U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter aircraft drops a Mark 82 (Mk.82) high-drag bomb. The bomb descends and explodes in dense forest 23 miles east of Saigon on 8th September. Smoke rises in sky due to explosion.
U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) Douglas A-1G Skyraider attack aircraft drop two Mark 82 (Mk.82) high-drag bombs on open flat terrain in support of Operation MacArthur. The bombs explode on the terrain, 30 miles east, to the southwest of Pleiku, on 10 September. Douglas A-1G Skyraider' releases BLU-27 incendigel bombs (like napalm) followed by explosions in grove of trees 55 miles south southwest of Pleiku in support of Operation MacArthur.
Physical damage caused by the atomic bombings in Nagasaki, Japan towards the end of World War II. The Medical School. A collapsed granite column in the destroyed building which originally stood between building H and J. The direction the column fell. The mannered in which the column sheared when it hit the stone steps. The granite column which originally stood just south of the entrance of a wooden frame building between buildings H and J. The columns and relative distance they were moved. A wall of a building H. The remains of the wooden frame structure which was situated between buildings H and J. The face of the building H clearly shows manner in which this building was attached to south wall of building H. The face of building J in the background with foundation of a wooden frame structure, which was destroyed by fire in the foreground. The wall of building D of reinforced concrete structure. The shadows cast on flash burn surface of building by roof overhang and a water pipe and copper down spout. The wall of the building F, a reinforced concrete structure, whose west wall although affected by blast did not fail completely. The three fourth inch concrete stucco scrubbed off. The dissecting tables in a small building which was employed as an autopsy room. A monument off the north east corner of building G, the direction trees fallen on monument with the column of building in the background. The stone monument with following inscription engraved in German 'Perseverance Leads to Success'.
Premiere of a British movie Genevieve at the Sutton Theater, 205 East 57th Street, in New York City. People crowd outside the theater to watch the premiere. Some of the stars arrive in a vintage car. Actress Eva Gabor and her mother get off from a car. Conrad Neagle and his wife arrive for the premiere. Opera diva Mimi Benzil arrives with her husband. Maggie McNellis speaks into a microphone along with Hollywood celebrity Gloria Swanson.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 175th press conference in Washington DC, United States. One of the pressmen asks the President that in the discussions about a date for an East-West summit conference with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mr. Nikita Khrushchev the point arises to preserve the momentum at the end. The Russians talk about the need to preserve the spirit of Camp David. He asks the President what he would like to maintain -- the spirit of Camp David or the momentum. The President says that he has heard of the expression the spirit of Camp David but he does not know what it means. He says that whenever he and Mr. Khrushchev spoke, they spoke in principle and in generality more. There was an agreement when they spoke about problems which the ministers will very likely take up. The President says he thinks that the spirit of Camp David must mean that they can talk together without being mutually abusive. About momentum, he says that that was a word used in discussions on development of foreign relations and agreements. If momentum is kept up it helps not to be rushing into things without being fully prepared.
American aviator Howard Hughes at an airfield in Chicago Illinois. Hughes poses in front of his parked, rented Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761), as he prepares to set a new flight speed record from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. Men stand nearby. Airport terminal buildings in the background. Hughes boards the airplane. Hughes in the cockpit of the Northrop Gamma 2G aircraft. Several men stand near the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off and in flight overhead. It reached Los Angeles in 8 hours and 10 minutes, setting a new speed record for east-to-west flight between Chicago and Los Angeles.
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