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Search and rescue mission for PBM Mariner George I, in Antarctica during Operation High Jump

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump in 1946. Reconnaissance aircraft take off for a search and rescue mission in Antarctica. Crew members of a PMB-5 Mariner aircraft fly above the Antarctica in search of a crashed airplane crew - the crew of the Mariner George 1. The missing crew is located on Thurston Island after 13 days by Commander Howell, supplies are dropped for the survivors and they are rescued finally. Aerial scenes of the crew discovered and the names of the dead painted by the survivors on the plane wing. Three did not survive: Max Lopez, Bud Hendersin, Fred Williams. Captain George Dufek welcomes the survivors. Survivors Captain Caldwell, Moore, Robbins, Kearns, McCarthy, eating their food (not including seriously injured "Frenchie" LeBlanc). Coastguard icebreaker arrives. Supplies and equipment are loaded back on the ships. Admiral Richard E. Byrd is seen. Animated map shows the statistics of Operation High Jump.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1950
Duration: 8 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029553
Staff meeting of journalists, including Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time building offices

A staff meeting of Journalists, including Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time building office in New York. They discuss President Roosevelt's intention to fortify the island of Guam as a means of dealing with the Japanese, and question position of the U.S. military chiefs on the issue.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029692
Bombardment of Iwo Jima (Japan) shoreline and Mount Suribachi.

Bombardment of Iwo Jima (Japan) shoreline as seen from the deck of an American destroyer underway off the Iwo Jima Coast. Large smoke columns obscure island and Mount Suribachi. Gun flashes in the foreground. Turrets of USS Wiley fires. Mount Suribachi under bombardment. Gun flashes and tracer fire in the foreground. U.S. battleships and destroyer off Iwo Jima bombard the coast. (World War II period).

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945, February
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029811
Bombardment of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan.

Bombardment of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan as seen from the deck of an American destroyer underway off the Iwo Jima Coast. Large smoke columns obscure island and Mount Suribachi. Gun flashes in the foreground. Turrets of USS Wiley fires. Mount Suribachi under bombardment. Gun flashes and tracer fire in the foreground. U.S. battleships and destroyer off Iwo Jima bombard the coast. (World War II period).

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945, February
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029812
A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA.

A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA. The manufacturer's name, ' THE SENTINEL WAGGON WORKS LTD, SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND ' written on the truck. The loaded truck moves uphill. Additional information on this truck: This is the Sentinel S4 steam waggon, Number 9095. Built 1933 by Sentinel Waggon Works, Shrewsbury, England and exported as a demonstration vehicle to the USA with a works driver. Within a short time the vehicle was involved in an accident and overturned, requiring it to be returned to the UK. Many of the salvageable parts, especially those used to convert it to left hand drive were then fitted to a 6 wheel waggon No 9142 which was sent as a replacement. This vehicle was later purchased by the Pocahontas Coal Company of New Bedford. After a very short working life it was displayed at the Long Island Motor Museum, and Steamtown before being reaptriated to the UK in 2003.

Location: Bluefield West Virginia USA
Date: 1934, July 18
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029851
Italian newsreel coverage of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii starting World War II in the Pacific.

Japanese battleships and aircraft carriers including Kaga (ahead) and Zuikaku (trailing to port) underway in the Pacific Ocean towards Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes line up on aircraft carrier. Japanese pilots briefed. Japanese pilots run for their planes, board and take off from carrier. Two Nakajima B5N (Kate) Dive bombers taking off, in succession, from aircraft carrier deck. A Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" taking off. A formation, of B5N aircraft , in flight, carrying torpedoes underneath. View from Japanese attacking airplanes as they bomb the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Heavy black smoke rising from the ground. Next bombers attack the capital ships on Battleship Row. Burning U.S. battleships. Still photographs annotated (in Japanese) point to the various ships targeted, including the USS California, USS Arizona, USS Maryland, USS Utah, and USS West Virginia.

Location: Pearl Harbor Hawaii USA
Date: 1941, December 7
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675029987
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