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Battleship bombing tests organized by Billy Mitchell carried out by U.S. 1st Provisional Air Brigade in 1921 and 1923

Brigadier General Billy Mitchell taxis in a Boeing Model 15 ( or a Curtis P-1Hawk) airplane, after landing at an airfield. . Battle ships underway at sea. Mitchell organizes 1st provisional Air Brigade for bombing demonstration against battleship target.. Crews and airplanes train and prepare at Langley Field, Virginia. Soldiers load bombs under plane wings. Planes take off to bomb the obsolete U.S. battleship USS Alabama. View from airplane in flight as it drops phosphorus bomb on the Alabama. View from water as bomb strikes with huge explosion. Armorers prepare heavier bombs for the next demonstration. Planes take off and bomb the USS Alabama again. General Mitchell crouched down beside a bomb loaded on an airplane for new tests in 1923. General Pershing, Admiral Shoemaker, Assistant Secretary of War, Davis, and General Patrick on deck of the Ship, USS St. Mihiel (AP-32) to observe the tests. Views of planes dropping bombs on Battleship USS Virginia and the ship rolling over and sinking. Large formations of 1920s era Air Service aircraft in flight.

Date: 1923
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051731
The U.S. Army IX Corps soldiers on trucks carrying howitzers at a desert training center in the United States during WWII.

U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War 2. U.S. aircraft in terrain. Soldiers on military trucks. A truck carries a 155mm howitzer. Another truck carries a 75 mm howitzer. Soldiers with a howitzer. Soldiers with their rifles march in the desert. The dust clouds at their feet. The military jeeps and trucks moves across the terrain. The camouflaged M-3 tanks in the maneuver area. The mobile laundries in the desert. The water pumps at the water edge. The soldiers stand near the water pipes. The sunset at the desert.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057523
The U.S. Army IX Corps soldiers at the army hospital of the training center in the United States during WWII.

U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. Spadra General Hospital. The army hospital buildings in the desert. Patients walk on a road. Hospital nurses at the mess. African American soldiers in the mobile laundry trucks. The soldiers operate the laundry. RHD Niland. The aerial view of the desert area. A railhead in the desert. Soldiers with the cartons at the railhead. A few military trucks in the background.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057526
American industry focuses on defense and war materiel production during World War II

Film opens showing smoke pouring from industrial smoke stacks in American manufacturing plants, during World War 2. Sparks fly from crucible of molten steel. Steel workers silhouetted against fog as they leave on a shift change. Men tapping an open hearth furnace in a steel mill. Hot steel being poured in Crucibles and then into steel containers on rails. Huge overhead cranes moving in a mill. A Bessemer converter furnace tilted and blowing with flames extended from its mouth. ( A smoke ring leaves the converter.) Various views of activities in steel mills with flaming steel involved and processing such as extrusion and forging taking place. Closeups of hardworking steel workers handling white hot steel ingots. Sheets of aluminum being processed in rolling mills and then inspected. Scene shifts to an oil field with numerous derricks and then to a refinery, with 10 tall smoke stacks, where crude oil is made into gasoline. Views of Grand Coulee Dam, Bonneville, Boulder, and the Tennessee Valley, where hydroelectric power is produced. Churning waters being discharged through dam spillways. Huge number of men and women war factory workers seen in a shift change at a war production plant. Closeup of machines producing small arms and ammunition. A woman assembling an M1 Garand rifle. Others working on Browning 30 caliber M1919 machine guns and Browining Model 1917A1 water-cooled machine guns. Belts of machine gun ammunition being boxed for shipment. Shops where torpedoes, shells and bombs are machined. A worker checking out movement of a 40-mm Automatic Gun M1. Field artillery pieces covered outside a war plant. A 14 inch barrel, for a coastal gun or Navy ship, seen suspended from an overhead crane in a factory. Views of various such barrels including a view through one. Elements of mobile weapons being assembled. Jeeps being assembled and driven out of a factory at the rate of one per minute and temporarily stored in a yard. Special machinery grinding gears and other parts. Arc welders at work on weapons. M4A1 Sherman medium tanks being manufactured. View in factory of M3 Lee medium tanks being assembled. Rear view of one being fitted with its treads. Others are seen suspended from overhead crane.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051747
The Auburn Tigers football team wins by 10-8 against the Alabama Crimson Tide football team in Birmingham, Alabama.

A football match in Birmingham, Alabama. The Alabama Crimson Tide football team plays against the Auburn Tigers football team. Spectators cheer. The Auburn Tigers football team wins by 10-8.

Date: 1963, November 30
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068210
A 103 year old African American women in Calhoun, Alabama, U.S.A.

A 103-year-old African American woman smiles and speaks in Calhoun, Alabama. A shy black girl smiles facing the camera. Beans are being cooked in a pot. Three black girls talk and smile. A little black toddler smiling, then faces the camera.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050034