Fliers land at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California after setting a new world record of 30 days and 6 hours in flight. Their Piper Cub dubbed "Spirit of Kay" takes off. Spectators look towards the sky. A sea plane taxis on water for departing. Clyde Schlieper and Wes Carroll return to Marine Stadium after setting the world record for the longest sustained flight -thirty days in the air. Men assist them in getting off from the sea plane. W.E.S. Carroll, Clyde Schlieper and other personnel pose for a camera.
Twins compete at convention held in Huntington Beach, California. Identical twins descending a set of stairs. Children descend the stairs together. An African American man and woman accompany three pairs of girl twins. Large crowds gather for the contest and cheer the entrants. Twin sets of infants, girls and boys participate.
U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.
10 days after D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied forces during World War II. Trucks and military vehicles move on rough roads at Omaha Beach in France, transporting supplies unloaded at Easy Red Section of beach, to inland. A soldier sits outside the tents in a trench. Red Cross vehicles move. United States Army jeeps parked at the camp area.
Shore in Rendova Beach area in Pacific Theater during Battle of Munda. Huts on shore. A camouflaged Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) passes. A Landing Craft Infantry leaves beach. Shore in background. Firing in groves. Crew loads and fires. A man cleans 155 MM breech. Muzzle of firearm. Men wash mess kits. The men eat in groups. A man eats from a kit. (World War II period).
U.S. Marines at a field communication center on the White beach during Operation Piranha in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. Marines sit on the beach. A marine on the beach talks over a phone. A marine unit around the field communications center. Marines sit around on the beach. One in the foreground talks over a phone. Two small boys, one carrying a smaller child in his arms, move down the beach. A large group of civilians being huddled on the beach by the marines. All civilians are wearing black and are under heavy guard. (Vietnam War period).
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