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FDR announces formation of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and many work in Forest Service improving fire control

Crews of American young men loading up and organizing for training in fire fighting duties, circa 1920. Unemployed workers in lines and waiting queues in 1933 during Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the formation of Civilian Conservation Corps. Civilian Conservation Corps men of the forest service, at work, setting up telephone poles, stringing wire, building roads, building fire lookout towers, and helping to fight fires.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058688
Firefighters parachute into forests from Ford trimotor airplane. Parachute training in Missoula, Montana

Aerial view of a lookout tower in a forest in United States . A Ford trimotor airplane takes off on a grass field. The airplane in flight and dropping supplies to firefighters, by parachute. Scenes of 1939 experimental tests with firefighters parachuting from a Ford trimotor, near Winthrop, Washington. They can be seen leaving the aircraft, chutes opening, and firefighters descending. Scenes from first operational use of parachuting firefighters, on July 12, 1940, when Smoke Jumpers, Rufus Johnson and Earl Cooley parachuted into the Nez Perce forest , in Idaho, where they successfully extinguished a small fire. Rufus Johnson was the first to jump from the airplane, followed immediately by Earl Cooley. Fire fighters being trained at a parachute training center in Missoula, Montana. Men learn to jump and run over wooden planks. An instructor gives directions to trainees on a loudspeaker. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058690
Various means of bringing water to fight forest fires. Back packs, pumping from streams, truck mounted pumps, and airplanes

Fire fighters using backpack manual pumps to fight forest fire in United States. Water being pumped by gasoline driven pump, from a stream. Water tanks mounted on trucks for use in fighting forest fires. Aerial view looking down on a Douglas O-2 aircraft in flight over forest. 1930s experiments in using aircraft to deliver water to fight a fire. A man carries a 10 gallon water bomb and another one fixes it below the wing of an aircraft.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058691
Helicopters and aircraft help to fight fire in forests in United States by detecting fire and helping in firefighting.

Man drives an offroad vehicle specially designed, with individually suspended wheels, to traverse difficult terrain during a forest fire. A Canadair CL-215 "Super Scooper" twin engine float plane filling its 1400 gallon water tanks as it skims over a lake and then discharging it in a demonstration, in Quebec, Canada. Solar energy powered weather instruments and a tower with view of its instruments and a solar panel with solar cells on it. A satellite in the space. Closeup aerial view of Cessna O-2 Skymaster surveillance aircraft in flight. Technician inside aircraft using infrared detectors to find forest fires. Image of the territory below on monitor screen aboard the airplane. "Smoke Jumpers" parachute from an aircraft. A helicopter hovers over trees in forest and lowers a rope that firefighter uses to rappel into the forest. Firefighters manually fighting a fire with hand tools at the fire's edge. They quickly leave the area, as a flareup occurs and then return to continue fighting the fire.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1984
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058694
Position of UN forces below the38th Parallel during the Korean War.

The United Nation forces during the Korean War. An animated map shows the position of UN forces below the 38th Parallel in Korea. UN forces begin offenses in certain areas after 25th January, 1951. On 8th February UN forces cross over Han river and reach the south of Seoul. Activities of 10th Marine Corps on the central front of the war. Counter offensive launched by the Chinese across the 38th Parallel on 11th February. The position of UN forces after 18th February.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058704
Spring offensive launched by the Chinese forces on UN troops during the Korean War.

Spring offensive during the Korean War. An animated map of Korea shows the position of United Nation forces behind the 38th Parallel. Events and attack from 20th April, 1951 to May 20th 1951. Chinese forces launch a Spring offensive on 23rd April, 1951. Another Red offensive is launched around the Hwachon Reservoir area. United Nation forces are forced back and move towards south. Later they recover some ground around Seoul. Second phase of Spring offensive being launched around Chunchon in the Central sector of Korea. Later the UN forces strengthen their position in Central part of Korea.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058707
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