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CAP cadets sail across the Ohio river in a yacht in Cincinnati, Ohio.

International exchange of CAP ( Civil Air Patrol ) cadets in Cincinnati, Ohio. CAP cadets from Netherlands aboard a yacht as it pulls away from the Cindon Harbor. The cadets aboard the yacht wave. A bridge across the Ohio river in the background. A liaison aircraft with pontoons in flight. A speed boat on the river.

Date: 1953, August 1
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042548
CAP cadet gets into the cockpit of an aircraft at University of Illinois air[port in Urbana, Illinois.

International exchange of CAP ( Civil Air Patrol ) cadets in Urbana, Illinois. A control tower with a sign that reads ' Welcome to University of Illinois airport '. A group of foreign cadets walk past the foot of the control tower. A flight line at the airport. Gliders and liaison planes on the line. The cadets look at the aircraft. A glider pilot gets into the cockpit of a plane. He fastens himself.

Date: 1953, August 5
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042549
A glider being towed by a PT-13 aircraft at University of Illinois airport in Urbana, Illinois.

International exchange of CAP ( Civil Air Patrol ) cadets in Urbana, Illinois. A PT-13 aircraft being pushed manually for use as a tow plane for glider (SGU 1-19). A man attaches the glider to the tow plane as cadets look on. The PT-13 tows the glider to the take off strip. The glider takes off as the aircraft tows it. A Fairchild aircraft in flight. A glider aircraft comes in for landing and makes a touch down. A pilot in the cockpit of the glider aircraft after it lands. A man pushes the glider and it is towed for take off. A weather vane at the airport and flight control at the strip.

Date: 1953, August 5
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042550
Montage of scenes depicting U.S. military weapons in the Korean War era.

Segment of U.S. Army public information television program called, "The Big Picture." Army cameraman records firing of a Nike missile. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud. Army troops exit Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. Infantrymen climb a hill while firing rifles in unison. Animated rotating world globe. Sergeant Stuart Queen emphasizes that, in spite of new weapon systems, the individual soldier is the essential element of the Army. Technicians in missile launch control blockhouse observe launch of a missile from steel tower. View from inside the structure of missile rising, and then of smoke as it heads skyward. Radar units and cameras tracking the missile. Views from a missile, of the ground below, as it accelerates upwards. More tracking cameras. A Matador missile being launched. A Viking missile being launched. Test of anti-aircraft missile launched horizontally, striking nearby target with explosion. A thermonuclear weapon test explosion. A Corporal missile being launched. Sophisticated electronic tracking equipment employed at desert test site. Convair experimental XFY Pogo seen in vertical takeoff during trials. Anti-aircraft missile, fired from Navy ship, strikes drone target aircraft, which falls in flames. Technician stands before a virtual wall of electronic equipment. Army Signal Corps television cameraman captures field maneuvers of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) and an M4 Sherman tank. A High-flying warplane fires an air-to-air missile destroying a drone aircraft target that falls in flames. Aerial view of the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. America's top military leaders sit around a table. At the head, is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur William Radford. To his right are: General Nathan F. Twining, USAF, and Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations (back to camera). To Radford's left are General Lyman Lemnitzer, Army chief of Staff, and General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Commandant of the Marine Corps. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing heavy guns. A South Dakota Class Battleship firing her 16-inch guns. Navy aircraft being catapulted from the USS Ranger (CV-61). Gun camera view from aircraft firing guns. A USAF B-52 bomber in flight. Bombs falling from open bomb bay of bomber in flight and carpeting the ground with explosions. Low flying USAF aircraft demonstrating ground-support bombing techniques, dropping napalm and explosive bombs.

Date: 1953
Duration: 5 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043632
Views of the United States. Farms, cities, highways, and beaches. Destruction in Japan by atomic bomb. U.S. infantry in combat

Farmers harvesting grain and corn with machinery on American farms with a narrow tractor harvester. Steel mills and heavy industry and cargo railroads in the United States. Industrial views with smokestacks releasing much smoke and smog (also pollution scenes). Scenes of New York City with busy streets filled with cars, buses, and truck traffic, together with pedestrians. Many varied 1940s and 1950s cars on the roads. Elevated and also aerial views of U.S. highway networks busy with 1940s and 1950s cars. Views of Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. Scenes of destruction in Japan from the atomic bomb, with sweeping views of destroyed city in Hiroshima or Nagasaki circa 1945 or 1946. U.S. Army infantrymen engaged in house-to-house fighting in Europe during World War II, firing rifles and moving between points of cover in a city filled with rubble.

Date: 1953
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043634
New recruits enter boot camp and technical training in the U.S. Army

New recruits being inducted into the U.S. Army. They arrive at boot camp and undergo basic training: marching; calisthenics; weapons training on firing range. Recruits receiving technical training. Instructor describing Bohr atom model. Army soldiers receive training regarding new hi-tech weapons systems.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043636