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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Ticonderoga (CV-14) launching ceremony in the United States, during World War II.

The launching ceremony of the new warship Ticonderoga, a United States aircraft carrier of the United States during World War II. Scene at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Various United States Navy personnel at the ceremony and sponsor Miss Stephanie Sarah Pell. The USS Ticonderoga is the sixth vessel of her class to go down the ways at this yard. The guests wave their hands. (Note: the narrator erroneously states that this is the 65th new U.S. aircraft carrier to enter service in World War 2. Actually the U.S. produced about 27 new carriers during the war.)

Date: 1944, February 7
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057517
U.S. aircraft strafe Japanese positions in the Pacific Theater and suffer damage due to enemy attacks during World War II.

A film titled 'This could be America' about the importance of buying war bonds during World War II. Aerial bombing of Japan. U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat aircraft in flight in the Pacific Theater. They peel off. The aircraft strafe and bombard Japanese positions. Smoke rises due to strafing. The F4F Wildcat aircraft in flight. A pilot in the cockpit of an aircraft. Aerial views of the ground below. An aircraft strafes a Japanese ship and beach positions. The aircraft in flight and descend after being hit. An aircraft makes a crash landing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Crew members try to rescue the injured pilot but he dies. Dead pilot's body is wrapped in American flag. Funeral services being conducted aboard the ship. The casket being thrown into the sea. Information encourages people to buy 7th war bond.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057706
Roosevelt and Churchill attend a meeting of the Pacific War Council in Washington DC, United States (WW2)

The Pacific War Council meets in Washington DC, United States in World War II. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in chairs as members of the Pacific War Council stand in the background.

Date: 1942, June 29
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057753
American soldiers demonstrate with anti war banners in front of the National Archives Building in Washington DC, U.S.

Moratorium March demonstrations in Washington DC, United States against United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. Antiwar American military troops, former soldiers and veterans demonstrate and protest in front of the National Archives Building (700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20408, United States). They hold anti war banners. The banners read "Stop War Against Vietnam and black (African American) America, American Service Union" and "Soldiers' Liberation Front". Hippie fashions on some demonstrators.

Date: 1969, November 16
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058086
Factory workers and children wave to a passing train as seen from a train window with troops on board heading for war

U.S. troops entrain at the New York port of embarkation, United States for transportation to the European Theater during World War II. View of cars, a factory, buildings, a river and waving people as seen from a train window, including some in a building with signs, "Electro Dynamic Works Electric Motors, Elco Works Cruisers, Electric Boat Company.:" The citizens and war production workers are waving to the troops on board the railroad train, who are bound for service in World War 2. Factory workers wave from windows to wish the troops well. A suburban rail road station platform. Children near tracks wave to the passing train of troops, including children on steps of East 33rd Street rail station in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058139
American farmers increase production of agricultural products needed during World War II

Film opens with series of animated maps of the United States, showing the States that are the typical sources of agricultural products, including wheat, corn, dairy products, beef cattle, cotton, flax, lumber, and fruits and vegetables. A woman in overalls places fresh cut corn from a truck on to a conveyor. Farmers pitch hay from trucks. Momentary glimpse of a warehouse on a waterway, with a railroad train running to it, and a large cargo ship docked beside it. A federal official briefs a group of farm state officials and farm families, about the need for increased agricultural production, during World War 2. Closeups of persons in the audience. Scene shifts to window of a modest wooden home with anchor symbol two blue stars displayed for family members in military service. Closeup of the two blue stars in the window. With many men gone in military service, women and youth fill the labor gaps. A women at the wheel of a piece of farm equipment. A boy picking fruit from a tree. View of a large vacant lot in a city being used for numerous "Victory Gardens." A girl digging with a spade in one of the gardens. Other gardeners conversing in the background. A woman storing mason jars of preserved fruits and vegetables on a shelf in her home. Farmers performing maintenance and repairs on farm machinery. Momentary view of farmers loading crates of foods onto an open truck. Women placing vegetables into cans at a factory. Cattle moving into a pen. Men loading bales of cotton onto a river boat. A large freighter being loaded at a port. A farmer treating the soil with something dispensed from a spreader behind his tractor. A farmer harvesting corn by machinery. Three dead pigs, on the ground, (victims of disease.) Cattle foraging close to one another in a pasture. Insects attacking crops as there is a shortage of insecticides during the war. Severe weather causing crop losses is seen. A farmer harvesting with a combine. A document is shown labeled PL 147 77th Congress (the Steagall Bill). (Narrator states it guaranteed prices of 90 percent of parity for war needed crops.) Brochures for alternate crops that farmers might consider because foreign supplies were cut off. A farmer removes an envelope from his mail box. (Narrator alludes to government supplied crop loans and dairy feed payments.) Corn being piled up. Pigs at feeding troughs. Men loading crates of food onto a truck. fresh cut logs rolling into a river. Complete change of scene to Piazzale Loreto, in, Milan, Italy, 1945, where Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders are seen hanging upside down following their deaths at the hands of crowds. Adolf Hitler and Marshal Hermann Goering at Berteschgaden. Japanese Emperor Hirohito astride a white horse leading some of his senior military officers as they review assembled troops.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058166