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Fire at a soybean plant in Michigan

Fire at a soybean plant. Flames coming from top of a multistory building at the plant. Fire fighters spraying water at the flames. Firetruck moves extension ladder into place and firemen scale ladder to fight high flames. Heavy smoke. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030120
U.S. Mosquito boats maneuvering off the coast in Florida, United States during World War II.

Film opens showing logo of "mosquito boat." A flotilla of the boats is seen tied up at docks. They include PT boats (patrol torpedo boats) numbers PT 10, 11, 12, and 13. View from Florida shore as some ot these PT boats speed through the water. Aerial view of several of them racing over the surface of the water, leaving huge wakes behind them.Closeups of some approaching the aerial camera. View from another PT boat, of PT-17 riding close behind in the camera boat's wake. Extreme closeup of PT 17 bow. Other views of the PT boats generating large wakes as they pass the camera. Another aerial view of the boats running in parallel formation.

Date: 1941
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031867
Military Aircraft being produced by Vultee and Lockheed Aircraft companies during World War II

Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031871
Tanks in action, aircraft in flight and soldiers in boats during combat drills at Fort Knox military base in Kentucky, United States

U.S. Army first armored Division for cross country maneuvers at the Fort Knox military base in Kentucky, United States, shortly before America's entry into World War 2. Aerial view of tanks on ground. U.S. fighter aircraft in formation flight. Tanks move on ground. Army soldiers on motor bikes or motorcycles. Soldiers of the U.S. first armored division in boats crossing a water way. Water splashes as bombs are being dropped in practice battle drills. Soldiers climb a hill. Tank moves on an uneven ground. Tank smashes a trees. M2 Light Tanks and M2A1 Medium tanks smashing into trees, small houses, and shed buildings.

Date: 1941, April 3
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032023
45th Infantry division moves to its new headquarters in Abilene in Texas from Fort Sill in Oklahoma

10,000 soldiers of United States 45th Infantry Division load their baggage into military trucks and bid good bye as they leave Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Troops move in trucks over a bridge as a plane flies overhead. People turn out in large numbers on streets to welcome the troops at their new headquarters in Abilene in Texas. Soldiers move to their tents. (World War II period).

Date: 1941, March 4
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037914
Views of A-29 Hudson bomber and United States Air Force P-38 in flight.

View of Hudson bombers (A-29) and workers inside Lockheed aircraft Plant where these planes are produced. A Hudson bomber taking off. U.S. Army Air Force P-38 is towed out of hangar, taking off and in flight.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039321