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Historical scenes in American History, from Independence through Westward expansion by pioneers

Reenactments and pictures of significant aspects of American history: First Congress in session, Signing of Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 during American Revolution. Wide landscape views of Western United States including sandstone monuments in Western United States. Native American Indian tribesmen dance and play music. Drawing of river with a Native American Indian paddling canoe and men at dock and houses in a village. Frontier settler family outside their log cabin, in snow. A commercial waterfront with established buildings, sailing vessels, and people engaged in conversation and work. Illustrations of people in ordinary pursuits outdoors, and of an early town. Moving images of wagon trains and covered wagons traversing the Western Plains of the United States. A statue of pioneer man and woman.

Date: 1968
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052585
The U.S. Army IX Corps officers at the maneuvers headquarters in the United States during World War II.

U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. A U.S. aircraft. A U.S. Army Air Force officer comes out of the fighter aircraft. Another officer salutes the Air Force officer. The officers in a discussion. The Maneuver Director's headquarters. The officers communicate. Tents in the background. An officer demonstrates a map to other officers. The communication zone of the headquarters. The officers proceed towards the communication zone. The officers communicate. The 4th machine record unit. The base general depot.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057524
Views of U.S. Destroyers and Battleships

Six 4-stacker U.S.destroyers at anchor including USS Manley (DD-74) and USS Aylwin (DD-47). A close up view of the port side of the battleship, USS Florida (BB-30). A port side distance view the battleship, USS Utah (BB-31). Starboard view (circa 1919) of the battleship, USS Oklahoma (BB-37) with all 14” guns trained forward at full elevation as the picture-taking boat slowly steams past.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060913
Examples of parachute use in first half of 20th Century

Brief history of the use of parachutes early in the 20th Century. Allied Spad aircraft taxi from flightline in World War 1. One pilot pursuing another in their respective World War 1 airplanes. Numerous World War I airplanes in dogfights. Post-war "barnstormer" being pulled by parachute from wing of a Curtiss JN-4 (Jenny) airplane. Soviet soldier jumping from a parachute training tower in 1930s. Infantry, cargo and weapons being airdropped from Soviet Tupolev R-6 bombers in flight. A Soviet manned vehicle being airdropped from a few feet by airplane. (The soldier jumps up unhurt after landing.) German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft early in World War 2.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061683
Montage of World War 2 scenes from all theaters of Allied operations and scenes of the U.S.A.

Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062730
Chinese airmen board a U.S. troop carrier aircraft at Austin, Texas

United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063424