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U.S. Commander General Frank Howley receives an honorary degree during the inauguration of a library and a auditorium in Germany.

Inauguration of a library and an auditorium in Germany. View of the new library and the auditorium building dedicated by the Free University of Berlin. U.S. City Commander General Frank Howley and his wife arrive at the new library. Howley receives an honorary degree during the ceremony.

Date: 1954, July 1
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073515
Missiles on launch pads at the Nike Hercules Missile site.Combat troops respond to practice alarm in Washington DC.

Combat troops of the Military District of Washington respond to practice alarm during Cold War period. Missiles on launch pads at the Nike Hercules Missile sites. During a practice exercise Army soldiers go underground and close a hatch as a siren blows. The missiles in Washington DC are raised to be ready for enemy attack. African American member of the Old Guard receives phone call and alerts fellow soldiers. Combat troops of the "Old Guard" at Fort Myer, get up from their beds and respond to an alarm to defend the city. The soldiers pick up their weapons and equipment. U.S. Army tanks take up positions with the Pentagon building in the background. Views of the U.S. Capitol at night.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073542
Montage of German rocketry scenes from 1930s through World War II. Nazi surrender. Atomic bomb. Japanese surrender

German rocket pioneer, Gerhard Zucker, attempting to develop postal rockets in the 1930s. Location is Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven, on April 9, 1933, where Zucker follows Nazi Sturmabteilung (also called SA or Stormtroopers) carrying the mail rocket across wet sands. The rocket is set up on a launch stand. Zucker and an assistant ignite the 8 side rockets and the mail rocket takes off. It noses up and loops over backwards, falling to the sand. German Stormtroopers lift up the damaged device. Next, is seen a later, more modern, rocket trial ending in failure. Two German engineers display a model similar to the pulse-jet-powered "buzz bomb" (V-1) employed by the Nazis in World War 2. A brief glimpse of similar American machine on sand flat, as narrator states German acknowledgement of knowledge gleaned from Dr. Robert Goddard's work. A German V-1 flying bomb (aka Doodle Bug) being launched in 1944, during World War 2. View of British houses of Parliament, London, England; an air raid shelter sign in City of Westminster. Londoners waiting out a raid in the shelter. Scenes of fire and destruction during German bombing of London, as narrator speaks about the more advanced German V-2 ballistic missiles employed later in the war. Londoners trudging through debris amongst bombed out buildings. Change of scene to U.S. infantry and armor advancing deep into Germany. Narrator refers to them overrunning rocket bases and other vital war-making facilities, near the end of the war. Glimpse of large number of German prisoners of war. Documents of military surrender being signed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, in Berlin, May 8, 1945. Closeup of Keitel. Scenes of American forces operating in Pacific theater. Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion. Japanese surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. U.S. soldiers and other service personnel return home and greeting loved ones at end of war. Aerial view of Pentagon building and surrounding area in Arlington Virginia near Washington DC. U.S. troops boarding a ship in San Francisco, bound for war again, this time in Korea (1950).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073558
U.S. Regular Army, National Guard, and Army Reserve units operating together in combat, in Korea, and returning home after the truce

Soviet military forces in massed formations at Red Square, in Moscow, Russia. Joseph Stalin stands on balcony above. Scenes of rebellion in Europe and Asia. A map of Korea. June 25, 1950, as Korean War war broke out between North and South Korea. Buildings burning. Refugees fleeing. View of United Nations building on East River in New York City, where American ambassador Warren Austin is speaking. View of the Capitol in Washington, DC. President Truman, speaking, committed U.S. forces to action. U.S. Reservists are recalled to active duty to fight in Korea. Some are seen getting off a bus at a military base reception center. Recalled reservists with full field gear, starting their journey overseas, and later seen in Korea. U.S. tanks moving over the road manned by soldiers with World War Two experience. Numerous scenes of heavy artillery firing, mostly at night. U.S. regular Army, National Guard, and Army reserve soldiers engaged in fire fights in Korean War using tanks, artillery, mortars, and rifles. Soldiers administer first air and assist wounded comrades. American troops slogging through rain and snow in Korea. Soldiers eating from mess kits, and reading the Stars and Stripes newspaper, during a lull in combat. North Korean officers arriving, in snow, for armistice talks. Following the truce, American soldiers are seen packed up and heading home from Korea.

Date: 1953
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073573
Tokyo street scene; editorial staff members work on Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes newspaper in Tokyo, Japan

Publication of the Pacific edition of Star and Stripes newspaper in Tokyo, Japan. Traffic on streets in Tokyo. Pedestians on busy city streets of Tokyo with large office buildings and retail in background. View of the plant where publication of the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes newspaper began on 3rd October, 1945. Editorial staff members work in the plant. A man works on a typewriter. Closeup view of hands on typewriter. An officer checks the newspaper. A navy man pastes picture cuttings from a newspaper on a chart. A man places a paper in a photo offset machine. Printing of newspapers. Men check and stack newspapers. Newspaper bundles are covered with plastic sheets and loaded in a truck. Men load the newspaper bundles in a jet liner aircraft.

Date: 1975
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073618
News report and informational programs are broadcast to a large majority of servicemen in the United States.

American servicemen are kept informed by American Forces Radio and Television Station facilities. A soldier listens to a radio and writes a letter. Another soldier in southeast Asia looks at a post with directional arrows showing distances thousands of miles away to cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Denver. He sits on a bench and listens to the radio. Aerial view of the broadcasting station part of the American Forces Radio and Television Station. Power is supplied by portable generators housed in wooden shacks. View of radio studios, control rooms and administrative blocks. A man serving as Disc Jockey or DJ operates a control panel and a phonograph turntable to play a record. He turns dials on the control panel and works on a program schedule. View of a reel to reel tape machine running. News report and informational programs are broadcast to a large majority of servicemen. Military cooks working in a kitchen to prepare food. Army soldier standing at washroom sink and shaving, while listening to a portable radio. Two Army soldiers, one white and one African American, playing pool or billiards while listening to a portable radio. Soldiers on a rest break during a patrol in the Vietnam War listen to a radio.

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073620