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Three Russian airmen land in San Jacinto, California, after flight from Moscow, Russian, over the North Pole
Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.
Liquid rocket research and development, led by Robert H. Goddard, in America
Robert H. Goddard with the first flight of a liquid fuel rocket on March 16, 1926, in Auburn, Massachussets. He stands next to the rocket perched high on a launching frame. Goddard uses a long pole and can of benzene to fuel the rocket. Photogaph of his camera and barograph used on July 17, 1929. An 18 meter tower being prepared. A 6 meter high test stand. The barrel could be filled with water and serve as ballast. Picture of a Performance recording device. A man in a protective bunker 15 meters from the launch point for tests in New Mexico. A man using a telescope to observe from a shed 900 meters from the launch point. Another with a telescope and recording device on a tripod. Pictures from the first gyro-controlled rocket flight on April 19, 1932
Dedication of Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, in 1928.
In 1926, Frederick Patterson, in cab of a Steam shovel, breaks ground for the construction of Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Horses pull wagons past the steam shovel. Dedication of Wright Field at Dayton in 1928. Flag raising ceremony shows Mr Orville Wright pulling the rope which raises the flag upon the pole. In addition to Orville Wright, the event was attended by Secretary of War, Davis; Judge (and Baseball Commissioner) Kenesaw Landis; Assistant Secretary, F. Trubee Davison; Air Corps Chief General Patrick, and others. Artillery salute is fired at the ceremony. Squdrons of airplanes fly overhead.
United States Army soldiers dismantle a wooden pole hut; and burn the huts in an empty village in Vietnam
U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade making their way across a valley in Vietnam. They dismantle and flatten a wooden pole hut in an empty village that had been used by North Vietnamese NVA 2nd Regiment. Next, a U.S. soldier strikes a match and they set fire to roofs of empty huts and crushed huts to destroy them. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 25th Infantry Division and South Korean troops battle North Korean troops near Taejon, Korea during the Korean War.
U.S. troops battle North Koreans in Taejon, Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 25th Infantry Division troops fire howitzers, bazookas and other artillery weapons at North Korean positions. U.S. tanks fire at enemy positions. Smoke rises from enemy positions on hills. A U.S. aircraft bombs enemy positions. U.S. troops cover a bridge with rifle and machine gun fire to help the last units to cross a river near Yongdon. Men in a jeep fire guns as it goes across a bridge. United Nations flag flies from a pole at U.S. 24th Division Regimental Command Post in Chinju. North Korean prisoners are rounded up at the command post as South Korean troops move up to aid the defense. Trucks tow camouflage artillery guns up a hill. 25th Division infantrymen advance and recover their vehicles.
Description of North American Air Defense system components and operation
Actor Raymond Massey talks about the nation's need for defense against possible air attack. He walks to a large wall map depicting North America and discusses joint efforts of Canada and the United States to establish an effective air defense system for North America. On the map, lines of radar stations are shown: The DEW line;Mid Canada line; and the Pine Tree line. Other radar installations are highlighted along East and West coasts on land, on towers in the ocean, on picket ships and on picket aircraft. Sites of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) network of radars, computer systems, and aircraft command and control equipment are depicted on the U.S. part of the map. The headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) at Colorado Springs, Colorado is highlighted. Massey points to models of intercepter missiles and long range bombers, on his desk, and discusses their employment. He then speaks of an intricate communications system to tie everything together. This is depicted on the animated map. Views of men laying telephone cable. Underground view of telephone cables. View of telephone microwave tower. Telephone poles and lines along a rural road. A mother and child telephoning the father long distance. Office workers using telephones. Teletype machines and television communications. A ship laying telephone cable at sea.Map depicts lines of communication provided by undersea cables. views of emergency supplies and equipment available in times of disaster. Downed power lines being repaired. Men at a large emergency diesel generator. Underground communication cables being installed by team of tracked vehicles. Remote lines of communication away from possible targets are depicted.
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