Wounded U.S. troops are treated on a Pacific island during World War II. A bulldozer moves through a torii. Vehicles driven to a medical hospital. Men clear rubble in the Japanese hospital. Men draw water from a well and pour into a container. A man dips a cloth in the container. A medic observes through a microscope as he works on setting up a laboratory. Water is sprinkled on mud from a tanker. Soldiers enter a division hospital. The soldiers carry an injured on a stretcher. Medics treat patients. A medic washes hands. The medics apply bandages on the injured soldiers. A medic inserts the needle of a blood bottle into a patient.
A winter storm in the United States. In Washington DC: snow covered roads. Cars covered with snow. A public transport bus covered with snow. Snow on trees. Exteriors of the snow covered U.S. Capitol. In New York: wind blows snow. A bulldozer removes snow from roads. Cars covered with snow. Men remove snow from cars. A car is driven.
A film about the history of aviation in the United States. Retired Air Force Brigadier General, Frank Lahm talks about his first flight, as an Army Lieutenant, with Orville Wright on the Wright Flyer airplane, in July, 1909.Then, Retired Major GeneralBenjamin Foulois recalls how, as an Army Lieutenant, he flew the final cross-country and speed test flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria , Virginia, and back, again, with Orville Wright on 30th July, 1909. Film then shows that event, on July 30, 1909. Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois is seen climbing aboard the Wright Flyer airplane to accompany Orville Wright on the final cross-country and speed test required by the U.S. Army before it would purchase any aircraft. View of the Wright Flyer taking off with Wright and Foulois. Spectators watch in the background. View from another perspective of the aircraft taking off from Fort Myer, Virginia. View of the Wright Flyer being moved by several soldiers after landing back on the Fort Myer drill ground. (In his comments about this, Foulois notes that the flight set three world records: flying ten miles cross-country; attaining altitude of 600 feet, and speed of 42.5 miles per hour.)
The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first flight in the United States. Conference members grouped in front of the Wright House. Orville Wright surrounded by a group. The group enters the house. Aviator Orville Wright, General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds with others enter a Colonel Deed's aircraft "The King Bird" for trip to Washington DC. The aircraft taxis for a take off. Delegates posing in a group in Washington DC. Orville Wright in whose honor the conference was held. United States President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. and United States Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting present. The group at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Orville Wright removes a cover from a stone memorial. Pigeons are released. A plaque commemorating the first successful flight of an airplane.
Soldiers of Company E, U.S. 167th Infantry Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.), 42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow Division) at their base in Neuviller-la-Roche, France,on May 10, 1918, during World War 1.They demonstrate readiness to defend against attack, entrenched behind barbed wire defenses set up in a grove of birch trees. Sentries, of Company E, walk their posts and occupy lookouts at an established outpost constructed of logs and masonry.
Officers inspect troops from Company B, 165th Infantry Regiment (42nd Infantry, Rainbow Division) in France during World War 1. The soldiers are lined up in front of their pup tents, in a field. Captain K. C. Siebert, Lieutenant R. Doris and Lieutenant F. W. Carter inspect strong dugouts of Company A, in a hillside just behind the front lines, at Chasseurs, France. Officers walk out of the passageway of an adjoining heavy stone structure (Headquarters?). Scene shifts to U.S. Machine gun battalions firing French Hotchkiss M1914 heavy machine guns. At each position, one soldier feeds a strip of 8mm Lebel cartridge ammunition while the other fires the weapon. Slate states that the firing is toward a German town 2,800 meters away. Men of a machine gun company are seen lined up to receive issues of personal clothing from Quartermaster. Soldiers of the 165th Infantry receiving pay from paymasters at an outdoor table near a hillside dugout. One counts out a soldier's pay and another annotates a pay ledger.
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