U.S. aircraft flies over several sites where buildings are burning as result of air attacks. It then makes repeated attacks, strafing and launching rockets at a military compound in Korea. The entire area is snow covered.
Tail section of aircraft C-124. Small D4 tractor can also be seen hauling a sled of supplies to the C-124. Man walks across in the foreground. Tucker snow cat being hoisted into C-124. Stern view of D4 tractor backing up to snow sled loaded with supplies, pushing it under the fuselage of C-124 for air drop at South Pole. Group of men under C-124 handles cargo on sled. VX-6 aircraft parked along the runway. Two men stand on sled hooking up slings to cargo. Cargo chutes lifted into C-124. D4 tractor in the background.
During U.S.Navy's Operation Deep Freeze, in Antarctica. A man stripped to waist emptying coffee cups outside Ground Controlled-Approach (GCA) unit. Navy R5D-3 aircraft of Military Air Transport Service parked in the background. Man goes back into unit.
During U.S. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. A tracked vehicle moves on snow in front of Observation Hill. (This area would become Mcmurdo Station.) A Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-124C Aircraft taxis down sea-ice runway and turns around to takeoff . It makes makes a long takeoff roll and breaks ground with slow rate of climb, churning up a fog of snow in the process. . Small weasel with small trailer with fire extinguisher on it. Navy R5D Aircraft in the background taxiing for take off. R5D taxis. Yellow fuel truck is seen. R5D makes a jet assisted takeoff. Flame is seen from the JATO bottles under the aircraft during takeoff roll and much trailing smoke, as the aircraft breaks ground with a high rate of climb.
Captain McCreery speaks while looking at reconnaissance film on light table. Captain speaks about aerial photographs which is product of aerial reconnaissance. He further adds that aerial reconnaissance means looking for the enemy from air. This imagery is used by USAF, VNAF and U.S. Army. 13th Reconnaissance technical squadron interprets this imagery. He talks about various methods of reconnaissance. (Vietnam War period).
Crowd gathered outside offices of the Zeppelin Transport Company at a building in Lakehurst Naval Air Station, upon arrival of the German zeppelin dirigible, Hindenburg (LZ-129) following its flight from Germany. A commercial bus is parked ready to transport passengers from the Hindenburg. A photographer sits on the bus roof. Crowd listens to Dr. Hugo Eckener, of the Zeppelin Company, who just arrived on the Hindenburg. After speaking, Dr. Eckener struggles through the crowd to enter the office. Sign overhead reads, among other things, 'German Zeppelin Transport Co' and 'American Airlines Inc'. Arriving passengers leave the office and make their way, through the throng, to the bus. Several speak to reporters on their way. The name: "Pulion and Shirla Bus Company, Inc." is painted on the siide of bus, as well as lists of places it stops, including:Lakewood, Point Pleasant, and Madison Square Garden.
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