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1930s - Navy Stock Footage: USS Akron; USS Nautilus; 1920s Bombing Tests; Lindberg on Saratoga

Reel Number: 250031-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1930s,1920s,1950s

Country: USA

Location: New York City Harbor,NYC

TC Begins: 12:00:00

TC Ends: 12:13:38

Duration: 00:13:38

1930s - Navy Stock Footage: USS Akron; USS Nautilus; 1920s Bombing Tests; Lindberg on Saratoga MS US Navy dirigible USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight over city. 12:01:14 Int, looking out as Curtiss XF9C-1 Sparrowhawk biplane w/ motor running hoisted aboard while in flight. Pilot helped out amid metal ribs. 12:01:50 Aerial from in front of biplane suspended under dirigible, motor started, plane released / dropped. 12:02:38 Int, gondola control room. Sailor steering airship w/ commander & ??. 12:03:04 MCU stowed mail bags. Naval officers eating at table w/ china plates. 12:03:28 Men walk along dirigible catwalk. NOTE: USS Akron maiden voyage 23Sep31 (commissioned 27Oct31) & crashed 04Apr33. Aircraft trapeze tested 03May32 w/ Consolidated N2Y trainer by Lt. Daniel Harrigan; Lt Howard Young flew XF9C-1. 12:04:17 Aerial, Arctic terrain. MLSs, dog team resting by sled in snow. Icebergs from water. 12:06:17 Cameramen on ship; USS Nautilus (SSN-571) submarine entering New York harbor, Aug58. 12:07:08 Phosphorus bombs dropped on battleship USS Alabame (BB-8) in test (Sep21). Aerials ship bombed & sinking (27Sep21). 12:08:21 German battleship Ostfriesland at sea. Pliot in bi-plane. MSs, Charles Lindbergh with naval officers including Capt. or Admiral Harry Yarnell aboard aircraft carrier at sea, pose w/ pilots. MCU, Lindbergh seated in biplane; takes off from deck of carrier. 12:10:46 MS aircraft carrier (British ?) w/ large stack moving past, r to l & l to r, land behind (late 1950s). 12:12:11 MS Sailors watch amphibious biplane catapulted from aircraft carrier deck (early 1930s). LS, biplane warming up behind fence boards on carrier USS Saratoga (CV3), boards dropped & plane takes off; biplane approaching for landing w/ signalman seen (early 1930s). Naval Fliers; Navy Operations;

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