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War materiel is loaded on ships to support the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II

A ship being loaded at a U.S. port of embarkation with war materiel to support the Allied invasion of Europe in World War 2. A group of Army dock workers enters the port building. A sign on the front office reads: "U.S. Army Transport Service." Steel structural items and large steel boiler are loaded aboard the ship. Men steady supplies lowered on deck in nets. Men place boxes in the ship's hold. A 2x4 Army truck being lowered into the ship.Tanks and artillery pieces, covered with canvas on the ship deck. A 155mm long tom gun being loaded on the ship More views of equipment and supplies being loaded aboard ship. The covered fuselage of a P-38 Lightning fighter plane being lowered onto the deck. Two civilian men in a wash room talk about upcoming invasion. Troops in full field gear coming aboard the transport ship. Men looking out the port holes of the ship. An invasion convoy getting underway. Soldier on deck, silhouetted against the sky. View of the Pentagon Building in Virginia. Army Service Forces officers meeting in Pentagon. Officers walking in the Pentagon halls. One exchanges salutes with a guard as he leaves the building.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075793
U.S. recruits being classified for assignments and being informed about the progress of World War II and why they fight.

New U.S. army recruits seated at benches in the classification center, taking notes, as an instructor at a blackboard tells them how to fill out their classification questionnaires, during World War 2. View of machines processing the questionnaires. Hollerith 88 column punch cards being sorted by machine. Newspaper article about the Air Force efforts to improve classification and assignments of new airmen. A recruit being counseled. An Airmen in barracks, filling out a post card form to complain about his assignment. Servicemen working with sewing machines and at long cobbler's benches repairing shoes. U.S. soldiers in pith helmets, laying communications cable from a truck. A soldier recording information about a shipment of supplies. Soldiers filling 5-gallon "jerry cans" with fuel from a hose. Others serving at a communications center in woods. A soldier fastening a cable to a tank. Soldier standing on a truck. Large group of soldiers gathered to listen to a lecture about explosives. Army draftsmen at their work tables. Soldiers using information and training materials.(Narrator states these materials are often ignored.) An army newsmap for Monday, August 31, 1942 posted on an Army office wall. A sergeant points to July, 1943, on a current calendar next to it, illustrating that the newsmap is long out-of-date. View of another newsmap and narrator notes they are produced weekly. An officer speaking to an auditorium of soldiers. A soldier arranging his personal gear. Infantry on field maneuvers, firing rifles as they advance across a field. Soldiers firing a Browning water-cooled machine gun; a mortar; and a 105mm M101A1 howitzer. The sergeant using a newsmap to brief his staff about the progress of the war. Opening frames of a War Department Film Bulletin, and soldiers in a theater, watching the film. Opening frames of the film,"Why We Fight," that goes on to show animated map of the German advance across Europe in World War 2. Scenes of German forces on the move, towing artillery, riding on tanks, and entering towns as they invade countries of Europe. Women and children running in streets under bombardment, and civilians fleeing from their homes during aerial bombing. A Bombed out city and civilian corpses lying on the ground. Women in Poland, identifying their dead and grieving over them. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft dropping bombs. Norwegians evacuating the city in trucks, and other vehicles and on foot, during the German invasion. A squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in flight. German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers diving on targets. Civilians rushing to a bomb shelter, and others boarding a truck to evacuate. More He-111 bombers dropping bombs. A Ju-52 trimotor transport (type used to transport German paratroopers). Buildings ablaze in a town. Large formations of German aircraft of various types flying overhead. Building destroyed and burning from bombing. Ju-87s flying close past the camera.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075794
U.S. Army signal corps develops and tests a television guided missile bomb

Film starts showing so-called "Television Bomb"guided missle. Closeup of television controls in the missile. View of the guided missile mounted underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. Guidance operator seen inside the bomber. The television bomb drops away from the bomber. View of the operator inside the bomber watching a television picture transmitted from TV camera in the missile nose. He uses radio controls to steer the bomb toward a test target. The missile explodes on an isolated small island test site.

Date: 1947
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075817
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler greets the Secretary of Defense Laird at the Pentagon in Virginia.

Ceremony at the Pentagon for the Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird in Virginia. A sign board at the entrance reads: 'Pentagon building river entrance'. The Honor Guard on Pentagon lawn. People gather outside the building awaiting the arrival of General Laird. Cars parked along a side of the street in front of the building. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Gilmore Wheeler standing with other officials. General Laird and family arrive by car and are greeted by General Wheeler.

Date: 1969, January 22
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075819
U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird receives a 19-gun salute at the Pentagon in Virginia.

Ceremony at the Pentagon for the Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird in Virginia. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird walk to the review stand. Defense Secretary Laird receives a 19-gun salute. The officials salute as the band plays. The Defense Secretary standing with his family. Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff standing. Secretary Laird shakes hands with them. Other people standing on the steps of the building.

Date: 1969, January 22
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075820
U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird seated at a desk in the office at the Pentagon in Virginia.

Ceremony at the Pentagon for the Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird in Virginia. The interior of the Pentagon building. Defense Secretary Laird along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Gilmore Wheeler, riding the escalator to the office of the Secretary of Defense. Secretary Laird seated at a desk. Defense Secretary Laird and General Wheeler discuss. The Secretary and General and their wives pose for pictures. Secretary Laird seated at a desk.

Date: 1969, January 22
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075821