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General Douglas MacArthur inspects 6th Army headquarters in New Guinea, during World War II

General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area) steps from the wood and palm structure, serving as Headquarters of the 6th Army, on Goodenough Island, New Guinea, during World War 2. He poses with Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger, Commander of the Sixth Army in the South West Pacific Area. Members of Kreuger's staff pose with them. After the picture-taking, MacArthur shakes hands with one of the staff officers, as the group make their way to jeeps. Next, MacArthur is seen posing with several armed soldiers wearing steel combat helmets. They salute MacArthur as he walks away. General Kreuger stands in front of the headquarters hooch conversing with two of his staff. He and one of his staff hurry to a jeep, with two stars on the front plate. They drive away. . Generals MacArthur and Kreuger are seen sitiing in back seat of a jeep with modified roof cover. MacArthur converses with staff officers. They are next seen walking through a grove of trees, with staff officers behind them. Later, MacArthur leads the entourage along a pathway, with tents visible in background. As they walk, he converses with Major General Edwin F.Harding, Commander of the 32nd Infantry Division. An official photographer lingers in background. MacArthur and Kreuger lead the group past a large mess tent. (At this point the footage repeats starting back with their entry into the grove of trees and ending as they pass the mess tent.) After that MacArthur is seen speaking to two bareheaded officers. He then speaks with several soldiers, individually, as Generals Kreuger and Harding stand nearby. MacArthur converses with a Field Grade officer. He visits an infirmary tent and speaks to a patient and to members of the medical staff, including a woman Lieutenant nurse. He and General Kreuger are seen inspecting various areas in the camp.

Date: 1943, December
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059160
African American children take lessons in physical education and play musical instruments at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States.

African American children at the Calhoun School in Alabama, United States. Children perform exercises at the school grounds. African American boys blow trumpets and girls sing. A girl with woven hair sings. A young man reads from a book. A girl. The principal of the school, Dr. Jerome F. Kidder.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059219
Polo and show jumping events during the 34th Meadow Brook Cup Chase in Westbury, New York.

Various turf events mark the 34th Meadow Brook Cup Chase in Westbury, New York. A horse drawn carriage moves on a field. A polo game being played at the estate of F. Ambrose Clark. People enjoy show jumping event as they stand behind a fence. Horses jump over wooden and stone walls.

Date: 1932, September 26
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059260
U.S. Army Air service YIC-11 transport plane takes off from Wright airfield in Dayton, Ohio.

Early transport aircraft of United States Army Air Service in the United States. U.S. Army Air Service Consolidated Fleetster YIC-11 transport airplane. U.S. Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison and pilot Captain Ira Eaker pose in front of the plane at Wright airfield in Dayton, Ohio. Assistant Secretary and Pilot Eaker prepare to take off for Washington D.C. They board the flight. Engine of the plane starts and propellers rotate. Aircraft taxis to take off.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059494
British RAF bombers of No 2 Group bomb the Philips Electrical works at German-occupied Eindhoven, Holland, during World War II.

Film starts wirh slate reading: "R.A.F. Blasts Holland." At an Royal Air Force (RAF) base in England, United Kingdom, ground crewmen work on a British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft. Closeup of RAF pilot in cockpit of an airplane. Closeups showing fires burning and severe destruction of the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, the Netherlands, in aerial photographs taken during a bombing attack by RAF 2 Group, on December 6, 1942. Animated map illustrates the flight path of the attacking bombers from England, across the North Sea and the German occupied Holland, to Endoven. View of a de Havilland Mosquito bomber with propellers turning and then one of a Mosquito bomber in flight overhead. View from a warship of several RAF 2 Group aircraft flying low over the North sea. Glimpse of a Mosquito bomber flying low enough to affect the ocean surface. View from another aircraft in the formation, of a Mosquito bomber underway low over the water. View of a pilot in a cockpit, wearing learher helmet with earphones and an oxygen mask. View from aircraft approaching the coast of Holland, with two others already low above the mainland. More views of the bombers flying extremely low over Holland. View from a bomber showing agricultural land and the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, dead ahead. German flak guns fire and the bombers return fire by strafing the target building. The camera aircraft pulls up climb above the building and maneuvers over a river and city. Scene shifts to views from a high altitude group of RAF 2 Group, over the target. Views of their bombs bursting on target complex, causing fires and heavy smoke. Scene shifts, again to the bomber aircraft recovering at their home base in England. (Narrator states that 12 aircraft did not make it back.) View of a mosquito bomber crash landed. A severely damaged Lockheed PV-1 Ventura bomber. A crash landed Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber. Air crews conversing after arriving back from the mission. (Note: Losses to 2 Group were heavy, with 14 aircraft brought down by flak and enemy fighters, a 20% loss rate. Three more aircraft crash-landed on returning to England. Fifty-seven aircraft had been damaged and needed repairs.)

Date: 1942, December 6
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059556
U.S. Major General LeMay and General Twining board C-54 aircraft in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II.

U.S. Major General Curtis LeMay in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Lieutenant General Nathan F Twining and Major General LeMay board the U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 aircraft. General Nathan Twining and Major General LeMay look outside a window from the aircraft. General Twining and Major General LeMay talk near an aircraft hangar as they smoke. Two B-29 aircraft parked nose to nose. Airmen outside and inside the hangar.

Date: 1945, January
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059858