USAF (United States Air Force) trucks with equipment and people in a desert area. Men preparing the launch of photographic gondola. Aerial view of photographic gondola. An aircraft is seen flying. A helium tank marked - Helium oil free. Plastic balloon inflated with helium.
Mission No. 45 of human downward ejection test. Three USAF (United States Air Force) planes B-47 Stratojet, F-94 Starfire and T-33 Shooting Star. Test subject and seat ejected from plane. Seat and test subject separates. Parachute opens and parachutist descends. Footage is from U.S. Air Force aero-medical studies.
Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.
Instructional film about aiming the M-16 rifle, for USAF (United States Air Force). A group of U.S. airmen are seated in a class room. A Sergeant, instructor, demonstrates aiming technique. A series of sighting views is shown to illustrate proper aiming of the M-16.
British Admiral Sir Michael Hodges with other officials come on board USS (United States Ship) Texas to pay his respect to Admiral JV Chase. Views of the personnel on deck. Battleships in different formations like steaming formation, single column and column formation at sea. A Japanese naval officer and his wife boarding ship for official visit. Officer and his wife greeted on quarter deck of Pennsylvania, marine honor guard in background.
Staff of a government entity, in the United States, consisting of several men and a woman, stand in a line facing a senior official who places packages of papers on a table. Interested persons stand about, awaiting permission to pick up the papers. They are all permitted to see the papers, at the same time. The senior official makes a formal statement about the information being released, speaking into a radio broadcast microphone.
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