From the civil defense film "Duck and Cover" in the United States. A man drives a truck on a field. After a bright flash of an "explosion" He lies down on the ground covering his head with hands. Trees and house in background. Children sitting in a classroom. They move out of the classroom. A woman consults the civil defense personnel. Children lie down on the floor and cover themselves. Animation: Burt the turtle explains to children how to protect themselves at the time of explosion with "duck and cover" techniques.
N2Y-1 training planes, with trapeze-hook equipment, practice hooking onto USS Akron (ZRS-4) dirigible in the United States. USS Akron in flight. N2Y-1 training plane hooked onto it. Another plane attempts to hook onto the Akron but misses. The N2Y-1 tries again and then flies away.
Lt. Russell Maughan in the United States. Lt. Maughan gets into a cockpit and another man helps him. A man cranks a fuel pump by hand and others stand near it. A Curtiss PW-8 plane takes stop in Dayton, Ohio. A man notes on a paper and others stand near him. The plane taxis on a field. People stand at the back. The plane takes off for St. Joseph. Bystanders obscure the view of the take off.
History and development of aviation in the United States and elsewhere in the world in the early 20th century.Ground crew fueling a German made Fokker T-2 airplane from gasoline cans. Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready, in 1923, standing by their Fokker T-2 aircraft, upon which is painted: "Army Air Services, Non Stop, Coast to Coast." Fokker T-2 airplane taking off. Army officers looking at several biplanes parked, without propellers. A JN-4H (Jenny) airplane in flight. American military engineers or Seabees building an airfield in the Pacific during World War 2. B-25 aircraft sits in middle of construction activity. Crew under a C-47 in snow in the Arctic. A map shows the future commercial air routes of the world.
Development of aviation in the United States during 1940s. Transport and bomber aircraft under construction in factories staffed by World War II war production workers. P-38 lightning fighters under construction in a factory, in 1944. A train carries raw materials on railroad in arid area. A woman taps rubber trees in tropical area. Formation of C-47 aircraft with individual planes "peeling off" for landing. American C-47 transport aircraft being loaded. Soldiers load a jeep on one. Soldiers load an artillery gun on another. C-47 taxis for takeoff. Flight of 4 twin-engine bombers head-on view. The roof of a building reads 'radio range'. Interior cockpit view of aircraft instrument landing system (ILS) localizer and glide path needles moving toward center. A pilot in cockpit of a plane. A radio navigation transmitting tower. A ship in the ocean with a PBY Catalina flying over it. Flight engineer at his station in multi-engine aircraft. (World War II period).
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States in World War II. A truck carries a part of a prefabricated portable house. The prefabricated house part is attached to other part stationed on a grassland. Women sit at the entrance of the house. A man uses a dumpy level to observe the contours of the land. Workers work at the community sewage disposal plant. A cemented pipe is lowered. Linemen at a tower erect telephone lines. A truck passes under the tower. Workers mix cement. Workers keep a grilled structure onto the truck. The truck carries the grilled structure. A truck drops lumber on the ground. Workers in a row pick the grilled structure. They erect the walls of the houses. A worker carries a wooden slab. He walks on the roof of the house with the wooden slab. Other workers work on the house roof. Stucco siding applied to homes.
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