Brief scenes from the U.S. Army Air Service Pan American good will flight that covered 22,000 miles on a goodwill mission to 21 Central and South American nations, during 1926-1927. A view of the hangar area and flight line of Kelly Air Field in Texas, as one of the five Loening OA-1 Amphibious aircraft, on the mission, takes off from the runway on Dec. 21, 1926. Five of the aircraft in formation over a large city. U.S.President Calvin Coolidge presents the aircrews with citations for the Distinguished Flying Cross, at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1927.
U.S.Army Air Service flying expedition to Alaska and back. DH-4B aircraft of the Black Wolf Squadron preparing to depart Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, on their record-breaking flight to Nome, Alaska, and return. Change of scene to Alaska. Captain St. Clair Streett and other members of the expedition posing next to the DH-4B flown by 2nd Lieutenant C.H. Crumrine. An itinerary of their flight on the fuselage of the airplane. Two aircrew hold pet dogs.
U.S. Army pilot Lieutenant Cyrus Bettis gets out of his Curtiss R3C-1 racer airplane after winning the Pulitzer Trophy Race and setting a new world speed record of 249.3 miles per hour in the International Air Races at Mitchel Field, New York. He is congratulated by U.S. Army Air Service Major T. G. Lanphier.
Seabiscuit 'Wonder Horse' retires from the Santa Anita Race Track in California. Seabiscuit with a jockey. He gets in a van. A sign on the van reads ' Caution Horse Van'. He is taken to his owner's farm.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy on a Navy warship in Florida. A sailor speaks on a radio. President Kennedy,Government officials and officers look through binoculars. Sailors stand on ship's deck. A missile launches from under the sea and rockets to great height, leaving a trail of smoke. The President and U.S. officers and Admirals look at the missile in flight. President Kennedy looks through binoculars. President and officers are pleased and laugh.
People pass time in America by reading books, weaving pullovers, watching television. Woman seated at the base of a statue in an American city. 1960's cars and a buses in background. A man seated in a library reading at a table with book shelves behind. Men in a park playing board games; one smoking a cigar. Group of people lined up on a city street; pan of camera in close view across faces of American people of varying backgrounds, races, ages, and nationalities. A couple sitting in their living room on rocking chairs watching television. The man smokes a pipe while the woman knits. An African American family on the porch of a house near a road side in the rural south.
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