U.S. Army Air Services maneuvers of First Provisional Air Brigade at Wilbur Wright field in Dayton , Ohio. Brigadier General James E. Fechet, Assistant Chief of Air Service arrives as he gets out of a staff car. He poses with officers including Major Carl Spaaz and Captain Fabian Pratt in front of U.S. Army Air Services A-3 aircraft. He looks at a map and discusses the problems. Major General Mason N. Patrick, Chief of Air Services arrives as Captain Pratt greets him. Brigadier General Fechet talks to Major General. Major General Patrick reviews crew members in front of MB-2s, DH-4sand A-3 aircraft. Major General inspects the crew and aircraft of the Bombardier group.
U.S. Army Air Services maneuvers of First Provisional Air Brigade at Wilbur Wright field in Dayton , Ohio. Aircraft including U.S. Army Air Services O-1,O-2s,P-1Cs and MB-2s fly low over the Wilbur Wright airfield as they pass in review. Major General Mason N. Patrick, Chief of Air Services and other officers. MB-2 aircraft and O-2 aircraft come in for landing. Aircraft land and taxi along the field.
U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Provisional Wing at an annual training in California, United States. A U.S. Army Air Corps C-3 aircraft taxis on a field. A sketch depicts an observer plane as it sights two submarines in the Pacific off the coast of San Francisco. Observer aboard an airborne plane. He hands over a sketch depicting the location of the two submarines. Map being placed on a wire photo transmitter. Message and sketch being received on a facsimile machine.
General Carl Spaatz in Tinian, Mariana Island during World War 2. A Military Police officer salutes as a jeep arrives. U.S. Army officers step from the jeep. Four officers stand under a tree. A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 aircraft with a sign on the fuselage that reads ' Goin Jessie. ' General Carl Spaatz , USAAF Chief of Staff, pins a Legion of Merit medal on Master Sergeant Einar (Curly) Klabo. Klabo salutes the General. Crew men lift Klabo on their shoulders. ( Note: "Goin Jessie" flew 50 combat missions with the 9th Bomb Group, 5th Squadron, while M/Sgt Klabo was her crew chief. She never had an abort.)
A training film about the means of forecasting avalanches in Alta, Utah. A special precipitation gauge that collects the horizontal component. A revolving chart in the gauge that records the amount of accumulated snow. Snow stakes being used to record the depth of snow and amount of snow fall. A settlement gauge placed on a snow covered surface and clipped to a resistance wire. A test set of the settlement gauge being used to determine the position of settlement gauge. A thermometer attached to the test set enables to record the temperature as well.
A U.S. submarine patrol in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Crew members aboard USS Springer as they pull a line. A crew member comes aboard the submarine. Another unfolds a map and then folds it up again. Men on the deck as they look down at the water. Dead body of a Japanese pilot being pulled aboard. Officers and men search through the clothing of the dead Japanese pilot. A Japanese life jacket tossed to one side. Dead Japanese flier with a bloody head on the deck. Japanese script on the life preserver. Dead pilot's body tossed into a lifeline and into the water. The pilot's life jacket on the deck. Crew member uses a hunting knife to cut away part of the jacket as another crew member picks up the jacket. Friendly planes in flight over the submarine. Crew members look skyward.
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