Project Mercury program by NASA in United States. Trainees with chimpanzees. A chimpanzee couch. Technicians watch controls as they test a spacecraft in a test chamber. U.S. Air Force airplane delivers the spacecraft to the test center. Men stand in a group and talk. The spacecraft is towed with a tug. A chimpanzee on a couch is taken out from a van. The spacecraft is suspended over altitude chamber prior to the test. A chimpanzee named Ham is taken to the test chamber. It is placed in the spacecraft. Technicians work in a control room. The door to altitude chamber is closed. The chimpanzee in a couch container. Technicians inspect the spacecraft and an impact bag.
Project Mercury program in United States. A Redstone MR-2 rocket is unloaded from the military air transport. It is towed with a tug and is taken to a hangar for service where technicians work on it. It is taken out of the hangar and is raised up to the level of a gantry. The rocket is tied to a rope and men pull the rope to raise the rocket. The rocket at the gantry. Men stand around it. Technician work on a spacecraft. A sign reads 'United States'. The technicians take pictures of the spacecraft. It is brought near the rocket. The spacecraft is hooked and pulled up. A sign reads 'Danger Explosive Installed'. Technicians talk and look up. Men on the gantry. A technicians looks into a book . The spacecraft is attached to a rocket by the technicians.
Major Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr during a NASA technical meeting in the United States, in advance of the Mercury Atlas MA-9 flight. The technical meeting at General Dynamics/Astronautics (GD/A) shows audience and participants at a table including Major Charles L. Gandy, Jr, Air Force program officer; Richard W. Keehn; Charles S. Ames, Program Director GD/A; Scott Simpkinson and Major L. Gordan Cooper. They all represent NASA.
U.S. 5th Marine Regiment in Chateau-Thierry, France during World War I. U.S. troops on a cart and enemy equipment kept in front of the cart. The troops display the enemy equipment. The soldiers stand around the equipment and watch it. They unload the enemy equipment from a truck. A portable machine ship services tires. The soldiers work on a tire. A soldier fills air in the tire of a bike. Troops work on the portable machine in the background. The soldiers work on the motor and the radiator. The 2nd engineers hold religious services. Supplies being distributed among the troops.
The USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Map of Marcus Island and surrounding islands in Japan. Animation depicts the U.S. fleet's aim to recapture the Philippines and land on the main land of Asia to help their ally China. USS Yorktown underway. A map depicts its advance towards its target of Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands. Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters in flight. U.S. planes in dogfights with Japanese aircraft over Kwajalein Island. Aerial gun camera footage shows United States aircraft attacking Japanese aircraft. Japanese airplane is hit and explodes. Another Japanese airplane falling from sky to crash in water. Heavy bombardment and strafing on land of enemy targets, wrecked aircraft. Black smoke rises from explosions on the burning island. Heavy shelling by surface ships. Assault crafts filled with U.S. Marines and Army soldiers hit the beaches on Kwajalein. U.S. airplanes in flight over the island.
USS Yorktown (CV-10) off the Truk Islands fighting against Japanese positions in World War 2. U.S. planes from the carrier strafe Japanese fleet auxiliaries like rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They strafe ships loaded with TNT, fire at ships off shore. Dramatic explosions as some ships explode. Explosions in the water. The squadron returns and lands on the carrier deck. The Air Group Commander inspects his aircraft windshield blotted with blood. The plane was hit by a 40mm anti aircraft gun. The crew helps the wounded pilot out of the airplane. Other aircraft land with difficulty. Casualties on stretchers taken below by the crew.
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