View of a Martin JRM Mars floatplane, variant JRM-1, moored at dock at Pearl Habor, Hawaii. Naval ambulances back up alongside the docked plane to remove medical patients from the JRM-1 Naval Air Transport Service aircraft. JRM Mars floatplane taxiing away from dock and view as it takes off from the surface of the water.
U.S. Air Service Lt. M C Markham and Lt. L S Powell view the paper iron crosses pasted over bullet holes of Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft.Ground crewmen push a damaged Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft at Dogneville in France. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The Balbo fleet in flight commanded by Italian Air Minister at Lough Foyle, Londonderry, Ireland. Spectators watch as the flying boats land on water surface. The Balbo fleet arrives from Amsterdam and is on way to Chicago. Officials get off from a boat and are greeted by dignitaries. The Balbo fleet in formation on water surface.
Needy and poor children from poor and low income homes in Detroit romp and play at "Fresh Air Camp", a summer camp in Sylvan Lake, outside Detroit, Michigan, during the Great Depression. The camp was established by the Detroit Free Press newspaper. (The Sylvan Lake Community Center is now on the site.) Boys and girls run out of a main camp building, possibly the dining hall. Group of boys walking past camp buildings including sleeping cabins. The children wait in line for food at an outdoor eating or mess area. They smile and drink milk from glass bottles. Needy children play on a playground and enjoy swing sets. They run into the water of Sylvan Lake and splash and enjoy swimming in the water. Children gathered around a flag pole with the American flag on it for a flag lowering ceremony.
A U.S. Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 pursuit plane is set up with engine running and prop turning, during test of its machine guns at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Cameramen stand on a stand and record the action from behind the right horizontal stabilizer. Its 50 caliber machine guns are seen firing through through the spinning propeller, with which they are synchronized while its 30 caliber guns fire from the wings. The gunfire is directed at a target set within an earthen revetment, on a remote part of the airfield. Bullets are seen tearing through the target and churning the earth behind. Glimpse of the control panel inside the cockpit, where engine instruments read normal for engine-running condition. Flight instruments are inactive and altimeter reads 800 feet ( Wright field elevation). Gloved hand of person test firing the guns is seen on the control stick. Quartering front view of the aircraft during firing including closeup of the twin 50 caliber machine guns firing from atop the engine nacelle. More views of guns firing. In the last scene, photographers are shown hunkered down beneath the aircraft right wing with their cameras. (World War II period).
Soldiers fire anti-aircraft gun during air raid drill. Formation of Douglas B-18A Bolo and Curtiss P-40D aircraft in flight. Pilots and crew members inside the aircraft. (World War II period).
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