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The features of a new five-inch-twenty-five Caliber gun are shown after a submarine surfaces.

The five-inch-twenty-five Caliber gun on a submarine at sea, United States. A new submarine deck gun introduced for the United States navy. A submarine is seen surfacing from periscope depth. The new 25 caliber gun is shown from several angles. The safety depression stop switch is shown, which prevents the gun from hitting parts of the ship as it is turned. The minimum and maximum elevation of the gun is demonstrated. Closeup of a quick access panel being removed by a crewman.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027731
Role of American women in the military; WACS, nurses, and other military roles for women in World War 1 and World War 2

The role of women in the armed forces in the United States. A U.S. Army sniper fires a 1903 Springfield rifle on the Korean front during the Korean War. A woman in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) inspecting such a rifle in the U.S. Several Patton Tanks moving up a hilly road in Korean War. A WAC testing the turret of a Patton tank. U.S. Army women at desks as they work with Army men in an office. Picture depicts Molly Pitcher, wife of a fallen U.S. Revolutionary War artilleryman. Depiction of George Washington at desk. Depiction of Clara Barton, an American nurse with a wounded soldier. Reenactment of Clara Barton working with another women. A man holds the flag of the American red cross. Actual footage of a Wright Brothers aircraft in flight. Women in long dresses pushing an early model of car. A group of American soldiers in World War I running on a battlefield.. U.S. Army troops wearing gas masks and firing rifles from trench in World War I. American women war production workers assembling belts of machine gun bullets during World War I in a munitions factory in the United States. A nurse tending a wounded soldier. A woman nurse helping place a wounded soldiers into an ambulance in Europe, in World War I. Nurses in an operating theater in a hospital during World War I. Women march in victory parade at end of World War I. Women's suffrage demonstration by suffragettes in front of the White House and then women and men entering a polling place to vote around time of of 19th amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart climbing down from an airplane. Swimmer Gertrude Ederle on an award stand. U.S. Navy Vought SB2U-2 planes in flight as they drop bombs. Scene of Pearl Harbor attack by Japanese during World War 2. Army nurses look out from deck of ship in World War II. Soldiers fire artillery. View of mountains and scenes of combat on islands in the Pacific during WWII. General Mark Clark awards nurse Silver Star medal. Repatriated Army nurses, who were prisoners, are loaded onto an aircraft by means of a fork lift. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation establishing the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Secretary of State George Marshall and others witness the signing. Depiction of Godess Athena. Women volunteering for WAAC move in a line carrying bags. American women in military uniform marching. WAAC volunteers being processed. Women receive physical exams and receive inoculations. WAAC personnel being trained: working on X rays, in medical pharmacy laboratories, food service, and radio work. Women on board warships in World War 2.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032209
A large crowd gathers at the funeral of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (WW2)

United States President Franklin Roosevelt passes away. A large crowd gathers to attend the funeral. Officer carries the dog of the President. President Roosevelt's body is placed on a special train at Warm Springs, Georgia. People gather all along the way to pay tribute to President Roosevelt in World War II. The train is met at Washington DC by Vice President Truman and Henry Wallace. Cars parked on the street. People gather in large numbers to attend the funeral. The body is carried by caisson to the White House. War planes in formation. Soldiers march in honor of the President. Vehicles passing on the street. People weeping. Funeral ceremonies are held in the rose garden at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt (4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, United States) in Hyde Park, New York. People bowing and soldiers saluting in front of the casket. Eleanor Roosevelt standing near the casket.

Date: 1945
Duration: 6 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046118
Patrick J. Hurley talks about the U.S. policy towards China and American support of the Nationalist Republic of China government (WW2)

Meeting of a committee in the United States. Officials seated inside a building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about the United States policy towards China during World War II. Discussion about the mutual aid pact with China. He states that the U.S. always want the unity and democracy of the Chinese people. He declares support for a democratic China under the national government of the Republic of China, and Chiang Kai-shek.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061890
Coast guards on patrol in the U.S., aboard a yacht and a life boat; rescuing men from ships underway at sea

Domestic activities of the United States Coast Guard in the United States during World War II. Coast guardsmen patrol a beach. Men seated in a car drive past on the beach. A U.S. Coast Guard man seated on a horse patrols along the beach. A Coast Guard patrol walks on the beach. Newspaper showing headline and article about disruption of Operation Pastorius by Coast Guard in World War 2, leading to capture of Nazi German would-be saboteurs. View of two of the captured saboteurs being escorted by guards. Smoke in the foreground from the burning of a ship. Men on the deck of a ship. They take an oath. Men aboard a motor boat. Men aboard a yacht and other ships underway at sea. Men aboard a life boat arrive at a beach. They carry the men rescued by them on stretchers.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062725
From Labor Department documentary. Montage of World War II scenes from start to finish,including American home front.

Opening scene shows Adolf Hitler reviewing German troops on parade. German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 aircraft. View from the ground of paratroopers descending from three Ju-52s. The Japanese attack on Pearl harbor, December 7, 1941. Heavy smoke rising from the leaning USS Arizona after she is hit by bombs. Newspaper headline reading "Pearl Harbor Bombed!" American soldiers leaving Camp Stoneman, are seen assembled on a pier at the Pittsburg California waterfront to board one of the ferries that would take them to Piers 15 and 45 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. A sign at pier reading:"Through these portals pass the best damned soldiers in the West." Glimpses of soldiers firing howitzers in World War 2. Glimpses of the civilians supporting the war effort. Auto factory workers walking near a war production plant during shift change. A new army truck leaves a factory. War production workers assembling the turret on a Sherman tank. Guns and turrets being manufactured. Factory floor filled with new pursuit airplanes. A B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft taking off. Aerial view from bomber of its bombs exploding over enemy target below. Freight trains carrying United States military supplies. Supplies being loaded aboard a ship for the U.S. and Allies. The American battleship USS New Mexico firing a gun, and firing guns from triple turrets. Workers assembling aircraft engines in a war plant. A woman at work in a war materiel production plant. Gun camera images from warplane strafing a ground target. World War 2 Victory parade along 5th Avenue, New York City, in 1946. Washington Square triumphal arch in background. Various views of the parade. Laid off war plant workers looking for new jobs. Troops welcomed home: Ship carrying returning United States soldiers back home after the end of World War 2. Disabled soldiers and sailors, such as some who were wounded in battle and lost limbs like arms or legs, making their war to a Military Air Transport Service C-54 aircraft. More views of the disabled veterans who were injured during World War II.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063344