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The Ford Reliability Tour of 1929

Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan on October 5, 1929. Film opens showing two aviators in ten-gallon hats standing next to some airplanes parked on the Ford Airport in Detroit Michigan. The pilot on the left is E. W. Cleveland, known for his ten-gallon hat, which is filled with autographs and other written memorabilia pertaining to aviation. Camera shows several formations of biwing training airplanes flying over the field, and then focuses on the Texaco number 13 aircraft with pilot Frank M. Hawks in the cockpit shaking hands with someone seeing him off. Closeup of Hawks sitting upright in the cockpit. Next, his wife Edith Bowie Hawks is seen standing next to his airplane. He playfully touches her cheeks. Next a man is seen wearing a heavy fur coat with hood. He smiles for the camera and then heads into an airport building. The wind (natural or from propellers turning) causes some of the men to hold onto their hats. Views of several men and women and a child gathering in front of the corrugated fuselage of a passenger airplane. Film ends showing two men smiling and chatting with May Halzlip, one of the three women pilots in the tour, who is dressed in flying gear with helmet and goggles on top.

Date: 1929, October 5
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066166
American soldiers and Australian soldiers arrive in Buna, New Guinea during the Battle of Buna-Gona.

A film on the Battle of Buna-Gona in New Guinea during World War II. A map showing distance of Buna from Australia and Port Moresby. Thick jungles in Buna-Gona. American soldiers arriving in aircraft. The troops in trucks. An aircraft in flight. The soldiers inside the aircraft. Men trained in Australia. The aircraft arrives at a field. Australian soldiers get out of the aircraft. The soldiers and Papuan natives in the field. The natives carrying supplies move across a marshy area in the jungle. The soldiers holding guns crossing a water body. The soldiers moving across a bridge. The soldiers among the trees. The soldiers and the natives working to build a log bridge in the jungle. An M-3 tank moving on the bridge with a soldier atop the tank. Other soldiers watching the tank. Engineers building another bridge in the jungle. The Papuan natives carrying the supplies move on a path in the jungle. The natives wading through a water body. The 114th Engineers building a native-type hut. Wounded soldiers are carried on stretchers on the bridges by the natives and are evacuated. The soldiers and the natives beside the hut drinking from cups. The natives watch the soldiers. Several soldiers seated on the ground. A few soldiers inside the hut planning their action.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066260
Officer students in auditorium,classroom and are addressed by officers at Air University in Alabama, United States

A film 'The squadron officer school' about training of a USAF officer student attending Squadron Officer School at the Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, United States. A USAF Lieutenant Colonel and a man seated at a desk talking to each other. The officer praises a report of a Captain. A officer in car stops and enters gate at Air University. USAF officers enter and leave Air University buildings. A large group of USAF officers in auditorium. An officer addresses the group. USAF officer looks at book in Air University library. Officers perform physical exercise. USAF officers and families in chapel during a service. Editor and Publisher of Flying Magazine Gil Robb Wilson speaks to the USAF officers in auditorium. Commander of Air University Lieutenant General Walter E Todd speaks. Dr. M H Sharlemann of the Concordia Theological Seminary addresses group. Football coach of University of Illinois Ray Elliot addresses group. Small group of USAF officers in classroom. USAF officers in auditorium attend lectures and discuss. They perform a skit. View of a missile hangar opening and a CIM-10 BOMARC missile of the United States Air Force being raised into firing position.

Date: 1959
Duration: 5 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068392
Captain and Colonel behind sand bags,airmen with rifles in thicket,and Major General Robert Lee in Europe.

A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron in Europe. A Matador convoy moving along a road. Warhead on trailer being hooked up to a truck at storage area and moving out. A Captain and a Colonel behind sand bags using a field communication system. A loudspeaker. An airman signaling his arm in circular motion. A zero-length launcher in the background. The Captain and the Colonel talk into field telephone behind sand bag revetment. A hand flipping switch on engine control box. The missile in launch position. A hand flipping switch on the control box. Sand bag revetment of TM-61A on launcher. A small box with hand flipping switches. TM-61A in launch position. The missile installation squadron in Germany. A dish-shaped antenna atop a van. Airmen with rifles in thicket. An officer picking up telephone, launching, hanging up the phone and relaxing. Major General Robert M. Lee, Commander of 12th Air Force in office.

