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Russian American aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky test flies the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Igor Sikorsky, Russian American Designer of U.S. aircraft, demonstrates a test flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Igor Sikorsky seated in the cockpit of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter. Igor Sikorsky holds the controls in his hands. A single three-blade main rotor and a smaller anti-torque tail mounted rotor on the VS-300. People look at the VS-300 hovering in the air. The helicopter raises from the ground and hovers in the air. The helicopter descends to the ground.

Date: 1940, May 22
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069456
United States President Franklin Roosevelt checks facts and figures about aid sent to Allied countries.

United States provides aid to Allies. United States President Franklin Roosevelt seated in his office. Lend Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius reports to President Roosevelt about the aid provided to her allies. Lend-Lease shipments prepared and shipped. Merchandise, tanks, planes sent to Soviet Union and Britain. Rail cars carry crates of machine tools made by Bullard Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. These crates are seen being loaded in a ship destined for the Soviet Union. A ship at sea. Smoke rises up from smokestack. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053952
Germany bombs London during Blitz, and United States sends Lend-Lease war materiel to England (WW2)

The London Blitz. Sections of London ablaze from German bombing during Battle of Britain. US President Franklin Roosevelt signing H.R. 1946, Lend-Lease legislation in World War II. View of last page of H.R.1946, signed by Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and by President Roosevelt. United States sends war material to England. 'USA' written on Lend-Lease boxes being loaded on lorry after arrival in Britain. Huge crates of Lend-Lease war materiel on railroad flat cars pulled by locomotive. Smoke rises up from the engine. 'Machine tools, BULLARD, Bridgeport Conn.' written on crate in transit.

Date: 1941
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053392
American voters head for the polls to vote in the 1944 Presidential Elections during WWII

Sign saying “No loitering or electioneering between this point and the poll”. Long line to election poll in the United States during World War II. 1944 American voters wait in line on the street to vote. Woman, wearing a Tartan patterned headscarf and fur coat, waits outside. Cowboys gallop with their horses to the polling station. Man, wearing cowboy hat, gets off from his Ford Model-T car. Worker walks out to the street. A truck with workers on open-cargo area. A woman walks in an empty city street. View of crowd outside Bronx Beacon Laundry at W 169th Street Bronx NYC. People enter a house used as a polling station with a huge tree in front. View of different kinds of buildings used as polling stations for the 1944 United States Presidential Elections. Including the Barbara Fritchie House ( 154 W Patrick St Frederick, MD 21701) “Bridgeport High School” engraved in front of Bridgeport Central High school (44 Lyon Terrace Bridgeport, CT 06604 ) now Bridgeport City Hall. United Stastes voters wait in lines outside polling places. Two women eating biscuits together as they wait in line. A stylish woman, wearing a matching leopard print cocktail hat and scarf, smiles. A man, wearing cowboy hat, waits in line. A group of nuns, belonging to the Sisters of the Holy Cross (CSC) Congregation, waiting to vote. Man, with mustache and fedora, looks slightly up. View of American Red Cross volunteer. Americans forming a long line to the polling station to vote. A woman sits as she waits for her turn to vote. African-American voters waiting in line to vote. Woman, wearing a polka-dotted headscarf, glasses and overalls, waits in line. Men waiting in line in the suburbs. Americans wearing thick coats waiting in line to vote.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079033
US, British and Polish Naval officers receive American submarines in New London, Connecticut. during World War II.

U.S. Navy transfers submarines to British and Free Polish Governments in New London, Connecticut during World War 2.. Film begins showing an American Navy Lieutenant reading from a document as a Navy Commander stands nearby. They are addressing officers and crew on a U.S. submarine being transferred to the British Navy. A large audience of sailors stand on a pier across the water in the background. A British sailor is silhouetted as he salutes from the deck of the boat. The submarine's officers and crew step up onto the dock, and then sailors return to the submarine and stand in formation along with their captain and other officers, on the deck near the boat's deck gun. A sailor atop the submarine raises the British Navy White Ensign on its mast, as the officers and crew salute. The sailor then fastens the Royal Navy Commissioning Pennant containing the Cross of St. George, above and behind the Ensign atop the submarine. The officers salute again. Scene changes to a submarine transferred to the Polish, where Polish sailors raise a Naval Ensign containing the seal of the Polish Government in Exile. Closeup of Polish Navy Commander standing on the pier with Polish officers and crew behind him on the deck of the newly transferred submarine. Next, the Polish officers and crew are seen in formation on the pier. The Polish officers and crew on their submarine. Glimpse of the British Officers and crew on their submarine. A final scene with Polish captain and his crew on their submarine.

Date: 1941, November 4
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043718
Igor Sikorsky, in Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter, sets new record for sustained flight,at Stratford, Connecticut

Igor Sikorsky seated inside Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, an experimental helicopter at a field behind the Vought-Sikorsky plant off Sniffens lane, Stratford, Connecticut. Sikorsky takes off in his VS-300 helicopter attempting to set a new world's endurance record for sustained flight. At one point during the flight, Robert Mackellar III, an employee, in white lab coat, holds up a sign reading "Worlds Record BROKEN, 1 hour 20 mts, as the helicopter continues to hover, breaking the record of 1 hour, 20 minutes and 40 seconds, set in 1937 by Heinrich Focke in Germany. Judges check their watches to confirm the airborne time of the helicopter. The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter sets a new record of 1 hour and 32 minutes sustained flight.

Date: 1941, May 6
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022494