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Newsmen take notes during a press conference aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea.

Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A press conference in progress by United States Navy Vice Admiral William F. Bringle. Several newsmen in the foreground. A newsman jots notes. Newsmen sitting at the tables in a wardroom listen to the briefing conference. Vice Admiral Bringle seated at a desk in the background. A news cameraman in the foreground takes movies. Many newsmen in the wardroom during the press conference.

Date: 1967, December
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051007
A U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft takes off from USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea.

Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. An A-7A aircraft parked on the flight deck. Aircraft and personnel on the deck of USS Ranger. A plane captain giving a rev up signal. A CAG (Carrier Air Group) Commander in the cockpit of his A-7A. The plane captain gives a rev up signal to the pilot. Commander Kinnard in the cockpit. He closes the canopy of the aircraft. The plane captain takes a tie-down from a strut, shaking panels alongside the A-7A. The airplane taxis on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. An officer gives a launch signal. The aircraft being launched and airborne.

Date: 1967, December 2
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051008
U.S. Navy aircraft taking off and landing at the flight deck of USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea.

Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A man in a yellow shirt gives hand signals. An A-7A aircraft is moved onto a catapult in the mid background. A nose wheel and a bar fitting into place on a catwalk. A cat crewman underneath the A- 7A gives hand signals. A man in a green shirt sitting in the open deck hatch on flight deck in front of several gauges. A man holds up a sign which reads: '490'. A tail hook man waits for an aircraft to land. The aircraft lands. The tail hook man runs back to his normal position. U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk aircraft taxi off. An A- 4E lands. A tail hook man in the foreground runs towards the aircraft. The tail hook man up alongside the aircraft gives a signal to the pilot that the wire has been released from the tail hook. He watches for another aircraft to land. The man runs across the deck alongside a U.S. Navy A-6A Intruder. The man gives a winding signal. The A-6A taxis forward after making an arrested landing and folds its wings.

Date: 1967, December
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051010
United States Navy 3rd fleet carriers shell Japanese oil reserves in the South China sea.

U.S. Navy carrier planes hit oil fields in the China Sea. A storm in the China Sea. U.S. Navy 3rd fleet carriers on a ship. A diagram shows an arrow on the South China Sea. The fleet moves forward towards Japanese bases. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese targets. Carrier planes return back to the ship. A plane crash lands on the ship. The pilot of ship is hurt and stuck in the cockpit. The crew runs toward the plane and gets him down. A diagram shows an arrow from the South China sea to IndoChina, Saigon. A tanker is torpedoed by U.S. planes. Bombing on Saigon. An oil reserve on fire. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046518
China builds Burma Road to carry war materiel and supplies and creates flood of Yellow River to thwart Westward expansion of Japanese occupied territory

Japanese officials meeting in strategy session. Japanese infantry on mission to cut Chinese supply lines during 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Black smoke rises as they move along a river bank. Chinese prisoner-workers are forced to rebuild railroads destroyed by the Chinese people during their great Westward trek. Japanese soldier closely guards workers. A Japanese army armored train underway on the rebuilt railroad, as Japanese soldiers cheer. Animated map shows China's supply lines by sea, to Tsingtao, Hangchow, and Amoy, cut off by Japanese naval blockade. Japanese Navy launch with officers and crew moving near commercial ships as they take over Chinese river ports. War materiel and other supplies destined for China, including trucks, sit idle, unable to be transported to their destinations. Large oil tanks and drums of gasoline are shown, as well as gun barrels and a flightline filled with parked Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Asakaze (DD-3) and another, next to it, in a Chinese river port. A Japanese freighter with anchored weighed, secured by long lines to a wharf. Small boats flying Japanese Naval ensigns are next to it. View of map showing china, Burma, Indo-China, and Chungking, with Japanese blockading fleet stationed in the South China Sea. It traces path of narrow gauge rail line from Indo-china to Kumming,China, where it connected to an overland road to Chungking. Next it traced the old Camel Caravan route, across China, from Russia. Narrator notes these were to small to be useful and too close to Japanese-occupied territory. Next, the map traces a railroad that from the port of Rangoon to Lashio, Burma. It is separated from the road to Chungking, by mountains and gorges. Views of the actual mountainous terrain. Animal pack trains moving through the area. Construction engineers in a large drafting room designing a road to transit the area. View of modern road-building caterpillar tractor equipment of the type needed to accomplish this. View of Chinese laborers using manpower instead. They push large rollers and employ pickaxes and other hand-held tools to carve away and dig road beds. Masses of Chinese laborers at work, carving a road along the edge of a mountain. Two-men teams using manual tampers to pound down the roadbed. Children are employed along with adults. A woman with a baby on her back, pounding large rocks into gravel, surrounded by other children doing the same. View from above of the "Burma Road," the product of their labors, winding its way through the mountains and gorges. Many scenes of trucks moving along portions of the Burma Road. P-40 airplanes flying past white cumulus clouds, overhead. Animated map shows continued expansion of Japanese occupied areas to encompass two thirds of the rail lines in China with goal of controlling the remainder, starting at Chengchow, in Summer, 1938. View of Chengchow region, on banks of the Yellow River. Map illustrates flow pattern of the Yellow River. View from past of the Yellow River's Spring floods toward the Sea, with Chinese people throwing rocks onto dikes that keep the river flowing in a more Northerly direction than its former course. Illustration shows how with Japanese encrouching on Chengchow, the Chinese decided to destroy those dikes and allow the river to flood over its former more Southerly course. Japanese soldiers being inundated by the flooding river. Japanese infantry and tanks regrouping on their occupied side of the new (old) path of the Yellow River. Local Chinese residents of Chengchow, wade with belongings as they leave their flooded homes.

Date: 1938
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025189
U.S. Navy personnel tend planes on USS Constellation (CVA-64) in South China Sea, during Vietnam War.

A-4E aircraft parked on flight deck of the USS Constellation (CVA-64). Plane captains walk along flight deck. A- 4Es parked in far background, framed by part of A-3B.Plane captain along port side of cockpit of A-4E. NK Tail code of Carrier Wing 14, seen on all aircraft. Green shirts stand looking up toward plane captain working on windshield of A-4E.Radar antennas rotating on the Island. A-4E parked on deck, tow-bar attached to nose wheel, water framed in background. Group of men, in left background, sunning themselves. A-4E parked on deck, island structure in left BG. Man standing alongside cockpit talking to plane captain seated in cockpit of A-4E. plane captain scrubbing down top inner section of starb'd wing. VA 55 Warhorses logo and USS Constellation painted on fuselage of plane. Man cleaning vertical stabilizer.View of ship's bridge. Men cleaning down vertical and horizontal stabilizers of A-4E. Man in far background cleaning port side of cockpit area as fourth man at right cleans starboard wing. Looking aft, from forward part of flight deck, island in left, shows empty flight deck and a lone yellow shirt seated on two wheel chocks.

Date: 1967
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023717