Date: 1955
Duration: 4 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069392
Commanding Generals of U.S. Army Services Forces and their missions are reviewed in this World War II film

Film starts with view of the U.S. military headquarters Pentagon building in Virginia, as seen from Columbia Island, across the lagoon, in World War 2.. Closeup of the building. Inside, Lieutenant General Brehon Burke Somervell , Commander of the Army Service Forces (ASF) is seen presiding over a staff meeting that includes seven Major Generals, who head the ASF technical services. Flag of the Quartermaster Corps seen in closeup. Officers of that organization are seen meeting. Scene shifts to a warehouse where military supplies are being moved on trailers pulled by small tractors. Carts filled with equipment are seen. Men prepare some for transport to America's allies overseas. Men fill packages with articles of clothing. A sign reads: "Maj. Gen. Reybold, Chief of Engineers." Engineers officers at a conference table rise as their Commander, General Reybold, enters. He sits and they begin their meeting. Closeup of staff officers in the meeting. Officers walk through a section of the Army Map Service, where cartographers, draftsmen and others are busy at tables creating maps. One of them is seen fitting several aerial photographs together to form a detailed map. A cartographer at the mapping service is seen annotating a map of the Marseille area of France. Views of high speed offset presses printing large scale maps for the military. A sign identifies the office of the Chief of Ordnance. Staff officers of that office are seen at work. Closeup of small arms being placed in a shipping box. An open yard filled with M24 Chaffee light tanks. A vast yard at a railroad siding, containing countless tanks on one side and building materials on the other. Sign inside the Pentagon at office of Major General H.C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer. Closeup of General Ingles at his desk. Members of his staff consult with him. Sign at office of the Chief, Chemical Warfare Service. Major General William N. Porter, the Chief, looks over maps with several staff. Troops training under gas attack and smoke screen conditions. The entrance to the office of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army. Inside, Major General Norman Thomas Kirk , Surgeon General, confers with a Colonel. Maps of areas where disease poses a threat to U.S. military forces. Office of Major General C.P. Gross, Army Chief of Transportation. Inside He holds a meeting with members of his staff. View of a pier where military supplies are being offloaded by means of derricks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075789
U.S. recruits being classified for assignments and being informed about the progress of World War II and why they fight.

New U.S. army recruits seated at benches in the classification center, taking notes, as an instructor at a blackboard tells them how to fill out their classification questionnaires, during World War 2. View of machines processing the questionnaires. Hollerith 88 column punch cards being sorted by machine. Newspaper article about the Air Force efforts to improve classification and assignments of new airmen. A recruit being counseled. An Airmen in barracks, filling out a post card form to complain about his assignment. Servicemen working with sewing machines and at long cobbler's benches repairing shoes. U.S. soldiers in pith helmets, laying communications cable from a truck. A soldier recording information about a shipment of supplies. Soldiers filling 5-gallon "jerry cans" with fuel from a hose. Others serving at a communications center in woods. A soldier fastening a cable to a tank. Soldier standing on a truck. Large group of soldiers gathered to listen to a lecture about explosives. Army draftsmen at their work tables. Soldiers using information and training materials.(Narrator states these materials are often ignored.) An army newsmap for Monday, August 31, 1942 posted on an Army office wall. A sergeant points to July, 1943, on a current calendar next to it, illustrating that the newsmap is long out-of-date. View of another news map and narrator notes they are produced weekly. An officer speaking to an auditorium of soldiers. A soldier arranging his personal gear. Infantry on field maneuvers, firing rifles as they advance across a field. Soldiers firing a Browning water-cooled machine gun; a mortar; and a 105mm M101A1 howitzer. The sergeant using a newsmap to brief his staff about the progress of the war. Opening frames of a War Department Film Bulletin, and soldiers in a theater, watching the film. Opening frames of the film,"Why We Fight," that goes on to show animated map of the German advance across Europe in World War 2. Scenes of German forces on the move, towing artillery, riding on tanks, and entering towns as they invade countries of Europe. Women and children running in streets under bombardment, and civilians fleeing from their homes during aerial bombing. A Bombed out city and civilian corpses lying on the ground. Women in Poland, identifying their dead and grieving over them. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft dropping bombs. Norwegians evacuating the city in trucks, and other vehicles and on foot, during the German invasion. A squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in flight. German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers diving on targets. Civilians rushing to a bomb shelter, and other refugees boarding a truck to evacuate. More He-111 bombers dropping bombs. A Ju-52 trimotor transport (type used to transport German paratroopers). Buildings ablaze in a town. Large formations of German aircraft of various types flying overhead. Building destroyed and burning from bombing. Ju-87s flying close past the camera.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075794