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La Crosse Wisconsin USA 1942 stock footage and images

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The wire team members put the wire under the rail-road and bridge and tag the wires.

A documentary depicts the laying of field wire. Field wire line placed under a bridge. Field wire team on a truck. A man gets off from the truck. He pulls a wire to make the crossing. The lines being cut and tagged. The line is taken to the other side of the road. A man tags the line. Another man puts the equipment in the truck. The line is completed. Men get in the truck and the truck moves on. A rail road crossing. Men tag the line and place it under the rail road track. A man digs a trench and the wire being placed in the trench. The trucks moves. The extra wire is tied to a tree. The extra wire is reeled off. Men dig a trench and the wire is placed in the trench. The team members check the wire lines. A man puts a tape on the wire. Another man tags the wires. A man bury the wire. Two team members climb up the tree and ties the wire line. They come down. A truck comes. The line men dig a trench on the road and put the wire. A wire tied on a tree. Two men work on the switch board. The lines are checked with the help of the telephone. The tag wire being attached to the switch board. Men in the end check all the wires.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 10 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047392
Duties of Air Raid Warden Sam Rankin and the operation of air raid drill in the United States in World War II.

American civilians prepare for an air raid drill in Arkansas, United States, during World War 2. Team members report to Air Raid Warden Sam Rankin. Sam receives the Yellow Alert message over phone. He dons his uniform with civil defense armband and goes to work on Blue Alert. Police cars help to get automobiles off the road. People get out of a bus and head to a nearby shelter. Family inside a blackout room listens to radio. Women switchboard operators seen connecting calls in a telephone switchboard room. Burners turned off on gas stove. Sam Rankin reports the Report and Control Center about the bombing. The message is passed to various departments including police and fire departments. Fire engines depart from fire station. Civilian defense nurse, trained by the Red Cross, is seen in a hospital preparing supplies. Her uniform includes on her left arm a civilian defense patch with a red cross in the middle. A man plots damaged areas on a large map. The alarm is sounded and a view of the alarm horn device is seen.

Location: Arkansas United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064139
A civilian shares his experience of an encounter with aliens that landed on his property in Wisconsin in a UFO.

A man opens a mailbox named 'Joe Simonton' in front of Mr. Simonton's house in Wisconsin. Joe Simonton shows the place where he says a flying saucer landed in front of his house in 1961. View from inside his kitchen window, looking out to where he saw the saucer land. Mr. Simonton shares his experience of an encounter with 5 foot tall aliens on the UFO. He says that he gave the alien some water to drink after it held out a jug and motioned like it wanted a drink. He shows a piece of a very thin pancake which he says one of the aliens was frying on a special hot surface. He comments that he ate one of the pancakes and they tasted like cardboard, which he notes may explain the small size of the aliens. USAF Major Quintanilla speaks regarding Mr. Simonton's case. He says the Air Force cannot comment on the veracity of Mr. Simonton's claims, but that the pancakes were analyzed by food and drug people and found to be pure buckwheat pancakes. Exterior views of a planetarium.

Location: Wisconsin United States USA
Date: 1965, July 7
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039958
Washington Park Zoo monkeys after being set free at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Washington Park Zoo monkeys arrive at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zoo monkeys set free on the island. They climb ladder and swim in the lake. Children watch the monkeys as they play. Monkeys in a small boat. The monkeys being set free from their cages and they roam in a playground.

Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
Date: 1933, June 5
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044356
Wrecked equipment and damaged houses as a result of a tornado in Westby, Wisconsin.

Aftermath of a tornado in Westby, Wisconsin. Wrecked structures on the ground as men search through the rubble. Damaged cars due to the tornado that killed 24 people. A sign outside a shop reads 'Rudce's drug store open'. Damaged houses. Debris spread outside the demolished buildings. Demolished roof of a house.

Location: Westby Wisconsin USA
Date: 1930, May 7
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058936
Animal foes caged together for the conduction of feud tests by scientists in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Animal foes caged together in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Several unlike animals and potential enemies are caged together in a municipal zoo. Scientists cage them together for conducting feud tests. The animals in the cages. Views of wolves and black bears and polar bears together in the same zoo enclosures.

Location: Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
Date: 1932, December 5
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062516
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