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Joint British-French Naval Exercise in the Mediterranean Sea in 1950

Ships underway during Joint maneuvers of combined British and French Naval units in the Mediterranean Sea. British Vice-Admiral Lord Mountbatten and French Naval Chief, Vice-Admiral Robert Lambert, on the deck of the French Aircraft carrier "Arromanches (R95)." (This is the British HMS Colossus -R15, renamed while on loan to the French.) A British-made Seafire aircraft of French AĆ©ronavale Flottille 12F, rises to the deck on an elevator. Next, with engines running, it takes off under direction of a French signal officer. Several more AĆ©ronavale Flottille 12F Seafire aircraft take off in succession. Aerial view of Seafire aircraft in formation. Aerial view, looking down on the aircraft carrier. Planes in the formation of Seafire aircraft peel off one at a time and descend to landing pattern altitude. The first buzzes the Carrier and goes around. Three more are seen making landings on the carrier under guidance of French controller using paddles

Date: 1950, March
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068986
Shellback initiation rites of U.S. Navy sailors being performed on USS Marblehead (CL-12).

Initiations rites commemorating sailors' first crossing of the equator( Shellback initiation) being held aboard the USS Marblehead CL-12 off the French Indo-China coast. U.S. Navy sailors dressed in aviator uniforms look through their binoculars standing at the bow of the cruiser. The shellbacks ( sailors who have crossed equator), many dressed in costumes, beat up the stripped pollywogs (sailor's who haven't crossed equator) with wet boards and ropes. Scenes of the stern section of the USS Marblehead. Pollywog sailors pushed into tank of water and black oil. Initiation rite being performed on the deck. Sailors pretend to cut a pollywog with a saw and then let him go as he moves through the initiation rites.

Date: 1939
Duration: 7 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028956
Distant mountain range and clouded skyline seen from the deck of USS Marblehead CL-12

Distant mountain range and clouded skyline as seen from the deck of USS Marblehead CL-12 sailing off the French Indo-China coast. A U.S. Navy sailor dressed in a robe poses for camera .View of the stern of the cruiser.Several vessels underway at a distance.

Date: 1939
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028957
U.S. Navy performs shellback initiation on USS Marblehead CL-12 .

Shellback initiation rites being held aboard USS Marblehead CL-12 off French Indo-China coast. U.S. Navy soldiers dressed in mythological greek clothing. Undressed man playing King Neptune, sits in his court. Captain of the vessel being initiated as shellback. Men dumped into a pool(vat) as part of shellback initiation.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028963
Harbor view in Saigon,Vietnam.

American flag flutters on bow of an vessel off the French Indo-China coast in Saigon,Vietnam. Distant ships and sampans underway in the harbor of Saigon. A traffic police in center of a busy street circle guides traffic. Men descend stairs of a building. An oriental structure at a road side. Native on an ox-cart passes through an open field.

Date: 1939
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028951
View of the Saigon harbor in Saigon,Vietnam.

View of the Saigon harbor as taken onboard from a vessel sailing off the French Indo-China coast. Sailors stand at the bow the vessel. Several ships can be seen at a distance. A sampan passes by the vessel. Distant view of the port of Saigon.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028953