United States aircraft being transported to Indochine during the First Indochina War. USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) at Alameda, California. Sailors load U.S. Navy F8F Bearcat fighters. Crew members work on the aircraft aboard the carrier.
Rodeo competition in Livermore California. Cowboys fall off from bucking horses during a rodeo competition. Contestant number 95 falls from a bucking horse. A cowboy struggles to stay in a bucking horse before falling off and landing under the horse. A man falls face down from a bucking horse. A bucking bull sets free on its own after cowboy gets bucked off from starting gate. A cowboy struggles to keep his balance in a bucking bull until falling. A bucking bull rotates until the cowboy gets bucked off, then charging away. A bull charges at a scarecrow.
The Santa Susana Mountains in Southern California. Bulldozers clear trees in the Santa Susana Mountains. Explosives blasting cleared land to build the foundation of the planned Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Construction workers build the core cavity liner of the Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant. The core cavity liner of the sodium reactor before concrete is poured to make the foundation. A man welds steel pipes in the outer surface of the core cavity. A large circular hole for the inlet and outlet piping. Workers set up basic structures after the core cavity liner and foundation are built. Some workers are digging near concrete columns. A worker pushes a wheelbarrow. Concrete poured into wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow pours concrete into a backhoe. Workers pour wet concrete into the foundation. Animation depicts four concentric rings installed at the bottom of the cavity liner. A ladder inside a tank. Workers install blocks of thermal insulation materials. A crane carries the outer tank made from low-alloy steel. Workers carefully lower the outer tank into the core cavity. Stacked thermal shield rings at the construction site. The “Pacific” crane lowers a thermal shield ring into place. The crane brings the stainless-steel core tank. The crane lowers the core tank into the core cavity. Stainless steel bellows is put into place to seal the core tank and outer tank. Animation shows how bellows maintain the sodium vapors within the core area. Workers in white protective uniforms install the moderator and reflector units under conditions of extreme cleanliness. A worker uses a high-capacity vacuum cleaner to clean parts. The workers proceed to install the 75-ton top shield. Scientists monitor the pumps that monitor the rate of coolant flow in the sodium loops. A scientist inspects the fuel elements installed in the core. Scientists working at a control room of the Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant. They monitor the reactor stability. Timer connected to the control rod. Various meters measuring various powers such as electrical, thermal, and main primary sodium flow, steam flow rate. A Honeywell meter measuring the reactor inlet temperature. A sodium inlet temperature meter. A scientist measures shielding effectiveness during power runs. The scientist inspects shield blocks above the radioactive coolant galleries and over the reactor core.
Directorate of Material building in Norton AFB, California. Main gate at Norton AFB in California. People entering Directorate of Material building. EDP (Electronic Data Processor) operator at console. Convair plant and aerial view of missile base. Data processing equipment and early computer equipment used in logistic support. Shows card punch machine, memory storage unit (IBM 709), and high speed printer. Parts order being coded with rubber stamp. Shrouded Atlas D missile on trailer truck being hauled cross-country. Atlas being loaded into C-133 airplane. Aircraft in flight overhead. Shrouded Atlas on trailer entering missile base. Airmen working on nuclear warhead nose cone in hangar, then mating nose cone to Atlas. Check out tests are carried out by airmen. Two airmen standing beside LOX truck in LOX area.
United States soldiers during a rehearsal for the Invasion of Normandy. in World War 2. A lookout wearing closed-sided non-glare glasses as he scans the sky for aircraft. He turns a dial located on the nose bridge of the glasses to adjust the vision. Soldiers at the deck gun of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) as it approaches the shore in the faint morning light. Side ramps are dropped on the LCI and soldiers move down ramps and onto beach area. Soldiers get off and run across the beach. Tanks unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) and taken across the beach. Column of troops going down beach, heads toward Landing Crafts on beach. They make a left turn moving inward. Hill in the background. Landing Crafts on the beach.
Evacuation of Allied Troops at Dunkirk, France, during World War 2. Opening scene shows black smoke rising from beach area. Sign reads "Dunkerque". A German Henschel He 126 aircraft rolls over and dives toward Dunkirk. A formation of British Spitfire aircraft are seen, providing air cover over the beach during the Allied evacuation. They have dogfight with a German Fockwulf FW 190 fighter and engage a Heinkel He-111 bomber, and down a German Dornier Do 17 bomber. Allied antiaircraft guns firing from the beach area down a Henschel He 126 aircraft. Contrails in the air from dog fighting airplanes. Gunners fire from open cockpit airplanes. An Allied airplane is downed and crashes in an explosion. German Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bombers dive on targets. View from cockpit of one aiming for a transport ship. The plane pulls out and releases a bomb that explodes in the water next to the ship. View from distance of bombs exploding on a ship. British ships and boats of all kinds being employed to evacuate Allied forces. Soldiers being helped to board them, including some wounded on stretchers. Survivors from bombed ship make way in lifeboats. More smoke on the horizon from bombed ships. A wrecked British Spitfire on the beach. A crashed German Messerschmitt Bf 109 on the beach. A crashed German Heinkel He 111 bomber, inland. View of bomb damage in City of Dunkirk. Roadsides littered with abandoned Allied vehicles and equipment. A dead Allied soldier lying next to a truck. Abandoned antiaircraft guns and variety of military equipment left on the beach.
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