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Soldiers undergo hot and cold temperature tests at Fort Knox in Kentucky, United States (WW2)

Volunteers undergo Army medical research at Fort Knox in Kentucky, United States during World War II. Soldiers tested for their ability to adapt to hot temperatures. Soldiers carry bags and walk under high temperatures to prepare them for war conditions in deserts and humid jungles. They walk on a treadmill under high temperatures. The amount of liquid to be consumed by each one of them is determined by the medics. At night soldiers relax with temperatures lowered to 90 degrees. Tanks also examined for different climatic conditions. Men check the efficiency of Army clothing. Wire put up on the bodies of soldiers record body temperature. Men wearing clothes enter a cold room and get into sleeping bags. A man in another room observes the body temperatures. Tanks tested for weather efficiency. Men wear jackets and masks for protection against cold weather.

Location: Kentucky United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049121
Devastation in Elizabeth, New Jersey residential neighborhood after American Airlines plane crash; also mid-air explosion of plane at British air show.

Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.

Location: Elizabeth New Jersey USA
Date: 1952, January 23
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049157
Hurricane Audrey hits Louisiana, United States.

Major events of the year 1957. Aerial view of a town in shambles after hurricane Audrey hit the area killing 300 people in Louisiana, United States. Deserted town, houses submerged in water as a result of the hurricane. The destroyed town of Cameron. A man in a field submerged in water, wreckage on ground. Women and children outside their houses.

Location: Louisiana United States USA
Date: 1957, June 27
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049170
Signing of Peace treaty in San Francisco, California brings an end to war with Japan.

Major events of the year 1951. War with Japan comes to an end with the signing of the Peace Treaty in San Francisco, California. Delegates of various nations gather to sign the treaty. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko walks out to express his opposition. Japanese delegate and Allied delegate Dean Acheson sign the treaty. Japanese delegates shake hands with Dean Acheson, an Allied delegate and the United States Secretary of State.

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1951, December 24
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049174
America's cup, a yacht race, resumes after 21 years in Newport, Rhode Island.

Major sports events of the year 1958. Boats underway at sea during America's cup, a yachting event that resumes after 21 years. President Eisenhower looks at the boats through a pair of binoculars. Columbia team representing United States beats British challenger Sceptre in four races off New Port, Rhode Island.

Location: Newport Rhode Island USA
Date: 1958, December 23
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049197
Trinity test - the first ever Atomic bomb tested in Alamogordo New Mexico, United States.

Shows the first atomic bomb explosion in history, on July 16, 1945, resulting from the work of the Manhattan Project. Atomic bomb tested at an experimental station in New Mexico, United States. Bomb explodes and a mushroom cloud forms, seen from cameras 6 miles away. Smoke and fire emerges. (World War II period).

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049279
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