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Invention of an 'Amphirol', British Army six wheel carrier and a jalopy race in Europe.

A Dutch invention called the 'Amphitron' or the 'Amphirol'. Men seated on it. The vehicle driven on land and in quicksand. Tracks in wet mud. The driver at the controls. The amphitron taken into water. The British Armys new six wheel gun and personnel carrier zips uphill and downhill on steep slopes. A jalopy race underway at the Brands Hatch Track in England. British and American drivers participate. The cars flip, bump and bash into oil barrels on the tracks. A large crowd witnesses the event.

Location: Europe
Date: 1966, April 28
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031164
Men and women sailors join and serve in the U.S. Coast Guard, and citations for those who gave up their lives in battle.

'Battle Stations' depicts life as a United States Coast Guard. Medals lie on citations for gallantry in action during the landing on Tulagi Island. Images of U.S. Coast Guard cutters at sea and soldiers in battle as the citations are read out. U.S. CG troops during a parade. Sailors with rifles. They march with the U.S. flag. CG cutters in heavy seas. Sailor watches through binoculars. A sailor at the deck gun, another sends a semaphore signal. The Congressional Medal of Honor lies on a citation for heroism and gallantry in action during the evacuation of a battalion on Guadalcanal. Bodies of U.S. Coast Guard sailors wrapped in U.S. flags. Sailors salute as bodies are loaded. Women take the oath as they join the U.S. Coast Guard as U.S. Coast Guard SPARS (US CG Women's Reserve). Training Station: New SPARS recruits arrive as graduates leave the station. Recruits on bunk beds, during training, getting uniforms, on bicycles, and attending classes. Class of SPARS graduates receiving diplomas. Narration by Ginger Rogers and James Cagney.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031169
U.S. Coast Guard sailors and SPARS report to various Battle Station across the United States.

U.S. Coast Guard SPARS (US CG Women's Reserve) march at the Training Station. CG men and women recruits take their places at various Battle Stations across the U.S. U.S. CG men and women personnel report for duty on shore and at sea. SPARS arrive in Washington and New York. A sailor watches through binoculars, a SPARS with documents, sailor on cutter, SPARS drives a car, sailor by a plane. A radioman and woman operate the radio. Men and women gunner mates on cutters. A U.S. CG pilot in the cockpit, SPARS parachute riggers at work. A deck gun on a cutter. A crew of 8 sailors observe the gun. SPARS take their places at a shore station. The captain and his crew come aboard a cutter. U.S. CG cutters at sea. Includes narration by Ginger Rogers and James Cagney.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031170
Official of the Boys Clubs of America awards a Medal to J Edgar Hoover at a ceremony in the United States.

First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of United States, John Edgar Hoover awarded a Medal in the United States. An official of the Boys Clubs of America addresses the attendees. He states that Hoover is only the second person to receive the Medal after John Hays Hammond in 1934. He talks about a poll at the New York Boys' Club that depicts Hoover as an inspiration to the youth. He reads out the citation and presents the medal to Hoover. Hoover accepts. The official displays the Medal.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031220
Construction begins on the Jicamarca Observatory site for the Scatter Radar antenna as staff families settle down in Peru.

Space research from the ground with a Scatter Radar. Scientists outside the Instituto Geofisico Del Peru, scientific research organization of the Peruvian government. A train of the Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA) on its way to the Institute's observatory. It travels through the Rimac Valley in the Andes, including Ticlio at nearly 16,000 feet. It is the highest elevation railway junction in the world. View of a snow-covered mountain (possibly Yuraqqucha on border of the Lima and Junín regions). Llama graze and move about high up in the mountains. Huancayo (Wankayu) Village: Local Quechuan Indians trade in the weekly market. Shops in the street, street vendors with their goods. The Jicamarca Observatory, new National Bureau of Standards facility near Lima. Scientists work at scopes and other instruments. Aerial view of the Peruvian coastline. The valley 17 miles from Lima. Rocks on the arid coast. Green vegetable fields and broad flat plane in the arid valley. The site for the antenna. Bulldozers prepare the site for construction. A diversion dam constructed on the site. Gully in the valley floor. Peruvian workers lay wire to sound an alarm in case a mudflow should come. Men mark ground and align places for post holes, lay wood posts to support the antenna dipole. They assemble inserts, connect the antenna, and lay bricks. The workers collect their pay. Bureau of National Standards staff and their families in Chaclacayo community. The families gather with locals for a Anticuchos barbecue (Peruvian beef kabobs). The wives of the U.S. scientists shop for fruits and vegetables in the local market.

Location: Lima Peru
Date: 1963
Duration: 6 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031240
Japanese sailors and pilots prepare for, and execute the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2.

After a speech by an admiral, Japanese newspapermen are given the news of the declaration of war against the United States on 8 December 1941. A Japanese fleet underway in the Pacific. Sailors on the deck of a carrier. A captain looks through binoculars. Sailors prepare the dive bombers on the ship deck. Japanese pilots during a final briefing. A Japanese sailor erases a board, while another stands before a writing on the ship. Bombers on the carrier deck. Japanese Sailors watch as pilots board their planes and take off. The bombers in flight with bombs attached onto the belly. Japanese bombers drop bombs on U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor. U.S. Pearl Harbor Base under attack.

Location: Pearl Harbor Hawaii USA
Date: 1941, December 7
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675031299
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