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First meal served at U.S. Air Force Modular Dining Hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand.
Opening of the new Modular Dining Hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. USAF Brigadier General Richard M Hoban, Colonel Leonard S Dysinger, and Colonel Raleigh D Smith talking with mess sergeants in center of the dining room, as airmen sit at tables eating a meal. Brigadier General Hoban and personnel in serving line. Thai women working behind steam table and in the "Clipper".
Aerial view of U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand.
Aerial view of U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. B-52s can be seen on the base. Red color seen on earth all around the facility (possibly from new construction or from an applied insecticide or pesticide?)
President Harry S Truman presents Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Thomas J Hudner Jr. at White House in Washington DC.
Steps leading to White House garden. President Harry S Truman reads the citation and then puts the Medal of Honor on Hudner in Washington DC. President shakes hand with the Lieutenant. Civilian news and still cameramen at work as Medal of Honor is awarded to Hudner. The President posing with Hudner, the latter's parents, and Daisy Brown, the widow of Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, whose husband was the shipmate of Lieutenant Hudner, whom Hudner was trying to save. Mrs. Brown stands. Hudner wearing medal. Lieutenant shaking hands with Mrs. Brown. Still photograph of Ensign Brown. The plane of Leroy Brown was downed by enemy Chinese fire during the Korean War. Hudner crash landed his own aircraft in an attempt to free Brown from his plane's wreckage, but he was unable to free him from the cockpit where Brown later died. Ensign Jesse Brown was the first African American pilot in the U.S. Navy, and the first U.S. Navy officer killed in the Korean War. Hudner was the first Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War.
B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands after Test Able atomic bomb drop on Bikini Atoll
The B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands, after dropping atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, in Test Able of Operation Crossroads, on July 1st, 1946, during U.S. nuclear testing. The B-29 lands and taxis to a parking place on the ramp. The area around the aircraft is cordoned off and the crew is confined therein as they deplane. Navy photographers take photos. An interviewer talks to crew members. The crew walks away from the aircraft along a cordoned pathway between numerous military personnel on hand to greet them on this historic occasion. The aircraft, number 44-27354, was actually participating in its second atomic mission. It also served as a photographic platform for the mission to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when it was named "Big Stink.". Pilot for the Bikini mission was Major Woodrow Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The aircraft was renamed "Dave's Dream" in honor of Captain David Semple, a bombardier killed during the crash of another B-29 on March 7, 1946, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. (World War II period).
Pollywogs crawling along on their hands and knees on flight deck of USS Enterprise during crossing the line ceremonies.
A U.S. Navy initiation ceremony shows Pollywog climbing into a box on USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during crossing the line ceremonies. Climbing out of a hole on the far side as the Shellbacks laugh and look on. A smiling Pollywog, his face blackened and his hair fully in a mess. Some garbage on his shirt. A Pollywog being hosed down. He is now a full fledged Shellback. Shellbacks hosing down the large group of Pollywogs. They are now full fledged Shellback. The new Shellbacks looking over their clothes and laughing. Shellbacks being initiated with tank of water. Pollywogs being dumped into tank. Group of Pollywogs climbing into a hole into a large box containing garbage. Scene of a Shellback. Pollywogs crawling along on their hands and knees on flight deck. A Pollywog on his back, as the royal doctors check him. Shellback tying his shoe. Pollywog having his hair cut by a Shellback. Pollywogs being released from stocks. Shellbacks dressed as pirates.
The freighter, SS Flying Enterprise, damaged by storms and foundering in the Atlantic ocean,
The freighter, Flying Enterprise, is seen listing some 80 degrees to port in the windswept approaches to the British Isles. After suffering damage from a storm on December 28th, she had been taken under tow toward England,by a succession of ocean-going tugs over a period of 15 days. Her present position is only about 30 miles from the coast of England, but her tow line has parted and she is foundering. Closeups of "Flying Enterprise" and "Isbrandtsen" painted on her hull. (Narrator states that the Captain, Henrik Kurt Carlsen,is still aboard.) Aerial view of several other ships around the stricken vessel. Officers and crew of the destroyer, USS Willard Keith (DD-775), are seen firing a line to the Flying Enterprise. Heavy seas are flowing over the foredeck of the destroyer. Another view of the listing ship. (During these scenes, Captain Carlsen is heard on the radio, in the background, describing the circumstances leading to their present trouble.) More views of the Flying Enterprise, helpless and battered by wind and seas, before eventually sinking (not seen). Narrator states that Captain Carlson was rescued. (Note: This ill-fated trip which ended in the sinking of the old Liberty Ship made world-wide news when it turned out that she was carrying paper money.)
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