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Balloon and gondola in flight and ascends during Operation Excelsior III in the United States.

Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon and gondola in flight, parachuted by Captain Joseph Kittinger. Balloon ascends. Clouds in sky.

Date: 1960, August 16
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071908
Piasecki H-21 American helicopter circling the descending parachute during Operation Excelsior III in U.S.

Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon and gondola in flight, parachuted by Captain Joseph Kittinger. Views of balloon while descending. Piasecki H-21 American helicopter circling the descending parachute during descent. Mountains in the background. View of land.

Date: 1960, August 16
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071909
Parachute descending and landing and H-21 American helicopter landing near parachute during Operation Excelsior III.

Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Parachute descending and landing, parachuted by Captain Kittinger. Shows Piasecki H-21 American helicopter landing near parachute.

Date: 1960, August 16
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071910
Medics help Captain Joseph out of parachute harness and captain Kittinger boards H-21 helicopter in the United States.

Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Men running from Piasecki H-21 American helicopter to Captain Kittinger on ground. Medics help Captain Kittinger to come out of the parachute harness. Captain Kittinger smokes. Captain Kittinger boards H-21. H-21 lifting off and in flight.

Date: 1960, August 16
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071911
Japanese bomb balloons bound for the United States are shot down; examination of parachute and bomb apparatus

Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071921
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and U.S. officers review troops and troops march during his visit to the United States.

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran visits the United States. Motorcade of Shah of Iran driving over the Bear Mountain Bridge, in New York and arrives at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. Artillery fire in salute. U.S. troops standing in attention with flags of U.S. and Iran. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and U.S. officer salute. Shah Pahlavi gets out of car and is greeted by U.S. General. Shah Pahlavi and escorting General officer enter into building. Shah Pahlavi and the General review parade of the cadets at West Point. Shah Pahlavi shakes hands with West Point cadets, and then enters car and his motorcade drives away.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Persian
Clip: 65675071925