Wake of Japanese battleship as it starts to get underway, during World War 2. Large anchor chain being pulled up through hawse pipe. Seamen wash the chain with brush and water. Windlass turning with anchor chain. Fleet of Japanese warships underway. Submarine Lifeline in foreground. Two Japanese officers on bridge. View of ship's bow and gun barrels.
Routine activities aboard a Japanese battleship during World War II. Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) officer looks through binoculars. Another battleship in the background. Imperial Japanese Navy sailor on deck of ship releases weather balloon. Another sailor looks through a telescope. Japanese sailor looks at a timepiece and another sailor annotate a navigation log. A sailor plots ship's position using a pair of compasses. Bow of Japanese battleship swept by waves in rough sea. Sailors work on deck in rainy weather. Sailor empties water from the deck into containers. Several cooks put baskets of rice into large boiling pots. Fish placed on net trays and into boiler. Potatoes being washed and thrown into basket from a peeler machine.
Peaceful conditions. View of a large rainbow. View from deck of surfaced submarine underway in a column of warships during World War 2. Crew at controls inside the submarine. Crew taking baths on submarine deck. Japanese crew members in mess hall, eating meal inside submarine. Sunset. A blinker light flashing signals from another ship, in the dark.
View of collaborationist French soldiers from the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, or, Légion des volontaires français, or LVF.) The LVF soldiers, made of of right-wing French and French prisoners, are marching through the streets of Versailles, France, toward the Versailles Chantiers train station, to begin their trip to the Soviet Union where they will fight together with Germany against Soviet forces in World War 2. To the Germans they were known as Infantry Regiment, or Infanterieregiment 638. Led by a Band, the soldiers march through streets of Versailles and uphill toward the main arched entrance of the Versailles Chantiers station. Civilians line streets to bid farewell, and some women kiss soldiers goodbye. View of black locomotive leading the train. LVF board a train car with chalk inscription on the side "Paris - Moscow, LVF".
Igor Sikorsky seated inside Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, an experimental helicopter at a field behind the Vought-Sikorsky plant off Sniffens lane, Stratford, Connecticut. Sikorsky takes off in his VS-300 helicopter attempting to set a new world's endurance record for sustained flight. At one point during the flight, Robert Mackellar III, an employee, in white lab coat, holds up a sign reading "Worlds Record BROKEN, 1 hour 20 mts, as the helicopter continues to hover, breaking the record of 1 hour, 20 minutes and 40 seconds, set in 1937 by Heinrich Focke in Germany. Judges check their watches to confirm the airborne time of the helicopter. The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter sets a new record of 1 hour and 32 minutes sustained flight.
Pitcairn PA-36 autogyro takes off from a road surrounded by cars. The Pitcairn PA-36 is highly maneuverable and well controlled in bad weather. The Pitcairn PA-36 helicopter can stay put on a spot for a longer duration. Photographers take pictures as the Pitcairn PA-36 takes off.
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