Anastas Mikoyan comes to inaugurate Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo, Japan. a cameraman takes photos. Woman stitches a badge on Mikoyan's coat. Mikoyan with others see Lenin's big portrait. Scene of Tokyo Kaikan. Mikoyan comes on stage. Russian and Japanese flag in background. Mikoyan address the gathering and proposes a long term trade agreement to Japan. Photographers click photos. People clap.
The experimental Northrop MX-324, first U.S. military rocket-powered flying wing plane, takes-off during tests at Muroc Dry Lake, California. It makes a short flight, circling to land smoothly with a very long landing roll, disappearing in the distance. (Buildings seen in back ground are at North Edwards Air Force Base.)
Track and field events at Pennsylvania University meet in Pennsylvania. Men participating in a long jump event. Crowd cheers. Men's race on the track. A man participating in hammer throw event. Men's hurdles race going on.
U.S. Army Air Force VII Fighter Command P-51s operating bomber escort missions from Iwo Jima, in World War II. Aerial views of Iwo Jima and airfield. A military cemetery. Several dump trucks working on ground improvements. View of Army camp. Long line of parked P-51s. Three officers looking at chart depicting B-29 mission paths from Marianas Islands to Japan and back. P-51 starting engines. Name on one aircraft is 'The Deacon'. Aircraft pulls out of parking area, second one follows. Formation of B-29s, including some from Saipan-based 73rd Bomb Wing, 499th Bomb Group (Tail Code "V"). Views of interior of a B-29 with crew members at their duty stations. P-51 fighter escorts join up with the bombers. View of escorting fighters from inside B-29 looking through gunners bubble. Formation begins to encounter Japanese Flak. P-51s peel off and are seen maneuvering near the B-29s. Views of gunner rotating turret on a bomber.
Long line of 42nd Division U.S. Army infantry men passing through village during World War I. Truck pulling artillery piece rounds corner. Scene of open field. Artillery shells burst near edge of wooded area. Crew fires howitzer from behind natural camouflage near country road. Shells striking wooded area in distance. Loading and firing of howitzer by six man crew. Two soldiers, heavily camouflaged, crawl toward trench. Soldiers with rifles at the ready in slit. Crew firing machine gun. Mortar crew load and fire from ditch. Soldiers in field are issued clothing and allowance. During operations to occupy Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Activities following the Test Able atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads. Ground crewman unseals a cable from fuselage and uses it to pull and air sampler box off the top of a B-17 drone aircraft. He avoids being hit by it as it tumbles from atop the airplane. He then drags it to a spot on the ramp, where a man with a geiger counter checks it for radioactivity. Two men transport it on a long pole, to a fork lift. Several other B-17 drones are seen with ground crews offloading them remotely, by means of cables and remote activation of controls inside the B-17 bomb bays. A forklift operator loads an item into the rear hatch of a waiting C-54 transport aircraft.
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