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U.S. forces launch attacks against Japanese targets from the Aleutian Islands during World War II

Film opens showing animated map of Pacific and avenue of attack against Japan via the Aleutian Islands in World War 2. . Scene shifts to the Aleutian Islands, where American P-47 aircraft are seen parked on an open ramp in severe winter weather. Next, American Army truck convoys are seen traversing subarctic Canada on the Alcan highway, with supplies to sustain U.S. forces in the Aleutians. U.S. soldiers and airmen are seen obtaining various items and playing volleyball on a ramp at an airbase. Fog shrouds the Aleutians keeping aircraft grounded. Soldiers look at maps and plan targets. Aircrews are briefed about their mission and targets. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers fly in formation over snow-covered peaks. View looking down on a B-24 headed toward Japan. Airmen in a headquarters plotting the disposition of aircraft reporting to them by radio. View above thick clouds with nothing in sight. (But exploding bombs are heard.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: Aleutian Islands Alaska USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058422
Pilots Bernt Balchen and Floyd Bennett stand in front of a Fairchild FC-2W aircraft

Pilots Bernt Balchen, in a cap, and Floyd Bennett, in a fedora hat, stand in front of a Fairchild FC-2W airplane, at Lac Ste. Agnes (Lake St. Agnes) in Quebec, Canada. In another scene, Dr. Louis Cuisinier, technical director of Trans Continental Airways Limited,stands with them. He points to a page in a book and gives Floyd Bennett a box of cigars to be taken to the Junkers aircraft "Bremen" that had force-landed on Greenly Island, Quebec, after a transatlantic flight. (Note: Floyd Bennett was suffering with pneumonia, and became gravely ill soon after these shots were made. He did not pilot a plane to Greenly Island. Instead, he was rushed to Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City , where he died on April 25, 1928.)

Location: Quebec Canada
Date: 1928, April 20
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027449
Pilot, Eroll Boyd and Navigator Harry Conner, attempt flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Croydon, England

A group of men roll the Bellanca high wing monoplane, "Columbia,"from a hangar at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada. Pilot,Captain Erroll Boyd, and navigator,Harry Connor, stand in front of the airplane, discussing their aeronautical chart. Camera focuses on the airplane's rudder, displaying: "NR 237" A picture of of a woman dressed in the U.S. flag, and the word: "Columbia." vertical stabilizer displays a stylized diamond forming letters: "CAL." With engine running, a well wisher shakes hands with Erroll Boyd through the plane window and then steps back as the "Columbia" taxis ahead. The aircraft begins takeoff on a rough, rocky field. (It didn't succeed and they had to try again with manual help to keep the airplane's tail from digging into the ground.) Scene shifts to the aircraft airborne overhead. (Note: fuel problems forced them to make an emergency landing at Tresco, the Scilly Islands, off Cornwall, England, before finally arriving at Croydon.)

Location: Newfoundland
Date: 1930, October 9
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054975
Prime Minister Lester Peterson of Canada and United States President Lyndon Johnson meet and sign agreements, at White House.

Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada and United States President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) meet at White House. Helicopter of Prime Minister Pearson lands in the White House. President Johnson welcomes Prime Minister Pearson. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Pearson sign a multi-million dollar power and flood control project in the Pacific Northwest. Dignitaries at the meeting watch and clap at the signing off the pact. Another pact signed between the two leaders on making an international park at the summer camp of late President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Campobello Island off the Coast of New Brunswick.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1964, January 21
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036638
A Ford trimotor airplane in hangar being prepared for flight. The aircraft inflight on its way to Lake St. Agnes, Quebec,Canada

Mechanics perform pre-departure maintenance on a Ford trimotor airplane at a hangar in Detroit, Michigan. Later, pilots Floyd Bennett and Bert Balchen, and others, board and take off. Aerial view from above, of the airplane flying en route to Lac Ste. Agnes (Lake St. Agnes) Quebec, Canada, to bring supplies needed to repair the Junkers aircraft "Bremen" that had crash-landed on Greenly Island after a transatlantic flight.

Location: Detroit Michigan United States USA
Date: 1928, April 23
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027448
The "El Aquario" support ship for the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska Flight Project, transiting Seymour Narrows, at Vancouver Island

Views from deck of the "El Aquario," supply ship supporting the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska flight project in 1934. The ship is passing through the Seymour Narrows, on Eastern edge of Vancouver Island, Canada. A steamship is seen approaching from the South, astern. It is a three funnel passenger ship that passes to port of the El Aquario. View from pilot house of waters at North end of the narrows. Dolphins swimming along with the ship are seen from the bow. Seagulls land on the deck and superstructure of the ship. Strong tidal currents are seen flooding in from the North.

Location: Vancouver Island Canada
Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064902
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