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JB-2 robot bomb produced and test launched in the United States during WW2.

Manufacture and testing of a new robot bomb in the United States: A Republic Aviation and Ford Motor Company collaboration known as the JB-2 Loon, modeled after the German V-1 flying bomb. Interior of a war production factory. Worker welding part of bomb frame. Workers wheeling completed bomb fuselages on wheeled platforms in the plant. Closeup of an African American man wheeling a bomb. Henry Ford II and Ray Rausch, of Ford Motor Company, who oversaw the production of the pulsejet engines for the JB-2 bomb. Men working for the construction of the robot bomb. Closeup view of engine being fired on a test stand. Men and women war production workers at the Willys-Overland production plant in Toledo, Ohio are seen working on the interior components of the flying bomb, then closing the completed fuselages, and attaching the wings to the flying bomb. Engineering officers from the Army Air Forces Air Technical Command inspect a completed JB-2 flying bomb. View of a test launch o the bomb from a sandy beach area. The bomb engine fires and the bomb launches out over ocean waters, dropping its auxiliary launching apparatus beneath it, close to shore.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076588
Dramatization depicts: members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington during civil war.

Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro Southern dramatization on the effect of the Civil War and the reconstruction. Prewar conditions on the Cameron estate in Piedmont, South Carolina. The members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington are introduced. Men and women reading a newspaper outside a house. The newspaper headlined read: 'If the North carries the election, the South will secede'. An abolitionists meeting. They discuss about the news. The Stoneman library in Washington. Women cleaning the library. One of the woman leaves. A man enters and talks to the woman. They argue and the man leaves the room. The woman cry. Man portrayed as Leader of the Senate Charles Sumner in the library. He looks at the books kept on a table. He arrives near the woman and talks to her. A woman and a man talking amongst themselves in a room. Other man enters and talks to them.

Date: 1916
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076594
Prisoners of war remake and repair shoes for U.S. soldiers in the European Theater.

Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. An African American U.S. Army soldier in a camp stands beside a large pile of old shoes and boots. Scenes inside a reclamation facility where German prisoners of war remake the shoes. POWs salvage usable parts of the shoes and sew and manufacture new shoes and boots for American soldiers using various machines.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076667
Soldiers and POWs engaged in repairing and reclamation of tires, inner tubes, shoes, and coats during World War 2.

Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. Trucks parked in a tire servicing area. Tires of vehicles stacked. Men unloading tires from a truck. They are repaired by men inside a building. Techniques and machinery for tire salvage, repair, and reclamation are shown. Completely worn out tires are stacked to be used for other purposes including shoes for soldiers. German prisoners of war are shown making new shoes using reclaimed rubber. German POWs are also shown processing old coats and repairing them for reuse by American soldiers in World War 2. Narrator explains that unusable coats become typewriter covers.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076668
Men working on reclamation of storage batteries in the European Theater.

Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. Men working on damaged storage batteries. Battery cells are replaced. Buildings in the background. Dead cells are lifted from cases. Dead elements are removed from the cells. New elements are prepared and reinserted in the batteries. Totally unusable batteries are sold for scrap. Some of the parts are melted down and reused in other things.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076671
Guards and civilian workers at the Pentagon, under construction during World War 2, in Arlington, Virginia

Views of construction underway on the Pentagon Building in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington DC, United States. Exterior views of the new military headquarters building, early during its construction period. Officers discussing construction plans. Excavator at work. Army guards patrol the site while civilian workers work building the Pentagon. Views of the Washington Monument in the distance, across the Potomac River. Guards march back and forth. Views of the constuction site from various angles. View of the U.S. Capitol building in the far distance in final shot.

Date: 1942, January
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076678