Sailors work to extinguish final fires aboard USS Enterprise following massive fire triggered by detonation of a MK-32 Zuni rocket attached to an F-4 Phantom. Firemen with fire hoses near the ship's island. Smoke covers the deck area. Men hold fire hoses and stand in the water on the deck
Gulf of Tonkin,Vietnam. USS Forrestal (CV-59) following a massive fire due to electrical malfunction and detonation of a Zuni rocket. Ruins of damaged F-4B Phantoms and other aircraft scattered all over the deck area. Sailors appear exhausted. They survey damage and walk among ruins. Men with forklifts clear the debris from all over the flight deck area. Men walk through the remains and fire hoses spread all over the deck area. A sailor carries a fire axe.
Front entrance to Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A car entering the base as the guard salutes. F-4D Phantom Flight crew from the USAF 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing check in at the operations desk. They display the Black Sheep logo patch of the 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron on their flight suits. After signing in, they enter a briefing room where others are assembled. The Squadron Commander, a Lieutenant Colonel, briefs them on the planned "Crested Cap II" deployment route, to their NATO dual base, at Ramstein, Germany. He points out the flight path across the U.S. and across the Atlantic to Europe, on a map that also depicts places where refueling aircraft will be orbiting over the ocean. Views of the air crews putting on anti-exposure suits and equipment.
Aviator Charles Lindberg in Paris after his trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh honored at a dinner attended by the distinguished men of France. The guests seated at a table. Lindbergh's plane 'Spirit of St Louis' parked in the background. Guests including French President Gaston Doumergue. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick bids farewell to Lindbergh. Men prepare his plane for the flight. A large crowd looks on as his plane taxiing at Le Bourget aerodrome (Paris-Le Bourget Airport, Rue de Prague, Zone Aviateurs, Le Bourget, F-93350). The Spirit of St. Louis takes off for Brussels, Belgium.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh prepares to leave for Mexico. Lindbergh with Speaker Nicholas Longworth and other dignitaries after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. Lindbergh shakes hands with Longworth. He talks to Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation F Trubee Davison seated in the rear cockpit at Bolling Field. Lindbergh and an officer study the route to Mexico City.
Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, wife of the Governor of Wisconsin, holds a bottle of champagne, preparing to christen the battleship, USS Wisconsin (BB-64). Rear Admiral, M.F.Draemel, Commandant of the Navy Yard advises her how to swing the bottle and then steps away so Governor Goodland can stand next to Mrs. Goodland for photographs
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