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General LeMay and ground crews greet B-17 crews returning from missions, including B-17s Southern Comfort and Boom Town Jr.

Mission footage outtakes from the film "Memphis Belle". Crews and officers on ground waiting for B-17 mission to return. B-17 formation overhead as planes come in. Ground personnel greeting B-17 crews as they come in. Crew of B-17 Flying Fortresses near a hangar in England. United States Air Force General Curtis Le May talks to the crews. A crowd around B-17 with painted name "Southern Comfort." Crew member standing on engine of Southern Comfort taking notes. Damaged rudder of the B-17. Crews also around a B-17 with painted name "Boom Town Jr."

Date: 1943, October
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046295
Pilot of a B-17 in flight, and aerial images of B-17 base area in England, viewed through B-17 windows

Mission footage outtakes from the film "Memphis Belle". B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight. Close side view of pilot in cockpit of a B-17. He wears ear phones and an oxygen mask. B-17 aircraft fly in formation. Cameraman shoots through a side window. An aerial view of the B-17 base in England.

Date: 1943, October
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046296
A mechanic works on the engine of a B-17 parked at a base in England.

Footage outtakes from the film "Memphis Belle". A United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress parked at a base in England. A mechanic works on the engine of the plane. Trees in the area.

Date: 1943, October
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046297
Aerial views of a B-17 base in England, taken from a B-17 during landing approach

Footage outtakes from the film "Memphis Belle". A high altitude view of an area in England near the B-17 base. A view of the B-17 base from a B-17 in flight. Final approach and view through front of plane as it is about to land on runway.

Date: 1943, October
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046298
Technician demonstrates the expanding and closing sidewall canvas of Sherman Tank Duplex Drive at a factory

Sherman Medium M4 Tank Duplex Drive. The Sherman DD- A report to the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations. Sherman Duplex Drive (DD) in water. Four soldiers on Sherman. Sherman covered with canvas. Technician at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory works on the Sherman. Gauges on tank. Machines on tank. Canvas side wall goes up. Technician puts struts into place. The canvas expands. He pushes a lever and the canvas goes down. Barrel of artillery visible. He turns its barrel. (Note: filmed at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory, Birmingham, England who built and designed the DD equipment to be fitted to U.S. built Sherman tanks. As it is a prototype, the air controls are not in the same place as on production machines.) (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046313
USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) stops at Casablanca en route to the U.S. for repairs, in World War II

Scene aboard the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) as she approaches the pier in Casablanca port, during World War 2. Life preserver reads "USS Samuel Chase, USCG". American flag flies. Officers and men on deck. Ship's wake seen astern. Line handlers on pier, with hawser in their hands, walk across the pier to secure the lines. As Coast Guardsmen on the pier watch, a Scuffle breaks out among some local men on the pier. Several are knocked to the ground. Rifle-armed Moroccan gendarmerie in brown uniforms and red fezs, chase the troublemakers off the pier, and restore order. Crewmen are seen retrieving the ship's lines. The Navy Jack is lowered from the stern flag pole as the Chase begins to move away from the pier. The French battleship, Jean Bart, can be seen at an adjacent pier, beyond a group of intervening warehouses. A U.S. PBY aircraft flies overhead. Several scenes show crew members as they settle down for the voyage home.Several play acey ducey backgammon on deck. Some simply relax on the deck. Four crewmen play cards. The USS Samuel Chase heads West into the sunset.

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046333