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President Woodrow Wilson at desk in his office, United States, and German U-boat attacks on Allied shipping.

Events during World War I. President Woodrow Wilson at desk in his office in United States. American ship being attacked by Germans and an explosion occurs. A newspaper headline describes German attack on SS Healdton tanker ship in neutral waters off the coast of Terschelling Island, Holland, in the North Sea, resulting in loss of many American lives. America gives a warning to Germany. A German U-boat submarine underway at sea and a ship sinks after being attacked.

Date: 1917
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048810
Survivors from the USS Hornet, are transferred from the USS Russell to the cruiser USS Northampton during World War II.

Battle of Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. Survivors from the abandoned aircraft carrier USS Hornet, CV-8, are being transferred, from the port side of the USS Russell, DD-414 (one of the destroyers that rescued them) to the starboard side of the cruiser USS Northampton (CL-26), by means of lines and breeches buoy. After several are transferred, this way, some wounded on litters are also transferred. Initial views are toward the Russell's stern, from the deck of the Northampton, where sailors are handling lines. Camera pans as survivors move across the space between the ships and are lowered to the Northampton deck. View from Northampton toward bow of Russell, showing two of her single turret 8-inch guns (one pointed up) as a litter passes between the ships. (Camera changes viewpoint occasionally.) An officer transfers on a bosun chair, followed by a sailor. In the final seconds, the USS Salt Lake City (CV-25) is seen in the background.

Date: 1942, October 26
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049023
Attacks by Japanese aircraft as seen from the USS Yorktown (CV-10), during World War II in the Pacific

Glimpses of ship's island, deck crews, antiaircraft guns and F6F aircraft parked with wings folded on the USS Yorktown (CV-10), in the Pacific, during World War 2. A U.S. escort carrier and a destroyer nearby. Flak low on horizon as U.S. ships fire at a attacking Japanese airplane flying only a few feet above the water. Crew of the USS Yorktown stands watching as the attacking airplane turns and crashes at the stern of the Yorktown. Another Japanese attacker flies just over the stern and is hit by Yorktown's gunners, bursting into flames and crashing into the sea, with a huge explosion. An F6F recovers on the flight deck.The United States class light cruiser Cleveland.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049026
Aerial bombing of battleship USS Alabama (BB-8) in the Chesapeake Bay under direction of General Billy Mitchell

'Aerial bombing of obsolete battleship'. Bombing of an old United States Navy battleship USS Alabama (BB-8) in the Chesapeake Bay of the Atlantic Ocean in 1921. General William L Mitchell on the bridge of United States Mine Planter Schofield. Secretary of Navy Denby's yacht underway at sea. Planes maneuver off to Tangier Island, Virginia. A plane drops a chemical bomb, it strikes the forward deck and explosion occurs. An aircraft drops smoke bombs in water and smoke rises. White phosphorus bombs dropped and a massive explosion occurs.

Date: 1921, September 27
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049048
First Atomic submarine USS Nautilus underway and at sea in 1956; also scenes of SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile

United states Navy submarine SSN-571, the USS Nautilus, introduced in 1956. The nuclear powered USS Nautilus submarine underway at sea in United States. Men at controls as the first nuclear submarine is tested. SSN-571 in New York Harbor with Manhattan Island skyline of New York City in background. Next scene shows the guided cruise missile SSM-N-8 Regulus, also introduced in 1956, being fired from a ship, and an aerial view is seen of the Regulus guided missile in flight.

Date: 1956, December 24
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049133
Atomic testing in 1952 - Britain explodes its first atom bomb and America tests its first hydrogen bomb with Operation Ivy

Major nuclear testing events of the year 1952. Narrator indicates that the British detonated their first atomic bomb in 1952 (not shown). Aerial view of Enewetak Atoll area where United States testing took place for Operation Ivy. America tests its first hydrogen bomb. View of bomb apparatus on island. Massive explosion occurs during test shot Ivy MIKE, at the Enewetak atoll, on November 1, 1952.

Date: 1952, November 1
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049160