The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) on its way to Balboa Panama. Two motorboats follow the aircraft carrier . H-19 helicopter hovers in as it approaches the aircraft carrier for landing. Two motorboats continue to follow the ship. Helicopter on board the aircraft carrier.
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CV-42) on its way to Balboa Panama. Latin American students of Albrook Air Force Base on board the aircraft carrier. They pose in front of jet planes parked on the carrier as others take pictures of them. A girls poses for a picture with an aircraft. Soldiers move up a ramp. Metal engravings having some names. Flight deck of the carrier. Colonel Taute and other officers get into H-19 helicopter and leave for a mission to Peru.
Colonel Charles Lindbergh along with Major General William S Graves, Commanding General of Canal Zone, Major General Malin Craig and Brigadier General William Cruikshank review troops at United States Army base, Fort Amador in Canal Zone, Panama on January 11, 1928.
Lifestyle of civilians in Panama. Native women seated outside a building. A woman chews. A street in the native quarter of the city showing pedestrians, carriages and wagon traffic. Buildings along street sides.
American soldiers train in jungle warfare in Panama during World War II. Soldiers walk across a dense forest. They cross a pond. The soldiers seated on the ground as they eat.
The U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Langley (CV-1) going through the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal with many aircraft parked on her deck. In different sequence, aircraft are seen taking off and landing on the deck of the Langley. Complete change of scene shows launching of the USS Saratoga (CV-3) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Camden, New Jersey. The USS Saratoga is christened with a bottle of champagne and slides down the ways into the river. Views from the deck of the Saratoga as she proceeds down the ways.