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U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Lauris Norstad and Norwegian General Bjarne Øen arrive at Wiesbaden Air Force Base, West Germany, for Exercise Cirrus involving Allied Air Forces in Europe.

Exercise Cirrus, an air exercise for the Allied air forces in Central Europe, that ran concurrently , part of the time, with Exercise Jupiter, a three-day, French-directed war game involving Allied forces in Europe (principally Germany). A band and honor guard are seen prepared for the arrival of senior air commanders at Wiesbaden Air Force Base, West Germany, involved in Exercise Cirrus. Glimpse of C-47 aircraft lined up on the field. A United States Air Force C-54 transport aircraft taxis into the airfield ramp with engines one and four shut down. A North American T-6 Texan training aircraft is seen in the background. The C-54 circles to where a greeting committee of Allied Air Force officers is standing. Closeup of the aircraft door being opened and a rolling stairs being placed at the doorway. Inside of door displays insignia of States Air Forces Europe (USAFE). Exiting the aircraft is Lieutenant General Lauris Norstad, commander in chief, of USAFE, with headquarters at Wiesbaden, Germany. (On April 2, 1951 he assumed additional duty as commanding general of the Allied Air Forces in Central Europe under the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe.) He is accompanied by General Bjarne Øen, Chief of the Norwegian Air Force. As they descend the stairs, they are greeted by a group of officers including: Major General Truman H Landan, Deputy Commanding Officer, USAFE ( United states Air force in Europe ), Lieutenant General Robert W Harper, Commander, U.S. Air Force Air Training Command, Colonel Rich, chief of Staff 12th Air Force and Colonel Roberts, Commanding Officer Wiesbaden Air Force Base. After mingling and conversing, Generals Norstad and Oen and their escorts exchange salutes with the color guard. A car arrives and Norstad and Oen step into it and and drive away.

Date: 1951, September 27
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048623
Garment workers demonstrating, for improved working conditions, encounter resistance in Eastern U.S. cities

Clothing workers in a factory in the United States. Street scene in garment district of Midtown Manhattan, New York City, in 1912. Garment workers, and supporters of their labor rights quest for better pay and shorter hours, pose for a photograph. Workers display many signs expressing their needs, in English, Italian, Russian, Hebrew and other languages. Garment workers, of various specialties, gather in demonstration for better treatment. Employees of the Alfred Benjamins Company refute management's claim that they are satisfied with working conditions. They display a large sign on the sidewalk. Four-sided box signs are also seen (written in Italian and Hebrew). Mounted police move along a street as a foot patrolman arrests a protester. Photograph of lawyer, Fiorello LaGuardia. Garment workers at work in a sweat shop. A large group of young women garment workers marching in a labor rally or demonstration during a strike. Two signs are seen, one reading: "Why are we prohibited from picketing?" and the other, partly hidden, explains why they are striking. A contingent of uniformed policemen with night sticks, stand in front of a building in Baltimore. Smiling women stand carrying signs. One reads: "Our employers are powerful (because) they are organized.We shall be more powerful." Another reads,"We shall fight until we win." Many other signs express similar sentiments. Portrait photograph of 17 year old Ida Brayman, with caption reading: "Who was shot & killed by an Employer Feb. 5th 1913 during the great struggle of the Garment Workers of Rochester (New York)."

Date: 1913
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036805
Russian soldiers gather in Moscow and demonstrate during Russian Civil War in Russia.

A huge crowd of soldiers gather on streets of Moscow, Russia, as pamphlets are distributed during Russian Civil War (also during time frame of World War 1). A soldier reads posters pasted on a wall. A huge crowd of soldiers gathers around, and many sit upon, the Statue of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich at Manege Square, Moscow. ( Note: The statue,by Pietro Canonica. Was erected in 1912 and destroyed in 1918.)

Date: 1917
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024161
Traditional Japanese women wearing kimonos

Life of Japanese women depicted from the start of Emperor Meiji’s reign (Meiji Era- October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912). Japanese women wearing kimono talk while walking together in the grounds of the Kiyomizu-dera Buddhist temple (294 Kiyomizu, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, 605-0862, Japan). A scroll written with Japanese calligraphy. Old Japanese ship in the ocean. Japanese men vote. A Japanese woman cleans floor. Photograph of a prominent Japanese feminist (probably Ichiyo Higuchi). A gathering of traditional Japanese suffragists or feminists wearing kimonos. View of the Tsuda University (2 Chome-1-1 Tsudamachi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-0025, Japan), a private women's university in Tokyo. Photograph of Tsuda Umeko, educator and founder of Tsuda University. A young Japanese girl boards a ship.

Date: 1900
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025236
Scutari, Albania, after the siege by forces from Montenegro during the 1st Balkan War

Scutari (Shkoder) Albania, in the wake of extended shelling during a siege by Montenegrin forces, in the First Balkan War, from 1912-1913. Dead body at wrecked building. A woman sits with a child lying on ground. Children peeling the bark from a tree. Children eating bark. Civilians receiving food. Two men sit on the doorway with food. A Montenegrin Army officer hands out treats to children. Two children sit at doorway and eat. Civilians distribute food. Refugee families depart with their belongings carried by mules.

Date: 1913, April
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675025866
Men and women aboard the trim steamer ship SS Potlatch in Hood Canal region near Puget Sound of Washington state, United States

Various landmarks in Hood Canal region in Washington, United States. Women on deck of the trim steamer ship S.S. Potlatch (active 1912-1917; scrapped 1937). View from ship of wooded shoreline areas in Hood Canal. Men and women aboard the ferry ship. Homes, dock areas are seen. Wooded shoreline in the background. Snow covered mountains of the Olympic Peninsula in the background, including Mount Olympus. A row boat approaches the ship. Views from ship as it heads northward through the Puget Sound to the San Juan Islands. Close views of the San Juan Islands shorelines seen from the moving S.S. Potlatch.

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042498