Aircraft lined at the flight deck of USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, Gulf of Tonkin. USS Constellation pulls from USS Pollux (AKS-4) following unrep (underway replenishment). C-1A type aircraft towed backwards over the flight deck by a tractor. Smoke comes from the smokestack of USS Constellation. E-2A aircraft parked. Two men walk on deck carrying spare parts and tire. Character drawings and remarks written on Zuni rocket pods under wing of A-4 Skyhawk airplane.
NASA Freedom Seven, America's first sub-orbital flight. Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain underway. Marine helicopter HUS-1 above the capsule as it descends down after the flight. Capsule near surface of water. HUS-1 lifts the capsule. Another HUS-1 in flight. Mercury capsule lowers. Crowd on aircraft carrier. Capsule lowered on special pad on carrier. Landing bag collapsed and tied-down. Landing on aircraft carrier deck. Commander Alan B Shepard assisted by copilot in the helicopter. Commander Alan B Shepard and others on flight deck. Commander Shepard retrieves his helmet from capsule and walks in Admiral's cabin. He gets out of his space suit. Doctor Robert Laning and Jerome Strong beside him. President Kennedy congratulates him on phone. He talks to other officers. He drinks from a glass. He climbs aboard a Grumman S2F/TF aircraft on deck. Personnel on super structure of carrier. The plane takes off.
Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.
Allied invasion of Iheya Jima, Japan during World War II. Allied ships underway off the coast of Iheya Jima, Japan with United States 2nd Marine Division. Convoy of Allied ships underway. Naval gun in the foreground. Convoy consists of transport ships, Landing Ship Tanks underway.
Allied invasion of Iheya Jima, Japan during World War II. Allied landing crafts and ships at the harbor. A destroyer fires at the beach. United States 2nd Marine Division troops loaded in LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) underway at sea. Landing craft move towards the beach. An Allied plane lays a smoke screen. Landing craft in the foreground.
Shadow details and flash burns caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. A granite lantern with a replaced wooden framework on upper section. Wooden frame with the flash burned area and the protected portion by an overhanging top of the lantern. Torii or the entrance to the Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan). Men and women move past the entrance.
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