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Mercury Project personnel converse during a debriefing at Grand Turk Island in Turks and Caicos Islands.

Astronaut Scott Carpenter with other astronauts, seated around table during a debriefing of the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, at Grand Turk Island. Astronaut Scott Carpenter gestures as he speaks . Many things like pencils, papers, mike and glasses lie on table. Map on wall. Astronaut Scott Carpenter, Lt Commander Glenn, Captain Grissom and other Mercury Project personnel converse.

Date: 1962, May 25
Duration: 6 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024569
All astronauts listen to Scott Carpenter during a debriefing at Grand Turk Island in Turks and Caicos Islands.

All Astronauts, seated around table at Grand Turk Island. They listen to astronaut Scott Carpenter during a debriefing following his return from the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission. Various objects like pencils, papers, mike and glasses lie on table. Map on wall. An astronaut picks a journal from table and puts it down again.

Date: 1962, May 25
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024571
Wreckage on island after battle between marines and Japanese troops, Tarawa Island in Pacific.

Shores of Tarawa Atoll in Pacific Ocean. Wreckage on island. Trees after bombardment. Marines mill around. Tents put up on beach. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052291
Employees arrive at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York and head for locker rooms.

Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of animal diseases. Visitors and employees of the United States Department of Agriculture board a ferry in Long Island and head for Plum Island. View of dock as ferry approaches. A sign reads 'U.S.D.A. Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory'. Personnel pass the ferry dock area to enter the guarded gates on Plum Island. Regular employees show passes to enter. The personnel leave the bus used for transportation from the gates to the working area. The employees after entering the building divide into three groups and head for three different locker rooms. Doors of the locker rooms painted red. The employees get rid of their belongings and clothes and proceed through a turnstile to the next locker room to put on a complete set of laboratory clothing. They enter a laboratory to carry out tests.

Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061092
Japanese troops surrender Marcus Island and Wake Island in the Pacific Theater

Part of ceremonies marking Japanese surender and victory over Japan at end of World War 2. Japanese forces surrender Marcus Island on board USS Bagley (DD-386) in Pacific Theater. Japanese Rear Admiral M. Matsubara surrenders his garrison to U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Whiting. Japanese and Allied officers sign the papers of surrender. View in September of American flag being raised on Wake Island by U.S. Marines after Japanese surrender. Colonel Walter Baylor accepts honors at the ceremony, having been the last to leave Wake Island, and now the first to return. View of destroyed Grumman F-4 Wildcats that assisted in efforts to hold off Japanese forces for 14 days of attack, earlier in the war.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058333
Aircraft fly over the island and drop paratroopers on Corregidor in the Philippine Islands.

Paratroopers landing on Corregidor in the Philippine Islands during World War II. A paratrooper descends. Many parachutes on the ground. An aircraft passes paratroopers descend to Corregidor. Aircraft pass over the island and drop paratroopers. Ships underway at sea. Paratroopers descend, many parachutes lay on the island in the background.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070641