From a U.S. Navy training film in the United States on the working of airships. Specifications and designs of airships are explained. Fleet type airships are called ZP2K airships. Animation shows the design of an airship. Helium in the airship can lift 15 tons. A man aboard an aircraft carrier. Parts of an airship are explained.
A new pole vault record being set in Santa Barbara, California. John Ueslses tries to set a 16 feet pole vault record. He uses a pole vault to jump over a bar. He registers a mark of 15 feet and 8 inches. In his second attempt he jumps over the bar and sets the record of jumping over a height of 16 feet and three fourth inches. An official measures the height jumped over by Ueslses.
African American women soldiers of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed “Six Triple Eight", Women's Army Corps (WACS), march in formation on February 15, 1945, during World War 2. Location is Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, at the time of the unit's arrival in Birmingham. A military band of male soldiers precedes the group of marching WACS. The long column of African American WACS, marching 4 deep, is led by commanding officer Major Charity Adams. Close up views of the women marching. WACS in front of the unit carry the American flag in the procession.
During World War 2, African American women soldiers of the Women's Army Corps (WACS) stand in formation at a parade ground in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, during a formal military review on February 15, 1945. The women are from the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed “Six Triple Eight, which had just arrived in Birmingham. The WACS' commanding officer, Major Charity Adams, stands beside General John C.H. Lee. The African-American female soldiers of the WACS march in a column, eight deep, passing by General John CH Lee and Major Charity Adams, who salute the soldiers. Other male officers stand on the review stand behind officers Lee and Adams. Note: Major Charity Adams (Charity Edna Adams; later Charity Adams Earley) was the first African-American woman officer in the WACS, and, at the end of the war, then Lieutenant Colonel Adams was the highest ranking African-American woman in the United States military.
Wide shot of building in Washington, D.C., possibly the Department of Labor. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, steel industry chief negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, and Steelworkers Union leader David J. McDonald gathered at a table. James P. Mitchell announces settlement of the 116 day steel strike of 1959, which started on July 15, 1959 and ended with an October 21 court injunction which was upheld by the Supreme Court on November 7. Mitchell explains that a "recommendation for settlement" was made, but that his announcement was pending ratification. The three men shake hands after the announcement. The narrator explains that the pact has benefits "totaling some 39 cent an hour."
View of the sky. View of Station 5 telemetry station for the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. Telemetry scientists in Kano communicating and processing data recorded from Kano and Zanzibar, relaying data to America through London. Telemetry communicators, wearing khaki shorts, stands up from sitting in front of the computer. Nigerian farmers walk in the fields outside Station 5 telemetry station. View of USNS Coastal Sentry (T-AGM-15) off the coast of Zanzibar. Sailor pushes a waveform monitor on a cart. Telemetry communicators working on their computers onboard USNS Coastal Sentry. View of the USNS Coastal Sentry as it sails in the sunset. View of telemetry scientist working in Station 8 in Muchea, near Perth, Western Australia. Two Station 8 staff working on telemetry data. A Station 8 staff lights and smokes a pipe.