A film 'We saw it happen' about the history of aviation in the United States. In Dayton, Ohio: Houses seen along Hawthorn Street. A still picture shows the Wright brothers in their youth. View down Hawthorn Street with several 1940s and early 1950s cars parked along the Dayton street. Exterior view of 7 Hawthorn Street, home of the Wright Brothers. Interiors of the Wright home in Dayton. The workshop of the Wright brothers. Machines in the workshop. The "Wright Cycle Co" and Wright Museum (moved from Dayton to Greenfield village in Dearborn, Michigan.) A powered engine prepared in the workshop. Sweeping view of windswept beach area of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers conducted test flights in 1900-1902. Another view of Hawthorn Street in Dayton. A boy on the sidewalk. View of the 4 cylinder airplane engine first designed by the Wright Brothers. Narrator speaks of December 17, 1903 Wright Brothers flight. View of the Wright Flyer in flight overhead. Scene changes to aerial side view of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight (this is aircraft YB-52,the second XB-52). The B-52 banks left and away.
Scenes of the old City in Cartagena, Columbia. An antique gun in the San Felipe de Barajas Castle, overlooking the harbor below. The Torre del Reloj (Boca del Puente, Centro, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia) or clock tower and Puerta del Reloj, main entrance gate to the old walled city which was founded in 1533. The Cathedral of Cartegena (the Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Calle de los Santos de Piedra, Cra. 4, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia). Local people in a horse-drawn wagon pass by the gateway to a public park, flanked by Doric columns and topped with a statue of Vulcan at a forge. A man walks toward the entrance of the House of the Inquisition (Inquisition Palace 46, Plaza de Bolivar Carrera 3 33, Bolívar, Colombia). The camera pans upward to the decorative seal and stonework above doorway. A local woman doing laundry at stone sinks. views of pedestrians walking along narrow streets, balconies of houses project overhead.
A ship underway near a U.S. port. President Woodrow Wilson seen signing the declaration of war against Germany in World War 1. A close up of the start of the draft process, as two blind-folded civilian men draw the first draft numbers for American men to enter service in World War 1. U.S. Army General John J. Pershing stands in a line with other Army officers circa 1917. A large group of people together inside a large cross-shaped stage (possibly American red cross drive of some kind during World War I). Scene on July 4, 1927 in Indianapolis, Indiana, as General Pershing participates in cornerstone laying ceremonies for the Indiana World War Memorial at American Legion Headquarters. General Pershing is with Governor Ed Jackson, Marcus Sonntag, and Adjt General William H. Kershner. General Pershing places wreath on a service flag during the ceremony. Other Indianapolis buildings and view of people on streets in the background.
Activities of the U.S. 3rd Marine Corps Division in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A sign in grassy area reads 'Camp Carroll'. The Camp Carroll dedication sign reads ' Camp J. J. Carrolls Dedicated November 1966 in Honor of Captain James Joseph Carroll, USMC, Company "K" 3rd BN 4th Marines". The grassy and dirt fields, dirt road , large tents and sandbag psns at Camp Carroll. A USA 175mm gun in psn. The hardback buildings, sandbags psns and marine stand and walk at Camp Carroll.
Life aboard the SS Leviathan troopship, carrying 12 thousand American soldiers to France during World War 1.The largest ship afloat, she was formerly the German ocean liner, Vaterland. Soldiers in regular sleeping compartments lie on vertical bunks, some stacked 3 or 4 high. View of the Sick Bay on the ship where patients have less crowded conditions. A Navy medical officer makes rounds, checking each patient. A medical technician is seen sterilizing instruments in a steam autoclave.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. The burial of a dead German soldier. Paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division advance across a grassy field. Soldiers of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division file past the paratroopers. A German tracked motorcycle parked on pavement, surrounded by 101st Airborne Paratroopers, some of whom stand in a group and hold a captured Nazi flag.
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