Crew aboard U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677), load and practice firing at a floating target. Crew fires deck guns, launches torpedoes and depth charges, and fires "hedge hog" bomb clusters. Shells hit water surface and explode. Aerial view of large explosions in water. (World War II period).
Ground targets attacked by U.S. aircraft on 11th April 1944 in World War II. Aircraft of 8th Fighter Command is piloted by Lieutenant D.E. Schoenfeldt of 357th Squadron. Aircraft strafes a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber stationary on airfield.
Project Cirrus, in the Netherlands, 1951. Film is devoted to views of Norwegian air crews and their de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft, posing where they are encamped at an airfield in the Netherlands. Camera pans over parked aircraft an shows closeup of markings of Norwegian Squadron 336 on aircraft fuselage. A pilot poses, looking skyward, in opened cockpit of his plane. He wears a helmet with goggles raised atop it and his oxygen mask dangling below it. Closeup of Norwegian airman with "Norway" displayed on his left shoulder patch. He wears glasses and looks skyward. White clouds fill the sky in the background throughout the film. Two Norwegian fliers in flight suits pose looking away from the camera (in profiles). A vampire jet begins a takeoff roll as the film ends.
NATO Project Cirrus, Gilze Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, 1951. A pair of de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft fly low over the field and make a tactical overhead approach. One is seen landing. Next a Gloster Meteor jet is seen heading toward the camera and passing low overhead. It climbs and makes executes an aerobatic maneuver and then speeds past the camera and lands. As it taxis on the airfield the background is rich in detail of the field and homes in the vicinity. Several Meteor aircraft are seen parked in a cluster on the field. The taxiing aircraft approaches them an parks among them.
A BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) de Havilland Comet (MK2) airplane in flight. The aircraft, powered by Rolls-Royce engines, is flying from Zürich to London at a speed of almost 400 miles per hour. The jet plane is seen cruising above clouds.
A film about means of transportation from ancient times to modern times in the United States. The first railroad train De Witt Clinton at a museum. A steam locomotive emits steam as it pulls a railroad train. Portraits of Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, Nikola Tesla, Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse.
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