Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. A sign lighted up in the dark reads ' Curts Door Tel '. Another sign lighted up in the dark reads ' Secure '. A sign ' Doors ' blinks in the dark. The sign ' Curts Door Tel ' also blinks.
Grumman-built LEM (Lunar Excursion Module 1 or LM-1), a space vehicle for carrying astronauts onto the surface of the moon in the United States. Technicians work on the "LEM" as part of NASA Apollo program. The space car is being readied for shipment to NASA at Cape Kennedy. (Shown here is LM-1, which was the first of several excursion modules tested in advance of the actual use of the LEM for the manned landing on the moon with Apollo 11 in 1969.)
A United States Lockheed XH-51A helicopter in the United States. The U.S. Air Force pilot of the helicopter gets in and the helicopter lifts off for an experimental flight. The helicopter sets a speed record of 302 miles per hour during the test flight. Helicopters in flight.
United States Navy frogmen during a maneuver in New York, United States. Men on a raft along side a vessel underway off the coast of Manhattan during the maneuver. They try to come aboard the raft from the vessel. A man jumps into the Hudson River with a loop of rope as he practices high speed take off. A man comes aboard the raft.
Israeli Arabs in a mosque in Jerusalem, Israel. The minaret of Bab al-Silsila (The Chain Gate). They arrive at a mosque and wash their feet. They remove their shoes and enter the mosque for the first time in 20 years after the Israeli government opened the captured shrines for people of all faiths. Men pray at the mosque. Men enter the Mosque of Omar. Israeli Arab families reunite as they hug and greet each other.
Aerial view of the abandoned German tanker ship,Essberger Chemist, listing in the Atlantic off the Azores, presenting a danger to Atlantic shipping. The British Frigate, HMS Salisbury (F32), in the vicinity of the stricken tanker. The owners ask the British Navy to sink the ship. British nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnaught, seen on the surface, after rushing to the scene, from Gibralter. She fires torpedoes that strike the Essberger Chemist. View of the derelict ship,listing to starboard and taking on water. Then the cargo of explosive chemicals ignites and smoke rises from the ship as explosions occur. Heavy black smoke billows from the stricken ship as it succumbs to the torpedoes and gunfire from the British frigate, HMS Salisbury. The Essberger Chemist slips below the water and sinks.
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