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B-25 aircrafts of U.S. Army Air Force in formation in Tunisia.

B-25 aircrafts of U.S. Army Air Force in formation in Tunisia. A-30 aircrafts in formation. B-26 aircrafts in formation. A-30s flying. A -30s in background. B-25s flying. Three A-30s and six B-25s in formation. A-30s flying. B-25s flying diagonally. Nose of B-24 aircraft. B-25 and four A-30s. Five B-25s flying. Nose of a B-25. Vehicles moving across desert. A B-25 aircraft. 6 B-25s dropping bombs on desert. Scenes of desert showing bursts. Four B-25s. Bombs falling through open bomb bay door then bomb bay doors close. Bomb bursts seen in desert. Line of smoke rising from bomb bursts in desert. Enemy planes fleeing in desert. B-25 flying. Oil dump blazing in desert. B-24 flying. View of desert. B-25 flying, drops bombs, bomb bay doors close. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, January 7
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034861
British 8th Army tanks, trucks and infantrymen advance in the desert of North Africa.

British Army Cruiser tanks in North Africa. British 8th Army tanks roll along desert roads in North Africa. British soldier atop a tank turret. Tanks, trucks and infantrymen move along the desert. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050513
An atomic bomb explodes and a mushroom cloud rises as French personnel test its second A- bomb in the Sahara Desert in Algeria.

French personnel test the second A- bomb in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. The A-bomb test site for France in the Sahara desert. French personnel assemble for the country's second atomic bomb test and discuss. An official talks over a telephone. A button of equipment is pressed to initiate detonation of the bomb. The nuclear device explodes. A mushroom cloud rises.

Date: 1960, April 4
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072254
Montage of World War 2 scenes from all theaters of Allied operations and scenes of the U.S.A.

Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062730
Italian and German forces engage British in North African campaign during World war II

Film opens showing Italian soldiers in North Africa using a sound detection device to locate incoming aircraft during World War 2. They detect a British bomber and ready their anti aircraft gun (90mm Cannone da 90/53). Shells being loaded in the tun and closeup of the principal gunner. British aircraft maneuvering in sky overhead. Two anti aircraft guns firing. Closeup of one viewed from breech as it fires. Batteries of the anti aircraft guns firing. Closeup of Italian gunner reacting as a British plane is hit and falls trailing smoke. It crashes and explodes in the desert some distance away. Closeup of burning aircraft wreckage. Some German Messerschmitt bf 109 fighters taking off from a desert field. Airborne view of Messerschmitt Me bf 110 in flight (view from wingman's aircraft). Closeup of back seat machine gun barrel. View from aircraft strafing ground target on desert below. View from rear seat of the Me 110, where occupant is sending Morse code radio message. View of German radio station (sign reads: "Funkbetriebs Stelle!") Gernan army radio operator working at the station Wind blowing and sand drifting. German soldiers seeking protection from sand storm. Wind undoes tiedown of a tent which soldiers hasten to refasten. Two soldiers raise canvas that covered them during storm and stand upright.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675033491
Oil exploration and production by Compagnie Française des Pétroles, in Sahara, Algeria

Scenes of oil exploration and production operation by Compagnie Française des Pétroles in the Hassi Messaoud oil field at edge of Sahara Desert in Algeria. Drilling operation in desert. drill turning in hole. Derrick in background with dromedary camels standing by sand dunes and being watered from a well by their Algerian Berber owner. Two men pile stones to make a marker in the desert. A 1958 British land rover vehicle driving across the desert. View of drilling derrick. Sections of pipe on the ground. Oil being pumped from a producing well into pipeline. French oil drilling worker empties bag of Boue forage (drilling mud) into hole. French worker, with hose, washes down base areas of drilling rig.Oil storage tanks connected by pipes. Local Algerian Berber workmen lift and carry bags of forage. Footprints in sand. Network of piping next to drill rig.

Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073194