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American Air Service officers examine a Vickers machine gun mounted on a Brequet 14 airplane in France, during World War I

U.S. Air Service officers observe test firing of Vickers machine gun on a Brequet 14 airplane, at the First Air Depot in France, during World War 1. Colonel T. D. Milling, Commanding Officer, First Brigade, First Army Corps; Captain G. C. Thomas Jr.,96th Aero Squadron; First Lieutenant V. F. Ludden, 96th Aero Squadron, and Pilot, 1st Lieutenant C. G. Sellers (in the cockpit) examining a Vickers machine gun mounted on the side of a Breguet 14 airplane, named "Photo." Lieutenant Sellers fires the machine gun from the cockpit. View of the machine gun firing with expended cartridges being ejected. (The gun is designed to synchronize and fire through the turning propeller when the engine is running. But that is not demonstrated here.)

Date: 1918
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070263
96th Aero Squadron prepares a Breguet 14 bomber for a bombing mission, at Amanty Airdrome in France during World War I

U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at Amanty Airdrome in France during World War 1. Airmen unload bombs from a truck. They place fuses in the tails of the bombs. They load the bombs to racks under wings of a French Breguet 14 biplane bomber. Major J. L. Dunsworth, Commanding Officer of the 96th Aero Squadron and First Lieutenant V. F. Ludden inspect the operation. Ground crewmen work hard, pulling the propeller through numerous times before finally getting the engine to start on the. Breguet 14. Lt. A. H. Alexander in the pilot's cockpit and Lt. E. MCLennair in the observer and gunner's position discuss something they see in the air behind them. The insignia of the 96th Aero Squadron (a devil carrying a bomb in a triangle) is painted on the fuselage of the airplane.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070264
French aviator Louis Blériot flies his first monoplane aircraft in Calais, France, 20 years after his record Channel crossing

History of famous airplanes and aviators. French aviator Louis Blériot in Calais, France. The pioneer inventor of aircraft is greeted warmly by friends prior to taking off in his first monoplane aircraft, the Blériot XI, in which he was the first to cross the English Channel nearly 20 years earlier. Bleriot gets into the cockpit. The tail structure of the airplane. A flag of France on the tail. 'L Bleriot' written on the tail section. The aircraft taxis across a field past a parked French twin-engined Farman Goliath F.60 biplane airliner. The Blériot XI aircraft takes off. A large crowd of spectators watches the aircraft. The next scene shows a large Blériot Bl-127 ( powered by 2 Hispano-Suiza 12Hb, 550 hp, V-12 engines). As it taxis toward the camera, Its "V" configured engines are exposed and clearly visible. A group of spectators is gathered as the pilot and Louis Blériot emerge from a hatch in the airplane. An official greets M. Blériot.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070308
The operation of a family-sized farm and electrical benefits given by the Rural Electrification Administration in the U.S.

Average family size farms struggle for existence while big-scale operations turn agriculture into a profitable assembly line in the United States. Cattle graze in a farm. A man milks a cow. Small farmers sitting on a street ideally. A Rural Electrification Administration member presides a conference to support small farmers. A sign : 'Dairymen's Cooperative Assn'. A milkman unloads milk containers from a truck. A sign : 'Hunterdon Cooperative G.L.F. Service Inc.'. Exterior of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) office. The manager of the REA and a small farmer seated at a table. Various posters in the office. An animated map of a lightening power project by REA. An official delivers a speech on a power project installed by the REA. People cheer for him. Huts on a farm. A man loads a hay stack on a cart. A man pours wheat grains in a wheat grinding mill. A woman cooks food in a modern kitchen. Hay stacks on the farm. A woman uses a hand pump. A woman feed hens. Two horses on the farm.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070533
Company of U.S. Marines on a tactical sweep during the Vietnam War.

Activities of "F" Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, during Operation Thor , in the Vietnam War. They are engaged in a sweep, near Xuan Hai,, 1800 meters below the DMZ. U.S. Marines wearing utilities, cart belts, bulletproof vests, camouflaged helmets and carrying canteens and M-16 rifles cross a grassy area. A marine carries a PRC-25 radio on his back crawls through the grassy area.. Battalion Command post set up in the field with communications gear and tall antennas. M-48 tanks.. A marine takes cover in a shallow hole. Grass in the foreground. The marines stand, walk and sit. One marine holds a phone radio to his ear and walks out. Second marine lying on the ground. One of them wearing a PRC-25 radio on his back holds the handset of the radio to his ear. Other radio operators kneel in the background. A radio operator lying on ground places the phone of the radio to his ear, then speaks and looks out. The radio operator smokes a cigarette while kneeling. The marines kneel near the skeleton of a tree. A marine with an M-16 rifle at the ready seated on the ground. A radio operator drinks from his plastic canteen. Group of marines with M-16 rifles ride atop an M67A3 flame-thrower tank moving across the bushy area. Tank crewman in hatch. The vehicle turns and moves out. Smoke rises from an area in the background. A marine radio operator lying on the ground holding the handset of a radio makes a note on his camouflaged helmet laying next to him.

Date: 1968, July 9
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070733
U.S. Marines during Operation Thor in the Vietnam War

U.S. Marines of "F" Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines take part in Operation Thor, during the Vietnam War. Partial view of idling U.S. Marine Corps UH-34D helicopter in a grassy area. The helicopter takes off. 3 marines wearing utilities, cart belts, canteens, bulletproof vests, cam helmets and carrying M-16 rifles seated on the ground in a dirt area. The marines with an M-79 grenade launcher and ammunition bag move across the grassy area. A marine kneels and fires the M-79. The tread of a tank moving through the grassy area. The tank turns and moves out.

Date: 1968, July 9
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070734