The 35th Anniversary celebration of the first Wright airplane flight in the United States. Seats occupied in a NCR auditorium. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds, Founder of Ford Motor company Henry Ford, Aviator Orville Wright, and Inventor Charles Franklin Kettering seen sitting on stage. Still photograph of Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright.
Opening slate reads: "First Utility of airplanes was in National Defense." A huge formation of large military bi-planes is seen in formation. The Next slate reads: "In the Navy." Curtiss 28 TS-1 airplanes lined up for takeoff on the deck of the U.S Navy's first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley (CV-1). The first in line takes off. The others wait their turns, with engines running. View from aircraft above, of the Langley cruising with aircraft parked on her deck. Slate refers to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Closeup of Charles Lindbergh wearing a flying suit with helmet and goggles. Slate refers to Commercial flying advances. View of passengers boarding a British Inperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth Argosy airplane.
U.S. Navy carrier air attack in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Rockets streak towards the edge of the Mekong River. Smoke rises from the shoreline where hits are made by rockets. Smoke rises from a Viet Cong hideout on the shoreline. A navy aircraft in flight over a terrain firing rockets. Rockets make their hits along the shoreline. United States Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft in flight. The A-1H aircraft on a diving run over the terrain surrounding the river. Rockets are fired from the aircraft and hits are made in a patchy wooded area after the pull out. The aircraft climbs up steeply. It banks over the terrain and moves in on a diving attack. A string of rockets are fired.
U.S. Navy carrier air attack in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Contrails leave wing tips of an aircraft as it climbs steeply. Bombs under the wings of the aircraft. Aerial view of the terrain. Rockets are launched from a United States Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft. The A-1H aircraft pulls up before the rockets hit the ground. The rockets streak towards a wooded area next to the shoreline of the Mekong river. The aircraft in flight. It climbs steeply over the river.
U.S. troops land in Salerno, Italy during World War II. A burning cargo vessel. A Landing Ship Tank in the background. The deck of a destroyer escort as it lays a smoke screen. Black smoke comes out of the ship's stack. The black smoke fills the sky as shells land near the vessel. A soldier in the foreground watches the burning vessel. An explosion on the burning vessel. Hospital ship appears through a smoke screen. A cargo ship sends a blinker signal. Smoke columns rise from burning ships.
A U.S. invasion force off the shore of Salerno, Italy during World War II. A destroyer approaches a beach. A sailor on the destroyer. A signal light in the foreground. Landing Crafts loaded with soldiers approach the beach.
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