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Operations of the U.S. Navy Early Warning Squadron 4 (Hurricane Hunters)

WC-121N of U.S. Navy Early Warning Squadron Four (VW-4) starts engines, taxis out, and takes off from the U.S. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Aerial view of the aircraft in flight. The film title,"Hurricane Hunters," and credits appear. A VW-4 crew is seen bracing themselves inside a WC-121N aircraft as it encounters turbulence on a mission.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076449
Montage of Hurricane scenes covering various places and times.

Scenes of hurricanes and related damage. A U.S. fletcher class destroyer and then two U.S. Heavy cruisers making way in very heavy seas. Huge waves blowing over a waterfront. Palm trees blowing and deciduous trees falling to hurricane winds. A man attempting to walk against hurricane force winds and rain. Hurricanes battering an airfield. Wind and water driving against a hotel, and downed wires exploding in rain filled street. A man in waist deep water. Scenes of severe flooding, including a flooded convertible car Aerial views of heavy cumulus clouds. Homes and vehicles completely inundated by flood waters. A derailed railroad train. Men combing through debris in aftermath of a hurricane. Completely destroyed homes.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076450
U.S. Naval personnel operating in the Joint National Hurricane center, Miami, Florida

U.S. Naval officers walk across the lawn at the the Aviation Building, also known as the Fritz Hotel in Miami, Florida. Among tenants in the building is the Weather Bureau office and joint National Hurricane Center. Their WSR-57 radar antenna can be seen atop the building. Scene shifts to inside the Joint Hurricane center where theree Naval officers and a sailor are reviewing weather data. An animated map shows how the Caribbean regions are accessed by Hurricane Hunter aircraft from Jacksonville, Florida, and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, respectively.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076451
U.S. Naval personnel in National Hurricane center, Miami, Florida and in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico

WC-121N Lockheed Super Constellation of Airborne Early Warning Squadron FOUR (VW-4) in flight over the Miami International Airport. VW-4 aircreww walk across a ramp where several WC-121N Aircraft are parked. View of a WC-121N aircraft in flight. View from outside the cockpit window of Pilot, copilot and flight engineer at their respective stations. The radio operator transmitting a message by key. A sailor marking data on a chart back in the Aviation Building in Miami, Florida. a sailor transmitting the information over a teletype machine. Office of the Commanding Officer of VW-4. Their logo on the office sign, containing hurricane warning signal (two gale force flags), a lightning bolt, an eye, and gold wings, plus the words: "Hurricane Hunters." Teletype message being received calling for a mission to make low level investigation of possible tropical depression at 700 millibar level (about 10 thousand foot altitude). VW-4 crew in the U.S. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, planning the mission over a weather chart.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076452
Scenes of Berlin divided by newly built Berlin Wall. Unrest in the city after division into East and West Berlin, Germany

The divided city of Berlin, Germany caused by the erection of the Berlin Wall. Shows early scenes of the Berlin Wall being built. Opening scene shows camera pan from Brandenburg Gate down to street level where East German construction workers are using a jack hammer and hand digging a trench across the middle of the street to serve as foundation for the Berlin Wall. A Soviet guard watches over the construction workers. East Germans and Soviet Russians walking with a spool of razor wire, putting up barbed wire barricades along other sections of the dividing border. German citizens gathered along the wall as it is built in a field area. Several young men in suits being pushed and harassed by a guard on the East German side of the Berlin Wall. View of a railroad train track that has been cut, and workers digging a deep trench at the site to build the wall right through the run of railroad track. East German refugees walking through a checkpoint area, desperate to leave east Germany before total closure of the border occurred. Refugees gathered in crowded shelters with mattresses on the ground. Young children and babies sleeping on mats. Views of barbed wire crossing railroad track runs. Animated map showing routing of aircraft for the Berlin Airlift in response to the Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union in 1948. Riots on the streets of East Berlin. Views of various aircraft flying overhead, bringing supplies to citizens during the blockade. Relief supplies and food being unloaded at airport for citizens. People waving white handkerchiefs in the air to express thanks as a Berlin Airlift airplane passes overhead. People in East Germany throw stones at a Russian tank in the streets as a crowd of protestors gathers. A burning building with smoke pouring from its windows. Views of successful German industry and commerce in West Berlin. People working in West Berlin. German people shop in stores. A boy adds a bar of chocolate to a shopping basket. Men working in large industrial plants and factories. Large Siemens equipment in use in an electrical transmission component factory. A scientist or engineer looking through a microscope like device.

Date: 1961, August
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076563
Nikita Khrushchev on television and radio after the division of Berlin, Germany; life in the city being divided by Berlin Wall

The divided city of Berlin, Germany soon after World War II. People listening to television and radio. Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev seated at desk and speaking into microphone. Refugees arriving into West Berlin. Stockpile of coal. Warehouse full of butter. The warehouse loaded with bags of cement. East German soldiers with armored vehicles on guard by the Brandenburg Gate. East German armored water tank trucks in front of Brandenburg Gate spraying water at the West German photographers and onlookers. East Germans constructing concrete Berlin Wall. People in West Germany waving to people looking out of window of an apartment house in East Berlin; as they are separated from each other at time of a family Wedding. A child and a woman cry as they wave. Two British armored cars escorting a boy on a bike as he passes from one sector to another to get to and from school. Crowds of West Berliners yelling at guards on East Berlin side in protest. Soldiers at the border.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076564