Graduation ceremony of new U.S. Navy officers in the United States. A large number of midshipmen seated in a building of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. They receive their graduation degrees. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth does the honors. A crowd applauds and cheers. U.S. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson awards degrees to new U.S. Air Force officers in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Johnson on a reviewing stand. The cadets at West Point in New York receive their degrees from President John F Kennedy. Kennedy addresses them. The new U.S. Army officers cheer and applaud.
Curtiss military aircraft being demonstrated during World War 2. Large number of Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplanes seen in flights of three, each. They fire their machine guns (two nose-mounted and two in each wing). Next, about 15 or more are seen in loose formation. A group of U.S. Army officers, seated at a stand on the banks of a waterway, watch as a group of P-40s fly past, at low altitude. Small boats are seen in the water near pilings and a decrepit dock. A large, loose formation of P-40s flies past, in flights of three, stacked vertically. (At this point sound of the aircraft can be heard.) Two more large formations of P-40s fly past. Then individual P-40s are seen following one another at large intervals. They fly low over the camera site. Scene changes to P-40s flying over a Curtiss Aircraft factory building. Curtiss aircraft company workers stand outside the building to watch the show. some P-40s fly past low, in close formation. Six P-40s fly past at altitude in vertical stacked formation. Two flights of three, pass directly overhead. The P-40s in Two flights, separate and fly away individually, imitating fighter dog-fighting tactics. Large view of American flag, with series of P-40s flying past, behind it.
USS Macon at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Sunnyvale, California. The airship leaves a hangar in Sunnyvale. Men watch. 'US Navy' written on a side of the airship. Buildings in the background. Men with a line guiding the airship before a take-off. The airship is attached to a mooring mast. The control room of the airship.
An aerial coverage of Nagasaki, Japan to show the atomic bomb damage which occurred during World War II. Aerial views of a former industrial section and now an air strip. A residential area surrounded by hills. The hills and mountains.
U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight for bombing Hamburg in Germany during World War II. B-17 Flying Fortresses in formation flight over thick clouds. A B-17 in flight over thick clouds.
A Biplane with radial engine and cowling that exposes part of the cylinders. Propeller has partial spinner on it. (Niewport airplane?) Man starts the engine with exterior crank. A person already seated in cockpit. Front view of airplane with engine running. Change of scene shows a De Havilland DH-4 maneuvering in the air. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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