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Christening and launching of USS Natoma Bay.

Lord Halifax speaks over a microphone. Edgar Kaiser and Lord and Lady Halifax on platform. Lady Halifax christens ship and ship leaves ways. Ship goes down ways. Ship dead in water. Lord and Lady Halifax and women attendant on platform. Ship dead in water and tugboats approach. Bow view of ship on ways.

Date: 1943, July 20
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039512
Lady Halifax sponsoring a party on christening and launch ceremony of USS Natoma Bay in World War 2

Bow of ship. Lord and Lady Halifax sponsoring party on platform on launch of USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62). A man speaking on microphone. Spectators assembled at the party. Lord Halifax speaks at microphone. Lady Halifax near the microphone. Woman hands flower to Lady Halifax and crowd applauds. Lady Halifax cracks bottle and ship leaves ways.

Date: 1943, July 20
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039513
U.S. Army paratrooper training circa 1940

American paratrooper training circa 1940. Paratroopers seen jumping from door of a C-47 (DC-3) transport aircraft in flight. Scene shifts to below, where parachutes of jumping troopers open instantly as they leave door of a C-47 overhead. View inside the cabin of a C-47, as jumpmaster looks out the open door. Paratroopers are seated inside the cabin. View from the doorway, of other C-47s and their paratroopers descending as they jump. View from ground of C-47 overhead with two "sticks" of paratroopers descending from it, and a chute carrying military equipment descending too. Parachutes approaching the ground.

Date: 1940
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039514
U.S. Military aircraft and training prior to World War II

American military aircraft training circa 1940. A Link Trainer in operation at an aviation training facility. Used for teaching pilots instrument flying, it is seen moving physically in response to the actuation of artificial flight control actions as the trainee responds to instrument indications inside the mockup cockpit. It bears the number 654, on its mock tail. The wings and tail are for decoration only. Scene shifts to formations of various aircraft in flight over a body of water. The aircraft appear to be U.S. Navy types, including: Grumman F4F Wildcat; Douglas TBD Devastator; and Grumman TBF Avenger. Another formation shows many North American training aircraft in flight over the water.

Date: 1940
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039516
U.S. Navy control room aboard a warship, equipped with radar, circa 1940

U.S. Navy officers and sailors in a control room aboard a warship, circa World War 2 era. The sailors wear headsets and communicate on radios. View of a radar scope equipped with shield to reduce external light. An officer looks into the scope. Scene shifts to view of the radar display on a plan position indicator (PPI) screen. Returns are seen on the scope as the display refreshes with rotations of the antenna.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039517
A U.S. Navy WAVE working in a motion picture projection booth in World War II

A woman of the U.S. Navy WAVES program ("Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service") operating motion picture projectors in a projection booth, during World War 2. She wears a short-sleeve white shirtwaist and black seaman's tie pushed back on each side. she watches the screen (unseen) while monitoring the projectors. The sequence is interrupted. It picks up again as she is seen threading the film on a motion picture film projector and starting it

Date: 1943
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039518