An aircraft in formation during an antiaircraft gun test at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Scenes of a lake. Buildings on the ground. Antiaircraft gun fires. Man sees through the hole of Antiaircraft gun. Artillerymen take out shells and put new ones in Antiaircraft guns.

Location: Fort Monroe Virginia

Date: 1932, May 30

Duration: 1 min 29 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

West Point cadets observe field artillery exercises at Fort Eustis, Fort Monroe and Langley Field in Virginia.

Activities of West Point cadets in Virginia, United States. They are on a trip to Fort Eustis, Fort Monroe and Langley Field. They observe field artillery exercises at the places. They fire field artillery. Some of the cadets watch through binoculars. Smoke rises due to firing.

Location: Virginia United States

Date: 1931

Duration: 57 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

United States cadets from West Point being trained to man 155 mm guns and antiaircraft guns at Fort Monroe.

US cadets test defense guns at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Cadets from West Point fire 155 mm guns and antiaircraft rifles at a beach. Cadets load shells into guns. Guns being fired guns.

Location: Hampton Virginia

Date: 1935, August 19

Duration: 26 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Aerial bomb tests and antiaircraft firing tests at Fort Monroe, Virginia, testing ideas of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell

Brigadier General Billy Mitchell smiling, standing in field, wearing an overcoat. Glimpse of aviator in helmet and goggles, behind him. Members of Congressional Committee and US Army and Navy officers in field to observe tests of antiaircraft fire efficacy. Martin MB2 biwing bomber parked in field behind them. Army officers, stand in front of a biwing bomber, holding ends of "sleeve target" to be used in gunfire test. Airborne scene of sleeve target being towed by airplane. Aerial bomb tests lead by General Mitchell. General with other officials. Army artillery batteries firing at the sleeve target. View of sleeve target. Battery of Army machine gunners firing at sleeve target. General Billy Mitchell with another officer, examining the sleeve target after the test, and smiling because only one bullet penetrated it. General Mitchell and another officer inspecting bombs to be used for demonstration. Dive bombers attack target of battleship outlined on the ground. Bombs bursting on target. Views aboard bombers, showing bombs falling from the aircraft and hitting targets below.

Location: Hampton Virginia

Date: 1921, September

Duration: 3 min 36 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Antiaircraft firing tests,fort Monroe, Hampton Virginia, United States. DH-4 bombers in flight. Antiaircraft batteries firing.

Flight of DH-4 biwing bombers aloft in loose formation. Group of observers behind battery of antiaircraft artillery firing at sleeve target towed by aircraft. shells bursting behind the sleeve target. Batteries of machine guns being fired at "toy" balloons. Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, with another officer, smiles as he points at the single bullet hole sustained by sleeve target after having been fired at by batteries of antiaircraft artillery and machine guns.

Location: Hampton Virginia

Date: 1921, September

Duration: 2 min 36 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Aerial bomb tests,using Army DH-4 bombers, at Fortress Monroe, Hampton, Virginia, United States.

Army DH-4 biwing bombers in bombing demonstration against an outline of battleship on ground at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. The airplanes dive at target and release their bombs, which explode on the ground.

Location: Hampton Virginia

Date: 1921, September

Duration: 57 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

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