West Point Cadets in flight suits, with goggles, prepare for flight at Mitchel Field, Hempstead, New York. Officer gives instruction to the cadets standing at attention. Building in the background. West Point cadets leave building. Others sit on steps of building. West Point cadets, wearing seat-pack parachutes, march down flight line. Row of parked United States Army Air Corps B-6A bomber aircraft. Cadets stand in front of the aircraft, parked with engines running, on the airfield. Cadets climb into B-6A aircraft. Interior of the Cockpit. Cadet and pilot look at map. Nose section of B-6A. Cadet in nose gunner position aims through machine gun sight. Cadet in rear radio operator-gunner position speaks into microphone. Pilot at controls checks engines and instruments. Ground crewmen remove wheel chocks and the aircraft taxi in formation to the runway, and takeoff, one at a time. Aerial view of B-6As in formation flight over Long Island, New York.
Space research programs of the National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. Saturn rocket at a launch pad. A gantry is removed. The rocket is launched on a major flight test. Men at work in Mission Control station. Rocket scientist Werner von Braun is seen smiling and rubbing his hands. View of a Mission Control workstation. Group of astronauts for the Gemini and Apollo programs are seen on a visit to Cape Canaveral, Florida. Major Gordon Cooper holding a coffee cup and talking to other astronauts. They discuss a chart and work on space projects. Close up side view of Roger Chaffee. A rocket on a launch pad. Point of view shot from a camera on board a rocket, pointing down toward earth, as the rocket lifts off, showing the earth recede quickly below the rocket as it soars toward space. An astronaut inside a capsule in full space suit. Night time view of a NASA rocket on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral Florida.
Film begins showing a group of African American paratroopers from the U.S. Army 555th Parachute Infantry Company (nicknamed the Triple Nickels) in Fort Benning, Georgia during World War 2. African American soldiers are inspecting their parachutes, laid out on a long table. One of them is a staff sergeant. Next, they don their helmets and then put on their backpack parachutes. Views of them adjusting their parachutes. Closeup of a Technical Sergeant assisting a Master Sergeant with his gear. The troopers double time in a line to an area for inspection. Their static lines are folded on their backpacks, and they hold their reserve chute against their stomachs. A sergeant gives them a final inspection, and they double time to a parked C-47 transport airplane that they board. Glimpse from inside the aircraft as they mount the stairs to the cabin. Next are several glimpses of troopers exiting the aircraft with their static lines hooked to the inside of the C-47. Change of scene shows view from window of a C-47, as a group of troopers begin boarding the aircraft. View along the side of a C-47 transport plane troopers' white parachutes open as they jump from the aircraft. They float away down and behind the aircraft. Aerial view of troopers jumping from left rear door of a C-47 transport plane in flight.
Reenactment (at Randolph Field, Texas) illustrating the arrival of new recruits into the U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadet program. Large group of new cadets walking across an area carrying personal baggage. All dressed in civilian clothing, they walk up the steps to a veranda on a building at the base. There are two takes of the scene. Best regards, Tom
A film on the recruitment of women in the United States Marine Corps during World War 2. Women Marines engaged in recreation activities in and near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Marines, both men and women, seated in a stadium. They watch a football game. Women cheering. The couples of Women Marines and men Marines dance in a dance hall. Men and women seated at tables talking among themselves. A man and a woman practicing bowling. Some men and women aboard boats and sailing boats at a waterway. Women seated inside a library.
Vocational school instruction for young men in the United States. Instructor issues instructions by phone to a boy, wearing a headset, who operates electrical switches on a switchboard or circuit board, in response. Two boys wearing headsets, sitting at table holding what appear to be interlinked radio components. One boy manipulates dials, as if tuning the radio. Camera pans the right where components including what appear to be stacked capacitors are being activated. A young man using a telegraph key or morse code key to transmit a message. Boys in a machine shop or factory where machines are belt-driven from a common drive shaft overhead (out of sight). Closeup of one boy turning a metal part on a lathe. He makes measurement with calipers as the work progresses.
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