Film opens showing a commercial DC-9 in flight, overhead, approaching for landing at LaGuardia Airport, with landing gear and flaps extended. Scene shifts to hazy view of buildings silhouetted against lighter sky. View of rooftops with a boy walking across one. Buildings with pigeons on the roof. A woman dries clothes on a roof. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Cars parked on the street below. Pigeons flying. Youths playing basketball. 1:08 to end footage taken from atop 700 East 156th Street. 1:08 follows a train northwest along the Westchester Avenue line. 1:18, a view East of the newly elevated Bruckner Expwy and Whitestone and Throggs Neck bridges in distance. 1:21,a view to the Northwest, 3203-3211 Park Avenue is the curved building in the foreground, George Washington Bridge seen in the distance. 1:25, view west down 156th Street. 1:29 Train runs along Westchester Avenue to 156 and Tinton. 1:34 panning from south to west, Consolidated Edixon plant in Port Morris can be seen in distance. Rikers Island can also be seen in the East River. ( Note: A very large number of the buildings shown burned down in the next 10-20 years.)
U.S. Navy warships of Task Force 51, Joint Expeditionary Force, commanded by Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, bombard Japanese positions at the start of the campaign against Japanese-held Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Mount Suribachi visible at end of the island. The Eldorado (AGC-11), Vice Admiral Turner's flagship is seen. At time 00:20 to 1:04, the heavy cruiser USS Chester ( CA-27 ) is seen in camouflage Measure 32, design 9d, following another unidentified heavy cruiser, shelling the island of Iwo Jima. Time codes 1:05 to 1:12 show the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43). In time codes 1:14 through 1:31 the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City ( CA-25) and the USS Vicksburg, CL-86, a Cleveland Class light cruiser, in camouflage (measure 33, design 6D), are seen shelling Japanese anti-aircraft gun emplacements around the east side of Motoyama airfield. The battleship, USS Idaho (BB-42) is seen in time codes 1:32 to 1:53. Other, unidentified U.S. warships are also seen bombarding the Island.
A training film based on flight operations of U.S. Navy F8U-1 Crusader fighter aircraft in the United States. An F8U-1 taxis and takes off from a runway. A pilot at the instrument panel of the F8U-1 in the cockpit. The F8U-1 taxis and takes off to show working of rudder, retracting of landing gear, lowering of wings at various levels of speed. The pilot moves the wing incidence handle to down position and brings lock handle to lock handle. Switches are turned on the instrument panel. The F8U-1 at high altitude. The exhaust temperature meter and the oil pressure meter of the F8U-1.
Air to air view of UH-1H helicopters in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Air to Air view of four UH-1H helicopters in flight. Aerial view of rice paddies. Helicopter in flight. Aerial view of 9th Infantry Dong Tam base camp and revetment. Air to Air view of four UH-1H helicopters in flight. Pilot sits at the controls of helicopter. Control panel of the helicopter. Two helicopters in flight. Soldiers and UH-1H helicopters land in paddy by smoke. UH-1H helicopter lay screen smoke in air. Smoke from signal grenade at land. UH-1H helicopter lays screen smoke in the air. Pilot handles controls of helicopter. Pilot and co-pilot talk. (Vietnam War period).
'The fighting first' about the role of United States 1st Infantry Division in various campaigns during World War II. A soldier of United States 1st Infantry Division. Combat boots of soldiers during the civil war and World War I. A map shows the 1st Infantry Division units moving across the Atlantic Ocean towards North Africa for Operation Torch in November, 1942. Soldiers of 1st Infantry Division go to England and loaded onto ships as they move to Africa. U.S. General Terry Allen aboard a ship. Infantrymen fire in Oran, Algeria. Aircraft in flight, explosions occur and a convoy of trucks on advance during the battle in Oran. 1st Infantry Division troops battle against Nazi General Rommel's armies in Tunisia, North Africa. In 1943, men of 1st Infantry Division load onto ships and arrive in Sicily. Troops advance into a town in Sicily after capturing it. Damaged houses in a city in Sicily.
Soldier directs UH-1D helicopters to landing during Operation Big Spring in North of Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. Soldiers board the UH-1Ds. UH-1D takes off. UH-1D in flight. Silhouette of soldier holding a rifle. Pilot at controls of airborne UH-1D. Soldiers rush off UH-1Ds. Smoke rising in background. Soldiers advance across field of smoking grass. (Vietnam War period).
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