Manufacturing of rubber heels for the soles of U.S. soldiers' boots at a Goodyear plant in Windsor, Vermont. Men and women emerge from rubber heel manufacturing facility in Windsor Vermont. Workers wash uncured rubber heels and keep them to dry so as to prevent them from sticking. Man puts rubber heels in molds for nailing. Each nailed heel passes through vulcanization machines. Woman checks the vulcanized rubber heels and puts them together. Women pass completed heels through an X-ray machine and check for defects. In Akron, Ohio, a U.S. Army soldier stands in front of the statue of Charles Goodyear, the founder of Goodyear rubber company, and the discoverer of vulcanization. (World War II period).
Atomic submarine Nautilus launched in Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut. Sign reads 'USS Nautilus SSN 571 Keel Laid June 14, 1952'. Crowd cheers. Mrs Dwight S Eisenhower arrives for christening ceremony. Commander Eugene P Wilkinson as Commander of ship. Mrs Dwight Eisenhower christens the Nautilus. Submarine slides into waters from its building area.
Launch of the world's first nuclear powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, at shipyard of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut. Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of USS Nautilus as a part of tradition. The submarine slides down the ways into the waters of the Thames River. A Navy CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter flies above USS Nautilus underway in Long Island Sound..
Two men hold a model plane at 4th Annual Model Airplane Tourney in Dayton, Ohio. The plane takes off and flies successfully. Joseph Lockes, of Chicago with a model plane. Crowd surrounds a model plane of Joseph Ehrhardt of St. Louis. A plane takes a round and crashes. A man tries to repair it.
General Hugh L. Scott of Smithsonian Institute, seated on a chair demonstrates Indian sign language. General Scott demonstrates sign for flint and flint lock.
A U.S. Navy Training. Two sailors demonstrate how to break rear stranglehold with body twist. A sailor strangles another sailor from behind who in turn twists and frees himself. They demonstrate how to break rear stranglehold with thumb lock. A sailor strangles another sailor from behind. Close up of thumbs of the attacker on the throat of the sailor. The sailor twists and frees himself and twists the arms of the attacker. He hits the face of the attacker with his knee. They now show how to break rear strangle with flying mare method. One of the sailors comes from behind, jumps and strangles the other sailor with his arm. The other sailor grabs the arm of the attacker with one arm, gives a blow to the groin of the attacker with his free arm, kneels down and hauls him over. (World War II period).
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