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Allied aircraft lay mines in Pacific Theater during World War II.

'Aerial mine laying blockades Japanese shipping' depicts Allied preparations and Operations of the 21st Bomber Command, for aerial dropping of mines in the Pacific ocean to thwart Japanese shipping in World War 2. . Rows of stacked bombs are shown in a munitions dump at Tinian Air Base in the Mariana Islands. Camera focuses on a 2000 pound MK25 mine. Men demonstrate hydrostatic safety devices on the mine, including an extender that holds the detonator away from the booster charge until sufficiently immersed, and a clock delay mechanism. MK 25 transported to B-29 aircraft named Flak Alley Sally. (This is B-29 Number 42-24878 of the 40th Bomb Squadron, 6th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing.) Airmen attach a parachute to the end of the mine. Another inserts the detonator and its extender plus the timer device into the side of the mine. Soluble washers are then placed in arming device ports. Scene shifts to Army and Navy planners working with maps, dividers, and a Weems plotter to mark the target location and mine laying pattern. 313th Bombardment Wing Group Commanders are seen being briefed in a war room. Next, engines are seen starting on a B-29, that then takes off and is seen in flight.(Narrator notes that missions are flown at night, but this one is photographed in the day to show how it is done. View of B-29 cruising above clouds. View from inside the aircraft, of bomb bay slowly opening. View of the target area below. The parachute of a mine opens by a static line as it falls from the bomb bay. Scene shifts to water level closeup of a mine striking the water. ('Presumably a demonstration inserted here.) Final scene shows a Navy Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger torpedo bomber dropping a parachute equipped mine. in the same location.

Location: Mariana Islands
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049278
Children celebrating Thanksgiving wish President Roosevelt a Happy Birthday

Children rehearse wishing President Franklin Roosevelt a happy birthday. But, not on his birthday. Instead, it is Thenksgiving Day, and the children are enjoying turkey drumsticks. They say they are unable to be with the President on his birthday, so they will wish him a Happy Birthday now, on Thanksgiving, instead.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936, November 26
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049339
Allied troops rehearse and land in Europe during World War II.

Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Allied ships at harbors in England carry military equipment, medicines, food and other supplies. Allied soldiers rehearse landing soldiers load in landing crafts, tanks and artillery unloaded from a ship. On the day of the invasion soldiers climb down a ladder along the side of a ship and load in landing crafts. Crafts move beach wards. Soldiers land amidst heavy firing. Barrage balloons fly over head as Allied troops make amphibious landings in Europe.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049410
Japanese Americans at relocation center in United States during World War II.

Relocation of Nisei people in United States during World War 2. Japanese Americans arrive at the Manzanar relocation center (internment camp). Family members exit a bus. A young boy looking unsure as he observes the camp. New internees undergo medical examination. They participate in Americanization classes. They train themselves in self government. Block leaders are presented citations at a meeting. Japanese-American children internees are looked after in day care centers as men and women go to work. Young boys and girls seated at a table. Internees at Manzanar working in an experimental laboratory house for extracting rubber from guayule shrubs to increase rubber production during the war. Japanese American internees working in cultivating the guayule shrub. View of a project at the Parker camp where internees were working to irrigate desert land. View of sugar beet fields where internees could work. View of Manzanar war relocation center with mountains behind. War time propaganda narrator promotes the relocation centers as "setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. We are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency."

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049421
Howard Hughes receives a warm reception in New York, United States.

Howard Hughes during his around the world flight. Howard Hughes and a man in a car during a ticker tape parade in New York, United States after flying around the world in three days. Car moves past a large crowd towards the City Hall. A band plays at the parade. Out side the city hall Mayor Fiorello H La Guardia delivers a speech.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1938, July 18
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049439
3000 orphans from Brooklyn enjoy on the beach in Long Beach, New York.

Orphans enjoy a day out on a beach in Long Beach, New York. School buses with 3000 Brooklyn orphans aboard head for the beach in Long Beach, New York. Children enjoy surf bathing on the beach. Children play with sand. They eat ice cream and burgers.

Location: Long Beach New York USA
Date: 1938, August 10
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049445
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