United States Secretary of Navy John H. Chafee on USS Saratoga in the United States. Commanding Officer of USS Saratoga Captain Warren H Oniel, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral David Richardson and another dignitary walk on the ship deck. Vice Admiral David Richardson speaks to sailors. John H Chafee dons a Mae West. He gets into a hi-line chair and is hoisted high off the deck. The Secretary of Navy is being hi-lined to a destroyer alongside USS Saratoga. A welcoming committee welcomes John H. Chafee aboard the destroyer.
Mountain troops at Camp Hale, United States Army Mountain Training Center in Colorado, United States. The mountain troops depart from Camp Hale bound for Europe in World War II. They board a passenger train powered by steam locomotive high in the Rocky Mountains. The train leaves the station. Snow covered mountains. The mountain troops in winter gear move with equipment on mules and ski on snow.
USS Liberty at a dry dock in Malta. The ship is towed towards the dock. View of the starboard beam. A civilian tug pushes directly on the bow of the ship. Buildings in the background. A dock worker, with a coil of line in his hand, waits for the ship to enter the dry dock. The dry dock worker. He looks towards the ship as it approaches in the background. Civilians lined along a seawall watch the ship being moved towards the dry dock. Several children looking down from over the high wall. Dock workers at the dock waiting for the ship to enter. They handle lines from the starboard bow of the ship. Some of the dock workers in the foreground. A man standing on the edge of the entrance to the dry dock as the ship moves in. A man looks towards a torpedo hole in the hull of the ship. Crewmen up on the deck of USS Liberty. One of the dock workers watches as the ship enters.
USS Destroyer Turner Joy 951 in the Gulf of Tonkin. The ship at sea during general quarters and performing high speed maneuvers. The star board side of Turner Joy.
USS Destroyer ship Turner Joy 951 in the Gulf of Tonkin. The bow of the ship while it is in a port turn. A carrier in the background. The stern of Turner Joy underway at a high speed. Turner Joy ship moves into a starboard turn. USS aircraft carrier ship Constellation (CVA-64).
American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh arrives aboard USS Memphis (CL-13) at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. upon his return from Europe to the United States following his pioneering trans-Atlantic solo aircraft flight. He comes down the gangplank and is greeted by a phalanx of officials. They drive Lindbergh away in an open car. Two days later, June 13, 1927, the scene shifts to New York harbor, where there is a virtual traffic jam of ships and boats of all sizes and shapes, assembled to greet Lindbergh. Fireboats salute with streams of water as Lindberg arrives (as backseat passenger) in a seaplane from Mitchel Field on Long Island. The seaplane is seen flying over the harbor,and descending to land. The seaplane is seen in the water amongst the flotilla of vessels, as. Lindbergh is picked up by a police launch that takes him to the ship Macom, where he is helped aboard by passengers. (He almost falls into the water while stepping from the launch to the ship.) Lindbergh waves from the deck of the Macom, as they proceed in a parade of vessels toward a Manhattan pier. Upon arriving, Lindbergh is hustled into an open car and driven away surrounded by New york City policemen,including mounted police, who escort the car through mobs of spectators. Police form lines to hold back enthusiastic admirers. The car proceeds along a city street where cheering spectators jam the sidewalks and office workers create a virtual storm of ticker tape and confetti from their windows high above the street.
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