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First meal served at U.S. Air Force Modular Dining Hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand.

Opening of the new Modular Dining Hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. USAF Brigadier General Richard M Hoban, Colonel Leonard S Dysinger, and Colonel Raleigh D Smith talking with mess sergeants in center of the dining room, as airmen sit at tables eating a meal. Brigadier General Hoban and personnel in serving line. Thai women working behind steam table and in the "Clipper".

Location: Thailand
Date: 1969, February 18
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034372
Aerial view of U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand.

Aerial view of U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. B-52s can be seen on the base. Red color seen on earth all around the facility (possibly from new construction or from an applied insecticide or pesticide?)

Location: Thailand
Date: 1969, April 27
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034375
President Harry S Truman presents Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Thomas J Hudner Jr. at White House in Washington DC.

Steps leading to White House garden. President Harry S Truman reads the citation and then puts the Medal of Honor on Hudner in Washington DC. President shakes hand with the Lieutenant. Civilian news and still cameramen at work as Medal of Honor is awarded to Hudner. The President posing with Hudner, the latter's parents, and Daisy Brown, the widow of Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, whose husband was the shipmate of Lieutenant Hudner, whom Hudner was trying to save. Mrs. Brown stands. Hudner wearing medal. Lieutenant shaking hands with Mrs. Brown. Still photograph of Ensign Brown. The plane of Leroy Brown was downed by enemy Chinese fire during the Korean War. Hudner crash landed his own aircraft in an attempt to free Brown from his plane's wreckage, but he was unable to free him from the cockpit where Brown later died. Ensign Jesse Brown was the first African American pilot in the U.S. Navy, and the first U.S. Navy officer killed in the Korean War. Hudner was the first Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War.

Location: Washington DC White House USA
Date: 1951, April 13
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034415
Pollywogs crawling along on their hands and knees on flight deck of USS Enterprise during crossing the line ceremonies.

A U.S. Navy initiation ceremony shows Pollywog climbing into a box on USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during crossing the line ceremonies. Climbing out of a hole on the far side as the Shellbacks laugh and look on. A smiling Pollywog, his face blackened and his hair fully in a mess. Some garbage on his shirt. A Pollywog being hosed down. He is now a full fledged Shellback. Shellbacks hosing down the large group of Pollywogs. They are now full fledged Shellback. The new Shellbacks looking over their clothes and laughing. Shellbacks being initiated with tank of water. Pollywogs being dumped into tank. Group of Pollywogs climbing into a hole into a large box containing garbage. Scene of a Shellback. Pollywogs crawling along on their hands and knees on flight deck. A Pollywog on his back, as the royal doctors check him. Shellback tying his shoe. Pollywog having his hair cut by a Shellback. Pollywogs being released from stocks. Shellbacks dressed as pirates.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1965, November 7
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034609
The freighter, SS Flying Enterprise, damaged by storms and foundering in the Atlantic ocean,

The freighter, Flying Enterprise, is seen listing some 80 degrees to port in the windswept approaches to the British Isles. After suffering damage from a storm on December 28th, she had been taken under tow toward England,by a succession of ocean-going tugs over a period of 15 days. Her present position is only about 30 miles from the coast of England, but her tow line has parted and she is foundering. Closeups of "Flying Enterprise" and "Isbrandtsen" painted on her hull. (Narrator states that the Captain, Henrik Kurt Carlsen,is still aboard.) Aerial view of several other ships around the stricken vessel. Officers and crew of the destroyer, USS Willard Keith (DD-775), are seen firing a line to the Flying Enterprise. Heavy seas are flowing over the foredeck of the destroyer. Another view of the listing ship. (During these scenes, Captain Carlsen is heard on the radio, in the background, describing the circumstances leading to their present trouble.) More views of the Flying Enterprise, helpless and battered by wind and seas, before eventually sinking (not seen). Narrator states that Captain Carlson was rescued. (Note: This ill-fated trip which ended in the sinking of the old Liberty Ship made world-wide news when it turned out that she was carrying paper money.)

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1952, January 10
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034652
U.S. Army Public affairs film to explain idea of Universal Military Training (UMT) as a Plan for Peace, in 1947

The Universal Military Training Plan for Peace, 1947. A civilian spokesperson stands before a briefing chart entitled "Plan for Peace." He explains the concepts for the program, involving military training for young men immediately after they complete high school.He explains how young men would register and be screened, assigned, and trained under the program. Two college students discuss a requirement to join the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) under the program. Scene shifts to a U.S. Army officer talking with a civilian about the cost of World War 2. As scens of wartime military production are shown, Narrator interjects that "a full year of Universal Military Training will cost less than three days of war." Scene shifts to Separation Center, Fort Douglas, Utah. U.S. soldiers are seen mustering out. One holds his Honorable discharge certificate. View of marching German soldiers is inserted at this point. Contents of the U.S. Constitution are displayed in plain print, higlighting the part: "...provide for the common defense..." View of college students on a campus. Closeup of Dexter Gate at Harvard College, and three men walking through it into Harvard Yard. ROTC cadet talking with acquaintances about studying rockets. ROTC cadet talking with two middle aged men about unique sounds of airplanes. A B-17 bomber in flight. A C-119 (flying boxcar) aircraft in flight. A formation of B-17s viewed from above with clouds beneath. The XP-84 jet in flight. A V2 rocket being test fired at White Sands, New Mexico.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1947, May
Duration: 6 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034919
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