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Tactics of U.S. 8th Air Force fighters for escorting bombers over Germany during World War II.

U.S.Army Air Corps P-47s with engines running, taxiing our for takeoff. Army personnel in Runway control unit with signal light.(Few seconds of film reversed.) Among the aircraft seen is P-47D, number 42-28543 named “Pat” piloted by Capt. Gordon S Stevens,of Smithfield,North Carolina, of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, stationed in England.(He was killed in action, 18 September 1944.) Views of the P-47s enroute to join up with B-17 bomber formations. P-51s and P-38s taking off. P-51s inflight to relieve P-47s of escort duty.US pilot with mission profile inked on back of his hand. Narrator (Ronald Reagan?) describes the way successive relays of U.S. fighters relieved each other performing bomber escort duties. Scenes from captured German film shows alarm sounding and German fighter pilots scrambling in Me-109s and FW-190s to intercept the U.S. bombers. Escorting U.S. P-51s jettison their long range drop tanks preparing to meet attacking German interceptors. Gun camera footage shows many German fighters being destroyed.P-47s, P-51s and P-38s firing their guns. Several Me-109s in formation. German gun camera clip showing many B-17s being shot to pieces by 22mm gunfire and falling, often in flames.

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063586
Amelia Earhart Putnam and associates load the Lockheed Electra with items needed for her the round-the-world flight

View of Amelia Earhart walking up the wing of her Lockheed Electra, parked in a hangar at the U.S. Navy Air Station, Oakland, California. She climbs into the cockpit. In the hangar, near the aircraft, she is seen talking with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz and Fred Noonan are seen briefly. Earhart and Mantz begin weighing each piece of equipment, while George Putnam records the weights. Mechanic Bo McKneely appears in white coverall, with "Grand Canyon Airlines" written on back. He converses with Mantz and moves to the airplane. Putnam playfully puts a tropical pith helmet on Earhart's head. Putnam brings a rubber life raft to Mantz and Earhart, who examine it. Fred Noonan joins the other three. Earhart gives Noonan a card on the end of a long pole. He reads and pockets it. (Note: The space, in the airplane, between cockpit and cabin, was so crowded with fuel tanks, etc. that Noonan was unable to reach it. So he would use the pole to pass position reports to Earhart during flight.) The four, Amelia Earhart, Paul Mantz, George Putnam, and Fred Noonan, begin placing the equipment into the aircraft cabin.

Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063657
Polish Prisoners of War march on streets; Germans give food to Polish civilians; scenes during occupation of Poland

German invasion and occupation of Poland at the start of World War 2. Horse drawn covered wagons driven by German soldiers advance on roads in Poland. Captive Polish soldiers POW (Prisoners of War) under German guard march in front of Polish citizens on streets in a city in Poland. Prisoners drink soup standing in line and rest on field. German soldiers give food to Polish children and their mother. Polish women and children stand in line to get food in a town square while a band plays music. Polish elderly women, elderly men, and children receive soup on various bowls and pitchers in soup line. They drink soup seated at long tables. German soldiers march into city of Chorzow (German name Konigshutte), bordering Germany, as Polish residents there cheer their arrival enthusiastically and raise their hands in Nazi salute. (Many residents there identified as "Volksdeutsch" with German heritage. Clip ends with brief scene of military honors funeral, showing German troops in Saarbrücken burying two French pilots, Lieutenant Jean Sueur and Captain Jacques Rosignol of 2 Escadrille de Reconnaissance 551, who were shot down September 11, 1939.

Date: 1939, September
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063668
Forging, rolling, and pressing of saw blades at the Disston Saw Works factory in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Manufacturing of saw blades at the Disston Saw Works factory founded by Henry Disston & Sons, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A long ribbon of flat steel, roughly one foot wide, being forged and then pressed and rolled in a series of rollers that descend from a furnace. Flames seen at the furnace area. Molten steel for the saw blade manufacturing flowing from a trough, very close to the furnace. A side view of an assembly of rollers with hot steel moving across them.

Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063729
Centennial of George Eastman's birth celebrated at his home in Rochester, New York

Opening scene shows numerous guests seated at an outdoor luncheon in the gerden of George Eastman's house in Rochester, New York. The occasion is the 100th Anniversary of Gorge Eastman's birth. Views of the house where Eastman was born. It has been moved from Waterville, New York to its present location in the gardens of his last home in Rochester, New York. Two little girls stand with parents. One holds a Kodak camera. Closeup of a woman taking a photograph and another of a young man photographing with a compact motion picture camera. A man using a historic motion picture camra on a tripod. People gather around the porch of the Eastman birthplace house where Officials of the George Eastman House, including Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, President, Mr. James E. Gleason, Chairman of the Board, and Mr. Charles Hutchison, Vice Presi-dent, are seated. One of them is seen speaking at a podium. Mrs. Robert Ranlett, Eastman's long time friend, uncovers a commemorative plaque on the porch. Next are scenes photographed in July 1928, when George Eastman gave a garden party to introduce Kodakcolor to notable guests. He stands with Thomas Edison in the garden. Closeup of Eastman on that occasion. Cover of book holding George Eastman commemorative postage stamps. A sheet of the new stamps signed at the bottom by Postmaster General, Arthur E. Summerfield. Closeup of the stamps. Guards placing wreaths at a sculptured planter in the center of the Eastman House garden. Men gathered with hats removed for the commemoration.

Date: 1954, July 12
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063765
Trainees aspiring to become FBI agents undergo training at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Men and women willing to become FBI agents undergo training at the FBI Academy. They undergo physical training and learn defense moves. Trainees exercising outdoors and running through an obstacle course. They jump over various hurdles. The FBI agents work at an office. Two men in suits walking down a long hall lined by filing cabinets. Agents in suits walking in the office building of the FBI Headquarters. Exterior and interior views of the FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C. View of light traffic on street in front of FBI Headquarters in Washington DC. View of civilian people walking on sidewalks and along busy streets of Washington DC with car traffic and many pedestrians. FBI agents in a car chase stop a suspect criminal racing in his car on the road. Agents block both side of the road with cars. The suspect exits his car and gives up, putting his hands on the hood of the car. The FBI agents approach with guns drawn. They handcuff the suspect.

Date: 1977
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063779