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:Railroad locomotive pusher snowplow clears tracks of snow in Silverton, Colorado, United States

Pusher snowplow attached to a steam locomotive cuts through deep snow in Silverton, Colorado, United States. Plow pushes back snow from train tracks. Snowplow pushes away 20-feet of snow while men look on. Men help snow pusher with shovels to clear out snow. Snow drift blasted with dynamite. Men shoveling out snow. Point of view POV from top of steam locomotive as it plows through snow.

Date: 1932, March
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079706
Barrage from allied warships at shores of Normandy and allied aircraft take off for D-Day invasion of France, World War II.

Allied ships in the English Channel fire at German fortifications on French coast to soften up defenses at start of D-Day Invasion. Views of large guns on many ships firing toward shore. Discarded shells are seen on board the deck of the ship. United States gliders and C-47 aircrafts on field in Britain. Gliders being towed along the field for take off. View of U.S. Army soldiers leaving troop carriers and boarding landing crafts (LST) for Invasion of Normandy beaches. G.I.s climb down landing nets and board a landing craft. Allied bombers overhead flying toward Normandy targets. Smoke emerges from the sinking United States destroyer USS Corry (DD-463) off the shore of Utah Beach near Iles Saint-Marcouf.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038178
Eagle Squadron members receive wings from General Hunter, leave service to the RAF, and officially join U.S. Army Air Force

View of Eagle Squadron units of the British RAF, composed of Americans who volunteered to assist Britain against Germany before the United States entered World War II. The Eagle Squadron members are receiving Army Air Force insignia wings from Brigadier General Frank Hunter as they formally exit the RAF and enter the 4th Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force. Close-up views of Hunter presenting wings to the airmen, some of who had served the RAF for two year including in the Battle of Britain. The three squadrons, 334th, 335th, and 336th, parade in the rain at an airbase. The American flag is raised beside the RAF flag on a flag pole.

Date: 1942, September 29
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040820
Women of British Auxiliary Territorial Service operate kinetheodolite and march

British women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (A.T.S.) engaged with coastal artillery unit. Two women are operating a Kinetheodolite, next to a woman communicating on a field telephone. Antiaircraft guns and crews are in position beind them. An obsolete biwing aircraft is catapulted out over the water as a practice target for the shore battery, which commences firing. A contingent of women (ATS) marching on a road, followed by regular British soldiers. Officers review the marching units as they pass. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053148
Soldiers unload tanks from a Landing Craft Tank during a rehearsal for the Invasion of Normandy. in World War II

United States soldiers during a rehearsal for the Invasion of Normandy. in World War 2. A lookout wearing closed-sided non-glare glasses as he scans the sky for aircraft. He turns a dial located on the nose bridge of the glasses to adjust the vision. Soldiers at the deck gun of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) as it approaches the shore in the faint morning light. Side ramps are dropped on the LCI and soldiers move down ramps and onto beach area. Soldiers get off and run across the beach. Tanks unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) and taken across the beach. Column of troops going down beach, heads toward Landing Crafts on beach. They make a left turn moving inward. Hill in the background. Landing Crafts on the beach.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020539
Pilot Henry (Dick) Merrill and Copilot, Harry Richmond, take off from New York in their Vultee V1A for transatlantic flight

First roundup trans-Atlantic flight to be attempted from the United States.. Pilot, Henry (Dick) Merill, Chief Test Pilot of Eastern Airlines and Co-Pilot, Harry Richman, millionaire singer, songwriter and part time pilot, prepare to depart on round-trip trans-Atlantic flight. They bid goodbye to friends and family. They board their Vultee V-1A named 'Lady Peace', start the engine, taxi out and takeoff. Crowd watches.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049738