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United States Coast Guard protects ports and patrols the area off the coast of Saudi Arabia

Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm. Coast Guards protect the ports in Persian Gulf with the help of a Boston Whaler. Men patrol the area off the coast off Saudi Arabia in patrol boats. BM1 Bob Fong explains the importance of patrolling. Coast Guards look for suspicious objects in the sea. BM2 Joe Gosh explains how patrolling party conducts a search on vessels underway at sea. A patrolling party checks the identity proofs of locals on board a private boat.

Location: Arabian Peninsula
Date: 1991
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048327
British newsreel detailing crude oil extraction and refinement efforts in Persia (present Iran) since the early 20th century

Newsreel titled, 'Persia and the Oil Fields." Narrator chronicles discovery of oil in Persia, benefits of oil to the local economy, and British involvement via the Great Oil Company (now British Petroleum). View of barren lands in Persia (now Abadan in Iran). Oil drillers at work in a refinery amidst the barren lands. Construction of oil refinery at Abadan. Oil revenue brings benefits to the people, as shown by new bridges, school buildings, teachers and young girl and boy students in classroom, and college students studying technical subjects. Professor instructs in front of a blackboard filled with mathematical formulas. Workers at metal shop machines applying new technical knowledge. Oil pipe lines laid across stretches of undeveloped land near Abadan, Iran. Crude oil bubbling from the ground. View of several British oil transport ships at a dock in the Persian Gulf, including "Umaria London", the "British Guardsman" and the "British Virtue." Narrator eludes to the then current difficulties in relations between Iran and Britain, due to the British oil embargo following nationalization of Iran's oil reserves by Mosaddegh.

Location: Abadan Iran
Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050478
U.S. Tanks moving across the deserts of Kuwait and Iraq during Operation Desert Storm

Scenes from Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War). U.S. tanks and soldiers in near the tanks, in the sandy deserts of Iraq and Kuwait. A U.S.soldier with his gun keeps watch across the desert. Cloud of dust in the desert from the moving tanks. Large number of tanks parked in a long line in the desert.

Location: Iraq
Date: 1991
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028321
Various U.S. weaponry firing on Iraqi enemy targets during Operation Desert Storm

U.S. Army helicopters in flight over Iraq during Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf War. Camera views at night of targets being destroyed by "smart bombs" and rockets. Targets include buildings and tanks. U.S. tanks move on the desert. Destroyed Iraqi tanks in desert. Smoke from the destroyed tanks. U.S. Army infantry soldiers running near a U.S. tank. Battery of rockets rotating atop a U.S. Army launcher. Images of tanks and artillery firing on targets.

Location: Iraq
Date: 1991
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028323
Variety of U.S. weaponry firing on Iraqi enemy targets during Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq

U.S. Tanks and other military vehicles in the desert during the Persian Gulf War. Rockets launched from ground placements. Bombardment in the desert. Smoke arises from the firing and bombarding. Iraqi vehicle wreckage in the desert. Nighttime wide pan of skyline with multiple fires burning from hit targets. U.S. Army soldiers running with weapons in desert, and firing machine guns, bazookas, and hand-held rockets. Helicopters in flight over the desert. Soldiers on tank fire guns. Helicopter gun ships flying across the desert.

Location: Iraq
Date: 1991
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028325
Highway 80 "Highway of Death" between Kuwait and Basra, littered with destroyed Iraqi military vehicles

Aerial and ground views of destroyed tanks and other Iraqi military vehicles on Highway 80, known as the "Highway of Death" during Operation Desert Storm or the Persian Gulf War. Many charred and smoking vehicles on the road , retreating from Kuwait to Basra, Iraq. Smoke arises from the destroyed tanks. Parts of wrecked tanks and other military vehicles. Aerial view of the wreckage in the desert. Iraqi soldiers in a group waving white flags of surrender. Soldiers seated in a meeting with U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf. Officers eat food and discuss and then stand and shake hands.

Location: Kuwait
Date: 1991
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028326
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