British books being preserved from destruction during World War 2. Images from May 13, 1933 when twenty five thousand books were burned by Nazis in Germany on orders from Hitler. The book-burning included many classics of literature. Aerial view of London buildings burning at night from Nazi blitz raid during Battle of Britain. Books and important records being preserved by British as they transfer them to film, with one page of each book recorded to one frame of film, so that an entire book can be captured on a small roll of film. View of books copied onto motion picture film one page at a time by a British man. View of U.S. military personnel reviewing motion picture film used to image letters sent to troops via V-mail during the war. Narrator states that the filming process followed by the British is similar to the American mail filming process.The films being looked at by a man. Men pack the films in boxes for shipment to the United States. Wooden boxes being lifted by ship crane for transport. Exterior street view of United States Library of Congress building where the films are being kept. Librarian checking and stamping each film on arrival. Film being viewed on a large microfilm viewer. The description of each film on cards placed in the library card catalog. View of the original preservation films being filed and stored in shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress.
Test firing of air to ground missile AGM 65 Maverick in the United States. Men look at the AGM 65 Maverick missile under the wing of a Ryan Firebee ( BQ-34A ), an unmanned aerial vehicle. A DC-130 E aircraft takes off with a Ryan Firebee under its wing. The plane in flight. Ryan Firebee detaches and in flight. Smoke rises from the tail of the firebee as AGM 6 Maverick missile launches from the vehicle. The missile hits the range target and explosion occurs.
Aircraft in flight in the United States. Lockheed DC-130 E aircraft in flight over sea and land. An aerial view of the landscape. Planes in flight.
An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.
Promotion of Liberty Bonds in Washington D.C., United States during World War I. Lieutenant Henry Reuterdahl and another officers paint a sign board outside the Navy Building. Men in foreground with the sign promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds in the background. Lieutenant Reuterdahl paints part of the sign which reads ' Sink the U Boat '. The sign has a separate hard cut-out piece in the shape of a German submarine. It moves along a sliding groove so that it can be shown as sinking into the painted waves. Lt. Reuterdahl moves the end of the U-boat cutout up and down showing its motion.
Torpedo missile being manufactured in the United States during first World War. Men at a factory work on torpedoes. A man works on a screw with a driver. Inside of torpedo casing shown. Men work on the torpedoes as American flags hang from the roof of the factory. Equipment inside the torpedo. A torpedo on a machine as men turn it from side to side. A small propeller on the back of it behind its fins is seen spinning at high speed.
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