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Officials inspect United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H at Wichita Plant in Kansas, United States.

Progress report of United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H in the United States. The United States Air Force B-52G aircraft in flight carrying two XGAM-77 during a test flight. Activity at the Wichita Plant in Kansas. Contractors development inspection and technical compliance inspection shows mock-ups of B-52H and Gatling M-61. A crowd observes seat ejection and 20mm ammunition demonstration. A sign board reads 'Crossing' and 'Rail Road'. Railroad car with covered section of B-52 moving past a crossing. A B-52 H in assembly area showing fuselage. Roll out of the first B-52H from the hangar. Inspection of B-52H cabin controls and turbo fan engine. GAM-87 mock-up under wing of B-52H and M-61 Gatling gun.

Date: 1960
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063990
American voters head for the polls to vote in the 1944 Presidential Elections during WWII

Sign saying “No loitering or electioneering between this point and the poll”. Long line to election poll in the United States during World War II. 1944 American voters wait in line on the street to vote. Woman, wearing a Tartan patterned headscarf and fur coat, waits outside. Cowboys gallop with their horses to the polling station. Man, wearing cowboy hat, gets off from his Ford Model-T car. Worker walks out to the street. A truck with workers on open-cargo area. A woman walks in an empty city street. View of crowd outside Bronx Beacon Laundry at W 169th Street Bronx NYC. People enter a house used as a polling station with a huge tree in front. View of different kinds of buildings used as polling stations for the 1944 United States Presidential Elections. Including the Barbara Fritchie House ( 154 W Patrick St Frederick, MD 21701) “Bridgeport High School” engraved in front of Bridgeport Central High school (44 Lyon Terrace Bridgeport, CT 06604 ) now Bridgeport City Hall. United Stastes voters wait in lines outside polling places. Two women eating biscuits together as they wait in line. A stylish woman, wearing a matching leopard print cocktail hat and scarf, smiles. A man, wearing cowboy hat, waits in line. A group of nuns, belonging to the Sisters of the Holy Cross (CSC) Congregation, waiting to vote. Man, with mustache and fedora, looks slightly up. View of American Red Cross volunteer. Americans forming a long line to the polling station to vote. A woman sits as she waits for her turn to vote. African-American voters waiting in line to vote. Woman, wearing a polka-dotted headscarf, glasses and overalls, waits in line. Men waiting in line in the suburbs. Americans wearing thick coats waiting in line to vote.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079033
USAAF B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft land at the Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States.

United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress units at Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States. United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft land at the Smoky Hill Air Force Base. The Air Force Base personnel directs the parking of the aircraft. Few mechanics around the parked B-29s in the airfield.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072600
USAAF B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft takes off from the Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States.

USSAF B-29 Superfortress units at the Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States. United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft taxis on the runway and takes off from the Smoky Hill Air Force Base. United States Air Force C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft low in flight over airbase. The cameraman places equipment in a truck.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072602
Hose from gasoline truck is connected to B-29 aircraft during refueling at Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States.

USAAf B-29 Superfortress units at Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States. A gasoline truck pulls up to the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft at Smoky Hill Air Force Base. Refueling of the B-29 aircraft. The gasoline truck backs up to the B-29 aircraft. United States Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain military transport aircraft and a liaison aircraft in the background. The doors of the gasoline truck open. A hose is pulled out and handed up to a man on top of the aircraft wing.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072621
Reduction in time taken to cover distance between places due to the development of air power in the United States.

A film titled 'Make America first in the air' on the development of air power of the United States. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas. A covered wagon train moves along a desert terrain. Mountains in the background. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas, and continuing through New Mexico and Arizona to California. Railroads decreased the time taken to cover the distance between the places to four days. A train using a steam locomotive moves to the right along a double track. Animation over a map of the U.S. with a line from New York to California. Airways further reduced the time taken to cover the distance to 27 hours. A U.S. Army Air Service Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight.

Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051054