Japanese Zeke fighter aircraft (Misubishi A6M Zero) strafes USS Sangamon (CVE-26) and bullets splash in water. Destroyer underway and flak bursts in air. USS Sangamon underway and Japanese plane burns in waters of the Leyte Gulf in background. Other vessels in Task Unit 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") seen in the footage. Shortly before the Battle of Leyte Gulf. (World War II period).
Three massive radomes at the Fylingdales Moor BMEWS tracking radar site. Third BMEWS station in the three-site network, Fylingdales Moor, England. Royal Air Force flag flying and sheep grazing in foreground.
Animated film shows how sound waves are created by the human voice cause movement of air molecules and how this movement is transmitted through the flexible diaphragm of the telephone mouthpiece. The electrons passing through carbon granules in the mouthpiece are transformed into electric current and the magnet and flexible diaphragm in the telephone receiver transforms the current into sound waves. An old man and a kid talking into phone.
Crowds in New York City celebrate end of World War 1 near time of Armistice. View from above of crowds on 5th Avenue, in Manhattan, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor homecoming American soldiers. Camera pans across celebrants waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to the financial district, and the George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman standing below the statue, paces back and forth. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the armistice. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened at his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. View shifts to an effigy of the German Kaiser suspended high above the street, between two buildings. Men ride on the outside of a car. One "chokes" an small effigy of the Kaiser while another pummels it. Another crowd raises an effigy of the Kaiser aloft holding a white flag of surrender. A man wearing a grotesque mask of the Kaiser, with Kammerad written across the forehead. He holds an American flag. Vehicles, including a horse-drawn carriage, move along a street surrounded by vast crowds. Confetti flies through the air. Jubilant crowd wave newspapers with headline: Germany Surrenders. A double-decker bus seen in background.
View above Avrocar model. Model is placed on edge in wind tunnel during test with angle of attack being varied by rotation of the holding fixture, demonstrating the behavior of air currents flowing over the model in different positions.
View above Avrocar model in Toronto, Ontario. Demonstration of behavior of air currents flowing over the model in different positions. It is achieved by placing the model on edge in wind tunnel during test with angle of attack being varied by rotation of the holding fixture.
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