Esther Jane Williams at premier of her film Raw Wind in Eden. She arrives in Atlantic City by helicopter, dives into the sea and swims ashore. Crowd gives her a warm welcome. 04 August 1958.
U.S. Marines climb up a hill between trees and throw grenades at a enemy Japanese position on Bougainville during World War 2. Wounded or dead American soldier lying on ground. Soldiers looking at fire on the hill. Helmet covered with camouflage netting lying on ground. U.S. Marine operating a flamethrower directing flame at Japanese position. Japanese equipment scattered around dead Japanese soldier. A U.S. soldier talks over telex phone. Remains of Japanese men and artillery captured in dug out. Japanese on hilltop, soldier view pill box, another soldier discovers a mine and removes it. Shells lying on ground. Soldiers walk down the road.
U.S. soldiers crawling through underbrush during Bougainville campaign in World War 2 against the Japanese. American soldiers carry injured soldiers. Wounded US soldier or Marine lying on litter, using helmet for pillow. Soldiers squatting in forest. Loading wounded on litters into ambulance backed up to a plane. Soldier walks towards jeep with "Operations Officer - Acorn l3". Ambulance on field. Ambulance backed up to open door of C-47 loading wounded on plane. Two soldiers rest in the shade of a C-47 wing. Wounded soldiers lie inside medical evacuation aircraft.
Men gather at the bank of Niagara river. George L Stathakis enters a large, customized barrel along with his small pet turtle. The lid of the barrel is tightly closed. The barrel is then released in the river close to the Niagara Falls waterfall. Barrel moves in the water and enters the water fall. It drops down along the falls. After crossing the waterfall the barrel is taken out to the river bank. George Stathakis does not emerge. He has died, smothered in the barrel during the stunt. A man takes out the 150 year old turtle from the barrel and shows it to the crowd. It is unharmed.
Images of Niagara Falls and surrounding land shortly after the collapse of a rock shelf between Prospect Point and Luna Island. The collapse altered the contour of the falls for the first time in centuries. A cavity 150 feet wide has opened in the rim of the falls. Ice formations seen near the falls flowing water and encrusted on the viewing platforms. Two men seen standing near the falls.
A group of people standing underneath a tree and looking up. A cat is stuck in the branches of a tree. A young man climbs up the thorny branches to rescue t cat and brings it down. The cat was stuck for 120 hrs in isolation. People are happy to have their pictures clicked with the cat.
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