave to fleet at anchor in the New York river during presidential review of the Fleet on Navy Day.
The United States aircraft carrier ship Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York, United States. A dirigible flies overhead. The United States ships Midway (CVA-41), Augusta (CA-31), Boise (CL-47) and Leary (DDR-879) in the Hudson River. Guns firing salute on the United States ship midway (CVA-41) as smoke rises. Ships underway with buildings in the background. Various units of fleet down the Hudson River channel. Sailors on board a ship.. Navy Fleet Review. (World War II period).
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York City, United States. A dirigible flies overhead. Ships of the U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson Riverj. . A dirigible flies overhead. The USS Macon (CA-132) fires salutes. Guns on United States Enterprise (CVS-6) fire salutes, with sailors lined up on the flight deck. Dirigible flies overhead. Ships of U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson River. A bridge in the background. (World War II period).
Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.
Shows the first atomic bomb explosion in history, on July 16, 1945, resulting from the work of the Manhattan Project. Atomic bomb tested at an experimental station in New Mexico, United States. Bomb explodes and a mushroom cloud forms, seen from cameras 6 miles away. Smoke and fire emerges. (World War II period).
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