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Alex Henshaw flies back to England after record-breaking flight to Capetown, South Africa
Opening scene shows the Percival Mew Gull aircraft E2H, G-AEXF, accompanied by several persons walking beside while taxiing across the field at Gravesend Airport, Kent, England. It has just landed, on a return flight from Wingfield Aerodrome, at Cape Town, South Africa. The exhausted pilot, Alex Henshaw, is seen starting to climb from the cockpit of his airplane. Surrounded by a large crowd pressed close around the airplane, Henshaw is lifted bodily from the cockpit and carried upon the shoulders of well wishers. The next scene is a closeup of Henshaw, with face blackened by oil, drinking from a cup, while surrounded by a group of men. Glimpse from behind Gravesend's Mayor, wearing Chain of office, as he greets Henshaw, who is next seen being carried, again, on shoulders of greeters, accompanied by several policemen. (Note: Alex Henshaw set a record in 1939, taking off on 5 February 1939 from Gravesend Airport, landing at Wingfield Aerodrome at the Cape on the 6th. He flew 6,377 miles in 39 hours and 25 minutes, averaging 209.44 mph. This film shows the completion of his return flight retracing the same route and distance, which took 11 minutes longer.)
Two sailors demonstrate stance for counter attack, basic hand holds and breaking grips hand holds during a U.S. Navy Training.
A U.S. Navy Training. A mosaic shows athletes on a track, a baseball game, a tennis game, people boxing, people exercising and two men wrestling. A U.S. sailor talks about basics of hand to hand combat. Two sailors show different methods of attack and counterattack. One of the sailor attacks another sailor. The second sailor wrestles with him and drops him on the ground. Stance for counter attack. Two sailors demonstrate in front of other sailors. One of the sailors raises and folds his arms and keeps his feet slightly apart. He puts his hand on the shoulder of the other sailor. He shows the edge of his palm and puts it just below the jawbone on the neck of the other sailor. He brings the edge of the palm near the mouth and the bridge of the nose of the other sailor. The other sailor bends. The first sailor brings the edge of his palm on the back of the neck of second sailor. The sailor shows how to attack the stomach, the neck and the eyes with the jab of the hand. He shows how to attack the groin with the edge of the palm. He uses his foot to step on the other sailor's foot and to hit the shin or the groin. He then shows how to attack with the knee. Basic Hand holds and Leverages. The sailor grabs the wrist of another sailor with both his hands and twists and bends the arms. The other sailor doubles over. The first sailor grabs his neck and bends him backward, lifts his leg and drops him on the ground. Breaking grips hand holds. One of the sailors grips the wrist of another sailor who twists and frees himself. (World War II period).
A U.S. Navy Training program teaches the sailors defense against different thrusts of the knife.
Sailors learn methods of attack and counterattack of hand to hand combat during a training program of the navy in the United States. Two sailors demonstrate defense against knife downward thrust. One of the sailors approaches the other with a knife. The sailor grasps his wrist with one hand, locks the assailant's arm by passing his other arm under and across the assailant's arm, bends his arm and throws him on the ground. The knife falls down. Defense against knife upward thrust. As the assailant approaches the sailor with a knife, he grips the wrist of the assailant with both his hands, forces his hand back, delivers a knee lift in the groin, bends the wrist and causes the knife to fall down. Next they demonstrate defense against side thrust with knife. As the assailant approaches with a knife, the sailor grips his wrist and secures his arm under the shoulder and bends causing the assailant and the knife to drop. He picks it up. Club is used for defense against knife. As the assailant attacks with a knife, the sailor uses a club to break the attack and jabs the assailant in the stomach with the club. (World War II period).
Farmers work in patterned fields and terrace farms in the United States during Great Depression.
Cargo ships with wheat yield underway off shore. Smoke from the ship stacks. Industrial areas and wheat fields. Farm land and terrace farms. Farmers with horses work on farms and in fields. Cattle graze in fields. Patterned fields to hold the soil. Patterned land enriched with phosphate. Farmers talk about their land and farming problems, and share experience on farming methods to retain soil, learned from hard experiences during the Dust Bowl. Farming and farmland in the Carolinas, Oregon, New Mexico, Indiana, Texas Plains and parts of the Northwest United States. Houses in Pennsylvania. A farmer with his wife and child look over their farm. Wide views of tilled farm land. People in a farm community stand outside a food distribution area and wait for government supplied food aid during Great Depression. Machines at work in fields and on farms.
African American women on farmland and a disabled man in a wheel chair in South Carolina, United States.
African American life and education in rural South Carolina, United States in the 1930s. Group of young African American women, possibly students, stand under a tree posing for the camera, and then they turn and head into a building. Two African American children clean the exteriors of a house with brooms. Disabled African American man sits on a wheel chair. Man greets the disabled man. View of a grave yard or cemetery. Child climbs into school bus. African American boy stands by the side of a car. View of building (possibly school building) and farm land in southern U.S state of South Carolina.
The United States First Army enters Roetgen and supplies are dropped to and retrieved by the Belgian White Army (WW2)
The United States First Army enters Roetgen, Aachen and other German border towns without opposition during World War II. Map showing the capture of the Ardennes, Albert Canal, Aachen, and Trier by the First Army. View of Luxembourg’s Ardennes. A dugout in Wallendorf, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. A captured pillbox displays sign in German reads “Der führer besichtigte diese anlage am 15. mai. 1939” (“The Führer visited this facility on May 15, 1939” in English). The town of Wallendorf with heavily damaged buildings from recent Allied shelling. Civilians saving their belongings outside the bombed “Gastwirtschaft von Franz Wenzel” in Wallendorf. Troops on moving M4 Sherman tanks and Jeeps. Soldiers climb the hill and enter Germany. The troops maneuver over fields. Troops occupy the Roetgen, located approximately 16 km (10 mi) south-east of Aachen. 'Roetgen' written on building. White flag on building of 'The Deutsche Reichsbahn'. View of village and huts. Belgian White Army lights fire for supplies by airborne. They gather hay to make bonfires. A White Army soldier with bayonet scans the sky. Another soldier holds a rifle. Soldier watches through binoculars towards plane. A passing bomber drops supplies for the Belgian White Army. Parachutes landing on earth. Supplies and arms are dropped to and retrieved by Belgians. Parachute are rolled and returned to England. Men load supplies into a truck. Horse cart moves away.
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