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Destroyer and battleship fire antiaircraft guns underway at sea, Pacific Ocean.

Destroyer and battleship fire antiaircraft guns underway at sea. Japanese plane explodes and tailspins into water midst tracers. Man floats through air in parachute and lands in water. Antiaircraft guns fire. Japanese plane crashes in water. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, May 5
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052159
Herbert Roslyn (Bud) Ekins describes plan to fly around the world by commercial craft, including the Hindenburg

Herbert Roslyn "Bud" Ekins and other newsmen and reporters working at desks in the newsroom offices of the New York World Telegram newspaper (Scripps-Howard Newspapers). Ekins smokes while he types. He is going to be a passenger on the LZ-129 Hindenburg as part of his plan to circle the globe entirely by commercial air carriers. The event is sponsored by his employer, the NY World Telegram and Scripps-Howard Newspapers .Elkins describes the planned itinerary. Editor, Roy Wilson Howard, walks in and wishes Elkins good luck, telling him to make the trip in 21 days or less. Elkins puts on his suit jacket and overcoat, and departs for Lakehurst New Jersey, where he will board the Hindenburg for the first leg of his journey.

Date: 1936, September 29
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052179
Landing operations of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship at Friedrichshafen, Germany

LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin floats in air low above field in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Letters on side of LZ-127 reads 'Graf Zeppelin'. Radio room under LZ-127. Ground crews encircle the control gondola of the airship as it touches down, and German soldiers, in uniform, help stabilize the tail support. Large tail propeller seen above their heads. Spectators walk toward LZ-127.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052180
N2Y Bi-plane hooks onto the aircraft trapeze of USS Akron (ZRS-4) dirigible at Lakehurst in New Jersey.

USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight over Lakehurst, Naval Air Station, New Jersey. An N2Y bi-plane about to hook onto the aircraft trapeze of the ship during flight operations. Bi-plane approaches, hooks on to trapeze of USS Akron and is pulled up into the airship.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052187
Graf Zeppelin LZ-127, maneuvered on ground at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Passengers disembark. Crowd gathered.

Spectators walk beside the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship, as ground crewmen maneuver it at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey. Crewmen wave from rear gondola. Men look out from the window of cabin. U.S. Naval Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl looks out from open cabin exit door. Robert Hartman, a newsreel film director exits with a camera around his neck, followed by other assengers, including Lady Drummond Hay and Karl Wiegand. A crowd is gathered around the exit door as passengers step down.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052189
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship in flight and being maneuvered on ground, at Lakehurst NAS in New Jersey.

LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship in flight. Crew members peer through open windows and open door. Name "Graf Zeppelin" painted on side of the airship. Ground crew sailors look up at LZ-127 in the air above Lakehurst. Ground crewmen surround the control bridge and cabin of the LZ-127, to stabilize and maneuver it on the ground. Views of Graf Zeppelin in flight over Lakehurst. It passes by a hangar.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052192