Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio, United States. The U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service Corps, wearing gas masks, at the firing line as they aim and fire at targets while standing. The participants drill again, in a speed drill to put on gas masks, reload rifles, and fire at targets from a seated position. They aim at a target from a distance of 200 yards. Men of the Los Angeles Police are instructed in putting on gas masks quickly. Chief of the Los Angeles police, James E. Davis, instructs men. Men pass a gas-filled area during a drill, and practice aiming through gas and smoke using revolver handguns during gas drill. An instructor from Camp Benning and G. A. Marshal of the Portland police demonstrate a hand-to-hand combat protection drill. Others stand and watch. Then the participants try the exercise in pairs. G. A. Marshal keeps his gas mask in a side bag.
Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio, United States. Men at the firing line and fire pistol at targets during the rapid fire pistol match. Sergeant Young of the Portland police fires pistol at a target. Men fire pistol at targets at a 25 yard range. Men mark at the targets. The cardboard targets being raised. Men at firing line as they aim at targets. Sergeant B. H. Harris of Fort Clark in Texas, winner of the pistol shooting championship aims at a target. He stands at the shooting range.
Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio, United States. Men in prone position as they fire at targets during the national team match. Men move around on the shooting range. The target boards and numbers beneath the boards. Bullets hit the target boards. The infantry team members in prone position as they fire at targets on a 600 yard range. Lieutenant Colonel K. T. Smith looks from behind a desk. Men note scores of the cavalry team. Men of the Marines team in prone position as they fire rifles at a target. The navy team members fire rifles at a target. Commandant of the Marine Corps Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune visit the shooting range. Men look at the score board. Men write scores on the board.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates a memorial shaft to pioneers during Sesquicentennial celebrations in Marietta, Ohio. Crowds cheer. President Roosevelt on a stage. Flags are pulled back to reveal the monument. A band plays. View of the Memorial to the Start Westward of the United States, sculpted by Gutzon Borglum, depicting revolutionary and pioneer figures.
Wright brothers' first aircraft flight together near Dayton Ohio in 1910. Wilbur Wright is in the pilot's seat with Orville Wright as passenger to his right. (Until this flight, the Wrights had never flown together so that if one of them was killed, the other could continue their work.) Next, a view of Alberto Santos-Dumont, and the first European flight made by him on 13 September 1909. Following segment shows crowds gathered at Washington DC Polo field as truck arrives carrying mail to be loaded on the first U.S. Air mail flight, May 15, 1918. Army pilot, Lieutenant Webb, in his JN-4H airplane, on Southbound flight from New York, takes off from Philadelphia, where he stopped to pick up more mail. He flies over the Washington Polo Field upon arrival. We see his airplane being unloaded as he jumps down from cockpit and crowds watch. Views of first transatlantic flight begins with takeoff of three out of four existing United States Navy Curtiss flying boat aircraft from Newfoundland, on May 16, 1919. Curtiss flying boats NC-1, NC-3, NC-4 are seen at takeoff from Newfoundland on first leg of the transatlantic journey. Flying Boat NC-4 is also seen at one of its foreign ports, though which is unclear (Azores, Lisbon, or England).
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Project information report on aircraft jettisonable wheel. United States Air Force F-84 aircraft takes off with dual type landing gear. Aircraft drops the outside wheel from each gear after take off.
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