U.S. soldiers in Unter-Diessen, Germany during World War 2, as they close on Landsberg. American soldiers on motorcycles, trucks and other vehicles move through a village. A sign reads: 'UnterDiessen'. The military vehicles move past. Buildings in the area. The soldiers walk along a street. A soldier talks to civilians. A German civilian under guard digs up buried helmets and small arms.
Curtiss military aircraft being demonstrated during World War 2. Large number of Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplanes seen in flights of three, each. They fire their machine guns (two nose-mounted and two in each wing). Next, about 15 or more are seen in loose formation. A group of U.S. Army officers, seated at a stand on the banks of a waterway, watch as a group of P-40s fly past, at low altitude. Small boats are seen in the water near pilings and a decrepit dock. A large, loose formation of P-40s flies past, in flights of three, stacked vertically. (At this point sound of the aircraft can be heard.) Two more large formations of P-40s fly past. Then individual P-40s are seen following one another at large intervals. They fly low over the camera site. Scene changes to P-40s flying over a Curtiss Aircraft factory building. Curtiss aircraft company workers stand outside the building to watch the show. some P-40s fly past low, in close formation. Six P-40s fly past at altitude in vertical stacked formation. Two flights of three, pass directly overhead. The P-40s in Two flights, separate and fly away individually, imitating fighter dog-fighting tactics. Large view of American flag, with series of P-40s flying past, behind it.
View from the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) as Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart secures his position, suspended on a cable from the airship, 2000 feet above the ground following a cable ring failure that left three sailors dangling beneath the Akron, at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California.(The other two fell to their deaths.) Large group of sailors stand on ground below, watching. Crew of the Akron reel in the cable carrying Cowart and pull him aboard. View of Cowart, inside the Akron, calmly speaking of his experience.
New methods of farming in the United States. Mechanical pea harvesters used at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey. A fleet of crop dusting biplane airplanes on the ground. An airplane taxis on the farm. Aerial spraying of insecticides by the airplanes. A cannery. The cannery in operation: Men and women workers prepare to can the food. A worker at a machine in the cannery. Vegetables are dehydrated and frozen.
Average family size farms struggle for existence while big-scale operations turn agriculture into a profitable assembly line in the United States. Cattle graze in a farm. A man milks a cow. Small farmers sitting on a street ideally. A Rural Electrification Administration member presides a conference to support small farmers. A sign : 'Dairymen's Cooperative Assn'. A milkman unloads milk containers from a truck. A sign : 'Hunterdon Cooperative G.L.F. Service Inc.'. Exterior of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) office. The manager of the REA and a small farmer seated at a table. Various posters in the office. An animated map of a lightening power project by REA. An official delivers a speech on a power project installed by the REA. People cheer for him. Huts on a farm. A man loads a hay stack on a cart. A man pours wheat grains in a wheat grinding mill. A woman cooks food in a modern kitchen. Hay stacks on the farm. A woman uses a hand pump. A woman feed hens. Two horses on the farm.
Soviet Fliers are greeted in New York. Men pose for a camera with three Russian aviators who spanned the North Pole in a flight from Moscow to the U.S. The three aviators. They receive official reception at the City Hall by New York Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. A large crowd at the City Hall to welcome the three aviators.
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