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Two U.S. Thunderjets downed by Soviet made MiG aircraft, 15 miles inside the American zone in Germany.

Cold War aggression mounts in Europe. Two U.S. Thunderjets downed by Soviet-made MIG aircraft, flown by Czech pilots, 15 miles inside the American zone in Germany. Remains of the two planes. Soldiers examine the wreckage. Soldier points to the dents and bullet holes on the remains. Americans Lt. Donald Smith and Lt. Warren Brown seated at a table. Lt. Smith narrates the incident of unprovoked attack. The Liutenants demonstrate using model planes.

Date: 1953, March 12
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020724
U.S. troops and war correspondents at destroyed German fortifications near U.S. Naval observation post in World War II

Allied troops on the French coast shortly after the Allied Invasion of Europe in World War 2. Abandoned fortifications built by slave labor. A soldier looks at metal fences. Officers and soldiers walk through the fort. German weaponry destroyed by retreating German forces. A soldier walks on rubble in Granville. Observation post of the U.S. Navy. A lighthouse that separates Normandy from Brittany. A U.S. soldier on the lighthouse looks out to the sea.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020909
Farmers work in a field in France while U.S. artillery is fired at German positions during World War II

U.S. troops in France soon after the Allied Invasion of Europe, in World War 2. An American Army medic in a field. French Farmers stack hay with hay forks. Hay stacks on the field. Big U.S. artillery gun camouflaged in the same field. The artillery fires at German positions while the farmers continue moving hay, uninterrupted.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020910
U.S. P-47 and P-38 airplanes take off. Mid-air collision of A-25s. German aircraft downed. World War II

American troops in France soon after the Invasion of Europe by Allied forces in World War 2. An airstrip built by the U.S. troops at St. Mere Eglise near the coast. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter taxis on the strip. Soldiers bring 500 lb bomb on jeep. They fix the bomb under the plane wing. Two P-47s raise dust as they taxi and take off laden with the heavy bombs. A P-38 Lightning fighter taxis and takes off. The planes fly over hills. Footage switches to black and white, and various aircraft crash and combat scenes are shown. In Spokane Washington at an air show demonstration, a formation of three A-25 aircraft is seen and then two of the A-25s collide in mid-air and breakup. One A-25 impacts and explodes and another crashes and explodes. Fire and smoke at the crash site. Scene transitions to a variety of highly dramatic gun camera footage shots from World War 2. German railroad train is strafed. German planes are hit and downed by American aircraft, as captured by automatic combat cameras on the aircraft. Various German aircraft exploding, in flames and falling to the ground, with some heading straight for Allied aircraft before being shot out of the sky.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020911
U.S. Air Force film about the Military Airlift Command (MAC)

Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.

Date: 1976
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021073
Japanese aliens along with the Ambassador embark the ship and sent back to their home land from Seattle, Washington.

Japanese citizens after renouncing American citizenship deported from America in World War II. Japanese men and women get off from the bus. Men and women on a port in Seattle, Washington. Japanese men and women leave for their homeland. American soldiers check their luggage. Japanese men and women along with their children. They are joined by Japanese diplomats arrested by Allied forces in Europe. People of Japan including Japanese Ambassador to Germany Baron Hiroshi ƌshima embark the ship. American soldiers stand on port.

Date: 1945
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021160