SH-3A helicopter flying above Guantanamo Bay surface during DesRon2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) hunter-killer exercises in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. Naval Destroyer, likely either the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) or the USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway. An S-2E aircraft is seen in flight, flying low over the ocean surface with mad boom extended. It drops a torpedo which splashes into the water. Signal flare seen burning on water, with smoke rising upward.
July 16, 1945, with President Truman and his party enroute to Berlin Germany, prior to the "Big Three" conference at Potsdam. President Harry S. Truman is seated in right rear of open car. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes sits next to him in the center, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Personal Chief of Staff to the President, is in the left rear seat. U.S. Army Brigadier. An Army Major General stands beside the car speaking to the occupants. Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan (wearing sun glasses), long time friend and aide to the President, steps close to the car. Scene shifts to the President and his party, standing in a moving vehicle, as they review troops of the 2nd Armored Division, standing in front of their tanks, M10 Tank Destroyers, and other armored vehicles. The President and Secretary Byrnes remove their hats and hold them over their hearts,while military officers render hand salutes as they pass the colors. Views from vehicle passing the formation.View from ground of Presidential party at attention with flag of the 17th Battalion displayed. A Lieutenant from the 17th Armored Engineer Battalion reads a citation and Brigadier General John Howell Collier, Commander, 2nd Armored Division, unfurls unit citation ribbon, that President Truman then ties to the Guidon of Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. As President Truman reportedly described the event in his diary: "We reviewed the Second Armored Division and tied a citation on the guidon of Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. General Collier, who seemed to know his stuff, put us in a reconnaissance car built with side seats and no top, just like a hoodlum wagon minus the top on a fire truck, with seats and no hose, and we drove slowly down a mile and a half of good soldiers and some millions of dollars' worth of equipment -- which had amply paid its way to Berlin." (World War II period).
Specially-equipped N2Y-1 training planes practice hook-ups on the USS Akron (ZRS-4) dirigible, during flight. Several N2Y-1 training planes take turns practicing their hookup maneuvers.
Pilots in Consolidated N2Y-1 trainer airplanes practice hooking onto and releasing from the USS Akron (ZRS-4) USS Akron in flight. Consolidated N2Y-1 trainers are seen maneuvering below the airship to accomplish their hookups and releases. The aircraft are fitted with special trapeze hook equipment.
Consolidated N2Y-1 airplane tries to hook-on to USS Akron (ZRS-4) Zeppelin dirigible at Lakehurst, New Jersey in the United States. USS Akron in flight. The Consolidated N2Y-1 flies under the airship and maneuvers in attempts to hook on to the USS Akron.
Maneuvers of the USS Akron (ZRS-4) Zeppelin airshipoff the New Jersey Coast in the United States. Aerial view of USS Akron. A Consolidated N2Y-1 training aircraft hooks onto the Akron trapeze fixture. The plane misses the first attempt. The Consolidated N2Y-1successfully hooks up and then drops away. The plane has trapeze-hooking equipment affixed to it.
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