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U.S. landing craft infantry advancing on Normandy, France during D-day in World War II.

Clip begins with footage of an attack transport ship and a tug boat alongside one another, before cutting to a scene of U.S. medical corpsmen lowering medical gear over the side of the ship they are on, presumably onto a smaller ship below that is out of sight. A WW2 LCVP Higgins Boat is then seen maneuvering through semi-choppy water, presumably toward the beaches of Normandy during D-Day invasion. Three groups of planes in formation are then shown far overhead, before the clip cuts back to footage of Higgins Boats. Low level shot across choppy seas of many more Higgins Boats in the water. View of another LCVP moored beside a much larger attack transport ship.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080801
Testing, modification, and developing of intercontinental ballistic missiles and sites in various U.S. air force bases.

Updating of Atlas D missiles for space boosters and construction of Minuteman II launch facility Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota. Underground silo opens up and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is erected. Crane hoisting missile. Missiles on trailer truck are transferred to hangers near Norton AFB in California. Shrouded Titan I (first generation) missiles in hangars which are going through deactivation process. Updating of Atlas D missiles for space boosters. Men at desk and officer at chart. Missile launched from air base. Engineers and workers working on missile components. Modifications of launch facility and missile at Vandenberg AFB in California. Officers in control center. Minuteman II missile test facility under construction at Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota. Various launch facilities across U.S.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053327
Pilot Albert Scott Crossfield in a cockpit of X-15 for the first flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Annual report of X-15. Pilot Albert Scott Crossfield in a cockpit of X-15. NB-52A Stratofortress in flight. X-15 attached in the wing of NB-52A. A smoky trail left out by X-15. X-15 detaches from the right wing of NB-52A. X-15 in flight goes up. Smoky trail left by X-15. Credits of the film. X-15 flies by and lands on the dry lake bed. Control van shows operators looking out of window while seated at control consoles. X-15 landing roll and stops on dry lake bed. X-15 towed by a tug out of hangar and along taxiway. NASA pilot Joe Walker in flight suit walks towards X-15 under wing on NB-52A. Cars and vans in the background. NB-52A taxis right with X-15 under wing. Another NB-52A with X-15 under wing in the background. NB-52A in flight to right with X-15 under wing. X-15 is released and in flight to the right followed by F-104B chase aircraft. Major Robert White in X-15 cockpit putting on helmet. X-15 on dry lake bed with technicians around aircraft. In front of X-15 is the fire crash truck. Major Robert White wearing flight clothes and helmet and talks to USAF officers and technician after his first X-15 flight.

Date: 1961, September 15
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021381
Facilities available at Naval Supply Center in Oakland, California.

A training film of the U.S. Navy in the United States. Facilities available at Navy Port Terminals like internal rail system, wide roads, huge warehouses, open storage spaces, motorized mobile cranes and gantry cranes. Rail cars go in a hangar. Mail packed and freight placed.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046355
Maiden flight of Hughes H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose") in California, United States.

Views, from observation boat, of Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat,as it taxis in the water during engine startup, beginning with the inboard engines. The flying boat is photographed as it accelerates to flying speed and then as it maneuvers in the water after completing its short flight.

Date: 1947, November 2
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048182
Hughes H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose") taxis on water before maiden flight in California, United States

Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat taxiing on two inboard engines in water moments before its maiden flight. A ship in the background and a Sikorsky R-4B Luzon helicopter ("Hoverfly") in flight in the background. The aircraft starts all eight engines, accelerates toward flying speed and her hull rises in the water as she approaches lift off on maiden flight.

Date: 1947, November 2
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048184