Igor Sikorsky, Russian American Designer of U.S. aircraft, demonstrates a test flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Igor Sikorsky seated in the cockpit of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter. Igor Sikorsky holds the controls in his hands. A single three-blade main rotor and a smaller anti-torque tail mounted rotor on the VS-300. People look at the VS-300 hovering in the air. The helicopter raises from the ground and hovers in the air. The helicopter descends to the ground.
U.S. A.E.C. (Atomic Energy Commission) unveils the most powerful test reactor in Idaho, United States. A building in view. A reactor pulled out. Scientists stand beside the reactor. The scientists inside the building. A scientist holds a can in his hands. Different pipes connected to each other. Cans lowered into the reactor. The operating controls of the reactor. A scientist writes on a paper. Another scientist operates the controls. A printout comes out from a printer. A man seated at the controls. Another man stands beside the control.
New York Governor Charles Seymour Whitman speaks to the Liberty Bond subscribers at Wall Street in New York during World War I. The subscribers of the Liberty Bond crowd in Wall Street. New York Governor Charles Seymour Whitman speaks to the subscribers. Other officials on a platform speak to the subscribers. The school children parade holding posters and U.S. flags. The poster reads 'Lend'. People on either side of the street view the parade. Alpine French soldiers getting ready to join the Liberty Loan campaign. The soldiers stand holding guns. An officer briefs the soldiers. The soldiers stand at attention.
American gas mask laborers in New York City are rewarded a matinee prize for their speedy work in New York during World War I. The women war time production workers stand in a group wearing hats. The women in a truck riding on a street. The women wave to the onlookers on the street and the truck has a sign reading, "Champion Team. U.S. Gas Defense Plant." The women stand outside a theater. The women enter the theater for the movie show.
A U.S. arms manufacturing in World War 1. Hundreds of war production workers seen at shift change, waiting for their respective trolley cars passing on tracks between arms manufacturing plant's buildings. Women at work on metal working machines in an arms factory. Racks of Browning Automatic Rifles (Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918) are being moved about. Assemblers are seen hand fitting parts for the Browning M1917 water cooled machine gun. One man makes final assembly adjustments to one of the machine guns set up on tripod in the factory. He enjoys firing the Browning M1917 machine gun. (Note:The M1917 and M1918 BAR were manufactured by numerous American arms makers. Colt, Remington, Marlin, Royal typewriter, Winchester. Most of the M1917 machine guns were manufactured by New England Westinghouse.)
Fall of Saigon and evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese escaping Vietnam at end of Vietnam War. US Navy crew members seen pushing UH-1D/H Huey helicopters and a CH-47 helicopter over the side of the ship, to make room on the deck for a Cessna O-1 (unseen), with evacuees, seeking to land.
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