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General Laurence Kuter and Robert Lee at groundbreaking ceremony for new NORAD COC at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.

Clip regarding excavation of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) combat operation center (COC) at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, United States. View of the NORAD Combat Operations Center (COC) at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Spring, Colorado. Trees in the foreground. View of an atomic bomb or nuclear blast. Mushroom cloud rising after blast. Next scene show ground breaking ceremony for the new NORAD COC. Spectators seated. View of mountain. Flags flutter in wind from flagpole. Artwork depicts passageways and three level building in hardsite. General Laurence S Kuter,NORAD Commander in Chief and Lieutenant General Robert M Lee,ADC Commander presses a button and activates charge on side of the mountain to begin excavation.

Date: 1961, June 19
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072868
Wounded but recovering Army Air Force soldiers work at a bomb factory in Denver, Colorado in World War 2.

Ambulances in front of a military hospital. A nurse working with wounded soldiers in a hospital ward. View of wounded but now recovered U.S. Army Air Force soldiers punching a time clock to work at a bomb factory in Denver, Colorado. View of the qquipment yard outside the Colorado Building Supply Company or "COBUSCO". The soldiers and airmen serve as war production workers for 6 hours a day while their recovery continues. Workers work on bomb shell assembly in the arms factory. Some use welding equipment. View of completed bombs on assembly lines. Stacks of completed bombs being inspected before shipment.

Date: 1945
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045613
Lt. Frederick Schumacher explains purpose of USS Pueblo to reporters during news conference by North Korea

News reporter reads from his report about a news conference of the USS Pueblo crew members in North Korea. Asian and European reporters listen to Lieutenant Frederick Schumacher (USS Pueblo Operations Officer) as he explains the purpose and equipment of the USS Pueblo in surveying the area where they were captured. He notes that the "Pueblo was equipped with several types of high powered binoculars, as well as precision cameras with telephoto lenses." USS Pueblo Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher recounts the USS Pueblo crew’s activities before the North Korean navy first confronted them. News reporter narrates. USS Pueblo Lieutenant Commander Lloyd Bucher addressing the assembly while standing on a chair, notes that, "the naval units of the Korean People's army easily my vain efforts to escape...."

Date: 1968, September 12
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078873
USAAF B-25 Mitchell aircraft take off from an air base in China and drop bombs over Hong Kong during World War II.

Although narrator states "General Chennault's United States 10th Air Force," this film actually depicts Chennault's 14th Air Force formed in 1943. Its B-25s and P-40s are shown during an attack on Hong Kong during World War 2 U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell aircraft take off from an air base in China to attack Hong Kong. The aircraft in flight. Propellers of the aircraft. Aerial view of the area below. Bombs being released over Hong Kong. View of crew in cockpit of B-25.The aircraft landing at an air base in China after the mission. P-40s with tiger teeth paint job parked on the airport tarmac. Aircrews relax with refreshments on the ramp.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066009
Kingdom of Italy aircraft and crews surrender to Americans at Catania Air Base in Sicily, Italy, during World War II.

Italian aircraft and crews surrender to Americans at Catania Air Base, in Sicily, during World War 2, under terms of the Armistice of Cassibile , signed on September 3, 1943 and publicly announced on September 8th by U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on Radio Algiers. Under its terms, the Kingdom of Italy ceased hostilities against the Allies and Kingdom forces were to surrender to the Allies. An Italian SIAI-Marchetti SM79 ("Sparviero") Torpedo-Bomber is seen in flight over water, as viewed from another airplane. It carries the number 1NS-20. View of Catania Air Base, with U.S. B-25 Mitchel bomber, of the 340th Bombardment Group, landing, in background. The Italian SM79 is seen taxiing to the ramp, after landing at the Base. A Italian crew man opens the door and an officer exits using the aircraft ladder. He is followed by Giulio Cesare Graziani, torpedo bomber ace and winner of the Italian Gold Medal of Military Valor. (He is framed at 1:12.) Another officer also exits and the three shake hands with U.S. 9th Army Air Force officers on the ground. Commander of the 340th Bomb Group Lt Col Adolph "Tik" Tokaz appears in frame 1:05. The Italian officers present some documents and discuss them with the U.S. officers. The officers from both countries gather around the Italian seal, of the kingdom of Italy, on the tail of the plane and discuss it. The officers turn to watch another Italian SM79 land, taxi in, and park. Italian fliers exit this airplane and walk across the ramp to join the others, with whom they exchange salutes, and shake hands.

Date: 1943, September 14
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030939
Career of U.S. Air Force General Henry, "Hap", Arnold. The final years.

U.S. Air Force General Hap Arnold meeting with other allied military chiefs at the Potsdam conference, following the end of World War II, in Europe. General Arnold gives a speech during the 38th Anniversary of air power in the United States. Military band plays during the ceremony. General Henry steps from airplane and shakes hands with some of his Air Force Commanders in the Pacific theater. B-29 Super fortresses bombing Japan.Bombardier seen inside B-29 Super fortress. View of General of the Army, Henry (Hap) Arnold. Aircraft of the Air Force demonstration team, The Thunderbirds, in flight. September 18, 1947, formation of the United States Air Force as a separate service. January, 1950, the funeral of General Arnold at Arlington Cemetery, Virginia. Arnold Engineering Development Center building in Tullahoma, Tennessee. President Harry Truman dedicates the Center. B-47 and B-52 bombers taking off. Various Air Force aircraft seen taking off. Views of the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042997