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Maryland Governor McKeldin and former Governor Lane at the inauguration of Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland.

Inauguration of the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge -- known today as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge -- in Maryland, United States. A large number of people gathered for the opening of the world's third longest bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A few policemen among the crowd. Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin and former Governor William Preston Lane, Jr. during the inauguration of the bridge. Several men and women around the officials. Governor McKeldin cuts tape declaring the bridge fit for travel. Cars passing through toll booths. Men beside the booths. A girl holding Francis, the Talking Mule, among the crowd. Starlet Jean Cambron during the inauguration. A motorcade passes across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A ferry moving on water making the last trip. A motorcade moving on the bridge.

Location: Maryland United States USA
Date: 1952, July 31
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069998
United States Coast Guard crews and Army troops during debarkation practice prior to D-Day in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

United States Coast Guard pre invasion activities in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States during World War II. A United States Army jeep being hoisted aboard a ship. American Coast Guardsmen on board the ship underway in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States in January , 1944. A Landing Craft Tank along side a ship as Army troops get onto it. LCT pulls away. Various United States Coast Guard transports underway in the Bay. A man at a steering wheel. Various landing craft underway,practicing in the bay. A soldier on the beach directs as landing craft approach the beach. Ramps of landing crafts being lowered and troops move off the craft as they practice debarkation of troops prior to an invasion. Various boats seen in this film include: Higgins boats from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) and USS Chilton (APA-38); and Landing Crafts Large, USS LCI(L)-505 and 523. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1944, January
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051446
Girls scout mariners raise sails as they get underway for a ten day cruise in the Chesapeake Bay in the Atlantic Ocean.

Girls scout mariners aboard a schooner Wm. J. Stanford in the Chesapeake Bay in the Atlantic Ocean. The girls board the schooner as they get underway in the Chesapeake Bay. The girls raise the sails of the schooner. They pull a rope. The schooner underway in the bay.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1940, June 24
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059021
USS Alabama is hit by bombs during demonstration by Army Air Service DH4 bomber airplanes in the Chesapeake Bay.

Bombing demonstration by U.S. Army Air Service DH4 aircraft under command of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The target is Battleship USS Alabama, in September, 1921 in the Chesapeake Bay, United States. Army flier is seen checking security of a bomb under wing of aircraft. USS Alabama underway in the Chesapeake Bay. Aerial views from United States Army Air Service planes in flight over the battleship. USS Alabama is hit by a bomb. Later it is hit by a phosphorus poison gas bomb. Finally it is hit by 2000 pound bombs. The USS Alabama rolls over halfway, in shallow waters.

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1921, September
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044883
USS Intrepid (CVS-11) underway at a sea and passes over the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel area in the United States.

United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) underway at a sea. The ship departed for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. View of the starboard of the ship. Aircraft parked on the aircraft carrier. A view of a red channel buoy. The port beam of the ship in view. The ship passes over the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel area. Part of the tunnel area in the background. Port bow of the ship in view. Several small ships in the background. The ship passes a channel buoy. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel in the background.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1967, May
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054308
Troop transport, USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, AP-69, engaged in amphibious training exercises during World War II

United States soldiers and sailors participate in amphibious training exercise, in the Chesapeake Bay, during World War 2. Soldier and Sailors exit a Landing Craft Personnel Large, LCPL, and run across a beach towards some woods. Soldiers crouched aboard a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, LCVP, under way. Note many of the soldiers armed with M-1 Garand rifles, have applied condoms to the muzzles of their rifle barrels, to prevent salt water corrosion. The fleet transport USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, AP-69, flagship for amphibious exercises in Chesapeake Bay., at anchor. A Landing Craft Personnel Large, LCPL passes by in the foreground. Soldiers aboard and exiting a beached Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, LCVP. An LCVP with 'P69-10' painted on its side hits the beach. Soldiers exit near yellow cloth beach signal panel and run across the beach.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020461
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