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Pilots don high altitude suits and fly aircraft in formation in the United States.

Air Maneuvers in the United States. Flyers don high altitude suits. Table electric fans in the room. Pilots get in to aircraft. The aircraft in flight. Aircraft dive one after the other.

Location: United States USA

Date: 1942, July

Duration: 1 min 30 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675067930

3rd Geneva Convention. U.S. assistance to rescue civilian hostages during insurrection in Congo. Proper treatment of prisoners, in Vietnam.

European hostages, rescued from Stanleyville, arriving at Leopoldville airport in the Congo, during insurrection there in 1964. Rescued persons deplane from U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft by way of its rear cargo door and ramps. Sick and wounded are met by medical personnel who place them in ambulances. Next, text from 3rd Geneva Convention, of 1949, is displayed. Scene shifts to U.S. military advisers in Vietnam helping train Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in proper treatment of prisoners; methods of taking prisoners with minimum of force; interrogation methods; and medical treatment of wounded prisoners. (Vietnam War period).

Location: Congo

Date: 1964

Duration: 2 min 28 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675067932

Equipment and machinery deployed to protect surrounding area of Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. Fish in the water. Aerial view of the fish hatcheries. Deflection and barriers booms set up around the fish hatcheries. Skimmer systems are deployed on the bay. Tug boats drag oil containment boom. Oil trapped between the containment boom is transfered over a conveyor assembly on boat. Oil being separated from water on boat. Oil is soaked on a soaking bed. The viscous oil is being vacuum sucked and transfered into a storage tank. Coast guard vessel on the bay. Oil containment boom and mooring systems deployed. Coast guard work on the Oil containment boom and put them in water. A tug boat pulls the oil containment booms. United States Coast guard Cutter USCGC Rush (WHEC-723) as a air traffic control center in the Prince William Sound. Men work inside the ship.

Location: Valdez Alaska USA

Date: 1989

Duration: 2 min 37 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Color

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675067944

Columbia Command Module of Apollo 11 being recovered at sea and astronauts being welcomed by Richard Nixon along with others

The recovery of the Apollo 11 Columbia Command Module and astronauts welcomed after in Houston Texas. Radar equipment on USS Hornet (CVS-12). A helicopter in flight. The Columbia Command Module of Apollo 11 seen as a white light streaking through the sky as it reenters earth's atmosphere. The Columbia module seen floating in the ocean near the USS Hornet. President of the United States Richard Nixon on the USS Hornet. A helicopter recovers the astronatus from the Columbia Command module in the Pacific Ocean. A man clicks pictures. The astronauts being pulled up to the helicopter from the command module floating in the ocean. The helicopter lands on the carrier. The ramp being pushed to the helicopter. Richard Nixon waving at the astronauts. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins disembark in special air-tight suits to applause of the crew, and then immediately enter a Mobile Quarantine Van. The crew of Apollo 11 in quarantine after returning to Earth. People welcome the astronatus in the quarantine van after it has arrived in Houston Texas. The astronauts talk over a red telephone to family and friends gathered in Houston. They wave from the quarantine van where they must remain for 3 weeks. Views of the astronauts on the moon are shown periodically. A scientist opens a collected rock and dust sample from moon using special equipment in a closed chamber. Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package placed on the surface. Laser ranging retro reflector placed on the surface of moon. The lunar module (LM) Eagle on moon surface.

Location: Houston Texas USA

Date: 1969, July 24

Duration: 5 min 28 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Color

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675067954

The automatic ejector seat is ejected from jet and the dummy descends as the seat separates in New Jersey

The first fully automatic ejector seat is tested in New Jersey. Two men work on the automatic ejector seat. People stand and watch. Jets in flight. The seat and test dummy are ejected out of the aircraft. The seat separates from the dummy. The parachute opens and descends in air. A man collects the parachute.

Location: New Jersey United States USA

Date: 1954, March 25

Duration: 48 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675067982

School children and civilians participate in a war time "jalopy parade" to encourage donations of junk cars and other scrap metal in Decatur, Illinois.

Scenes of a a "jalopy and general salvage parade" in an American city during World War 2, to support the war effort. Parade floats that use scrap materials simulate the finished products of war like vehicles and airplanes. Civil Air Patrol airplanes fly over the parade route reminding citizens of the need for scrap metal in manufacturing and producing airplanes for war. Narrator describes need for inclusion of many needed scrap materials in the parade such as tin cans, silk, nylons, fats, greases, etc. and that "jalopies make jeeps." Narrator, on behalf of the United States War Production Board, gives specific instructions of how to hold such a parade in any town in the United States and encourages viewers to hold such parades in their towns all over America to help the home-front war effort. The parade heads down main streets of Decatur, Illinois, with many shops and buildings seen along the route. People stand on roadside to watch the parade. Cars driven at the parade. School children ride on cars, many bearing wartime victory slogans. Man works on a vehicle carried on a truck. A float decorated with papers. School children march. A man pushes a trolley. Girls ride bicycles. Officers address parade goers as livestock is auctioned off to raise funds for the war effort. Junk yard cars that are candidates for scrap recycling are seen in the backyards of houses. Clip concludes with a message from Mr. Eugene Dunne, District Chief, Scrap Processors Branch, War Production Board, Chicago. Mr. Dunne encourages viewers to hold jalopy parades like the one seen in Decatur, Illinois.

Location: Decatur Illinois USA

Date: 1943

Duration: 5 min 19 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675067990

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Greenland Sondrestrom Air Base 1960 stock footage and images

Pilots don high altitude suits and fly aircraft in formation in the United States.

3rd Geneva Convention. U.S. assistance to rescue civilian hostages during insurrection in Congo. Proper treatment of prisoners, in Vietnam.

Equipment and machinery deployed to protect surrounding area of Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

Columbia Command Module of Apollo 11 being recovered at sea and astronauts being welcomed by Richard Nixon along with others

The automatic ejector seat is ejected from jet and the dummy descends as the seat separates in New Jersey

School children and civilians participate in a war time "jalopy parade" to encourage donations of junk cars and other scrap metal in Decatur, Illinois.