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Various ships salute USS Franklin D Roosevelt air craft carrier (CVA-42) by firing guns,Navy Day, New York City, United States.

The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York City, United States. A dirigible flies overhead. Ships of the U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson Riverj. . A dirigible flies overhead. The USS Macon (CA-132) fires salutes. Guns on United States Enterprise (CVS-6) fire salutes, with sailors lined up on the flight deck. Dirigible flies overhead. Ships of U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson River. A bridge in the background. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, October 27
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048875
A civil defense worker uses phone at NORAD Defense Center in Colorado, United States.

Aerospace Force Communication Electronics. A civilian defense worker at a desk speaks over phone at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) Defense Center in Colorado, United States. He keeps the receiver down and works on a console in front of him. He answers a phone call.

Date: 1961, April 25
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048948
Secretary of War, John Wingate Weeks reviews a parade in San Francisco, California.

Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks disembarks from the United States passenger ship "President Grant" in San Francisco, California. Weeks and others salute, he pins up medals onto men at Presidio. Soldiers parade as men look at the marching soldiers. Weeks along with General Morton and Haynes review the parade.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049078
Soldiers undergo hot and cold temperature tests at Fort Knox in Kentucky, United States (WW2)

Volunteers undergo Army medical research at Fort Knox in Kentucky, United States during World War II. Soldiers tested for their ability to adapt to hot temperatures. Soldiers carry bags and walk under high temperatures to prepare them for war conditions in deserts and humid jungles. They walk on a treadmill under high temperatures. The amount of liquid to be consumed by each one of them is determined by the medics. At night soldiers relax with temperatures lowered to 90 degrees. Tanks also examined for different climatic conditions. Men check the efficiency of Army clothing. Wire put up on the bodies of soldiers record body temperature. Men wearing clothes enter a cold room and get into sleeping bags. A man in another room observes the body temperatures. Tanks tested for weather efficiency. Men wear jackets and masks for protection against cold weather.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049121
Devastation in Elizabeth, New Jersey residential neighborhood after American Airlines plane crash; also mid-air explosion of plane at British air show.

Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.

Date: 1952, January 23
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049157
Hurricane Audrey hits Louisiana, United States.

Major events of the year 1957. Aerial view of a town in shambles after hurricane Audrey hit the area killing 300 people in Louisiana, United States. Deserted town, houses submerged in water as a result of the hurricane. The destroyed town of Cameron. A man in a field submerged in water, wreckage on ground. Women and children outside their houses.

Date: 1957, June 27
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049170