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Orville Wright demonstrates an Wright aircraft at Ft. Myer, Virginia in 1908.

Aviation history of the U.S. Army Air Corps in the United States. A young boy seated in a chair reads a book. Aircraft in formation flight. Orville Wright demonstrates an airplane at Fort Myer, Virginia in 1908 during its first public exhibition. Trees and mountains in the background. Orville sets a new world record. He is in the cockpit of a Wright aircraft. The aircraft takes off and is in flight. People at the field watch him. (This flight demonstration footage is a mix of September 1908 footage and July 1909 footage. It is 1908 as the aircraft is being walked out to prepare for takeoff and a single half-circle of canvas is seen in the front elevator. It is July 1909 footage taking off and in flight where the aircraft has two half-rounds of canvas in the front elevator)

Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068860
Detroit Tigers practice at baseball spring training, Lakeland Florida, March 1941

The defending champion of baseball's American League, the Detroit Tigers, practice at spring training in Lakeland Florida, March 1941. Players warm up throwing arms, with pitchers Bobo Newsom (#12) and Schoolboy Rowe (#14) in foreground. Close up of manager Del Baker talking. Player slides into sliding pit. Shots of pitcher Tommy Bridges (#10) warming up; outfielder Barney McCosky (#21) hitting a ball and running to first base; Hall of Fame second baseman Charlie Gehringer (#2), hitting a ball and running to first;, Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg (#5) posing for the camera with bat; pitcher Newsom warming up; and Greenberg hitting a ball and running to first.

Date: 1941, March 13
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072851
President Harry S Truman awards Congressional Medals of Honor at the White House to Carl Sitter and Reginald Myers

President Harry S Truman awards Congressional Medals of Honor at the White House in Washington DC. A gathering at the White House. Officials and awardees with their families. The recipients are Marine Captain Carl Sitter (standing left of the President when all three men are together) and Reginald Myers (standing right of the President). The President awards the Medal of Honor to each of the two officers. The officers shake hands and pose with the President. Officers with their families after receiving the Medals. Sitter holding his son and pictured with his wife. Myers' wife, Margaret, and daughter, Susan, and son, Scott. Myers holding his son, Scott. Major Myers was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while serving as Executive Officer, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, in the vicinity of HAGARU-RI, KOREA, November 29, 1950, while commanding a group of 80 men who were stragglers and missing from other units. Major Myers' makeshift unit successfully denied the Chinese Communists the possession of EAST HILL, which dominated the key crossroads in the withdrawal -- attack in another direction -- by U.S. Marines and Army units from the Chosin Reservoir. Captain Sitter's unit relieved Major Myers' unit in the same battle. Sitter received e medal for his actions as a commanding officer during a two-day battle at Hagaru-Ki, Korea in November 1950. The fighting lasted 36 hours, and Sitter endured grenade burns to his face, arms and chest. He refused to evacuate as the fight continued. More than half of his company was killed, wounded or captured, but a successful defense of the area was mounted by U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1951, October 29
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020737
Philadelphia Phillies baseball team practice at spring training, Miami Beach, 1941

Philadelphia Phillies perform baseball spring training drills at Miami Beach Florida in March 1941. Team runs onto field with palm trees in background. Closeup of Phillies manager Doc Prothro. Players sit in a group and pose. Players practice pitching and hitting. Sequence of pitcher Rube Melton (#8) throwing three pitches to Phillies hitters, the last of whom is former Cub Joe Marty (#35).

Date: 1941, March 18
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071399
Yankees farm team, Newark Bears, at 1941 baseball spring training

Newsreel clip showing New York Yankees' double-A farm team Newark Bears at baseball spring training in 1941 in Sebring, Florida. Team poses for camera. Close up of team manager Johnny Neun. Players run in outfield, do batting drills. Neun confers with coaches. Players receive instruction from Neun, practice infield drills. Trees, lighting stands in background.

Date: 1941, March 18
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071400
Camouflaged nets, shed and haystacks are used to conceal aircraft and equipment in the United States.

Camouflage tactics being used to conceal equipment in the United States. Army engineers make a camouflaged net at McGill Field in Florida. An aircraft on a field. The engineers cut a tree on the field. An aircraft taxis and moves under the camouflaged net. Soldiers at a camouflage school construct a camouflaged net to conceal an aircraft. Dispersal method being used to conceal an aircraft. A haystack and a shed are used to conceal pack mules and anti aircraft guns at Fort Bragg in Carolina. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050731