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Lieutenant General Spaatz decorates men of 82nd Fighter Group in Italy during World War II.

United States Army Air Forces 82nd Fighter Group in Italy during World War II. U.S. Lieutenant General Carl Andrew Spaatz and other officers in a field. Lieutenant General Spaatz decorates a personnel of 82nd Fighter Group and shakes hands. Men of the 82nd Fighter Group lined up in a field as Lt. Gen. Spaatz pins up medals onto them.

Date: 1944
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078111
Toscanini conducts an orchestra and men work on controls during a radio broadcast of Verdi's Ferza del Destino in the U.S.

A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini as he conducts the NBS Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast of Giuseppe Verdi's Ferza del Destino in the United States. Musical note of the Ferza del Destino. Toscanini conducts the orchestra as men at the radio station work on controls. A tower at the radio station. Various instruments being played by the members of the orchestra. Toscanini conducts the orchestra.

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078154
Strafing and bombing of a target area in Italy.

Bombardment of the target area of Aziso Viaduct in Italy. An aerial view of the target area. A bomb bursts in the target area. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, May 13
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045993
A DT-15 torpedo with air frames attached is dropped in water in the United States.

A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. A DT-15 torpedo with air frames attached. The DT-15 is attached to the bottom of an aircraft. This is a preset control glide missile. DT-15 drops. It descends towards water. About 50 feet above water surface the air frame separates from the torpedo. Wake left by the torpedo as it goes through water. A freighter is hit by the torpedo. Explosion on the freighter. Black smoke rises up from water.

Date: 1944
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046003
A GB-1 bomb is dropped from a B-17 and the launch of a GB-8 missile in the United States.

A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. A GB-1 bomb is suspended from a chain hoist in the interior of a laboratory. This is a preset glide bomb. A B-17 with GB-1 attached, takes off. The B-17 in flight with GB-1s attached to the bottom of the aircraft. Aerial launching of the GB-1 from the B-17. Side view of a GB-8. Flares attached to the tail section of the GB-8. This is a radio-controlled missile, flares are used to assist in guiding the missile to target area. The GB-8 descends. Smoke trails behind. The GB-8 hits a flat open desert terrain. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046004
Dropping of a heat seeker missile, GB-6 from a B-17 flying fortress in the United States.

A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. GB-6, a heat seeker missile, is assembled in a work laboratory. Men attach the homing device to the heat seeker unit then attach the same to the nose section of the GB-6 airframe. They test the heat seeker missile by holding a match flame in front of the same. Activating section of the heat seeker missile. A B-17 flying fortress in flight launches the GB-6 missile. The missile descends.

Date: 1944
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046006