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Republican leaders from all over U.S. arrive to nominate a Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention.

Dignitaries at the Republican National Convention, Philadelphia. Board outside the building reads: 'Headquarters, Republican National Convention, June 24th'. Republican leaders and delegates from all over the United States arrive to nominate a Presidential candidate. Thomas Dewey, Senator Robert Taft and Wendell Willkie lead the list of nominees. Governor Stassen of Minnesota delivers the keynote address. A large crowd seated inside the hall as per the seating arrangements. They cheer and applaud.

Date: 1940, June 24
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046139
Soldiers of 2nd New Zealand Division at the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, in WW II.

The Battle of Monte Cassino. Aerial view of the town and abbey in Italy. During an exercise west of Cassino, near Monte Camino, New Zealand gunners fire British 6 Pounder Antitank gun and a captured German Pak 40 75mm antitank gun, Views of the anti-tank men loading and firing their weapon. Smoke rises due to the firing. As part of the exercise, Infantry of 24th Battalion, 2nd Division,New Zealand Expeditionary Force, advance with fixed bayonets and one fires a machine gun. Group of New Zealand soldiers stand near a jeep and a destroyed U.S. Sherman tank of 756th Tank Battalion, amidst destroyed buildings in the north of Cassino. Several New Zealand soldiers smile for the camera. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, March
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046252
Technician demonstrate attaching of Razon tail to bomb in United States.

A film titled 'Razon' by the Strategic Services, United States. Dropping of a 1000lb 'Razon' bomb or VB3. Man attaches the bomb's Razon tail. The tail Contains a Radio receiver fed by an antenna. Power supply is a 24 volt battery. A technician with a automatic Gyro stabilizer, the primary unit. He inspects the control rudders and elevators. He attaches a 600,000 candle power flare to the tail cover. The bomb is rocked during inspection. A control stick and transmitter used to check the rudders and elevators. The completed bomb with Nose arming tail arming. Technicians wheel the bomb on a carrier. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046520
New York Yankees play against San Francisco Giants and win the 1962 baseball World Series in the United States.

Scenes from 1962 World Series baseball action in the United States. San Francisco Giants meet the New York Yankees. Chuck Hiller, a Giants player makes the first National league grand slam ever in World Series play. New York Yankee Tom Tresh gets a 3 run home run in game 5. As play shifts to San Francisco, it rains for a long time delaying continuation of the series. Giants Willie McCovey hits one to Yankee Bobby Richardson for the final out and the New York Yankees win the World Series. Footage from a newsreel released December 24, 1962.

Date: 1962, October 16
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046636
Radar for establishing contact with the moon reflects rays back on the earth from the moon in United States.

U.S. Army radar equipment used to contact the moon. Steel structure of a radar. Men work at controls. Moon in the background of the radar. Animation shows distance of moon and earth being 238000 miles. Radar beam reaches to the earth in 2.4 seconds. Radar rays go to moon and comes back to earth after reflecting. Readings of radar shows signals. Picture of the surface of the moon. Narrator says, "no longer beyond men's dreaming is the possibility of reusable airplane-like space ships to commute between the two planets (the earth and the moon)" as animation shows an aircraft space ship flying from the earth to the moon (foreshadowing the NASA Space Shuttle program).

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046674
Modified C-135 aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) serve as "Combat Lightning" aircraft in Vietnam War

Opening scene shows two U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchief aircraft taking off in pre-dawn from Vietnam on a bombing mission, in 1966, during the Vietnam War. Next, the F-105s are seen diving and dropping bombs that explode into fire and smoke on the ground. Closeup of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) KC-135 aircraft in flight. It has been modified to serve as as a "Combat Lightning" aircraft that serves as a communication link between the Tactical Air Reporting Center at Monkey Mountain, near Danang, Vietnam and ground radar, airborne radar and any U.S. aircraft operating over North Vietnam. KC-135 "Combat Lightning" crew members are seated in a briefing room at the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, in Thailand. A briefing officer explains their mission, using charts and a map labeled SECRET Noforn (no foreign access) showing Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin. The briefer points to an area in the Gulf, and sketches a figure eight, showing where and how the KC-135 should maneuver in a holding pattern during its mission. Crew members rise and leave at the end of the briefing. View of a Strategic Air Command EC-135L that arrived on May 29, 1967, along with another, to support 24 hour "Combat Lightning" operations. Ground crewman directs the EC-135L as it taxis out and then takes off, past a C-130 aircraft holding short of the active runway. (Narrator notes that by the end of July, 1967, there were four "Combat Lightning" C-135 aircraft operating at U-Tapao airfield.) View from above of EC-135L aircraft in flight above clouds, en route to its assigned location over the Gulf of Tonkin. View of radio operator inside the aircraft, who is in radio contact with U-Tapao and the aircraft they are going to relieve. View of map showing their destination figure-eight holding pattern. Radio operator establishes the same contacts used by the aircraft they are relieving, to assure continuity of communications. Remainder of the film contains extended views of the radio operator at his station and of the EC-135 aircraft in flight. Near the end, the crew's Armaments and Electronics Technician is seen pulling a piece of malfunctioning electronic gear from a rack and replacing it with a spare, stored nearby.

Date: 1967
Duration: 5 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047100