Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. View from carrier Akagi of two other Japanese aircraft carriers, the Kaga (front), and the Zuikaku (rear) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese naval officers aboard a carrier. Japanese deck crews work on Japanese aircraft aboard a carrier. Japanese pilots assembled on the flight deck to receive final briefings before taking off. Information posted on a large blackboard as pilots are briefed. Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes take off from the aircraft carrier. Planes in flight. View from Japanese airplanes as the attack on Pearl Harbor takes place. Smoke rising from explosions. View from aircraft flying directly overhead as bombs explode on Ford Island airbase.
The Henry Dreyfuss New York Central Mercury locomotive in Harmon, New York. A man works on controls as he operates the new streamlined steam engine, Mercury. Mercury being run along side an old steam engine during a test by the New York Central. Mercury races ahead of the old engine. Mercury on track.
Hank Polakis wear an air conditioned suit to beat the heat in summers in Gila Centre, Arizona. Hank Polakis displays a self designed clothes with air pumps below his shoes and pipes from the pumps run to different parts of the body. Polakis walks down a street as the air pumps supply constant breeze to him lowering the temperatures.
Various track stars compete at the National American Association of Universities meet in Princeton, New Jersey. Athletes compete at a hurdle race during the meet. Jesse Owens from Ohio poses after winning the race. Another hurdle race underway and winner poses after the race. Participants run around the track during an event.
Operation Plumbbob atomic bomb testing in Nevada, United States. A plastic balloon carries an atom bomb at the Yucca Flats proving ground. A technician at the controls with a monitor showing the image of the balloon. Engineers and newsmen wear dark glasses. An atomic explosion occurs, and a mushroom cloud is formed. Marines huddle in a trench. Helicopters in flight as they carry the marines to the site of the explosion.
The various types of drills and bits used for drilling into rocks in the United States. A Corliss air compressor that furnishes air power for rock drilling. Men in a mine in northern Michigan as they work with rotator hammers to sink a shaft 1700 feet below the surface. Six workers drill with rotators. A worker drills into the wall and roof of the mine. An auger rotator being used to drill into a soft ore bench.
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