Olympic champion runner Jesse Owens beats a horse in a race. Owens speaks to a jockey standing near a racehorse surrounded by a group of people on the turf at a race track in Cuba. Owens helps to prepare the horse for the race. Grandstand in the background. People applaud in grandstand as the race begins. During the race, Owens follows the track, but the race horse cuts across the infield turf, attempting to catch him. Crowd gathers around Jesse Owens at end of the race.
On May 8, 1919 three Navy-Curtiss three-engine flying boats, the NC-1 commanded by Patrick N.L. Bellinger, the NC-3 commanded by John H. Towers and NC-4 commanded by Albert C. Read, take off from the Rockaway Beach Naval Air Station on first leg of transatlantic flight. Aircraft are readied for flight. Sailors hand supplies to crewman on NC-4. Sailors scramble all over NC-3 handling last minute preparations. Naval Commander John H. Towers, in charge of the expedition, poses for a picture. NC-1 in the water with line to a ship. Officers on board ship release weather balloon. NC-3 taxis out in the water and accelerates for takeoff, followed by NC-4, later seen airborne. NC-1 taxis out and is seen airborne. Views of the NC flying boats aloft.
USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers descends to land. The USAAF B-29 lands on an airstrip and taxis. The crewmen deplane and poses in front of the B-29.
Crew member of USAAF B-29 Superfortress bomber at a South Pacific island, gives his view on surrender of Japan soon after returning from a flight to Japan. The crew member speaks about B-29s bombing Japan in the final days of World War II and talks about his first peacetime landings.
The American Aircraft Carrier, USS Hornet (CV-8), slowly departs from a dock. Closeup of the ship from the dock. The Hornet underway at sea in her shakedown cruise. F4F Wildcat aircraft of Navy Squadron VF-8, taxiing on her flight deck. Douglas Dauntless aircraft of Squadrons V8-8 and VS-8 on deck. Sailors moving a Douglas Dauntless dive bomber across the deck. A Douglas Dauntless aircraft taking off. Closeup of one in flight with canopy open and very closeup view of pilot in open cockpit. A Landing Signal Officer (LSO), holding two paddles, guides an F4F aircraft during a carrier landing. View of a Douglas TBD-1 Devastator aircraft from Squadron VT-8, landing and sliding off the flight deck, where it hangs upside down on lower part of the ship. Sailors gather around the stricken airplane. The pilot seen standing on the flight deck unhurt. An F4F landing on the flight deck. An LSO guiding a Douglas Dauntless plane as it lands.
United States CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) recruits at a camp during the Great Depression in the United States. A White-Tailed fawn sits. CCC recruits bathe the young deer and feeds it with a bottle of milk. A cat plays with a dog. The cat pounces and rests on top of the dog. Recruits try to catch a bear. The bear runs away from the camp.
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