Platt-LePage Aircraft Company of Eddystone, Pennsylvania. A boy poses by a cockpit mockup of the XR-1 helicopter. Pilot Lou Leavitt sits in the mockup with his arm around the boy. The boy poses with four employees of the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company. Scene shifts to flight testing of the U.S. Army Air Corps XR-1 helicopter, which moves about in a variety of maneuvers, demonstrating considerable stability and control, although confined to a relatively low altitude of approximately fifty feet.
Midshipman 1st class Jerry Watson being instructed by Charles E. Ward about the use and functions of PLAT (Pilot Landing Aid Television System) camera on board United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard in Gulf of Tonkin. Ward piers through the eye piece of the camera and swings it around. On the flight deck of the ship A-1H takes off while A-4C makes an arrested landing.
Pilots of U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 25 (VFA-25) being debriefed on board the aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21). They have returned from missions against shore defenses in and around Incheon, Korea, in support of the amphibious landings there.. Commander R.W. Phillips,Lieutenant Junior Grade E.J. Carrol and Lieutenant Commander G.C. Bergey at the debriefing. Lieutenant A.W. Motley relaxes. (Korean War)
Interior views on board U.S. Navy Destroyer Escort Charles E. Brannon (DE-446). Crewmen carrying small handbags enter bunk room of a ship in Seattle,Washington and chat with each other. A fireman and a 3rd class officer talk to each other. Personnel having their meals in the mess area.
Sailors eating a meal in dining hall aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Boxer (CV-21) off the coast of Korea, in the Sea of Japan, near the end of the Korean War.
A film titled 'The Memphis Belle' shows rural countryside aroound a B-17 airbase in rural England, during the second World War. United States B-17 bombers of the 8th Air Force parked with ground crewmen perform maintenance work on them. Rows of bombs stored in munitions dump. Armorers move large bombs using chain hoists, and place them on wheeled trailers. Air crewmen ride atop the bombs as they are towed to the B-17s. One bomb rider plays the harmonica as they roll along. Crewmen arm the bombs.
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