Biplane aircraft landing on a United States aircraft carrier at sea. Landing signal officer uses flags to communicate signals to approaching Naval Aircraft Factory N3N biplanes. View of the flight deck of carrier as N3N-3 comes in for landing. Naval Aircraft Factory N3N biplanes land on aircraft carrier. Some officers stand near the landing signal officer. Men approach parked biplanes with USA insignia.
U.S. Navy recruits (wearing white uniform) marching in drill field of the Naval Training Station in Norfolk, Virginia, before World War 2. Recruits marching with rifles and banners reading “Eighth Week” and “Training B Unit”. Recruits stand in place and a marching band plays music. Naval officers salute in front of recruits. United States flag in drill field. A wooden scale model of a battleship is seen near the field. A tent for guests to watch marching in drill field. Military band musicians play trumpets, flutes, and tuba (or sousaphone). Recruits and band standing in ranks. Recruits and military band march with the United States flag and banner across the drill field. Men standing in the middle of the drill field. Recruits perform calisthenics simultaneously.
Ground personnel moving the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) rigid airship across a field. The words “U.S. Navy” is written on the dirigible. The airship from stern to bow is moored to mast. The crew is seen standing underneath the airship. The USS Los Angeles airship’s back shows one of the engines. Navy men in uniform moving the stern wheel of the dirigible. A group of Navy men push the dirigible’s stern wheel around the field. View of the handling gear and control car of the USS Los Angeles Zeppelin.
USS Forrestal fire off the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. Time moving on a clock. An RA-5C aircraft is on fire. A man is seen in lower foreground of the footage. Crewmen spraying water on the plane in flames in the foreground. A large fire is seen in the background, as more planes around the vicinity catch fire. Smoke begins to get very heavy in the area filled with parked aircraft. A small explosion from a plane in the background. Debris shot up in the air. Personnel putting water over many aircraft in flames. Many Damage Control (DC) personnel among aircraft in the background. Vast area of the deck on fire, heavy smoke in the background. Fire spreading all over the USS Forrestal. An RA-5C being moved in the foreground to the right. DC personnel move toward main fire in the background. Burned out aircraft in the original area of the beginning of the fire. Men fighting fire in the background. Some units attempting to contain fire. Another RA-5C is moved away from the fire, after heavy sprays of water are put on the aircraft. Deck is filled with DC personnel using fire hose to put out fire. A forklift moves up to the starboard wing of an RA-5C. Forklift lifting the aircraft, with the nose of aircraft seen on the deck. Aircraft is seen with burns and heavy damage. Firefighters spraying with fire hoses. A heavy cloud of smoke obscures much of the background in the fire.
A video explaining the components of the “Brain Center” of the Japanese Fu-Go paper balloon bomb- a weapon launched by Japan to drop bombs on the United States during World War 2. Man holds the ballast of the paper balloon bomb. Man pulls out fuse of demolition block. The plug from the battery to the barometer box is disconnected. Man lifts out the demolition box and battery box from the “Brain Center”. Man demonstrates the battery box and demolition box of the Fu-Go balloon bomb. Man takes out the demolition box. Man opens the battery case. Man takes out the middle box containing a solution of calcium chloride (acting as a thermal overcoat). Man points to a rubber plug in the middle box. Man takes out the battery of the middle box. Man reattaches the battery back to the middle box and returns the middle box to the battery box. Man puts back the lid of the battery box. The barometer (Aneroid) plate is taken out. Man demonstrates the aneroid board of the Fu-Go balloon bomb. Man takes off the lid of the main aneroid. Man points to the aneroid bellows, post, arm, clutch using a pencil. Man demonstrates two aneroid boards. Man points to aneroid before dismantling them. Man touches the contact rod of the aneroid. Man demonstrates pulling a plug on the “Brain Center” of the paper balloon bomb from Japan.
Economic opportunity for African Americans. Cars pass by The Food Basket supermarket. Two black men walking out of an A&P grocery store in Chicago, Illinois. A black man signs a paper over a “Rual’s Products Diamond Sparkle” box. Two African American men watch the man sign a document. Black men packing and slicing meat. A black surveyor using a theodolite. Black engineer and contractor with blueprints working on a construction project. A black contractor enters a car with label “Contractors Unlimited General Contractors Chicago Ill.”. African American workers working in a bottle factory run by an African American business owner. A machine prints a label on a bottle. A black boy arranges “Swiff Out” bottles into place. African American business owner of factory speaking to workers. Sign reads “Seaway National Bank of Chicago”. African American men and women wait in line inside a bank. An African American banker talks on the phone inside a bank. African American boy signs a deposit slip beside his mother. An African American woman with a beehive hairstyle working in a bank.
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