Formation of aircraft in flight over New York City before WWII. Five Thomas-Morse O-19C observation biplanes in flight over Manhattan, New York City. A pilot operates controls as seen inside cockpit of aircraft. United States Air Corps bi-winged aircraft flying in formation.
United States B-25 bombers bombing over Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Bombers attack ground target. Fleet of B-25 Bombers in flight. Explosions with black smoke on ground. (World War II period).
Arriving passenger at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States, speaks favorably about her experience traveling on Zeppelin airships. She had flown on the Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) five times, and liked it, but states that the Graf Zeppelin is more like a yacht, compared to the Hindenburg which is more like a steamship. But she considers her trip on the Hindenburg (LZ-129) to be "overwhelming altogether.."
Church religious preacher Bishop C M Grace (Marcelino Manuel da Graça, also known as "Sweet Daddy Grace" of the United House of Prayer) baptizes 500 brethren and sisters at the seashore of Newport News, Virginia, United States. Preacher leads them into water and performs the religious ceremony of washing away their sins. African American onlookers watch and hold the baptized women. Many people dance and celebrate, overcome with emotion.
U.S. Reconnaissance Unit marines receiving underwater training at the U.S. Navy submarine school, New London, Groton, Connecticut. Inside the Buoyant Ascent, Submarine Escape Training Tower, marines equipped with breathing apparatus and flotation collars, are seen rising to the surface of the tank. Glimpse of a submarine on surface of water. Inside the submarine, marines in a platoon, assigned to a team, are briefed by an officer. Then the NCO in charge, carrying his swimming flippers, leads his team into the escape trunk, for their first training mission. View of the marines as water rises around them. Then they are seen making buoyant ascents from the submarine, with bubbles trailing as they rise. View at surface as the team members reach it. The team swims toward shore, pulling their equipment in waterproof bags. They land on a beach, and sweep away any landing marks in the sand. Inland, a team member removes a submachine gun from its waterproof bag. He gives the gun to another marine, fully dressed in camouflage fatigues,
View of the funeral procession of President Theodore Roosevelt, following his death two days earlier on January 6, 1919. Point of view shot from moving car in procession looking backward toward other cars in the procession. Funeral procession and crowd gathered outside Christ Church Episcopal Parish (61 E Main St, Oyster Bay, NY 11771, United States) in Oyster Bay New York. The Reverend Doctor George E. Talmage seen briefly at door beside hearse automobile, and then President Roosevelt's casket draped with an American flag is seen being placed in the hearse. A uniformed Boy Scout stands by in the foreground. William H Taft, Charles E Hughes, and General Leonard Wood walk in the funeral procession exiting the church. President Roosevelt is buried in Oyster Bay, New York.
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