Refine Your Search

US-Gliders- stock footage and images

- Showing 12535 to 12540 of 21917 results
Scenes from the life of General John J Pershing during the period 1916 until after World War I.

Scenes from the life of U.S. General John J. Pershing. View of a low adobe style building backyard or courtyard area, possibly Fort Bliss near El Paso Texas. U.S. Army 8th Brigade troops under Pershing's leadership, moving out on horseback and on foot during the Mexican Punitive Expedition in search of Pancho Villa. Tanks rolling by during World War I and scenes of a military graveyard. Troops in formation marching down New York City streets on the way to war. The 1918 armistice celebrations with jubilant people celebrating. General John J Pershing presenting an award to a soldier and in conversation with the soldier. General Pershing reviews the AEF cavalry troops. General Pershing passes in an open car surrounded by a large crowd. General Pershing mounted on horse back moves by in a parade. People gathered along the roadside watch. General Pershing dressed in a suit, poses for the camera inside.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030448
Visiting Latin American military officers become acquainted with firing of 155mm howitzer at Fort Sill Oklahoma.

U.S. Army Soldiers load a 155mm howitzer. Visiting Latin American officers from Chile, Columbia and Brazil, and several other nations, each take turns giving command for firing the 155mm howitzer, while the others watch. Afterwards, the visiting officers gather around U.S. Army Brigadier General Allen as he describes the gun and points out its features. The battery continues firing several rounds, which are seen exploding in the target field. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 6 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030493
Splitting and curbing of sandstone at Ohio Quarry Company in the United States.

The mills of Ohio Quarry Company in the United States. A machine is used to saw out sidewalk flagging from the sandstone. Rough curbing department show methods of splitting sandstone into blocks. A crane is used to bring in the sandstone. Men hammer large nails into blocks to split them. The split block is lifted and put aside with the help of a crane. Men working on sandstone blocks.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030499
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists tour harbor and wheat processing facilities in Buffalo New York

Busy street scene in downtown Buffalo, New York, with Niagara Square and the McKinley Monument in background. Pedestrians, cars, buses, and police directing traffic. Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists arriving in buses to observe grain flour mills in operation in Buffalo, New York. The buses cross over railroad tracks in an industrial factory area. Scene changes to farmers working in wheat fields, primarily in the American plains and west areas, and using threshing machines in wheat harvesting. Animated map depicts transportation of wheat across the United States for processing, with some being shipped on the Great Lakes to Buffalo for processing. Giant ships and tugboats in harbor area beside wheat processing mills in Buffalo. Views of wheat grain being emptied from ship holds with shovels on ropes being used to push wheat toward exit area. Grain elevator with wheat funneling downward. Slate notes (in Spanish) that the wheat is then converted into flour for the bread of the nation. View inside wheat processing plant in Buffalo as industrial machinery with belt drives converts the wheat to flour.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030522
The Pan American Highway Commission visit Department of Agriculture at Arlington Virginia.

Herbert Hoover, then U.S. Secretary of Commerce, greets members of The Pan American Highway Commission in United States. The group plants a tree at the Pan American Union building, at invitation of the Pan American Union. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes assists with the planting ceremony. Group proceeds towards U.S. Department of Agriculture in Arlington Virginia. View of a test loop track. A small unmanned rail chassis is running on an outer loop while a truck drives simultaneously on the inner loop. Henry Cantwell Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture Department, explains the highway experiments to the group.

Date: 1924
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030546
Workers in the rubber heel manufacturing unit in Windsor Vermont in United States.

Manufacturing of rubber heels for the soles of U.S. soldiers' boots at a Goodyear plant in Windsor, Vermont. Men and women emerge from rubber heel manufacturing facility in Windsor Vermont. Workers wash uncured rubber heels and keep them to dry so as to prevent them from sticking. Man puts rubber heels in molds for nailing. Each nailed heel passes through vulcanization machines. Woman checks the vulcanized rubber heels and puts them together. Women pass completed heels through an X-ray machine and check for defects. In Akron, Ohio, a U.S. Army soldier stands in front of the statue of Charles Goodyear, the founder of Goodyear rubber company, and the discoverer of vulcanization. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030565