Experiments on the aerial bombing of water crafts off Virginia Capes in the United States. July 20 and 21, 1921: Latest type First Line battleship, the heavily armored Ostfriesland at sea. Specifications of the ship. Handley Page 0/400 bombers in flight. The Ostfriesland under bombing attack. Explosions on and around the ship. Three 1,100 bombs hit the ship directly. View of the deck and bow. A 2000lb bomb caves in the starboard quarter. The ship tilted to one side and sinking. A final bomb dropped on the ship. Brigadier General William Mitchell congratulates the pilots and bombers. Secretary of War John W Weeks and U.S. Army General John J Pershing inspect Langley Field with other officers. Brigadier General Mitchell explains the NBS-1 bomber to Secretary Weeks. The group of Air Service pilots pose for a photographer in front of hangers.
Special tests on USS Alabama off the United States coast. September 1921: USS Alabama at sea. 50 lb Navy type smoke bombs used to obscure the attack by heavy bombers. Smoke trails all around the ship. Phosphorus bombs explode around the ship. 100lb high explosive bombs dropped on it. The ship under attack of 300lb demolition bombs. Smoke clouds over damaged parts. Three NBS-1 in flight over Langley Field. Bombers drop four 2000lb bombs in the final attack. Ship tilted to one side. Three Martin Bombers drop two 1,100lb bombs to finish the attack. A mushroom cloud rises from the explosions. The ship lies half submerged in water due to anchoring in shallow water. Wrecked hull, damaged deck. Soldiers inspect the damage. Brigadier General William Mitchell stands with a group of Air Service officers.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) visits Yosemite National Park in California, United States. FDR in a car with other dignitaries. They look at a water fall in the national park. Visitors take pictures of the fall. FDR smiles.
Volunteers in queue to help harvest food crops in Maine, United States during World War II. College women plant potatoes. Tractors used for harvesting. String beans or green beans gathered after cutting. Volunteers working at a shed. Packaging and preservation of food. Trucks unload at a storage place. Tomatoes are cleaned. Workers at assembly line canning and packaging machinery, processing tomatoes and other vegetables and canning them, including for use in soldier rations for World War 2. Vegetables treated and stored. Boxes of canned vegetables ready for shipment in the war effort.
President and Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson stand on steps of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church (400 St Francis St, Stonewall, TX 78671, United States), near the LBJ ranch in Stonewall, Texas. Their daughter, Luci Baines (Johnson) Nugent emerges from the church carrying their newly baptized grandson, Patrick Lyndon Nugent. Husband Patrick John Nugent stands beside his wife. Lynda Bird Johnson, proxy Godmother, poses with them and holds the baby.
Elements of the First Cavalry Division of the United States Army, on maneuvers in Marfa, Texas. Seventh Cavalry Regiment deploys for an "attack. " Soldiers ride their horses and take up positions. Elements of the 82nd Field Artillery (Horse) Battalion are seen pulling several French 75 field artillery pieces with them.
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