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U.S. Navy pilot LTJG Anderson on his 200th mssion, aboard the USS Enterprise(CVAN-65) in Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin during Vietnam War. Several U.S. Navy pilots walk on the deck area near the ship's island. 200th mission for Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas P Anderson, who walks away from the ship's island. Number 65 in bold written on the lower portion of ship's island. LTJG Anderson walks towards an A-4F Skyhawk, inspects the entire aircraft, climbs up, lowers the canopy and takes off. Commanding officer Robert J Thomson congratulates the pilot on landing. Both men walk across the deck area.

Date: 1968, June 13
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031046
Traffic on the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in New York.

Eastbound I-278 in Staten Island New York City. Eastbound Staten Island (Clove Lakes) Expressway. POV through windshield of car driving as overhead direction signs read 'Kennedy Airport' and 'Brooklyn Queens Expressway/Long Island Expressway/Manhattan'. Vehicles approach toll plaza and cross Verrazzano Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn. Vehicles passing under the tower arches of the bridge. Vehicles pass Shore (Belt) Pkwy connectors, onto Gowanus Expressway. Excellent views of bridge towers and views of Brooklyn.

Date: 1965
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033338
Various "firsts" in U.S. aviation history from 1918 through 1924; early history of flight and vintage flight scenes

Shows several aviation "firsts" accomplished by U.S. Army Air Service aviators in the period from 1918 through 1924. A close formation of biplanes in flight. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson chat with Major Fleet, Officer in charge, on the occasion of the first air mail flight, inaugurated on May 15,1918 between Washington DC and New York.The mail is loaded into the Curtis JN-4 aircraft. Pilot in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and in flight. Air Service. Mention of aviators helping spot forest fires. Smoke rising from forest fires and mountain ranges. In 1920, U.S. Army Captain St. Clair Streett is seen with some of his Squadron who flew four De Havilland DH-4 aircraft 9,000 miles, from New York City to Nome, Alaska. Two of the men play with pet dogs. Their itinerary is painted on the side of one of the aircraft, along with the names of pilot and mechanic (C.E. Crumline and J.E. Long). In 1923 the first non stop coast-to-coast flight was made in the Fokker T-2 aircraft. . A sign on the aircraft reads 'Army Air Service non stop coast to coast'.First Lieutenants Oakley O.Kelly and John A. Macready board the aircraft, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, on May 2, 1923. Their Fokker T-2 in flight. Their arrival at Rockwell Field, on Coronado Island (San Diego) California. In 1924, Lt. Russell Maughan is seen boarding his P-1 Hawk airplane at Mitchel Field, on Long Island, New York, and taking off , bound for Crissy Field at the Presidio, San Francisco, California. His goal is the first dawn-to-dusk, coast-to-coast flight. Views of his P-1 Hawk airplane flying over Manhattan, New York City.

Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033857
Japanese bombing and occupation of Philippines; US Army soldiers fight in the Pacific during World War II (WW2)

Animated map of Philippines and Guam. Pre-war scenes of buildings in Philippines before Japanese attack. Flag waving from a building in Manila, Philippines. Filipino civilians running on streets and Japanese planes bombing in Manila during World War II. Fire on a house due to bombing. Scenes of devastated houses. Christ's statue dropped on ground in a church. A bell on the church. An animated map of Pacific region and focuses on Australia. Scene of General Douglas MacArthur. American troops gathered in an Australian port. Japanese attack by air at Port Moresby. U.S. troops debarking. Anti-aircraft guns firing in Midway Island. Admiral Chester W Nimitz decorates heroes of the battle of Midway. Scenes of ships in sea. A plane and some U.S. troops on boats. Scene of U.S. troops in jungle. Animated map of Solomon Islands. U.S. flag on a ship. Fighters and land-based Army bombers fly in air. Soldiers save themselves from firing by plane. Scenes of U.S. soldiers on island. Japanese signboard on a tree.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034627
Sea trials of USS Constellation CVA-64 in Southwest Pacific.

Island structure of USS Constellation CVA-64, as a helicopter takes off from the flight dock in Southwest Pacific. Front of the island over the side of ship. Several men on the Sponson deck, practice refueling drill. Three of the crew members on the edge of the Sponson deck. Man practices refueling drill. Flight deck of the aircraft is empty. View around the bow of the constellation. Sea trial personnel on the bridge of the ship. Men look over the forward part of the flight dock. Overlooking the starboard side of the ship to the wake as a starboard turn is made. Carrier tilts to one side during the turn. Overlooking the starboard forward part of the flight deck. Overlooking the forward part of the flight from the island structure.

Date: 1962, January 16
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035350
Celebrations and renaming of site on the seventieth birthday of the Statue of Liberty in New York.

Seventieth birth day of the Statue of Liberty marked by ceremonies in New York. An assembly of twelve hundred immigrants at the Liberty Island to celebrate the birthday of the Statue of Liberty. Interior Secretory Fred Seaton addresses the crowd. Candles lit on a cake. A plaque is unveiled proclaiming the name of the site changed from Bedloes Island to Liberty Island.

Date: 1956, October 28
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036666