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General Curtis Lemay arrives for fact finding visit, greeted by Rear Admiral Swanson, the United States Ship America (CVA-66).

General Curtis E. Lemay arrives for a fact finding visit to the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Officers and personnel aboard the ship wait for the arrival. A C-2A plane of U.S. Navy lands and taxied with wings folded. Rear ramp of aircraft lowered and General Lemay steps off greeted by Rear Admiral Leroy V. Swanson. The officers leave the deck and walk to island.

Date: 1968, October 18
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036962
Trucks hauling and delivering products and commodities to people in the United States in the early 1940s

Trucks and workers operate after midnight for availing next day facilities to people, in New York and other cities of the United States. Alarm rings in morning and a man starts with his daily activities. Workers maintain water supply at night. Electrician maintains power distribution lines during night. Orange juice for morning breakfast of people in New York loaded on trucks in Florida. Likewise eggs from a distant farm transported in truck. View of Armour's Star ham and bacon truck with "Armour" sign on front being loaded at plant. Coffee, sugar and many such things transported in trucks. Morning street view in New York City with tall buildings and light car traffic on road. Small town in America with shops on a Main Street and 1930s and 1940s cars parked on streets. Produce market in a town with woman discussing vegetables and fruits with grocer A farmer loads potatoes on a truck beside a farm field. Truck driving away from cattle stockyard with Beef cattle in truck. Sign on barn reads "Peterson Bros. Herefords of Quality." Meat hanging from hooks in butcher shop. General Electric home refrigerators being loaded onto a a truck for delivery. Traffic and pedestrians in front of the S. Karpen & Brothers furniture manufacturing company building in Queens at 37-18 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City, New York. "Karpen Furniture" signs seen on building. Dining Room table furniture being loaded onto a truck. A Hahn's Express delivery truck on a road. Boxes of consumer goods being loaded into trucks at a warehouse. Fresh cut timber logs loaded onto trucks for transport. "Prestridge and Seligman Timber Products" sign on truck doors. Line of timber trucks delivers logs at saw mill (possibly routing from logging at the Mescalero Reservation of the Sacramento Mountains to Southwest Lumber Company, or SWLCo, lumber mill, operating near Alamogordo) for processing into lumber products. Ford D-8 trucks move on the roads.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037011
Office of 'Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu', Diamond Head, Japanese shops, hotel and church in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Signboard at the entrance of an office 'Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu' in Honolulu, Hawaii. Trunk and branches of a palm tree. Workers and merchants at a sidewalk restaurant. Tall grass waves in breeze at a field and white clouds in the sky over the field. A sign board 'Z Uruu' with Japanese font written under it. The Diamond Head at the Oahu Beach. A house with a large yard surrounded by trees. A hotel written with Japanese words and cars parked outside. Japanese people pass by the hotel. Signboard 'Morita Shoten' and Japanese font written below it hangs on a shop. Views of the Mokuaekaua Church, in Kailua-Kona, the oldest Christian church in the Hawaiian Islands.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037129
New York skyscrapers and view of accident occuring in traffic with heavy congestion on streets of New York City

Skyscrapers and tall buildings on New York City's Manahattan Island are seen as large number of people move on the street and towards the subway. There are many cars on the street and heavy traffic. Number of women work as typists in an office. Due to heavy traffic an accident occurs in a heavy congestion area. An ambulance of Saint Vincent hospital reaches the accident site and the injured is taken to the hospital as people on the street look on. Children play by the road side, near a garbage dump and hang onto moving vehicles due to the lack of play areas. A few American boys dive and swim in water as they see a guard coming to move them away from the area. Cars bang into one another due heavy congestion on the road.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037437
Launch of an A-5 rocket from a silo in Greifswalder Oie, Germany.

German A-5 rocket (precursor to A-4 or V-2 rocket) launches from a silo on the island of Greifswalder Oie, Germany, during World War 2 era. Missile takes off emitting smoke and fire. It moves straight upwards with a fiery flare emerging from its tail.

Date: 1940
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037476
Nazi German A-5 rocket launch from a test site in Greifswalder Oie, Germany

A-5 rocket (precursor to A-4 or V-2 rocket) launches off from a test site in Greifswalder Oie, an island in Germany, during World War 2. Rocket takes off emitting smoke and fire. It moves straight upwards, flare emerging from its tail. After moving straight for some distance it takes a horizontal course.

Date: 1940
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037477