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United States Navy training film on 'Disorientation Crashes' in United States.

United States Navy training film on 'Disorientation Crashes'. Animated film describes disorientation and how instruments solve the problem when flying.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027964
President Harry S Truman visits Aircraft Carrier Franklin D Roosevelt.

Aerial view of Aircraft Carrier Franklin D Roosevelt. Planes lying stationary on the aircraft carrier, Roosevelt. He is greeted by Secretary Forests, Admirals Nimitz and Mitscher. He boards the carrier Roosevelt. He meets members of crew. Truman observes 8th Fleet maneuvers. He tours the ship and watches planes take off, land and making formations in sky.

Date: 1946, April 22
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034486
Operation Crossroads. Pilot and Bombardier of B-29, "Dave's Dream,"are interviewed after dropping atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll

Pilot, Major Woodrow Swancutt and Bombardier, Major Harold H. Wood, are interviewed in front of their B-29 "Dave's Dream," after returning from their mission, dropping an atomic bomb on the Bikini Atoll, in Test Able, of the Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Both officers wear unit patch on left pocket of their flight suits, showing an atomic explosion and the words, "59th Wing."

Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034529
Operation Crossroads. Ground crews exercise caution offloading radioactive cargo from drone B-17s after Test Able explosion

Activities following the Test Able atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads. Ground crewman unseals a cable from fuselage and uses it to pull and air sampler box off the top of a B-17 drone aircraft. He avoids being hit by it as it tumbles from atop the airplane. He then drags it to a spot on the ramp, where a man with a geiger counter checks it for radioactivity. Two men transport it on a long pole, to a fork lift. Several other B-17 drones are seen with ground crews offloading them remotely, by means of cables and remote activation of controls inside the B-17 bomb bays. A forklift operator loads an item into the rear hatch of a waiting C-54 transport aircraft.

Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034535
Newsreel titled 'US Demonstrates Latest Rockets' showing firing of rockets on targets from air, land and sea

Newsreel titled 'US Demonstrates Latest Rockets'. United States soldiers fire rockets from a launcher. An airplane of the United States Army Air Force launches a rocket while in the sky. The rocket strikes and destroys its target in sea. A Rapid Fire launcher launches continued rockets. A landing craft of the United States Navy has rockets launched from its deck by rocket launchers.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036074
Joe Louis defeats Billy Conn in a boxing match in United States

A film titled 'Who's next? Louis vs. Conn' shows portions of a boxing match between world heavy weight champion, Joe Louis and Billy Conn in United States. Highlights are seen in slow motion as Conn comes close to winning the tie. Slow motion of the knockout is seen where Louis defeats Conn. After loosing the match Conn speaks on the mike.

Date: 1946
Duration: 8 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037971