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Troop ships USS Mount Vernon (APA-22) and USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) carry troops home at end of World War II

The U.S. troopship, USS Mount Vernon (APA-22) is seen underway as viewed portside from another boat. Film stops momentarily and resumes showing a different troopship, the USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) in a harbor. Camera pans across her deck, from a small boat below. Sailors and soldiers line her railings. Several banners on her upper deck identify units aboard. Most notable is a large one for the U.S. 10th Armored Division, showing their Division patch and the slogan "Terrify and Destroy." View of people waiting on the receiving pier, which is decked out in stars, bars, and flags, plus a sign reading "welcome Home, Well Done."

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071106
Troop ship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) transports soldiers back home from Europe right after World War II

The troopship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) is seen being guided by tugboats as she makes her way to the pier, while carrying U.S. troops back home from Europe at end of World War 2. View of the upper deck jammed with soldiers, waving happily. A large banner is displayed showing Division patch of the Tenth Armored "Tiger" Division and the key places they operated in Germany as the first im General Patton's Third Army in Germany, during the war. More views of soldiers waving. Many stand in the ship's lifeboats. Troops carrying their gear in dufflebags as they disembark from the ship. Friends and relatives standing behind a fence waiting to greet the returning soldiers.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071107
Soldiers returning home from Europe after World War II, disembark from the troopship, USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176)

Several U.S. Army officers pose, upon arriving home from Europe on the troopship, USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). Several uniformed women officers descend the gangplank from the ship, followed by soldiers carrying their personal gear in dufflebags. To the side of the gangway, a banner for the 10th Armored Division is partially seen. The troops disembark single file. View towards the ship superstructure shows it filled with those waiting to leave. A soldier with a roster stands at the top of the gangway, checking off names of soldiers as they pass.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071108
Army versus Rice University team in a college football game in Houston, Texas.

College football game between Rice Owls from Rice University and Army, held in Houston, Texas. Players of both teams featured. 69,000 spectators watch the game. Players featured include Joe Caldwell, Pete Dawkins, Buddy Dial, Bob Anderson. Army wins over Rice 14-7.

Date: 1958, November 8
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071117
Wiley Hardeman Post receives welcome after flying solo around world and Colonel Roscoe Turner earns Bendix Trophy for speed

Wiley Post on arrival at Floyd Bennett field in New York, after flying around the world in 8 days. People take dinner at dining table to celebrate the setting of a new record in aviation. Crowd stands around the aircraft after arrival. Motorcade of Wiley Post in New York City. People welcome him with ticker tape parade in New York. Mayor of New York city, John Patrick O'Brien presents him with Medal of Valor. Next segment covers pilot Colonel Roscoe Turner who sets a new record of 10 hours and 5 minutes flying coast to coast from New York to Los Angeles. His Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft is seen landing and Roscoe Turner smiles broadly for the camera. He won the Bendix Trophy. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933, July 22
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071119
Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird and Garfield Arthur Wood with his Miss America X set new speed records in the U.S.

New world speed records being set in the United States in 1933. People push race car on Daytona Beach. Sir Malcolm Campbell, a racing motorist drives his "Blue Bird" race car at Daytona Beach, Florida, setting a new speed record. Spectators stand at beach as they watch him. Campbell seated in his racing car as he smokes after the run. People stand around him. Garfield 'Gar' Arthur Wood, a racer using a racing boat named "Miss America X" sets a new world record to win Harmsworth Trophy for his speed run on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. View of Gar Wood smiling. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years prior.

Date: 1933
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071120