Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A captain wearing a 1907 uniform approaches Bleriot XI aircraft. He does a preflight checking of the aircraft. He puts on a flying jacket and a parachute. He gets into the cockpit.
Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A captain wearing a 1917 pilot's uniform approaches a French Nieuport fighter aircraft. He does a preflight checking of the aircraft. He takes off his officer's hat and puts on a helmet. He gets into the front cockpit of the aircraft.
Engineering students prepare a mock up of the National Aerospace Plane in Virginia, United States Animation depicts the National Aerospace Plane (X-30 aircraft) ability to fly anywhere in the world. A group of college engineering students at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, are seen building a half scale mock up of the Aerospace Plane. Faculty advisor Walter F. O'Brien helps a student. A student makes the parts of the plane. A student makes a computer design of the plane. The students making parts of the plane. Walt O'Brien at a desk talks about the design and different aspects of the aircraft model. The students working on the half-scale model. The students work inside a hangar. A half skeleton of the plane. The student assemble the aluminum structure. The airplane is rolled out of the hangar on graduation day. People applaud and take pictures. The students receive awards and recognition for their effort. A truck carrying mock up drives on a highway road. The mock up is loaded into a USAF (United States Air Force) C-5 Galaxy. Side of the the C-5 aircraft as it takes off. The mock up arrives in Paris and is seen on display at the Paris Air Show. Visitors at the show look at the plane. A close up of the mock up. Animation depicts the National Aero-Space Plane in flight.
SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve ) learn swimming in the United States, as part of their training during World War 2. The women in swim suits seated on a bench talking. They learn swimming. An instructor instructs them in the foreground. The women practicing. One of them swims in the pool. They come out of the pool.
SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve) in the United States, during World War 2. Uniformed women in the U.S.Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) step from a bus in a major city with skyscrapers. Two of them are seen standing next to a Coast Guard officer, who appears to write them local passes. Two SPARS women operate telephone switchboards.SPARS
The United States Army Quartermaster Corps in the United States during World War II. A diagrammatic comparison of army manpower of 8,000,000 in December 1943 as against 1,750,000 in December 1941. A diagrammatic representation of huge increase in volume of obligated procurement in 1942 as against 1941. Men wheeling carts of supplies at a store. Men carrying supplies coming down a gangway from a ship onto a dock. Soldiers with guns standing on the dock. Soldiers moving through a wooded area. Men carrying the procured materials for storing. Officers watching the men. Two soldiers wearing their uniforms. People and vehicles moving on a city street. A signboard on a building reads 'Office of the Quartermaster General War Department'. The headquarters building in view. A map of the U.S. showing locations of different procuring offices across the nation. Men and women working in an office at the headquarters. Petroleum, Subsistence and Textile sections at the headquarters. Officers working in the headquarters. Men getting into a truck. Enlisted men being trained in various quartermaster operations at a training center.
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