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First flight of Convair XB-36 in Fort Worth, Texas

First flight of Convair XB-36, on August 8, 1946, piloted by Chief test pilot Beryl Erickson and copilot Gus Green. Air and ground crews doing extensive inspections and preflight checks of the XB-36 parked on ramp. Two of the team standing on horizontal stabilizer examining the vertical stabilizer. Tail number 213570 clearly painted on vertical stabilizer. Two Air Force personnel standing next to one of the huge single main gear tires. Engines are started and XB-36 taxis toward runway. It spins around on active runway towards direction of takeoff, and commences takeoff roll, gradually breaking ground in a shallow climb angle.

Date: 1946, August 8
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075682
Mobility and advanced weaponry in battlefield drills in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Soldiers of the 1st ABG, 187th Infantry Regiment 82nd ABN in battle drills during the Cold War. U.S. Army soldiers leave foxhole and run to XM-28 Davy Crockett gun to prepare it for firing. They return to foxhole. Davy Crockett gun is fired, delivering a conventional munition. Explosion is seen in the distance. (The M-28 is a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile). Jeep towing Little John Missile.

Date: 1963, October 29
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034233
Jets aircraft drop napalm on target area in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Jets drop napalm on target area. Two M-56 SP 90mm guns, camouflaged with tree branches and soldiers move out. UH-1B helicopters fly low over field.

Date: 1963, October 29
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034234
General Leclerc discusses plans over map with Major Blochet and Captain De Guillebon in Government house, Fort Lamy.

Colonel Leclerc, his Aide-de-camp, Captain De Guillebon, Captain Quilichini and Blochet, the general staff of Colonel in discussion. General Leclerc arrives at conference room for discussion. General Leclerc sits and discusses plans over map with Major Blochet and Captain De Guillebon. General Leclerc and other officials walk out of the Government house where conference held.

Date: 1941, March
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052428
Wounded arrive by air from recent operations in Fort Lamy, French Equatorial Africa.

Ambulance at airfield. Plane taxis in the background. Wounded carried out from plane on stretcher. French army officials around plane. Major Dio carried out from plane. Wounded on stretcher loaded into ambulance.

Date: 1941, March
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052429
Men fold and pack parachutes during their training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, United States.

A film on training of U.S. paratroopers. A paratrooper in a jumping uniform in the United States. He is equipped with two parachutes. A parachute being placed on a table. Men standing nearby and working on the parachute. They pack the parachute. The parachute is folded step by step and is placed inside a pack.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076957