USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Series of 8 U.S. aircraft take off from flight deck, including Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and Vought F-8 Crusader aircraft. (Vietnam War period.)
Passengers embark an ocean liner at a pier in New York City. Friends and family wave from the pier as tug boats guide the ship away from the dock. View of the New York skyline as the ship heads out to sea. View of 4-stacker ocean liner at sea (the Cunard Line's SS Aquitania). Ship's officers seen in the wheelhouse. Passengers stroll the decks; play deck games (shuffleboard); rest on deck chairs; and have drinks at the bar. Scenes of fancy food displays and chefs at work. One chef pours wine into food being cooked, and then takes a swig from the bottle, himself.
Operation Torch (invasion of North Africa) during World War 2. View from stern of a British warship underway with setting sun behind. Several British sailors help a shipmate untangle himself from lines on the deck of ship. British, Free French, and American sailors line up for inspection on shore. A British launch, flying a white ensign, approaches and docks at Casablanca. The Allied Commanders of Operation Torch disembark. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (wearing 4 stars) is followed by British Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force (carrying a cane on his arm), and his deputy, Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who planned the ground effort. Eisenhower pauses to greet American Naval officers (and he stumbles on pier planking). Eisenhower, Cunningham, and Ramsay, then enter a staff car and drive away.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at Airmail Service Dedication between Washington DC and New York. The new aerial mail service is launched by the Post Office between Washington DC and New York. President talks to the pilot at Washington DC before the take off. The Curtis JN-4 airmail airplane takes off from the Polo field in Washington DC.. At the same time Lieutenant Webb takes off from New York. The airplane halts for six minutes at Philadelphia to collect more mail. The airplane lands New York with the mail after a three hour flight. A man takes out the mail baggage from the airplane.
D-Day minus 4 (June 2, 1944). A U.S. Transport ship and landing craft at a harbor in the South of England, during World War 2. A jeep, with American soldiers in it, is hoisted aboard a ship. View of men riding a jeep as it is lowered into the hold of the ship. A diesel engine being loaded aboard the ship. A welder making repairs to the ship's superstructure. A cargo net filled with boxes of K-rations being hoisted aboard the ship.
Scenes on and around Omaha Beach after it had been secured, following the Allied D-Day amphibious invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers move along the beach in a DUKW amphibious vehicle. A bulldozer seen in the background. About 25 German prisoners of war are seen awaiting evacuation, behind barbed wire on the beach,guarded by a U.S.military policeman. As a shell whines overhead they all instinctively drop to the ground and the shell explodes somewhere out of sight. An 83 ft. U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter looks for Allied survivors in the water. The British Hospital ship "Prague" and others are seen at anchor, ready to receive patients. Wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers to a landing craft on the beach. A wounded man being transferred from a damaged LCI to another one. Wounded being hoisted in groups of 4 each, from the crippled and sinking LCI(L)85. The are lowered to deck of the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Navy Rear Admiral, John L. Hall, Jr., observing the transfer of wounded. Sweeping views of Omaha Beach after the beachhead was secured. Numerous support vessels are seen close offshore. Trucks move along roads; war materiel is stockpiled in open areas; barrage balloons fly aloft; and soldiers move everywhere. Closeup of the LCI(L) 92 ,on the beach,showing the holes blown in her. The LCI(L)553, beached sideways in the sand. Seen beached and damaged, is LCI(L)87, flagship of Coast Guard Captain Miles E. Imlay, deputy commander of the Coast Guard's Omaha Assault Group O-1. Mechanics working to repair the screw from a boat.
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