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President Harry S. Truman addresses gathering in Kansas City during homecoming celebration.

President Harry S. Truman's homecoming to Independence, Missouri. He is being honored by the city in the auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1001 W Walnut St, Independence, MO 64050, United States). President Truman addresses the gathering during this first trip back to his home area since becoming President. The President exits after speech. U.S. flags on the building. The President gets into his car. Photographers rush to take pictures. Views of the exterior of the Westport Men's Wear clothing store in Kansas City, owned by President Truman's lifelong friend, Edward "Eddie" Jacobson. Secret Service mill about the entrance while the President is inside. A sign above the store sign reads 'Arrow shirts." The President and his party exit the store and reenter his parked convertible.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1945, June 27
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022064
Chinese airmen board a U.S. troop carrier aircraft at Austin, Texas

United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.

Location: Austin Texas USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063424
USAAF B-29 Superfortress aircraft fly in formation over grasslands from Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States.

USAAF B-29 Superfortress in flight from Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Kansas,United States. The aerial view of a city in Kansas. United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber aircraft fly in formation over the grasslands.

Location: Kansas United States USA
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072626
Fuel burning by households and power plants creates air pollution in Kansas City,United States.

Air pollution due to fuel combustion in Kansas City area of United States. Large brick building with smoke coming from its chimney. Smoke from public utility power plants. Views of smoke from fuel burning, especially in winter heating seasons, throughout the Kansas City area. Aerial view of smoke from fuel burning, near river.

Location: Kansas United States USA
Date: 1967
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072634
Various scenes of open trash and refuse burning in the Kansas city area of United States.

Air pollution due to open refuse burning in the Kansas City area, United States. Aerial view of the open burning dumps on grasslands. A smoke column rises. View from airplane flying through the smoke. Trash trucks driving in garbage dump near smoking refuse. Aerial view of numerous fires burning in trash dump near river. Salvage yards with uncontrolled open burning. Interiors being burned in junk cars at salvage yard. Aerial views of open burning of refuse in backyards of homes in residential area. Smoke rising from commercial incinerators. View of "tepee" incinerator with smoke rising from it. Incinerator at apartment house with smoke rising from it. Smoke rising from the incinerator at Kansas City, Missouri sewage treatment plant, where dried sewage sludge is burned, and scrubbers are used. View from airplane of large fires and huge smoke clouds from urban renewal project. Car parked on dirt road in area of small trees and shrubs. Large trash fire behind it with billowing dark black smoke. City building in distance.

Location: Kansas City Missouri USA
Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072632
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.

Location: Kansas United States USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063990
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