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A U.S. military man and his family visits ancient ruins (Ctesiphon) near Salman Pak, Iraq.

Ancient ruins of Ctesiphon near Salman Pak, 30Km south of Baghdad, Iraq. The ruins known locally as Taq-i Kisra (arch of Kisra). A member of the U.S. Military Advisory Assistance Group, comes out of a house with his wife and children and gets into their 1949 Chevrolet automobile, parked in the driveway. The car leaves the house. View of the ruins of ancient Ctesiphon. The car arrives near the ruins. The family leaves their car and walks towards an Iraqi man who is waiting for them.

Date: 1956, June 10
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066539
Workers in Mandali, Iraq transport dates and make date leaf bags.

View near entrance to the Mandali village, Baghdad. Workers transport dates from garden to the village. Locals make bags from date leaf pinnae. Blind worker sews the plaited stripes together to form bags.

Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022177
United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in Arabian Peninsula

Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm against Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in Arabian Peninsula. A poster of Saddam Hussein. Men of United States Coast Guard on duty during the Operation Desert storm as men send message on wireless, looks through binoculars. A plane at an airbase, rifles arranged, good luck posters and 9th United States Coast Guard insignia. Plane takes off, coast guard fires, plane in flight. A sign reads Baghdad and coast guards in a boat underway at sea.

Date: 1991
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048320
British combat Iraqi forces during Anglo-Iraqi war, at. Royal Air Force Habbaniya, where Prince Abdul Ilah finds refuge (WW2)

Sign Board of Royal Air Force base at Habbaniya shows distances in miles to London and Baghdad. British aircraft bomb positions of Iraqi forces attacking from positions overlooking the air base during World War II. British soldiers take up defensive positions with small arms and machine guns. View of damaged building, destroyed guns and cars alongside Iraqi soldiers. British soldiers work on the banks of River Euphrates. View of gathered British and Iraqi military officers with Prince Abdul Ilah (also written as Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah of Iraq.)

Date: 1941, May
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022189
Loading packed date boxes on native boat for transportation to New York.

Loading packed date boxes on native boat for transportation to steamer and further to New York. One progressive exporting company experiments in adaptation of Arab labor to modern machinery and factory procedures in Basrah, Iraq. View of the Tigris River near Baghdad.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022175
Italian aviator Francesco De Pinedo dies in fiery crash during takeoff in his Bellanca aircraft, the Santa Lucia

Italian aviator, General Francesco de Pinedo, attempts takeoff in his Bellanca airplane, named the Santa Lucia. The Italian flag is painted on the aircraft rudder. The ship is heavily laden with fuel for a solo long-distance flight from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Baghdad, Iraq. The aircraft is seen to wander during the takeoff roll and with loss of control, crashes near a fence alongside the runway. The aircraft breaks into pieces, and with one wing sticking straight up in the air, begins to burn. It is immediately consumed in fire. Vehicles rush to the scene. Hangar number 6, at Floyd Bennett field, can be seen in background, with "Erickson and Remmert, Inc." painted on it. De Pinedo died in the accident.

Date: 1933, September 3
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044872