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Major General Frank P. Lahm's Retirement ceremony at Randolph Field.

Retirement ceremonies for Major General Frank P. Lahm, first military Pilot at Randolph Field, Texas. Frank P. Lahm with other officers and soldiers marching at the ceremony. American planes can be seen overhead. Frank P. Lahm was taught to fly by the Wright Brothers, organized the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1917 and was the first balloon pilot. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039377
Soviet military displays downed German Junkers Ju 88 aircraft and bombs, to the public in Teatralnaya Square, Moscow, during World War II

Opening scene shows Soviet people walking around an open air display containing a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber and various pieces of wreckage. It also includes displays of German bombs of various types (presumably inert). Closeup of the aircraft cockpit cabin and remains of engines. A huge hole in the plane fuselage. Wired panels and wire bundles inside the aircraft. Closeup view downward, of people pressing forward to observe the displays. Soldiers guarding the wreckage. Camera pans across the aircraft, showing the swastika on its tail. View from close to the wreckage shows the people behind barriers. Trams pass in the background, on front of the Bolshoi Theater, with the quadriga atop it (statue of Apollo riding chariot pulled by 4 horses) covered by canvas during repairs from earlier German bombing. Closeup inside the display barriers shows the German bombs. A soldier picks up an incendiary bomb and walks to people in the crowd shaking the device and speaking about it. People gathered at one corner of the display where smaller pieces of the plane are piled up. Another closeup of the airplane tail with swastika on it. View of the Ju 88 from its tail to the front.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039432
Young men in the Soviet Union train to fight against Germany during World War II

Young men stand in a formation in the USSR during World War 2. They are all wearing dark trowsers and white sweat shirts. At a signal from their leader, they all reach down and each picks up two simulated hand grenades from the ground. Closeup of the "grenades." The then run through woods and jump over a rustic fence. Some pair up and use their joined hands to boost others into the air and over the fence. They leap over a fallen tree and then jump down a steep hill and up another. They run into a river, wade rapidly across it, and climb up the opposite bank, where they flop down throwing their "grenades" as they do so. They get up again and continue running.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039440
Blimp refueling operation with USS Mindoro.

Flight deck personnel handling nose of the blimp on flight deck as it comes for landing. Cable is dropped from blimp to pick up fuel line from carrier for refuel (ship to air).Deck personnel connects hose to cable. Cable pulls refueling hose up to blimp from deck through stern of blimp cabin. Fuel line is lowered back to deck. Refueling officer standing with red pennant. Stern of the USS Mindoro, with two blimps airborne at stern of it. Landing Signal Officer on bridge of USS Mindoro signaling during refueling operation.

Date: 1950, April
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039507
Flight crew boarding blimp at flight deck of USS Mindoro.

Two flight deck crew racing down flight deck of USS Mindoro with handling lines. Flight deck personnel handling lines and nose of blimp as it lands on flight deck. Crew disembarking from nose of blimp cabin. Lines are cast off from blimp as blimp ascends into air. Crew coming out of the stern of the cabin as new crew boards it. Blimp ascends from flight deck.

Date: 1950, April
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039508
Japanese A6M Zero fighter aircraft strafes USS Sangamon.

Japanese Zeke fighter aircraft (Misubishi A6M Zero) strafes USS Sangamon (CVE-26) and bullets splash in water. Destroyer underway and flak bursts in air. USS Sangamon underway and Japanese plane burns in waters of the Leyte Gulf in background. Other vessels in Task Unit 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") seen in the footage. Shortly before the Battle of Leyte Gulf. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, October 13
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039536