Training of U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadets. Cadets watch a three bladed propeller turning on a Class 26 instructional airframe at Randolph Field, Texas. (Class 26 refers to an airplane damaged beyond repair, from which the parts of the display were made. ) Cadets, at Kelly Field, look at BC-1airframe, resting on blocks, with skin partially removed to reveal internal structure. An instructor points out hydraulic lines as a cadet seated in the cockpit manually operates hydraulic pump to retract the landing gear. The landing gear is dropped and the process repeated several times. Cadets in a hangar learn about the construction of an airplane wing. The cadets receiving instruction on electrical system of an aircraft. Electrical units and circuitry mounted on a table.
Training of U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadets at Randolph Field, Texas. A Link trainer instructor speaking by microphone to a cadet in a Link Trainer. A tracking (recording) device in front of the instructor. The instructor walks to the Link trainer and speaks to the cadet, who is seated in it. Flight instruments are visible inside. View from the outside as the cadet inside the closed Link trainer makes spin around a couple of times and back again. He opens the cover looking confused and removes his headset. Several other cadets watching are amused at the performance.
U.S. 2nd Armored Division, 745th Tank Battalion in Saint Amand, France during World War II . People gather on either sides of a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Soldiers aboard military vehicles pass through the streets of the city. People cheering.
U.S. 2nd Armored Division, 745th Tank Battalion in Saint Amand, France during World War II . People gather on either sides of a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. French civilians give tank crew members French flags as they pass through the city. They cheer for the passing tank convoy. Children waving towards the tank convoy.
U.S. 113th Cavalry Regiment in Belgium during World War II. An armored convoy including M8 armored cars and M5A1 light tanks advances towards the Belgian border. A sign board on a street reads: 'Rumegies'. A jeep and M8 passes in the foreground.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressing the nation from Washington DC, United States. The President seated at a desk. He urges people to support a relief fund drive. He talks about the aid from people in order to remove some of the relief burden from the government, during the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs
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