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Commander of the 341st Missile Wing flies over Minuteman silos near Great Falls, Montana, United States

View from a Helicopter flying over fields of grain in Montana, United States. Shadow of the helicopter is seen moving below. Cattle grazing on the range are startled by the chopper. Views of U.S. Minuteman intercontinental missile installations in the vicinity of Great Falls, in 1964. Colonel Rex Dowtin, Commander of the U.S. 341st Strategic Missile Wing, is seen in cockpit of the helicopter. Views from the helicopter as it flies over the steel-covered underground missile silos. Snow-capped mountains in background. Colonel Dowtin and another crew member inside the helicopter.

Date: 1964
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037566
Commander, staff, and missile combat officers of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing begin their day with briefings during Cold War

View from Helicopter cleared to land at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Boys running across a field of tall grass past radar antenna at the base. A boy on a bicycle rides past a Strategic Air Command sign at the base reading "Peace is our Profession." Interior of a command center. An Air Force Senior Master Sergeant working with airmen to maintain status of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing's Minuteman missiles and coordinating their servicing and maintenance. Staff in the unit's command center is called to attention as their Commander, Colonel Rex Dowtin, enters. Colonel Dowtin and his staff officers take seats and listen to their morning briefing, beginning with a report from their weather officer about local conditions. This is followed by reports from other officers, including an African American officer, about the status of matters in their respective areas of responsibility. Meanwhile at another location, white-clad missile combat officer crews (Captains and Lieutenants) are being briefed by a Lieutenant Colonel who tells them the defense condition (DEFCON) is "4" and issues instructions for the day as they prepare to manage various missile silos and installations.

Date: 1964
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037567
United States Air force combat crew on duty at Minuteman Missile control center in Montana,United States

U.S. Air Force staff car driving along a road at the Minuteman Missile complex of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, near Great Falls, Montana. In the back seat are Captain Kenneth Atkins, a combat crew commander and his deputy, Lieutenant Jim Highland. View of desolate landscape from the passing car. The car stops at a fenced area where guards confirm their identifications. Inside a building the men are issued .38 caliber revolvers and ammunition. An authentication code is given over the phone by the guard, who then promptly burns a stub of paper on which it is written. The combat crew enters the complex through an alarmed door and takes an elevator down to the lower level. View up the shaft of the elevator descending. They exit and stand as the silo blast door is opened from within, and then enter the vault-like control room. Colonel Rex Dowtin, Commander of the 341st Wing, listens as one of his combat crews gives him their certification briefing. Combat crew members Atkins and Highland are seen in their silo control capsule, where they look over the latest message traffic. Views of SAC (Strategic Air Command) message recording systems and internal capsule controls. A double padlocked red box containing secret missile launch codes. Pre-recorded voice reporting the status of all missiles under the crews control. Sound of voice reporting on various selected channels. Views outside the silo, with some snow on the ground. View of a missile nose. Panning views of the capsule, showing the crew member bunks, among other things.

Date: 1964
Duration: 7 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037568
End of World War II and signing of UN charter in San Francisco, United States

United States and Soviet Union soldiers celebrate their victory as world War 2 comes to an end in Germany. "Elbe Day": Soviet and American soldiers meet at the River Elbe on 25-26 April, 1945. View of Nazi swastika being blown up at Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg Germany in 1945. Scenes of celebration in the streets of Paris with French civilians cheering American and French soldiers and celebrating the end of World War 2. French women kiss soldiers. Crowd gathered in Times Square in New York celebrating VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day). Foreign Ministers of fifty nations arrive at San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter. United States President Harry S. Truman addresses the delegates at the closing ceremony of the conference on June 26, 1946. Ships bring American soldiers back home, including some wounded, after World War 2. Women and families on dock at harbor wave and smile at arriving troop ship with American soldiers returning home. Also seen are soldiers of other countries including Soviet Russian soldiers returning to their families at a train station, with smiling and tearful family reunions. Cemeteries with headstones honoring soldiers who died in the war. Military hardware being scrapped to make peacetime goods. Views of explosive charges being set and military aircraft being blown up for scrap. Piles of scrapped military vehicles. A woman in a factory organizes newly manufactured clothes irons. Workers in a factory perform final assembly on newly manufactured ovens and stoves for homes.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037571
People on Park Avenue waiting to enter General Motor's Motorama show in New York; also dancers performing at the show

People line up in large number to enter Hotel Waldorf Astoria to view General Motor's auto show Motorama in New York City, United States. Sign reads “GM General Motors Motorama of 1953” at the entrance of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men form long lines on Park Avenue. Dancers perform a ballet in front of a large audience during the motor show.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037642
Buick Wildcat on display at General Motor's Motorama in New York as the Company officials explain the design of the car

Arthur Godfrey sits in Buick Wildcat being displayed at General Motor's Motorama at Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York,United States. General Motors officials look on. Officials open the car's hood as they explain the design and parts.

Date: 1953
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037643