United States Army 36th Infantry Division before Night Drop during World War II. A group of paratroopers hold a briefing near a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane. A paratrooper with camouflaged face smiles. Three paratroopers with camouflaged faces stand near a C-47. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton arrives at the airfield. Brereton speaks with officials, officers, and paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Brereton boards a staff car with a plate number “USA T11126”. Officials talk near a C-47. General Brereton speaks with a pair of paratroopers. A C-47 taxiing.
Flag Raising on Statehood celebrations at Iolani Palace (364 S King St, Honolulu, HI 96813, United States) in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Governor, Mrs. Quinn, Lieutenant Governor, Mrs. James Kealoha, Episcopal Bishop, Harry S. Kennedy, Reverend Charles Kekumano of the Catholic Diocese and Gary Doi arrive at Iolani Palace. Bishop Kennedy gives the invocation. Bouquet of yellow and red flowers in foreground. 49-star American flag being lowered, and 50-star American flag hoisted on Iolani Palace building. Governor Quinn addresses the crowd. Hawaiian people gather to watch the ceremony. Cameraman takes pictures. Fifty guns salute the new 50-star flag, in front of the Palace. Officer salutes.
Flag Raising on Hawaii’s Statehood celebrations at Iolani Palace (364 S King St, Honolulu, HI 96813, United States) in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Governor and his wife being seated on stage for the official ceremony. Yellow and red flower bouquet in foreground. Fleet of aircrafts in formation, fly overhead. 49-star American flag lowered, and the 50-star American flag hoisted on Iolani Palace building. Huge crowd gathered to watch the ceremony. Dignitary addresses the crowd.
NASA Astronaut Virgil Grissom, in flight suit, leaves building, at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, and walks toward a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger jet from the 48th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. Another F-102 jet parked on the airfield. Grissom inspects the aircraft and then climbs onto the cockpit.
Totem poles and large carvings made from trunks of trees by indigenous native Indians in Alaska. Different figures on poles represent different people or events. View of different totem poles in Alaska. Children listen to the story of totem poles from a carver. Many views of children looking at totem poles. A Tlingit Indian tribe totem house at the Totem Bight State Park near Ketchikan, Alaska. A man enters the community house. Scene changes to exterior of Tlingit Community House on Shakes Island in Wrangell, Alaska (now Chief Shakes Historic Site). Native people wearing chilkat blankets enter the house. View of a potlach ceremony with native instruments and dance outside the Chief Shakes Community House.
The United States Air Force and Army rescue operations during an avalanche in the Alaskan Mountain Ranges in the United States. Snow covered Mount McKinley in Alaska, United States. A ski equipped Piper Cub plane lands and taxis along with wooded area in the background. A United States U-6A aircraft takes off. Men in the foreground as an aircraft taxis along. A C-47 Skytrain in a low level flight over the staging site. A boy being carried by a United States Air Force Major. A C-45 H aircraft taxis and takes off. A C-47 Skytrain taxis with a C-45H in the foreground. Men unload supplies from a plane.
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