America's first sub-orbital flight. Astronaut Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. NASA special van arrives at pad number 5, Cape Canaveral. Commander Alan B Shepard carries a portable air conditioner and walks to the elevator. Doctor William Douglas, Mercury flight Surgeon follows him. Elevator moves to Mercury capsule. Technicians prepare Redstone booster. Technicians aid astronaut Commander Alan B Shepard into Freedom Seven Capsule. 'Countdown and proceed' written in control room. Alan B Shepard during countdown procedure. Gantry moves away from Redstone-Mercury and the boom arm of cherry picker swinging up to capsule. Umbilical arm drops away and missile lifts off. Commander Alan B Shepard talks. Floating harness strap during weightlessness. Mercury launch team personnel seen in mission control room, including flight surgeon and capsule environment monitors. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain. Marine helicopter HUS-1 takes off from carrier ship. Crewmen signal. Commander Alan B Shepard during flight. Aircraft carrier crewmen sit on deck. Capsule with open parachute descends. Commander Alan B Shepard releases harness strap. Capsule near surface of water.
Air evacuation of casualties on Okinawa, Japan by the 163rd Liaison Squadron. L-5B's land on extremely narrow road near Itoman, which serves as a makeshift airstrip. First Medical Battalion personnel place U.S. Marine causualties aboard Stinson L-5B aircraft. Several L-5Bs are seen landing, having wounded placed on board, and taking off again. Man with signal flag directs landings. One L-5B is seen being pushed backwards to the patient loading area, after landing. A wounded Marine on a stretcher is fastened into the aircraft which then takes off.
Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.
Japanese attack on United States Navy gunboat USS Panay anchored in the Yangtze River at Nanjing (Nanking), China. Ship crew and others evacuate the United States ship Panay after a Japanese air attack. Men transfer onto barges and pull away. Men jump into the river. Japanese aircraft in flight. Bullet marks on the ship. Barges approach the coast and views of the Panay sinking slowly in the background. Men unload their belongings on the shore. Gradually the ship sinks.
United States submarine Nautilus in the Arctic region. Ice scattered on the surface of the sea. Starboard side of the United states submarine Nautilus as it pushes against solid ice. Men at the bow of the submarine as a sea diver descends to check the bow of the submarine. Men on bow tend air hose and lines to the diver underwater. Bubbles on the water surface. The diver pops to the surface and comes along side. He climbs up the ladder and comes aboard. His helmet is removed. Men move onto the deck of the submarine as it moves in an area covered with pieces of ice. Water washes the stern of the submarine as it pitches up and down in the broken ice.
United States submarine Nautilus during an expedition in the Arctic region. Engine room of Nautilus. A man in the engine room releases lever to operate the shaft. Two rubber air hoses hang from the bulkhead. A technician secures Nansen bottle to a rack on the wall in submarine. He checks the bottle and takes down notes. Sir Hubert Wilkins and a man work on a pipe in the submarine as a line is attached to the pipe.
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