High speed flight testing. A rocket powered sled runs along the ground on the rails during tests carried out by Northrop engineers in Muroc Air Base (later Edwards Air Force Base). The rocket powered sled breaks the speed-of-sound barrier. The unmanned sled hits a speed of 1019 miles per hour. Smoke trails. Mountains in the background.
General MacArthur's Forces win new bases in Pacific. View of General MacArthur walking with officers. Australian troops advance in Madang, New Guinea. Native tribes help the soldiers. The Aussie troops wade in water. They crossover a wooden bridge balanced on a large stone. Allied dive bombers strike Japanese positions. Aussie troops advance cautiously. The ferret out Japanese troops from trenches and caves with hand grenades. The read mail from home. An Austraiian clowns around after capturing Japanese base, by walking down road with no clothing on his rear end. (World War II period).
Shadow details and flash burns caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. A wooden post with the flash burn effect. A metal ornamentation on the top of the post. Metal removed to show flash burn effect. Flash burned side of a chain. Man turns around the chain to show the protected area. Three granite posts removed and flash burned area and the shadow cast by the posts on the base of stone railing before the blast. Flash burned area at the entrance of the shrine and the protected area. The wooden post with the flash burned area at the base.
Damage caused due to Allied aerial bombings in Nagasaki, Japan. Destructed roof of the building. Mitsubishi small arms plant with ten lathes without noticeable damage by blast but have deteriorated as a result of exposure caused by the stripping of the corrugated metal from the roof. Base of a concrete stack. Damage caused to steel structure due to collapse of concrete base.
Pilot in cockpit of A1-E Skyraider, with another A1-E flying on his left wing. View of small military forward base below and smoke rising from hills above the base. view from A1-E firing Rockets at military buildings atop the hill. Smoke enveloping the entire complex. (Vietnam War period.)
Film begins showing silhouettes of some U.S. soldiers sitting in shade under wing of a C-130 transport aircraft, parked with engines running, on an airport at Naga City, the Philippines. A brightly colored commercial aircraft is seen parked in the background. Next, two red cars are seen with people milling about them. Then the military C-130 is seen isolated on the ramp, with engines still running. Local Filipinos are being organized and pose for cameramen. Closeup of a group of Filipino children posing. Closeups of many children. Glimpse of a C-130 crew member. Filipino men stand on the lowered rear door of the C-130, to which an orange trucks has been backed into the aircraft. They load boxes from the aircraft into the truck. A number of Filipinos gather around a C-130 crew member. Some Filipino men jump on the open rear door of the C-130 as another truck backs into it. The men begin loading sacks of grain into the truck, as a supervisor checks off the items on a bill of laden. Closeup of "Naga City" stenciled on bumper of truck. Long shot of the C-130 and several orange trucks, as well as other vehicles on the airfield ramp. Men jump out of the C-130 into an orange truck behind it, where they catch a few last food items tossed to them by two men still in the aircraft. (Note: the 463rd Airlift Wing was based at Clark Air Force Base, Philippines.)
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