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Plan for Peace, 1947. Public information film about U.S. Army Universal Military Training Project

Firing of a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. An XP-84 jet aircraft on a test flight in California. Scenes of devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An atomic bomb test conducted in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Large smoke cloud rises. Americans expressing disgust with war and confidence in ability to protect against it in future. Newspaper headline about Armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918. Victory parade in New York City. Close up view of Adolf Hitler as he speaks forcefully to a German audience. V2 rocket being launched in Germany. German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane in flight. Map depicting uranium deposits world wide. An XB-36 bomber in flight with landing gear extended. A huge formation of various warplanes in flight, high overhead. A wartime tank assembly plant. American army troops on parade. A United Nations meeting in session. Peaceful scenes of American soldiers in Hawaii before World War II in the Pacific. Hawaiian Hula dancers. Japanese carrier-based Aichi D3A1 dive bomber in flight during attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Bombed U.S. warships and facilities in Pearl Harbor. American Army officer and civilian discussing wisdom of maintaing large standing army. Army recruits are seen in the U.S. Army Universal Military Training Experimental Unit at Fort Knox, in 1947. They are seen in quarters, studying; taking part in sports (baseball); and attending religious services in a base chapel. Several trainees in a field tent, working with numerous tape decks in some kind of military communications activity.

Date: 1947
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034918
Herbert Hoover and Republican leaders at Republican National Convention, Cleveland Ohio

Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover and other Republican leaders at the Republican National Convention, Cleveland Ohio. A big public auditorium completely packed with party members and spectators. Hoover and another leader at the podium. The crowd is cheering wildly for Hoover. The California delegation passes by carrying a large banner. June 1936.

Date: 1936, June
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035780
U.S. Navy warships engaged in exercises and maneuvers to maintain readiness in 1940.

Film opens showing two U.S. Navy Colorado-class battleships leading two others in a line of U.S. Navy battleships underway in a harbor area. Glimpse of officers on bridge of a battleship. Prow of ship creating wake. Variety of U.S. warships engaged in tactical exercise maneuvers. Several views of Mahon-class destroyers leading the fleet seaward in battle order. At TC: 1:54, USS California (BB-44) is seen from port side while underway. Next, Curtiss SOC Seagull observation planes are launched from warships and fly over the fleet in flights of three each. New Mexico class battleship underway at TC: 02:20. The USS Tennessee (BB-43) is seen at TC: 2:25. Closeups of observation aircraft in flight with pilots visible. The USS Aylwin (DD-355) seen around 2:45, then the USS Farragut (DD-348), the USS Case (DD-370), and the USS Monaghan (DD-354). Sailors astern on a destroyer launch depth charges. Wickes-class 4-stack destroyers on the horizon dropping depth charges. Closeup of ashcan depth charges rolling off stern of destroyer. New Mexico class battleships maneuvering. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035887
Soldiers of the United States Army given training about desert warfare, amphibious war training and airborne troops training (WW2)

Organization of the United States Army during World War II. Soldiers given training about desert warfare training at the center in California. Tanks fire on enemy and advance in field. Position held by soldiers behind stone bunkers on a hill. Anti aircraft gunners firing towards target. Soldiers point rifles towards enemy. Amphibious training to the troops at amp Edwards Airborne troops drop soldiers by parachutes. Soldiers with parachutes land into enemy area and advance towards their targets.

Date: 1942
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036438
President Franklin D. Roosevelt surrounded by other Democratic leaders after his acceptance speech to the DNC convention

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the conclusion of his nomination acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia at the Convention Hall, during the 1936 Presidential campaign. Band playing in the background. Posters of President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner on the stage. Roosevelt speaking with Democratic Senate leader Joseph Robinson of Arkansas, after the speech. Roosevelt also conferring with his running mate, Vice-President John N. Garner. The microphones are still on, so the conversation of Roosevelt and those around him can be heard slightly. Also seen is California Senator William Gibbs McAdoo speaking with Roosevelt. The future President wipes his brow with his handkerchief. He turns to his left and says to Missouri Senator James A. Reed, "Jim, get the band to play Auld Lang Syne again" which the band does. Views of the men and women delegates in the convention hall, waving their various state signs.

Date: 1936, June 27
Duration: 4 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036466
Students training on balloons and dirigibles at various Balloon and Airship schools ran by the U.S. Air Service in United States.

Balloon and Airship schools ran by the U.S. Air Service at various places in United States. Several hot air balloons inflated at ground at a school in Port Omaha, Nebraska. Eight balloons launched in air, one of them rises high. Students at the Ross Field, Arcadia, California. A big observation balloon moved out of the interior storage by the students. They attach a basket to the inflated balloon. Gasoline driven winch releases wire and balloon rises high in air. The Airship ship School. Langley Field, Hampton Virginia. A dirigible ZDUS.-1at the school. Students haul the dirigible out of its hanger.

Date: 1928
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036613