Bombardment of Tinian, Mariana Islands by the U.S. Navy during the Battle of Tinian in World War II. A 14 inch gun, aboard the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, is fired. Smoke from the firing in the foreground. The destroyer USS Braine, DD-630, transferring wounded to the USS New Mexico, after being hit by a shore battery, killing three and wounding fifteen. A litter with blankets and sheets is sent to the destroyer by a high line. Wounded are transferred on litters from the destroyer to the battleship.
Wounded from the destroyer, USS Braine (DD-630) being transferred on Stokes Stretcher, to the USS New Mexico, during the Marianas campaign of World War 2. Wounded on stretcher, being lowered onto deck of the battleship, USS New Mexico (BB-40) and carried to sickbay. Ship's medical officer being transferred to the USS Braine on a breeches buoy.
American scientist Robert H. Goddard tests a rocket in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1930s. Title card “United States Marine Corps”. Program host, Dennis James, introduces. Early rocket launchpad built in 1927 by American scientist Robert H. Goddard. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants unload a rocket at their test site located in Roswell, New Mexico. Robert H. Goddard demonstrates an early gyroscope used for automatic stabilization. Assistants securing the rocket into the launchpad. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants watch the rocket from the observation shed during ignition. Distant view of rocket as it shoots straight up to 7500 feet in the 1930s. Robert H. Goddard and his assistants examine rocket and parachute after landing.
Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, Mexico. His study room at his house in Mexico City where death attempt on Leon Trotsky was made. Things in the room and the study table disturbed by the attempt. The killer Ramón Mercader lay injured at a hospital in San Francisco, California.
View of the Galveston Habor,Texas,Gulf of Mexico. African American workers carry cotton and put them onto conveyer belts to load into ships. 1935
Picture of Johann Heinrich Graf Von Bernstorff and his wife. He was the German ambassador to the United Nations and Mexico from 1908 -1917. Huge crowd gathered on the road. Two officers talking amongst themselves. United States soldiers stand holding a banner that states 'The stars and the Stripes forever'.