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USAAF Brigadier General Lauris Norstad gives a report on the workings of the 20th Air Force in Tokyo, Japan.

U.S. Army Air Force( USAAF ) Brigadier General Lauris Norstad presents a report in the United States. Seated at a desk in his office Brigadier General Lauris Norstad presents a report on the working of the 20th Air Force in Tokyo, Japan. He gives the report on behalf of USAAF General Henry Arnold. He details information in context to the eight day period of the bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortresses. He talks about the buildings and the areas damaged by the bombing. He speaks about the overall damage and economy loss caused due to the bombardment. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076705
Officers and staff members of various departments of the Pentagon have discussions in Washington DC.

The working of the Army Service Forces in the United States. Exterior of the Pentagon building in Washington DC. Commanding General of Army Service Forces Brehon B. Somervell speaks with Army Service Forces staff officers. A flag with the emblem of the Quarter Master Corps. Men working inside a building. They pack supplies for shipment. Crates stacked in a building. Chiefs of Staff and staff members of the Chemical Warfare, Signal Corps, Ordnance, Engineers, Surgeon General and Transportation Corps discussing. Interior of the Army Map Service draft room. Maps rolling off presses. Officers discussing. Supplies being loaded onto a ship.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076708
ASF Commanding General Brehon Somervell speaking about the problem of substitution and conversion of needed World War 2 supplies

Production of supplies for American soldiers during World War II. Commanding General of Army Service Forces( ASF ) Brehon B. Somervell seated at a desk in his office in the United States. He explains the serious problem of substitution and conversion and what is being done by American science to meet these needs. Somervell states that he is issuing an order: A command to think along new lines regarding every product essential to the war. He asks: 1) Can it be made as well of some less critical material; 2) Can it be made better, faster, or in greater quantity by some other method of production? He calls on viewers to draw on the brains and ingenuity. View of ordnance insignia. Interior of an office. An officer and a draftsman examine a machine gun. Exhibit of mannequins wearing uniforms with supplies for soldiers and nurses. Miniature tents and kitchen equipment. An officer and executives from two rubber production companies check synthetic rubber and collaborate on improvements. Radio engineers at work in front of equipment checking new type equipment. Workers weighing equipment and finding ways to make needed supplies lighter in weight. Chemical warfare officers at work. A soldier with a new plastic gas mask comes out of a room. Medical and other industry leaders around a conference table. Men gathered around tables planning improvements. Workers entering a large aircraft production factory. A man places a paper in a suggestion box labeled "ideas for increasing production."

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076711
Operations of the U.S. Air Force Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command

Film titled 'The Air Weather Service of the USAF.' Clouds in the sky. Aerial view of a flooded area. U.S. F-4 phantom fighter airplane lands using drag chute. F-100 aircraft refueling from a KB-29P tanker aircraft. C-130 aircraft dropping paratroops. Flight of 4 F-4 aircraft in formation. A B-52 bomber in flight. A rocket climbing after launch. A helicopter hovering over a river. Briefing underway with Air Force personnel of Air Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command. Various means of gathering weather data all over the world about temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and visibility. Data collection devices shown at various airfields or air bases. Radars in operation. A Military Airlift Command Weather Service C-135 airborne, collecting weather aloft. Arctic weather station. Aircrews getting weather briefings from Air Weather Service meteorologists. Headquarters of U.S. Air Force Japan, 5th Air Force.

Date: 1960
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076761
Cloud seeding experiments in Puerto Rico, involving U.S. Navy, Weather Bureau, and Colorado International Corporation (CIC)

Stormfury cloud seeding project. Views inside a U.S. Navy WC-121N aircraft, from Naval Station Roosevelt Roads,Puerto Rico, engaged in cloud-seeding experiments, assisted by contractor Colorado International Corporation (CIC). Crewman seated at a radar console, controlling the "Seeder" aircraft. Crewman at a meteorology station aboard the aircraft. A man's hand turning dials on a machine at the meteorology station. A navigator using a weems plotter, E-6B circular slide rule computer, and dividers, He plots course, position, and estimated times of arrival at points along the route.Crew member from CIC confers with navigator. Some crew relaxing and playing cards while in flight. View of pilot and copilot in the cockpit.

Date: 1966
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076775
During an interview in the US, Lieutenant General Ira Eaker talks about problems and experiments done by air corps.

An interview of United States Air Force Lieutenant General Ira Eaker conducted by Dr. Maurer in the United States. General Eaker talks about problems of the air corps during World Wars I and II. He says that achievements have to be in keeping the idea of air power alive. He talks about experiments in aviation done by them. He talks about the Question Mark flight. He also talks about opportunities to be exposed to several leaders which they got as fliers. He talks about the cancellation of United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. Maneuvers were organized by them.

Date: 1960
Duration: 7 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077141