X-15 first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. X-15 with B-52 Stratofortress in flight. X-15 under the right wing of B-52. Insignia of United States on B-52. The rear of X-15. Contrails comes out from X-15. It is released from B-52. X-15 in flight. A pilot in the cockpit. The jet engine of B-52.
X-15 first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. B-52 Stratofortress with chase planes in flight. Contrails left out by the planes. X-15 in flight and climbs up. Contrails left out by the X-15. A chase plane behind it. The chase plane flies above and over X-15. X-15 flies over mountains. It lands on a dry lake bed and taxis. An unidentified plane taxis in background.
X-15 first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. X-15 in flight with other chase planes. It flies over the mountains and lands. It taxis on a dry lake bed. Contrails comes out from the engine of X-15. A Piasecki H-21 helicopter hovers over it. Cars and vans approach X-15 after it lands.
North American X-15 rocket powered aircraft first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. X-15 in flight. A radar in the background. X-15 flies and lands on a dry lake bed. A hangar in the background.
USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Naval officers and sailors discuss over a map on a table. Animated map depicts Japanese fleet positions on the Truk Atoll of Islands. USS Yorktown Navy flier squadron and squadrons from other carriers take off for combat over the Truk Islands. Sailors talk over the radio aboard USS Yorktown. A map shows the heavily fortified islands surrounded by air strips, and naval anchorages among the islands. Crewmen aboard Yorktown prepare the planes for take off. Machine gun fire from the planes over the Truk Islands. They dive bomb the island. The aircraft are hit and descend to the ground. A plane drops into the ocean. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese planes on fighter strips, bomb bases and sea plane ranches. Smoke due to heavy bombardment. Planes dive and drop bombs. Fire due to bombing of a fast fleet tanker hiding in a sheltered cove. U.S. bombers and fighter planes strafe other fleet auxiliaries including rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They are set on fire with 50 caliber incendiaries and armor piercing plugs. The ships on fire sink into the ocean.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Aerial view of the area. U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopters in flight. Fire Support Base Lima. U.S. and South Vietnamese medics carry an injured Vietnamese soldier aboard a UH-1D helicopter. The pilot at the controls in the cockpit. Medics carry the wounded soldier off the helicopter at the 2nd ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) hospital. The UH-1D helicopter takes off. Vietnamese and United States soldiers seated around a table in the jungle. Numerous tents nearby.
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