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First flight of the Lockheed XP-80A (Prototype of P-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational jet fighter aircraft).

Scenes from first flight of the Lockheed XP-80A, prototype of the P-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational jet fighter aircraft. The aircraft livery (paint job) is dull gray. Unlike the future operational versions, this XP version has no tip tanks. The aircraft piloted by Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier, is seen flying low over the Muroc Flight Test Base (later Edwards Air Force Base).

Date: 1944, June 10
Duration: 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044929
Story of the U.S. Navy Seabees (Fighting construction men). History, recruitment, training, and deployment of the Seabees.

History and story of the Seabees. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks speaks in his office in Washington, DC. A view of the U.S. Capitol building through his window. He gives a brief history of the Seabees and introduces the film. A formation of Japanese warplanes. Views of Honolulu, Hawaii, Midway, Taviti, and Wake Islands.U.S. civilian construction workers. Hickam and Wheeler fields, in Hawaii, being bombed by Japanese airplanes. Pearl Harbor burning. U.S. casualties on stretchers. American soldiers raising the flag with fire and smoke behind them. Seebee recruitment poster. Volunteers going to enlist. Navy Seabee trainees learning military and construction skills. Practicing methods of rapid construction for combat zones. Trainees negotiating obstacle courses. Amphibious assault training. Seabee units parading in dress whites, followed by Seabees in some of their combat vehicles: DUKWs, construction graders, and bulldozers. A newly trained battalion of Seabees leaving training camp on a train. A band plays seeing them off. Seabees loading up at a port of embarkation. A troop ship seen. The troop ship moving away from the wharf, with help from tugboat. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 7 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044964
General Albert Kesselring & German officers arrive as gun crew adjusts artillery position in Italy during World War II.

Germans defend Cassino and Monte Cassino abbey in Italy during World War II. Map of Italy shown. General of the Nazi Germany, Albert Kesselring & German officers arrive in Italy and meet soldier. Kesselring gets into a jeep. German plane in the background. A man observe the posts from a roof. Gun crew at a table. They adjust artillery position. Artillery on road.

Date: 1944
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045009
Courtyards and stairways of Monte Cassino Abbey as men remove art treasures and books from Monte Cassino in Italy.

Germans defend Cassino and Monte Cassino abbey in Italy during World War II. Courtyards and stairways of Monte Cassino Abbey. Views of Monte Cassino. German officers with monks. Men remove art treasures, and books. Books and art treasures in a case.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045010
U.S. troops attack Monte Cassino and an abbot being safely brought out of the monastery in Italy during World War II.

Germans defend Cassino and Monte Cassino abbey in Italy during World War II. Cassino Monastery before U.S. Attack. U.S. bombs burst in Cassino Monastery. Ruins of Cassino Monastery. German officers with abbot of Cassino in a car. Officers salute him as car driven away. German officers and abbot of Cassino. Ruins and bombed buildings of Cassino. Men inspects ruins and evacuate casualties.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045011
German Junkers JU-52 drops supplies and men unpack meat in Russia (WW2)

Action on the Russian Front by German soldiers in Russia during World War II. Map of Russia. German soldiers in trenches as they move up. German transport aircraft, the Junkers JU-52 drops supplies. Men carry supplies. Germans unpack meat.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045012