The damaged USS Franklin arrives at Brooklyn Navy yard in New York after the Japanese attack during World War II. U.S. Navy officer aboard the USS Franklin at Brooklyn Navy yard. An officer talks and smiles.
The damaged USS Franklin arrives at Brooklyn Navy yard in New York after the Japanese attack during World War II. U.S. Navy officers aboard the USS Franklin at Brooklyn Navy yard. Lieutenant Commander T.J. Grenee, Lieutenant Fred Harris, Lieutenant B.J. White aboard the USS Franklin.
German naval training ship Gorch Fock comes into the New York harbor. Three masted German Navy (Deutsche Marine) ship Gorch Fock underway at sea. Cadets lined up on the deck of the Gorch Fock (NATO pennant number A60). The ship comes in at the harbor. Water splashes and the ship in the background.
The Cabot device for snatching an airmail pouch without landing, is tested at Mitchel Field in New York, United States. Pilot Roger Wolfe Kahn at Mitchel Field, New York. Aircraft taxis and takes off. New Cabot device for postal air-mail tested. A huge container on the field with a sign on it that reads 'Cabot'. The aircraft trailing a line with hook, flies over a line stretched between two poles and snatches an air mail satchel.
United States women diving team in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Members of women diving team Helen Meany, Frances Meany and Georgia Coleman in swimming suits as they pose at the poolside. Two girls seated on a diving board as Olympic participants dive from another board. Girls roll and dive in the swimming pool one by one.
The airborne "City of Chicago" airplane, a Stinson SM-1 "Detroiter," circling the Sky Harbor Airport at Northbrook, Illinois, while setting a new flight endurance record. A large number of people gathered at the airport looking skywards toward the aircraft being flown by John Hunter and Kenneth Hunter. A separate Stinson SM-1 aircraft, known as "Big Ben," flown by their brothers Albert Hunter and Walter Hunter, refuels the endurance aircraft in mid air, with a flexible hose connected from the refueling aircraft that is flying just above the other Stinson SM-1 aircraft. View from aboard the refueling aircraft, looking downward at Kenneth Hunter who is standing up in the open cockpit and directing the hose during the mid-flight refueling operation. After refueling is complete, the hose is seen to drop free from the "City of Chicago." One of the Hunter brothers standing up and leaning out toward the nose of the "City of Chicago" aircraft as he inspects the engine during mid-flight. View on the ground of civilians looking upward at the aircraft flying in the sky. (The "City of Chicago" record set during this flight was 553 hours, 41 minutes, 30 seconds in the air.)
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