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U.S. Marines unload heavy equipment and fire a 75 mm howitzer in Iwo Jima, Japan.

Activities of United States Marine Corps in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. A trailer, loaded with transformers, is hooked up to a bulldozer. A Landing Ship Tank (LST-792) on a beach with the bow doors open. LSTs on the beach. The trailer on the beach. A marine standing in the foreground. Amphibious crafts (LVTs, LCTs, LCMs) in water. A wrecked Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT). Surf breaks over the wreckage. Two Landing Craft Infantry (LCIs) and an LST on the beach. The bulldozer pulls the trailer. LST-792 with bow up on the beach. A Task Force anchored in the background. Japanese food and destroyed equipment. Shelled-out concrete emplacements. Trucks on the beach. 75mm howitzer crew fire gun which is camouflaged with netting. The Task Force out in the water. Puffs of smoke rise as guns fire. Supplies are loaded onto an LVT. The supplies on the beach. Heavy equipment unloaded. A drag line is off loaded from an LST. Other LSTs anchored in the background. LST-792 in the background. Down beach area towards Mount Suribachi. Heavy equipment unloaded. Signalmen send semaphore. A Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) in the background. A marine squats in volcanic ash. The bow section of LST-792. Surf breaks onto the beach. Men unload 50 gallon oil drums from the LCM.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062151
Allies bring reinforcements and supplies following the succesful establishment of beachheads during the invasion of Normandy, France, in World War II

Beachhead at Normandy, France, following the Allied invasion in June, 1944 during World War 2. Numerous supply ships are in the water offshore. Landing craft are all along the beach. Military vehicles fill the beach itself. British and American troops, ashore, observe ship maneuvering near a floating dock. British infantry pour from the open ramp of large British landing craft, behind some American troops already landed and walking along the shore. American soldiers aboard a landing craft next to a transport ship. Closeup of one of the soldiers in the craft, who wears "Screaming Eagle" patch of 101st Airborne Division. The open deck of an exceptionally large landing craft is seen jammed with U.S. troops, ready to depart from a transport ship. They wave for the camera. An American army truck driving out of British Landing Ship Tank (HM 415) onto a floating dock. It makes its way behind others headed toward the shore. Closeup of soldier wielding a sledge hammer to secure pierced steel plank (Marsden Matting) onto the beach. A DUKW (duck amphibious truck). German prisoners of war, disarmed and under guard, marching casually toward the beach. Closeups of some passing the camera. View from the beach of some wading out to a waiting landing craft. View on the beach of others approaching the beach for evacuation. View shifts to captured German film depicting German coastal defenses and structures of the so-called "Atlantic Wall." German Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel, accompanied by Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, as they inspect the fortifications. Views of coastal guns. Several German soldiers, using a 4-wheel dolly, roll a huge shell and powder charge out of a bunker. They roll it toward a camouflaged railway gun. German soldiers climbing steel stairs up to the railway gun and hand-cranking the barrel into firing elevation. Marshal Rommel accompanied by a Navy admiral and a soldier, walks up to the twin barrels of a coastal defense gun. the pause directly in front of the barrels and converse. The Admiral and the soldier both salute, perhaps acknowledging a comment or order from Rommel. Extreme closeup of the gun barrels.Next, back on the beachhead, Briitish soldiers are seen walking along the beach past knocked out German fortifications and standing near other abandoned ones. A British soldier swings a sledge hammer a reinforced concrete structure on the beach. A French man and woman waving at American troops passing them. British soldiers riding in a British Universal Personnel Carrier, MK II. Two Frenchmen wave at the troops. In nearby town, British soldiers are happily greeted by local inhabitants, including a woman with a baby on the sidewalk; children looking out a window; and people gathered at a street corner. A British soldier holds a French boy and offers him a piece of candy. An American M7 ("Priest") self-propelled 105mm howitzer and armed with a 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun. It moves through an intersection controlled by an MP (military policeman). Another one named "Apache" follows it. Local French inhabitants cheering the Americans as they pass through the town. An American soldier stands near several children as a DUKW amphibious truck veers somewhat, to avoid them while passing. He bends down to talk to the children and shares some candy with them. Infantrymen walk into a town, keeping close to buildings on both sides of the street. French men,women, and children wave and show "V for Victory" signs as some military policemen walk past.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072013
Atlas missile prototype destroyed shortly after lift-off due to booster fuel system failure.

First launch of Atlas prototype in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Missile at launch pad. Ignition and then smoke seen during launch. Missile climbs several thousand feet and then loses control because of booster fuel system failure and blows up. Some debris falls slowly to ground in flames.

Date: 1957, June 11
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021386
View of Atlas Missile 3D from a high angle as it leaves a trail of fire and smoke after its launch at Cape Canavera

Atlas Missile 3D launched from launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Missile launched leaving a trail of fire and smoke after its launch.

Date: 1959, April 14
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023380
Astronauts oversee preparations and Technicians work on aperture of Aurora 7 space capsule for Mercury-Atlas 7 mission

Lieutenant Commander John Glenn and Lieutenant Commander Walter Schirra watch pre-boarding preparations for Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Technicians prepare capsule aperture for hatch cover.

Date: 1962, May 24
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024560
Astronauts Gus Grissom and Scott Carpenter, say farewell to friends and board MATS C-121 aircraft to depart Patrick AFB

Military Air Transport Service C-121G airplane on parking ramp at Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Astronaut Gus Grissom talks to friends. Astronaut Scott Carpenter talks to friends. One gives Carpenter a box, that he carries, as he and Grissom and others board the airplane. Photographer takes photos of astronauts.

Date: 1962, May
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024604