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United States Navy Regulus missile being prepared before its launch from U.S. Navy submarine USS Tunny in the Pacific Ocean
Launching of the United States Navy cruise missile Regulus from United States Navy submarine USS Tunny (SS-282) in California, United States. The United States Navy Gato-class submarine USS Tunny gets underway in the Pacific Ocean and moves out of Port Hueneme, California. Tunny submerges in water. Aboard the submarine, missile men check the umbilical cable and electronic check out cable being plugged in. The missile circuits being energized. Men work on controls. Various automatic functions being checked. A man takes down readings as he monitors the results. The Commanding Officer at the periscope as he checks the launch area. Ignitors being installed in the booster. The missile being buttoned up and the umbilical cable being disconnected inside the hangar. A navigator checks the position. The USS tunny comes on the water surface. Hangar doors open and Regulus missile emerges from the hangar. Men on the deck in the foreground. Umbilical cable used for pre-umbilical launch check. The wings of the Regulus being unfolded and locked. External fuel being attached to the missile for warm up before take off. An air eject system being connected to detach umbilical cable. A black reflector shield being fitted out. Launcher being elevated to the firing position. Final checks being made. The umbilical cable ejects and missile being launched. USS Tunny submerges in water. Men at controls in the missile room. Radar and radio antennas aboard USS Tunny break through the water surface. A plot being maintained on the position of Tunny. A missile guidance officer guides men as they work on a plot.
Equipment transported to the Exxon Valdez oil spill zone and being deployed in Prince William Sound in the United States.
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in the United States. California : Supervisor of Salvage and Diving team's emergency boats carried on a trailer. A United States aircraft Lockheed C-5 Galaxy being loaded with the equipment. The C-5 aircraft lands on Elmendorf Air Force Base. The boat offloaded from the aircraft. The boat carried on a trailer. Supervisor of Salvage and Diving personnel prepares boats and skimmers. Boats being lowered in water. Skimmer boat moves to the Exxon Valdez. Equipment kept on bases in California and Virginia. Men load a skimmer boat onto a trailer. The boat offloaded from C-5 aircraft. Spare parts and other equipment. Equipment in a shop. A rope on deck. Oil containment boom stacked. Rubber oil storage bladders in water. A satellite communication van. Officers and coast guard personnel stand. Skimmer boat around the Exxon Valdez. Oil containment booms being deployed. An aircraft in flight over the sea. Skimmer boat in sheltered area. Oil spilled on water dragged by wind to the beaches.
Burning USS battleships and an injured man carried on a stretcher during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. The upturned hull of USS Oklahoma with USS Maryland behind her. USS Tern is moored in the foreground at 1010 dock. USS St. Louis breaks down a channel for open sea. Guns firing. Smoking beach and burning USS Nevada. Destroyer USS Shaw afire in a floating dry dock down the channel from 1010 dock. USS California settles in water, USS Maryland and overturned USS Oklahoma. Burning oil pouring out of USS Arizona starts to engulf all of the battleships due to a drift in the current. An injured man on a stretcher is being carried past autos parked on 1010 dock for transport to medical facilities. Drifting oil fire from USS Arizona engulfs battleship USS California.
Destroyer USS Shaw's forward magazines explode in a large fireball during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during World War II. Destroyer USS Shaw's forward magazines explode in a large fireball. USS California after oil fire drifts clear. USS Blue heads down a channel past burning oil fires for sea. Capsized USS Oglala sunken in the foreground. USS Shaw burns in the background. A Japanese aircraft overhead is fired on. Heavy flak in the air. A shrapnel falls in water just off 1010 dock. Battleships in the background. A row of battleships shows USS Maryland, USS Oklahoma, USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia and USS Arizona. USS California settling in water.
James Doolittle and wife board airplane and set a new coast to coast air record in the United States.
U.S. aviation pioneer General James Harold 'Jimmy' Doolittle sets a new air record for flying a passenger airplane from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in twelve hours. Doolittle and his wife seen looking at a map. They both board the waiting aircraft, American Airlines’ Vultee V-1A Special NC13770. 'Shell' oil company symbol written on the airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off from Union Air Terminal, Burbank, California. Aerial view of the airplane in flight over mountains. The airplane in flight over the clouds. The airplane lands at Newark Airport and taxis on a runway. Hangars and a building in the background. Doolittle exits the airplane with his wife at and greets people waiting. They pose for pictures beside the airplane.
NCAA Track and Field events in Austin Texas, June, 1957
Gregory C. (Greg) Bell, a sophomore at Indiana University, is seen making his record-setting long jump of 26' 7", to win the national collegiate title on June 14, 1957, in Austin Texas. Bell sitting on the ground after his jump. Sequence shifts to the track where Don Bowden, of California, is running well ahead of favored Ron Delany, of Villanova, to win the 800 meter run in 1 minute and 47.2 seconds. (Note: Delany won the 1500 meter run in 4 minutes 6 and a half minutes.) The next day, on June 15, 1957, Bob Gutowski, of Occidental College,California, is seen breaking the World record in the pole vault at a height of 15 feet 9 3/4 inches. He poses momentarily afterwards.