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German V-1 flying bomb (Fi 103) test explosion during WW2

German V-1 rocket testing in snowy landscape during World War 2. Title card says “Geheime Kommandosache” (“Secret commando operation” in English). “Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe Karlshagen” (“Test site of the Air Force Karlshagen” in English). A V-1 rocket with no wings or engine running is dropped to a snowy field and explodes during WWII.

Date: 1944, March 15
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079141
German V-1 flying bomb test failure during WW2

German V-1 rocket testing in snowy landscape during World War 2. Title card says “Geheime Kommandosache” (“Secret commando operation” in English). “Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe Karlshagen” (“Test site of the Air Force Karlshagen” in English). From an altitude of 2000 meters, a V-1 rocket without wings is dropped over snowy terrain. The V-1 rocket hits snow-covered field, but fails to explode.

Date: 1944, March 16
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079142
Northrop P-61 Black Widow shoots enemy plane at night aided by radar.

United States Northrop P-61 Black Widow fighter flying at night. Fighter pilot seen through canopy at night. Enemy target seen on radar scope of P-61. Radar operator at radar console and giving instructions. Finger pressing button to fire machine guns. P-61 firing machine guns at night. Enemy plane smoking and falling at night.

Date: 1944
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079145
Ships and airplanes navigate in fog, submarine depth charged by destroyer (WW2)

Douglas C-47 Skytrain flying in fog. A radar mobile station with rotating radar dish. C-47 lands on airfield under low visibility conditions. A fighter landing on aircraft carrier deck of a United States Navy aircraft carrier. Large U.S. battleship at sea. Sailor wearing deck-communications helmet. Close up of interior ship siren sounding. United States sailors wake up and jump out of bunks while siren sounds. A radar dish rotating onboard a ship. Hands actuating fire control triggers on a battleship. Multiple U.S. naval ships firing guns night and day. Battleship hit by guns. Battleships firing artillery on enemy ships and shorelines of islands. Submarine underwater. A U-boat submarine periscope seen above water surface. A United States Navy crew operates radar gunnery control system in destroyer, tracking a nearby submarine. Navy captain with sailor at the helm on destroyer. Destroyer shoots depth charges into water. Depth charge flying in air and then detonating in the ocean shortly after its release. Explosions under water destroying the U-boat submarine. Consolidated PBY Catalina flying above a naval flotilla. United States ships navigate through fog. (World War II period)

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079146
Scrap metal used in steel production to manufacture war materiel in the United States (WW2)

Naval artillery firing from warships during World War 2. Artillery fire during nighttime. A thick smoke from a battered ship after a naval battle. Smokestacks of a factory. View of a steel plant. Carts of scrap metal being brought to a steel plant. A horizontal charging machine empties boxes of metal and scrap into the furnace. Molten metal inside factory foundry ladles. Molten metal pours from ladle. An engineer works in steel factory. Coal burning in foundry furnace. A worker operates a machine to lift mold from newly cast blooms. Hot slabs of steel roll and take shape on factory assembly line. War Production Board headquarters in Washington DC. Chairman of the War Production Board, Donald Nelson, speaks about the importance of steel production to meet increasing war demands. “We must have a continuing flow of scrap in order to keep steel production at the level needed to meet our war requirements”, says Donald Nelson.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079271
President of Lukens Steel Company, Robert W. Wolcott, speaks about the importance of scrap metal in the wartime steel industry (WW2)

Smokestacks in a steel factory in the United States during World War 2. Robert W. Wolcott, the President of the Lukens Steel Company in Coatesville, Pennsylvania (the oldest steel mill in commission within the United States), and also chairman of the American Industry Salvage Committee, speaks about the importance of scrap metal in steel production for the war efforts in World War 2. Robert W. Wolcott speaks to two men inside his office. Wolcott’s office is decorated with patriotic posters on the use of scrap for war production (“Half the Metal in every ship, every tank, every gun is SCRAP!”). Behind Robert W. Wolcott is a sign saying “American Industries Salvage Committee”. “This decline in scrap must be checked. Steel, scrap must flow to the mill. This is becoming a serious situation. And it is a definite challenge to industry” concludes Robert W. Wolcott.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079272