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U.S. Army cadets go through various tests during training for air crew in the United States during World War II.

Training for U.S. Army Air Force air crew in the United States during World War II. Narration by Ronald Reagan. An enactment of a Complex Coordination Test shows cadets seated and using a device with handle, foot controls and lights. A panel on the device flashes lights as cadets use the device. Two-Hand Coordination Test shows cadets turning the crank on a device. View of gauges. Rotary Pursuit Test shows cadets using a rotary pursuit device and an officer taking measurements from gauges. The cadets relaxing on beds in a barrack. A cadet at a counselor's desk.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075672
Classification and selection procedure of U.S. Army Air Force air crew in the United States during World War II.

An enactment of selection and classification of U.S. Army Air Force air crew in the United States during World War II. Narration by Ronald Reagan. Cadets after going through various tests arrive for their selection as bombardiers, pilots or navigators. A cadet signs on a document of appeal to a classification board as he wants to become a pilot and not a bombardier. The cadet speaks with two U.S. Army Air Force officers of the classification board. An officer shows aptitude test results to the cadet. The Cadet is convinced by the officers to become a bombardier.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075673
Civilian painters paint U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft at an airfield in the U.S. during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers at an airfield in the United States during World War II. A B-29 that is being protectively sealed in preparation for painting. Fuselage and number 3 engine are sealed. Moveable scaffolding is in place and drums of liquid are on the ground. Painter begins process of sealing an engine nacelle, by taping opening. He then sprays a synthetic "spider web" of material over the opening. Similar material is sprayed into various openings of the aircraft, until a fabric is formed over them. Finally, preformed sheets of fabric are used to seal other sensitive seams on the airframe and trailing edges of wings..

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075680
Painting and mothballing B29s and B-17s in the United States

U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft at an airfield in United States during World War II. A civilian spray paints the wing of a B-29. A painter uses a roller around the wing insignia. Several civilians using ladders, paint a B-29 Superfortress. Man on forklift empties 55 gallon drum of mastic liquid into power sprayer. Sprayer nozzles are shown. Operator sprays mastic material on fuselage of mothballed B-29, to seal it. B-17 with mastic sprayed on tail section of fuselage. A Wright 3350 radial engine from a B-29, on a stand and series of views as it is gradually mothballed. View of sealed B-29 airframe, with engines removed, and hosing connected to various openings.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075681
Embattled German forces defending against Allies in Germany during World War II

Scenes of combat in Germany during World War 2. German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundsted and his staff leave a building. He climbs aboard an armored personnel carrier. They proceed through a war torn German town. An Allied aircraft attacks the area and the General and aides seek shelter in a bombed out dwelling. Allied planes strafe and bomb the area. Scenes of German soldiers in heavy armed combat. German soldiers load and fire heavy artillery. An officer looks at a map and briefs soldiers. Soldiers smoke cigarettes. Views of Sd.Kfz.182 Tiger II tanks (King Tiger), parked and moving in a line. A wounded German soldier lying on a field is being treated by corpsmen. Flamethrowing Sdkfz.251's in action with tanks in background. German troops carrying Panzerfaust antitank weapons and one firing at a tank.. German troops fire machine guns.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675043981
Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid and Lieutenant General Walter Krueger during the Philippine Operations (WW2)

The World War II Philippine Operations near Palo, Leyte, Philippines. Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid speaks with Lieutenant General Walter Krueger on the bridge of a ship. Lieutenant General Krueger looks through binoculars. They watch the operations. A convoy of ships at a harbor near Palo.

Date: 1944, October 20
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043982