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Lieutenant Colonel Henry (Hap) Arnold and Major Royce plan photo-mapping mission to be flown out of Anchorage Alaska

YB-10 aircraft and crews, of the U.S. Army Air Corps 1934 Alaska Flight, preparing to depart Fairbanks for Anchorage, where they will fly a photo-mapping mission. Crew members around their B-10s. A USAAC Stearman model 75 parked at the field. Man uses a tractor to pull a dolly loaded with 55 gallon drums of fuel for the aircraft. Darkened tents set up inside a hangar to facilitate loading of unexposed film into aerial mapping cameras. Closeup of soldier placing roll of film into one of the cameras, and winding it into position for picture-taking. Lieutenant Colonel Henry (Hap) Arnold and Major Ralph Royce, discussing a large wall map of the areas to be photographed. Chart of the planned formation of five mapping camera planes at 8 mile horizontal separation, covering a strip of 60 miles width, from altitude of 16 thousand feet. The photo-mapping path from Anchorage being pointed out on the large wall map.

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064918
Views of Alaska mountain range from photo-mapping YB-10 aircraft of the USAAC 1934 Alaska Flight.

Film shot during the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) Alaska Flight of 1934. View from a YB-10 aircraft flying over snowy mountains in Alaska. Perspective of the cameraman inside the YB-10. Downward view of mountains covered in deep snow. Some mountains at lower elevations with streams flowing down their slopes. Cumulus clouds obscuring the ground and interfering with the photo-mapping mission for the photograpers. Cloud capped Mount McKinley (aka Denali) seen off the aircraft wing at a distance of 75 miles.

Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064921
United States President Harry Truman arrives in Frankfurt, Germany during World War II.

Bombed out cities in Germany during World War II. Aerial view of damaged cities and fields. Two aircraft in flight. United States troops stand at attention at Frankfurt Airport. An officer holds the American flag. United States President Harry S. Truman disembarks from a United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft.

Date: 1945, July 26
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064931
President Truman and his party at RAF Station Harrowbeer near Plymouth, England during World War II.

United States President Harry S. Truman, and his party, make unplanned stop at RAF Station Harrowbeer during return from the last 4-Power meeting of World War 2, held at Berlin in July, 1945. (Their planned destination, RAF Station St Mawgan, was fogged in. So the President instructed his pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Henry T. Myers, to land at Harrowbeer, when they saw it was clear.) Truman descends steps from the Presidential Airplane (Douglas VC-54C named the "Sacred Cow," used by Presidents Roosevelt, and Truman). Two other C-54 aircraft have also arrived (unseen). One carried Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, who poses with the President and three members of the British WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) identified as: Section Officer Eira Buckland Jones, Corporal Clarice Turner, and Leading Aircraft Woman Audley Bartlett. Views from inside car taking members of Presidential party to Plymouth Harbor. Groups of local people wave as the car passes through the English countryside. Larger numbers of spectators line the streets of the city of Plymouth. View of Plymouth Harbor from launch taking members of President's party out to the USS Augusta, anchored in Plymouth Sound (not seen).

Date: 1945, August 2
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064935
Trainees undergo Patrol Torpedo Boat squadron maneuver training at a training school at Melville in Rhode Island, U.S.

The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees undergo squadron maneuvers. A number of Patrol Torpedo Boats underway. One of the Patrol Torpedo Boat takes a sharp turn in front of other boats advancing in a line. A trainee named Smith operates a gun on a boat and shoots a target in the air.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064951
Demonstration of an electro-magnetic field in an exhibition of Électricité de France (EDF) in Paris, France.

An exhibition of Électricité de France (EDF) in Paris, France. A large crowd gathers. A woman demonstrates an electro-magnetic field. A tray is suspended in mid-air. A man takes off his glasses in disbelief. Eggs are fried on the electro-magnetic tray. People watch and eat eggs cooked from an electro-magnetic tray.

Date: 1951, March 1
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065087