Inaugural celebrations on Los Angeles' 150th birthday in Los Angeles, California. Parade event on city streets opens with the 'Epic of Transportation' depicting history of travel from primitive to modern times. Procession starts with a man on horseback drawing a primitive carriage with two children sitting on it. A buffalo cart. A carriage drawn by a mule team. Depiction of train and aircraft during the procession.
In an outbreak of hostilities between city officials and property owners, a huge gap is cut through the water pipe to Los Angeles at Jawbone Canyon in California. (It is also known as the Los Angeles Aqueduct Pipeline, or the Jawbone Siphon, stretching 233 miles from Owens Lake and the Owens Valley to Los Angeles). Engineers and officials inspect the broken water pipe that had been dynamited by angry ranchers in a land dispute.
The United States Navy's Akron, the world's largest dirigible flies over Washington DC, United States. View of Washington Monument beneath. Akron in flight with the fluttering American flag and the dome of U.S. Capitol in view. Views of the Akron over New York City. Chef inside the airship prepares food. Officers look at the buildings below, through the dirigible glass.
Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Airman loads shells onto Gatling gun on Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. Pilot with the help of a map briefs crew members under the wing of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. Officer enters the aircraft through hatch. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber taxis out of parking area and takes off. Aerial view of the Eglin Air Force Base and the city of Okaloosa County in Florida. Insignia of 'Air Force Armament Center'. Two crew members wearing flight clothing and Mae West jackets (life jackets), converse with each other.
United States M 113 APCs drive on street in Saigon, South Vietnam during Vietcong attacks. AIE Sky raiders attack buildings in the city. Army vehicles drive on the street. Vietnamese man on rooftop of a building watches the vehicles drive past on street. (Vietnam War period).
United States 25th Infantry Division soldiers search cemetery in Saigon, South Vietnam. M 113 APC's in vehicles drive on street during Vietcong attacks. AIE Sky raiders attack city buildings. Smoke rises from the targeted buildings (Vietnam War period).
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