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Speed racers Sir Malcolm Campbell and Gar Wood break records in the United States.

New land and sea speed records are set in the United States. People gather in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sir Malcolm Campbell seated in his race car 'Blue Bird'. He drives the car on Daytona beach and sets a new record driving at the speed of 272 miles per hour. People cheer. Close view of him smoking a cigarette in the car after his speed run. Speedboat racer Garfield Arthur Wood seated aboard his speedboat 'Miss America' on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. He races the 5000 horsepower mahogany speedboat and wins the Harmsworth Trophy. Close up view of Gar Wood smiling after his race. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077067
A USAAF P-38 Lightning aircraft takes off after being loaded with film magazines in Australia, during World War II

The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War II. A United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. P-38 photo recon aircraft being loaded with film magazines and then buttoned up. The P-38 Lightning aircraft takes off on a mission to photograph Japanese positions in Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, during World War 2. The aircraft lands after returning from the mission.

Date: 1943, May 12
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077241
American soldiers enter city of Leipzig, Germany, and take prisoners of war, during World War II.

American forces in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Landmarks include the heavily damaged New Town Hall, Burgplatz, and a church. At start of film, German civilians are seen running along railroad tracks, past war-damaged platform, to reach a train. Hungry German civilian men wrestle with a man on a sidewalk holding a large piece of meat. American soldiers walking across a city square in single file. Two Sherman tanks move across city square following the tracks of a tramway. The overhead electric wires for the tram are visible. More views of American soldiers walking and some in jeeps. A tilted view of the Reform Evangelist Church. Then camera straightens out and shows it properly. In front of the church, two American soldiers sit on a half-track with M45 Quadmount (Maxson) Anti-Aircraft guns installed on it. Back of the half-track has "660 AAA" stenciled on it. Many Jerry cans are held in racks along the sides of the half-track. Scene shifts to a formation of German prisoners of war with their hands over their heads. Close-up views of faces of German soldier prisoners of war. Camera pans across them, closeup. They carry all their personal gear, including bed rolls, but no weapons. View from behind them. Wider glimpse of the prisoners under guard. The severely damaged 1928 Kroch Building (Krochhochhaus) is seen in the background. Several German prisoners sit in a jeep, guarded by an American soldier with an M3 .45-caliber sub-machine gun ("grease gun"). At the end of the film, the bomb damaged 1905 New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) is seen in the background.

Date: 1945, April 29
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077881
The Vietnamese WACs issue uniforms to the women recruits in Saigon, Vietnam.

Vietnamese Women's Army Corps stationed in Saigon, Vietnam. The WACs walk in long columns in a compound. A concrete building in view. American WACs Major Kathleen I. Wilkes and Sergeant Betty L. Adams serve as advisors of the Vietnam Women's Army Corps. They help the Vietnamese WACs. The Vietnamese WACs issue uniforms to the women recruits. Several new recruits wear native dress. Blouses are held against the girls for possible fit. Sergeant Adams tries a jacket on a new recruit. A Vietnamese woman works at a sewing machine. Major Wilkes, Sergeant Adams, Vietnamese WAC Sergeant and a Vietnamese girl walk out of the building. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1965, March 9
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054272
President Roosevelt's address during the dedication of Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

During World War 2, the new Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland is dedicated by the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (NBMS ) on its 100th anniversary. New hospital building. Guards out front marching. Patients on hospital beds. Pharmacists in a sterilization chamber. A nurse at work with equipment. A group of doctors in an operation theater performs a surgery on a patient. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at the hospital in a chauffeur driven motor carriage with other personnel to address the patients on the occasion. Patients in wheel chairs with their attendants. A large gathering of doctors, nurses and other staff and patients of the hospital outside the hospital building. President Roosevelt addresses the gathering. He says that there is a national shortage of doctors and nurses. Medical, surgical and nursing care should be given to every civilian. To allow use of medical staff for the war effort, he also cautions Americans to be cautious and safe, citing those civilians who drive recklessly and those who do not take preventive measures in industrial plants.

Date: 1942, October
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054680
German people read newspaper Kolnischer Kurier distributed by SHAEF in Cologne Germany after World War II.

German civilians read the news of end of Hitler and Mussolini era in a newspaper in Cologne, Germany after World War II. Newspaper Kolnischer Kurier is published and distributed by the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF). Group of people read the newspaper and peep into it. An old man shows two young boys the news published in the newspaper.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056421