United States Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat Nixon wave as they step from their U.S. Air Force aircraft upon arrival in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 13, 1958, during a Good Will Tour of Latin America. Reporters and photographers crowd around the foot of the stairs from the airplane. Assailants wielding clubs and pipes attack the car carrying the Nixons. Closeup of smashed windows of the state car. View from inside the severely damaged car.
Part of a film on the history of Israel. A stele or stela of King Shalmaneser III. Different carvings on the stele. The names of the prophets in Hebrew Bible. Arab men seated in an open air part of a palace. They drink wine and eat. Women dance and serve wine. Arab people on the streets. A beggar seated. Shepherds guard sheep. A view of a sunrise from the Mount Hermon. The Mount Hermon.
The Pacific campaign on the Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. P-47 Thunderbolt planes loaded aboard carriers in Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. P-47s of the 318th Fighter Group, 19th Fighter Squadron , are loaded aboard the two aircraft carriers, USS Manila Bay and USS Natoma Bay, at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. Among the aircraft seen are: P-47 named "Big Baduzi;" P-47 number 42-75783 named "Little Rock-ette;" one named "The Wicked Wench;" and one with serial number 43-2530. Various views of aircraft being loaded on carriers from dock area. Crane in operation. Plane being swung over onto the deck where it is pushed on the elevator and moved down into the hold of the ship. Air Force mechanics working with Navy personnel moving planes and placing them below deck. Navy personnel pushing the aircraft around into position above and below the deck of carrier. Sailors cut loose the mooring lines. Several officers and sailors standing on deck of a carrier as they move out of the harbor. View across Pearl Harbor at Diamond Head mountain in background. Remaining ground crews, support personnel, and others of the 318th Fighter Group assembled on the pier, ready to embark on a troop ship, June 6, 1944. They commence boarding via a gangplank, being checked off as they board.(This third convoy, departs on June 7th.) Various sections of ship with views looking out across at land and ships parked in the harbor.
Pacific campaign of World War 2 fought on Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands in World War II. Aslito Air Field area showing temporary huts erected by the 804th Aviation Engineers. Men washing clothes in small metal containers. Jeep made into stretcher bearer showing two patients on stretchers on jeep. Medical officers setting up tables and preparing for operation. Men being brought into the hospital. Several of the patients, military and civilian, foreign and Japanese all treated at the same hospital. Wounded Japanese sitting around the outside of the hospital. Small wounded child wrapped in bandages. Several civilians that had been treated at the hospital. Japanese prisoners as they unload the gasoline from trucks, push it across the area, and stack it up in supply dump area. Men pushing the drums of gas onto a truck. Gasoline pouring out of the drum into a trough. Japanese prisoners of war sitting around in the area resting. Grader moving across the finished field. Deck of carrier underway at sea off the coast of Saipan showing the blinker system used to correspond between ships at sea. Tower and operators of the blinker system.
U.S. Army Air Forces 19th Fighter Squadron personnel on the Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands in World War 2. Pilot writing a letter at Aslito Airfield, Saipan Island. Interior operations building showing the men lounging around and relaxing. Barber giving a haircut in outside area, P-47 Thunderbolt planes in background. Airman taking a nap. Bulletin board of the fighter squadron with chalk reference to 19th Bomb Squadron (possibly meaning fighter-bomber Squadron).Contains a note reading: "Minimum buzzing alt 50 ft." Alert duty roster is posted with names of pilots, shifts they will pull, & assigned aircraft numbers. Pilots cleaning and inspecting their sidearms.
Napalm bombs, improvised from wing fuel tanks, installed under wing of a P-47 from U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) 318th Fighter Group, on Aslito airfield (Isley field) during the Tinian campaign of World War II in the Pacific. Airman fastening improvised napalm bomb under wing of the P-47 aircraft. Ground crews drop off 55 gallon drums of fuel beside a P-47 and fasten a fueling hose to them. They pump napalm and gasoline into the 165gallon suspended wing tanks (bombs), creating gel gas mixture. Soldier holds a sample of the rubbery gel incendiary gel in his hand and manipulates it showing its texture. After fueling the incendiary bombs, the crewmen fasten detonators into the napalm bombs.
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