The National Air Races at Curtis-Reynolds Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Navy airplanes fly in formation and perform tactical maneuvers. U.S. aviator James Harold ' Jimmy' Doolittle perform stunts in an army airplane.
Scenes of actual tornadoes photographed in the United States. View inside the U.S.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Center at Norman Oklahoma. Meteorologists at desks and monitoring radar screens. A radar dome and view of antenna rotating inside. A U.S. Air Force RF-4c aircraft in flight providing observations to the Weather Center, where meteorologists are tracking severe weather returns on radar.
View of the buildings and grounds of the U.S. National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. A U.S. Air Force technician working with NSSL meteorologists at computers and radar monitoring stations. Several outdoor radar domes on towers. A horse grazing on the NSSL grounds. A sign identifying the NSSL with NOAA logo and words: "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" and "U.S. Department of Commerce." Radar images of the continental United States showing severe weather areas. Meteorologists tracking the severe weather by radar and typing real-time reports of observations.
U.S. Air Force aircraft fly some Berlin children to West Germany for summer vacation during Operation Kinderlift in Germany. German children with their parents at an airport. A young German child with a tag around his neck. An officer holds a German boy and he cries. A young German boy stands by. A woman holding her son. The U.S. officer along with the German children board a U.S. aircraft. The parents of the German children wave as their children depart for vacation holidays in West Germany during the Cold War. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The children seated inside the aircraft. Two boys play chess. A boy eats banana. Another looks through binoculars.
U.S. battleship USS New Jersey (BB-16) being test bombed in the Atlantic Ocean as part of General Billy Mitchell's efforts to demonstrate the effect of air power in warfare. A close up of the USS New Jersey (BB-16). The ship begins to sink after aerial bombing. One mast falls and the U.S. battleship tilts on one side. The ship gradually submerges into water off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Russian troops celebrate their victory against Germany in the Eastern Front Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket during World War 2. Russian T-34 tanks and Infantry enter a village in the Ukraine. The Russian troops roll into town. Russian Military Commander Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin stands in front of a jeep. Russian Military Commander Ivan Konev and Commander Vatutin stand together. The troops on armor and tanks advancing. The Russian troops fire artillery guns at night in synchronized patterns to celebrate the victory. People watch the guns being fired filling the air with flares and fireworks over a town. Soviet citizens look on and smile.
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