Damage done to aircraft hangars during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in World War 2. View from inside damaged hangar with broken glass and smoke everywhere from the Japanese attack. Dozens of U.S. sailors running through another cloud of smoke. Ground view of four Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero airplanes flying past the camera in a line. Another Japanese airplane is struck by ground fire and is shown flying almost straight towards the camera, leaving a trail of smoke behind it and firing as it flies by. Final scene is an aerial view of a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat shown flying in front of a large thunderhead cloud.
147th Armored Signal Company of 7th Armored Division U.S. Army string wire along road from an M3 half-track in Delitzsch, Saxony, Germany during World War II. Soldiers stringing wire on the roadside from the moving half-track. The soldiers trail behind the half-track. A soldier grabs wire and climbs a local telephone post. A soldier from the ground lets go of the string before looking up, with a German boy behind him. Soldier adjusts wire on top of the telephone pole.
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States. A man drives his Ford Mustang convertible car across a bridge over a river and reaches the entrance gate of the air station which is headquarters for the Naval Air Training Command. Guard at entrance gate shows the way. Four aircraft of the Navy Blue Angels precision flying team are shown performing aerial maneuvers.. Man views the USS Lexington (CV-16) naval aircraft carrier at dock. Several recent college graduates, all participants in the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate program (AOC) check-in to start the program and greet each other. Officer teaches Principles of leadership in class using an overhead projector. Naval aviation students march and exercise under supervision. They play football. They perform physical exercise drills. A participant struggles with situps. Close-up of the face of a commanding officer drill instructor pushing him along. Naval band plays music. Personnel march in uniform in graduation ceremony after the 11 week program. Officer presents graduation degree one by one to them. Four U.S. Navy North American T-28 Trojan aircraft fly over the field in formation. African American commissioned officer and his wife walk up to their apartment door, off-base, carrying grocery bags. Other graduates carry luggage to Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) and arrange photographs of women on a table and talk. Low aerial view approaching flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43). Commissioned officers on board the carrier sit at dinner table and talk.
Graduation Day for a class of recruits at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Chicago, Illinois. Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center is on a reviewing stand with his Lieutenant Commander, assistant. A French military officer and two French officials, are also present. Spectators are crowded around the reviewing stand. The new sailors are seen, from atop the administration building, lined up in formation behind the Center's flag pole from which a large American flag flies. Others are marching in review past the stand, which is now filled with high-ranking naval officers. The spectators around the reviewing stand can also be seen better. In next sequence, a huge Navy brass band marches toward the reviewing stand en masse and then executes to the rear march by columns, all while playing their instruments. They remain in place and play during the rest of the activities. More massed sailors march, followed by several contingents pulling French 75 artillery pieces. Spectators can be seen all around the parade grounds. Beginning as a huge single formation covering more than half the parade ground, sailors start marching in maneuvers that create patterns. Then a square formation of sailors marches along the field, enclosing a moving color guard, like a fortress. Closeup of new sailors marching with shouldered arms. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Orientation program for mentally disabled. A mentally disabled, blind person feels out the way with the help of his cane. His care giver a little way behind. The care giver gestures for someone to come towards them. A car passes by. A child puts rings in a wooden stick in descending order of size. A man with some mentally disabled children. The man takes a boy's hand and makes him feel the man's cheeks then the child's own cheek. Three blind, mentally disabled children - a girl and two boys, move on a path feeling the railing. Their instructor stands nearby. They move inside a house. The blind, mentally disabled girl picks up a toy from a bed and keeps it on a table. She takes out a bed cover from the headrest of the bed. A blind mentally disabled boy slides the door of a wardrobe. Two disabled persons wash utensils as a part of vocational training. A group of children sit in a circle with their legs outstretched. A man with a medicine ball in the center. A man and a boy in a pool. A mentally disabled girl plays a trumpet. A group of mentally disabled people in wheelchairs clap and enjoy. Mentally disabled children in wheelchairs.
Sailors learn methods of hand to hand combat during a training program of the navy in the United States. Two sailors demonstrate defense against club. One of the sailors approaches the other with a club. The sailor locks the attacker's hand in between both of his own and turns. He grasps the assailant's arm and hauls him over. (World War II period).
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