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Hammond Louisiana USA 1943 stock footage and images

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U.S. Army Air Forces P-47s in live fire training at Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range during World War II

Views from the adjacent Hammond Army Air Field, as U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft fly very low and engage in live fire training over the Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range. Antiaircraft gunners of the 55th Brigade AAA practice sighting and tracking these aircraft as part of their own training. Gun sight view from a 40 mm Bofors gun tracking incoming aircraft. Formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder aircraft high above the training area (probably engaged in bombing training)..

Date: 1943, October 1
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050736
A vehicle made by Edward Hammond in Auburndale

A vehicle named 'Weep' made by Edward Hammond in Auburndale. The vehicle is made from spare parts of 16 automobiles, a tractor, a mowing machine and a boat. Edward Hammond shows mechanical parts of the automobile. He then drives it.

Date: 1946, March 14
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041343
Training and working of 725th Railroad Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, United States.

A film titled 'Army railroad' about the training of 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. Soldiers march past a sign that reads '725th Rail Road Operating Battalion' RR battalion personnel work on locomotives. Personnel build a rail road train. A man puts a railroad wheel on fire. Activities of the 725th RR Battalion in Africa during World War II as men work on locomotives and rolling stock. A personnel writes on a board. Personnel board the train and it gets underway. 725th RR Operating Battalion personnel being imparted training in various skills including telegraph. Personnel being imparted practical training near a rail road engine. Orders to prepare a train being given and dispatched. Yard master delivers the order to a Yard Foreman. Caboose being picked up to prepare a trail. Yard engine being detached and train rolls out. Engine being attached to the train. Conductor checks his watch with the master clock and signs the outgoing train register. Engineer receives the order. A rear lamp being hanged aboard the train. Men get aboard the railroad train and it leaves.

Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077869
725th Railroad Battalion personnel repair a train after an air attack at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, United States.

A film about training of 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. A train on the roll. Officers at a desk as they plan for a mock attack on a railroad train to impart practical training to 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel. Security guards aboard the train as they fire at attacking airplanes. Air attack causes damage to railroad track. Personnel inspect the damaged track. Caboose being informed about the damage. Security guards move to vantage points to provide a protection cover during repairing work. A signal man goes up a pole to make connection to an open telephone line. He makes a call to a dispatcher and the First Sergeant. The First Sergeant blows a whistle and repair parties load onto trucks. Others load onto railroad motor cars. A sign reads '725th Ry. Opn. Bn.'. The repair parties in trucks arrive at the site of the attack and equipment being unloaded. Broken tyres being removed. Another repair crew arrives. Rails being put in place and angle bar being used to tighten the bolts. A train rolls on the tracks. Guards on duty aboard the train. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077870
Doctor James Smith, President of Louisiana State University arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana from Canada.

Doctor James Smith, President of Louisiana State University arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Doctor James Smith brought from Canada to New Orleans where he is to serve jail time for embezzlement charges. Aircraft lands on the runway and Doctor James Smith and other people come out of it. Crowd gather around the airplane. View of various LSU buildings, a tower and scenes from the college campus of Louisiana State University in 1939.

Date: 1939, July 5
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064533
President Coolidge addresses 2nd Infantry Division troops from a dais in Hammond, Indiana.

U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge addresses 2nd Infantry Division troops in Hammond, Indiana. A large number of soldiers at a roadside. President Coolidge's motorcade drives past them. The President addresses the soldiers from a dais. Soldiers standing at attention.

Date: 1926
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051136