United States Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger makes the longest jump during Project Excelsior in New Mexico. Colonel Kittinger puts on a suit for the jump and enters a balloon gondola. Men help him. The balloon rises from New Mexico. An automatic camera in the gondola records the whole event. The colonel jumps out of the gondola and descends towards the land. People watch the colonel descending. He is helped out of the suit as he lands.
Newsreel clip on the opening of the Astrodome in Houston Texas. View of the seats inside the new $30 million covered stadium. Houston Astros players and coaches work out on the field. A pitcher throws a practice pitch to a catcher. Judge Roy Hofheinz is among several men in suits on the edge of the field, watching, in the background. Camera pans across the Astrodome's translucent roof, 20 stories above the playing field. Announcer notes the 45,000 seats are upholstered and the building is air conditioned so baseball and football fans can watch games in comfort. Astros players #21 Al Spangler and #14 Bob Aspromonte take swings as coach pitches batting practice.
Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States during World War II. An animated map of the Pacific Ocean shows places. Ships underway at sea. Japanese sailors and officers aboard a ship. A sailor watches a target area through binoculars. They discuss amongst themselves. Japanese pilots are briefed by an officer aboard the ship. Japanese bomber planes parked on the flight deck of the ship. The pilots embark the airplanes and take off. The airplanes fly in formation. They attack and bomb U.S. Pacific fleet. An aerial view of the target area. Smoke rises from the bombardment. Battleships underway at sea fire guns at the target.
Japanese air attacks on Royal British Navy battleships underway in the Malay Sea near Kuantan in Pahang during World War II. Japanese bombers and torpedoes attack British HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Malay Sea. Japanese pilots in a cockpit. The warships underway at sea. The pilot and the bombardier discuss amongst themselves. The bombardier watches the target through binoculars. The warships burn, explode and sink.
Japanese troops attack China during World War II. The Japanese attack the Burma Road. A bridge on the Burma Road is bombed by Japanese bombers. A Chinese village bombed by the Japanese shows many explosions. The Chinese go towards hills from a city after being bombed. Dead bodies on the streets after Japanese air attack. Chinese nurses bandage Nationalist Chinese troops after being wounded in the attack by the Japanese.
Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States during World War II. Japanese officials seated at a desk discuss amongst themselves. Narrator indicates they plot an attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese airplanes warming up on Japanese aircraft carrier ship in preparation for the attack. Japanese aircraft flying overhead to attack Pearl Harbor. Street scenes in Honolulu during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Nurses, workers, and civilians running to assist wounded, and smoke from attack visible in distance. A two-man submarine on a beach, that narrator says was used in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Stern of the 2-man mini or midget Japanese submarine. Japanese pilot dead in water and Japanese airplane hoisted out of water in Pearl Harbor after the attack.
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