A Forward Air Controller (FAC) helps a United States Air Force pilot don a flight suit at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. Pilot checks map and enters the cockpit of O-1E aircraft. O-1E taxis down flight line and then parks under directions of the FAC. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army's Major General John Norton stands beside an army UH-1D helicopter at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. He speaks on the success off their air strikes missions and says that they have demonstrated a successful use of close air support by deployment of various aircraft in Vietnam. Another UH-1D on ground in the background with U.S. troops aboard it. (Vietnam War period).
Newsreel from 1942 shows 1918 World War I footage of a review of troops in France by Chief of Staff (and subsequently Brigadier General) Douglas MacArthur along with General John J. Pershing, head of the United States' National Army. Some French officers are also visible in the gathering. The military officers watch as U.S. Army troops, presumably of MacArthur's 42nd "Rainbow" Division march. Pershing and MacArthur review the troops along with other senior military officers. Pershing and MacArthur shake hands. Military automobiles on a dirt road near the men.
City of Cleveland in Ohio United States. Major productions are iron and steel. Elevated views from a tall building looking out over the city center buildings and streets below. Euclid Avenue Street, one of the famous streets. View of Sailors and Soldiers Monument in Cleveland Public Square, fountain, pedestrians walking in Cleveland, and streetcars on busy streets. Slate notes that the Cleveland street railway systems have attracted nationwide attention for their fixed 3 cent rate of fair, as long as the returns permit a 6% dividend upon an arbitrated valuation of the railway properties. Statue of founder General Moses Cleveland in the center of the city.
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visiting the United States. Caravan of cars moves towards Detroit. Delegates gathered atop a building with a sweeping view of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge complex. The Commission members inspect an automobile factory. The group attends a baseball game during a break. Delegates sitting at Navin Field at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull avenue, watching a Detroit Tigers baseball game. Baseball players in action on the field
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit Cleveland Ohio during a tour of the United States. Delegates stand outside their cars and view iron ore transport operations. Huge cranes shift ore from ship holds to waiting rail cars. Delegates visit the Huntington Bank Building (originally the Union Trust Building) on Euclid Avenue which had just been completed. View of the delegates gathered at the base of a stairs on one end of the massive bank lobby. View of the Huntington Bank lobby. The delegates visit a truck manufacturing facility in Cleveland (likely either Gotfredson Trucks or White Motor Company). Workers busy building and assembling trucks on the factory floor.
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