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Litter patients being lowered from a plane and greeted by family and friends at LaGuardia Field in New York.

Stretcher cases from European Theater of Operation being greeted by families and friends at LaGuardia Field in New York, United States during World War II . U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas C-54 Skymaster being unloaded. Crowd in the foreground. Litter patients (US soldiers) being lowered from plane. Mothers, wives, and friends kissing injured men. Families greet wounded men.

Date: 1945, August 21
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071110
Wounded U.S. soldiers are airlifted to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted families and news reporters and photographers

Wounded soldiers from European Theater of Operation arrive by Air Evac C-54 aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted by families and friends during World War II. Film opens with view through main cargo door into cabin of a military C-54 transport parked on the ramp at LaGuardia Airport, New York. The cabin is configured for air evacuation. Inside, wounded American soldiers are seen in a rack of litters stacked four high. A man in civilian clothes holds a clip board and speaks to soldiers on the airport ramp. A man drives a fork lift to the cargo door and lowers two of the wounded on litters to the ground, where waiting family members reach down to kiss and embrace them. Photographers take pictures and Army officers welcome the wounded. Media technicians set up microphones near on soldier who is with a woman. They record as the woman and soldier embrace and speak to each other. After momentary break, scene shifts back to cargo door of the C-54, where several Army soldiers watch the activities below where women greeting two more wounded are being photographed and recorded as they are reunited. The next scene is in a hangar, where a wounded soldier is sitting up in his litter with wife or sweetheart beside him and a man and woman behind him. Two microphones are set up next to them. The young couple kiss and embrace. Closeup of them.

Date: 1945, August 21
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071111
Major Robert Morgan, Aircraft Commander, briefs his B-29 crew as they sit on the tarmac prior to takeoff on a mission

Major Robert Morgan (well-known as the pilot of the B-17, "Memphis Belle," first to complete 25 missions over Germany, in the European Theater and now a B-29 Aircraft Commander with the 73rd Bomb Wing) briefs his crew. They sit on the tarmac near their aircraft, the B-29, "Dauntless Dotty," which was lead aircraft on the first B-29 bombing mission over Japan, on November 24, 1944. The Crew enters the aircraft after the briefing. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051693
Fighter aircraft P-38 Lightning and L-4 Grasshopper in flight in Florennes, Belgium.

Activities in Florennes, Belgium in the European Theater Of Operations (ETO). Damaged two-story building near the Rhine River. Remagen Bridge in view. A railroad tunnel in a hill. Manned antiaircraft gun position. A man looks through binoculars. An aircraft crashes. A plane in flight. United States aircraft P-38 Lightning in flight. Antiaircraft guns (flak) fired. Several P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. L-4 Grasshopper aircraft in flight. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, March 13
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054474
P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft in flight in Florennes, Belgium.

Activities in Florennes, Belgium in the European Theater Of Operations (ETO) late in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft P-38 Lightning in flight. Fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. Fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. P-38 Lightning taxiing on perimeter at Florennes, Belgium. P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. P-47D Thunderbolt with bubble canopy warming up and taxiing. P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. P-47D Thunderbolt and P-47 Thunderbolt taxiing. P-47D Thunderbolt in flight.

Date: 1945, March 7
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054476
United States fighter aircraft P-38 Lightning in flight in Florennes, Belgium.

Florennes, Belgium in the European Theater Of Operations (ETO) in World War 2 . A large formation of aircraft in flight. View of a wooded area. Four U.S. Army Air Force P-38 Lightning in flight in formation. Remagen Bridge entrance in view. United States anti-aircraft position in the entrance of the bridge. P-38 Lightning in flight.

Date: 1945, March 13
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054477