Activities of United States 94th Aero Squadron on in France during World War I. Major General Hunter Liggett and U.S. officers discuss a map. General Liggett leaves and French officers join the U.S. officers looking at the map and shake hands. U.S. Officers stand with Professor Henry Seidel Canby from Yale University. Large group of U.S. airmen gathered around a German aircraft that was shot down on October 2, 1918, by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and Lieutenant Reed Chambers. Some of them sit while others stand around the plane. United States 101st Infantrymen lined up as a band plays. General Edwards and other officers salute. General presents Squadron members with Distinguished Service Crosses. He pins medals onto their uniforms. Eddie Rickenbacker with aircraft in the background. Officers pose with a plane in the background. An officer smokes a cigarette as he stands against the nose of an aircraft.
Oil and petroleum products being used for different purposes in the United States. Low flying aerial view of skyscrapers in New York City. The Statue of Liberty. Aerial view of skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, New York City, including the Woolworth Building and the New York Municipal Building. A part of a wing of an aircraft seen in the aerial shots. Various uses of petroleum for transportation: A black locomotive train which uses petroleum as fuel is seen approaching camera at high speed, pulling train cars. A natural gas storage tank. Steam comes out of a kettle atop a vintage 1920's stove and oven, depicting use of natural gas as a fuel in homes.
Oil products are used for different purposes in the United States. Generators using petroleum as a fuel are used for lighting. A man works on machinery. A child near a sewing machine. Farmers plow a field using tractors. A woman wipes dishes in the light of a kerosene lamp. A miner puts a candle in a bottle and lights it in his cabin.
Japanese Kamikaze pilots attack U.S. warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A U.S. fleet underway at sea. Anti aircraft guns are fired at Japanese Kamikaze aircraft. US Navy crew runs on the deck of ship as incoming Kamikaze approaches. The kamikaze aircraft, hit by fire from anti aircraft guns, and on fire, passes low, directly over the ship, and crashes into the ocean. Huge splash in water as the kamikaze plane narrowly misses the U.S. Navy ship.
USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. U.S. Navy A-7B Corsair II touching down and rolling to stop. A man runs out towards the aircraft. A-7B going over edge of the angle deck. A puff of smoke drifts off over the deck. A parachute is seen opening as the pilot disappears over the ship's side. Several men running over the deck. A U.S. Navy SH-3D Sea King helicopter low over water to pick up the pilot. The destroyer escort moving up, several men in the foreground on the flight deck. The helicopter lifts off with the pilot. The helicopter in flight over water. The destroyer escort in the background. A U.S. Navy A-6A Intruder aircraft on fly by. U.S. Navy RA-5C Vigilante aircraft coming to a stop on the deck after recovery. The aircraft taxi forward. The helicopter lands on the deck with the recovered pilot. The rescued pilot of the A-7B walks over the deck after returning to the ship.
Exterior view of Pan American Union Building in Washington DC, with a 1930s Packard four door sedan-limousine parked in front. A man entering the building. Jefferson Caffery, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, seated in an office and reviewing paperwork. Narrator describes the creation of the Good Neighbor Fleet (where Moore-McCormack Lines, also called Mooremack, was contracted to run three ocean liners of the U.S. Maritime Commission between the USA and South America, called the Good Neighbor Fleet.) Close up picture of brochure advertising the new fleet, and picturing the three ships (The California, Virginia and Pennsylvania from the former Panama Pacific Line, with new names Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina.) Next scene shows 3 men meeting (this is possibly Moore-McCormack Lines founder Albert V. Moore, on right, seated at a table and in discussion, possibly with U.S. Maritime officials. Man on left is possibly Emmet McCormack.) Passengers aboard liner SS Brazil as it departs port. Crowd on docks wave at the ship leaving New York harbor. View from on board SS Brazil in New York Harbor as a nearby tug boat sprays water. Skyline and skyscrapers of New York City's Manhattan Island seen in background. Map of South America showing route of a Good Neighbor ship. Good Neighbor Fleet ships at a harbor in South America. U.S. State Department diplomats in South America beside one of the ships as fleet service is inaugurated. Exterior view of Pan American Union building and its sign in Washington DC (later called the building of the Organization of American States). President Ortiz of Argentina, President Alfredo Baldomir of Uruguay, and President Getulio Vargas of Brazil are shown in discussion with various officials.
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