Flight tests of Ercoupe airplane without and with an auxiliary jet propulsion at March Field in California. The flight test is conducted to furnish information on the effect of auxiliary jet propulsion on short take off distance and time, effect on stability and control and effect of blast from jet units on the airplane structure. Check posts at March Field. Men at machines during flight testing. The men enter a check post made of aluminum sheets.
Flight tests of Ercoupe airplane without and with an auxiliary jet propulsion at March Field in California. Ercoupe airplane takes off with a propeller alone. It is piloted by Captain Homer A. Boushey Jr. The airplane is in hold down position for static tests being conducted by technicians. The pilot in the cockpit. The airplane takes off with an auxiliary jet thrust from 6 units for shortening the take off distance and time. The airplane lands at an airfield. The pilot in the cockpit. The crew stands near the airplane and two men pose for a camera. The airplane takes off and lands during the flight tests. The airplane is in stationary position for the static tests.
Troops coming home to America at the end of World War 2. An Army Sergeant just returned from Europe, at the end of World War 2, stands on a pier, beside the troop ship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). With him is a woman who wearing a jacket emblazoned with many emblems of U.S. military units. The sergeant places the insignia of the 10th Armored Division on her back. They hug and laugh. Scene shifts completely to 9th Armored Division soldiers at Camp Patrick Henry, Newport News, Virginia, holding the large sign originally placed on the Ludendorff bridge in Germany, by C Company of the 9th Armored Engineer Battalion during the war. It reads:"Cross the Rhine with dry feet, courtesy of 9th Arm'd Div." The soldiers carry the sign past a wooden building at the camp. Change of scene shows Ninth Armored Division troops arriving by train at Camp Patrick Henry. They march in loose order on train platform, with troop transport railroad train pulled into station. The happy soldiers march through a Victory Arch bearing words, "Welcome Home" at an entrance to the camp. More views of the troops marching into Camp Patrick Henry, where the 9th Division is to be deactivated. In the camp grounds, Sergeant reaches into his dufflebag and takes out a small puppy. ( Note: Vehicles: seen in this clip include: MB GPW, and CCKW)
President Truman blames Soviet Union for blocking peace in Missouri. President Harry S Truman forgathers with World War I Battery D comrades. A comrade waves flag of Battery D unit. They walk towards podium. President Truman criticizes Soviet Union as an obstacle to peace.
A friend or relative of a Lieutenant in the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team (comprising American soldiers of Japanese ancestry) receives a Third Army patch from a young woman (friend or relative) following completion of his unit's basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, during World War 2. Both the officer and the woman, laugh, as she sews the patch in place with needle and thread. When she finishes, he kisses her on the cheek. Then they shake hands. Another woman comes by to congratulate him followed by one of the Camp's training officers.
Soldiers of the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team (comprising Americans of Japanese ancestry) being trained by their own non-commissioned officers in World War 2. A group of 442nd soldiers stands in formation near a barracks. They all render a hand salute as their color guard passes with the American flag. Scene shifts to a Platoon of 442nd soldiers. Their Platoon Leader orders them to dress right and adjust their positions. Next he orders them to salute. He then moves along the formation, checking and occasionally correcting a soldiers hand position. Closeups of individual soldiers as the Platoon Leader makes small adjustments in their salutes. Next, a larger formation of soldiers stands at attention, including one holding a unit guidon. As a three-man color guard passes, all salute.
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