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Admiral Richard E. Byrd makes a photographic survey of Antarctica in his plane.

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Show USS Pine Island (AV-12) and its crew. A PBM-5 Mariner takes off to map the Phantom coast in Antarctica. Shows Admiral Richard E. Byrd's plane in flight above Antarctica. Photographic survey of Antarctica is made. Valuable data is recorded. Byrd's plane falls short of fuel and loses altitude rapidly. Altitude meter shows a rapid drop in the altitude. Extra weight is dumped from the plane. Byrd's plane manages to land successfully.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1950
Duration: 5 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029552
Search and rescue mission for PBM Mariner George I, in Antarctica during Operation High Jump

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump in 1946. Reconnaissance aircraft take off for a search and rescue mission in Antarctica. Crew members of a PMB-5 Mariner aircraft fly above the Antarctica in search of a crashed airplane crew - the crew of the Mariner George 1. The missing crew is located on Thurston Island after 13 days by Commander Howell, supplies are dropped for the survivors and they are rescued finally. Aerial scenes of the crew discovered and the names of the dead painted by the survivors on the plane wing. Three did not survive: Max Lopez, Bud Hendersin, Fred Williams. Captain George Dufek welcomes the survivors. Survivors Captain Caldwell, Moore, Robbins, Kearns, McCarthy, eating their food (not including seriously injured "Frenchie" LeBlanc). Coastguard icebreaker arrives. Supplies and equipment are loaded back on the ships. Admiral Richard E. Byrd is seen. Animated map shows the statistics of Operation High Jump.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1950
Duration: 8 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029553
Staff meeting of journalists, including Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time building offices

A staff meeting of Journalists, including Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time building office in New York. They discuss President Roosevelt's intention to fortify the island of Guam as a means of dealing with the Japanese, and question position of the U.S. military chiefs on the issue.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029692
Bombardment of Iwo Jima (Japan) shoreline and Mount Suribachi.

Bombardment of Iwo Jima (Japan) shoreline as seen from the deck of an American destroyer underway off the Iwo Jima Coast. Large smoke columns obscure island and Mount Suribachi. Gun flashes in the foreground. Turrets of USS Wiley fires. Mount Suribachi under bombardment. Gun flashes and tracer fire in the foreground. U.S. battleships and destroyer off Iwo Jima bombard the coast. (World War II period).

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945, February
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029811
Bombardment of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan.

Bombardment of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan as seen from the deck of an American destroyer underway off the Iwo Jima Coast. Large smoke columns obscure island and Mount Suribachi. Gun flashes in the foreground. Turrets of USS Wiley fires. Mount Suribachi under bombardment. Gun flashes and tracer fire in the foreground. U.S. battleships and destroyer off Iwo Jima bombard the coast. (World War II period).

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945, February
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029812
A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA.

A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA. The manufacturer's name, ' THE SENTINEL WAGGON WORKS LTD, SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND ' written on the truck. The loaded truck moves uphill. Additional information on this truck: This is the Sentinel S4 steam waggon, Number 9095. Built 1933 by Sentinel Waggon Works, Shrewsbury, England and exported as a demonstration vehicle to the USA with a works driver. Within a short time the vehicle was involved in an accident and overturned, requiring it to be returned to the UK. Many of the salvageable parts, especially those used to convert it to left hand drive were then fitted to a 6 wheel waggon No 9142 which was sent as a replacement. This vehicle was later purchased by the Pocahontas Coal Company of New Bedford. After a very short working life it was displayed at the Long Island Motor Museum, and Steamtown before being reaptriated to the UK in 2003.

Location: Bluefield West Virginia USA
Date: 1934, July 18
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029851
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