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Radio and dropsonde operators in a WB-29 aircraft in flight near Bermuda.

WB-29 aircraft of the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Flight (Hurricane Hunters) flying in and out of cumulus storm clouds. Radio operator at his position keying an outbound message. A dropsonde operator working. He opens an airlock cover and then places the dropsonde into it and secures it. The airlock cover is then closed. The operator looks down through a window in the airlock.

Date: 1955, September 30
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076444
A USAF WB-50D aircraft takes off from an air base and records information about a hurricane in Bermuda.

Weather airplanes in Bermuda. Kindley Air Force Base. United States Air Force officers looking at a weather map. Pilots briefing crew. United States Air Force WB-50D Superfortress aircraft taking off. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls of the aircraft. They locate the eye of a hurricane. Flight crew works at weather recording and communication equipment inside the aircraft. A USAF officer recording wind velocity readings on a weather map. The WB-50D in flight.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076818
Operation Crossroads. Major General Curtis Lemay consults with other officers

Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Major General Curtis Lemay, Commander 20th Air Force, converses with his staff. The 509th Composite Group of B-29 bombers, from 20th Air Force is providing the atomic bomber aircraft for Test Able in the Cross Roads atomic testing sequence.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034524
American soldiers escaped and rescued from Japanese prison camp speak about their experiences at the camp in Philippines

A representative of Prisoners War Branch,an MIS-X officer interviews American soldiers who escaped from Japan's 10-A prison camp in Palawan,Philippines, and then were rescued by U.S. forces during World War II. Private first class Eugene Nielson tells how he was captured soon after the fall of Pearl Harbor. He also speaks about food, medical facilities and living conditions at Japanese camp in Palawan. Corporal William J.Balchus shares his experiences about the life at the prison camp.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037625
Escaped and rescued American war prisoners speak about life at Japanese prison camp in Philippines

A representative of Prisoners War Branch,an MIS-X officer interviews American soldiers who escaped from Japan 10-A prison camp in Palawan,Philippines, and were then rescued by American forces during World War 2. Private first class Ernest J. Koblos speaks about the work that he did at such camps. He says that he carried wood and worked at the airstrip in the Japanese prison camp. Marine Rufus W. Smith was captured during the attack on Corregidor also speaks about the life of soldiers at prison camp in Palawan.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037626
An escaped and then rescued American prisoner of war describes the Japanese death march to San Fernando

A representative of Prisoners War Branch (a MIS-X officer) interviews American soldiers who had escaped from the Japanese 10-A prison camp in Palawan, Philippines, and had then been rescued. Private first class Albert D Pacheco and Edwin A Petry share their experiences before they reached the World War 2 Japanese prison camp at Puerta Princessa, Palawan and the conditions there. Petry describes the famous five days long death march to San Fernando, where war prisoners were not given any food.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037627