Flight deck operations aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in Korean War Theater. United States Navy bomber aircraft AD-1 Skyraider taxis on flight deck of aircraft carrier. Crew members stand on the flight deck. U.S. fighter aircraft F4U Corsair on flight deck with folded wings. The planes take off. Planes in flight.
Flight deck operations aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in Korean War Theater. United States fighter aircraft F4U Corsair lands on flight deck. U.S. bomber aircraft AD-1 Skyraider waved off. A man operates phone with speakers. He checks planes' numbers on windows with pencil. Planes land on flight deck. A helicopter hovers over flight deck prior to landing.
Merchant Marine officers who need to join their ship, leave dock on a Egyptian launch that takes them out to their ship, in Port Said, Egypt. (The launch flies an Egyptian flag design in use from 1922 through 1953.) When the officers arrive at their ship, deckhands lower a rope ladder and the officers climb aboard. View of steamship, SS Aeolia, underway. (This ship, launched as the Stuyvesant 1918, was acquired in 1950 and named, Aeolia, by Cia Naviera del Atlantica of Panama. It was managed for them by the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus.) Back of a sailor as boat he is on passes a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal.. Views waters around Port Said with palm trees along shore and commercial shipping traffic in the waters.
Refugees support and protection activities in Europe after World War II . A locomotive moves on track at a seaport. Ships seen in the background. A banner on a ship reads 'International Refugee Organization'. The refugees move with their luggage and belongings. A man with a prosthesis lower right leg walks on a balance beam. Young men with missing limbs are seated on benches, and throw large exercise balls back and forth. A man reads an announcement that the International Refugee Organization (IRO) is closing. A meeting chaired by Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the organization that replaced the IRO).
Activities at a vocational training center in Europe. A woman hands certificates of completion to a man and a woman at a Refugee vocational training school. Sign on building wall reads 'vocational training center'. Men and boys enter the building. Men and boys work with machinery and equipment. Older women work separating extruded plastic parts. An older man smooths metal objects with a file and grinding wheel. An old woman consults with a counselor. Exterior of refugee apartment building, with laundry drying on fire escapes. Children play and swing in playground, while old people watch.
Volcano 'Hibok-Hibok' erupts in the Camiguin island of Philippines and claims lives of approximately two thousand natives. The fuming volcano and rivers of magma as seen from a flying plane. Natives evacuated nearby villages move in trucks and by other means. Remains of a Nipa hut (Bahay Kubo) after it was destroyed by lava. A man pokes at molten ash. Burnt dead bodies of animals and humans. Medics treat the injured in Mahinog hospital.