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U.S. Liberator bomber planes destroy the Japanese planes and ships on Makin Islands and reinforcements land in Bougainville.

The U.S. turns offensive against Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. U.S. Liberator bomber planes fly towards island of New Britain. Map of New Britain. Pilots in the cockpit pull a trigger and drop bombs on the island. An invasion fleet moves towards the island. U.S. Marines land on the island and move forward. A map shows Makin Islands. U.S. Planes drop bombs on a Japanese ship. The planes drop bombs on a Japanese airstrip causing the destruction of the Japanese planes. The 6th U.S. Army General and Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt on a ship with other officers. Sailors climb down step ladders and move into a boat. A Japanese bomber is driven off and another is hit. Amphibious Forces land on the beach. Dead Japanese soldiers on the island. Japanese are defeated and Prisoners of War taken. A map shows Bougainville in the Solomons Islands. Troop reinforcements land.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033567
Crowded beaches of Coney Island in southernmost Brooklyn, New York.

Subway train with Coney Island destination sign on its front, arrives in station. Coney Island in Brooklyn borough of the New York City. Sign reads ‘Coney Island Stillwell Avenue Exit’. Pedestrians cross a road. Crowded beach at Coney Island. People swim in water. People walking on the boardwalk. Parachute jump tower at the Coney Island. People enjoy thrill rides including Ferris wheel and roller coaster at Coney Island. Soldiers and sailors among those enjoying the rides. View of Coney Island at night.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060416
P-40 aircraft of the USAAC 8th Pursuit Group fire guns in target practice off the shore of Long Island, New York

A formation of 18 Curtiss P-40 aircraft, of the U.S.Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group, fly low over the shoreline of Long Island, New York, for gunnery practice. The bullets from their gunfire raise jets of water in the air as they strike the vicinity of what appears to be a sailboat target. Glimpse of a flight of three P-40s overhead. View of the floating target. More splashes from P-40 gunfire. A flight of 3 P-40s diving, and others forming up in formation. Remnants of the target in the water (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042518
People watch pigeons flying freely after they release them in Jackson Heights, Long Island, New York.

People release their homing birds in Jackson Heights, Long Island, New York. People gather at a place. They release their pigeons. The pigeons fly in the sky. People watch the pigeons. The pigeons fly over buildings and towers.

Date: 1932, December 5
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062521
Coast Guard Stations on coasts of New Jersey, Long Island, Eastern shore of Maryland, and coasts of Virginia and North Carolina

Opening scene is an animated map showing Coast Guard Stations on Long Island, New York and on New Jersey coasts. Aerial view of Coast Guard Station Number 75. Narrator says manual life boats are launched into the surf from this Station. Camera pans closeup over the station, showing its buildings. Aerial view of inlet on South shore of Long Island from which powered life boats can launch into calm waters. Aerial view of the Fire Island (Long Island) Coast Guard Station with launching runway for power boats. Ground level closeup of the Fire Island Station. A power lifeboat being launched down its runway. Water level view of the power lifeboat speeding along the inlet towards the open sea. View from a height of the path the power lifeboat will follow to the sea. Change of scene shows map of life guard stations along Eastern shore of Maryland, the coast of Virginia and area around the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, with focus on cities of Norfolk and Newport News. It also extends South to outer islands of North Carolina. Battered hulk of a ship in surf in this area.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049570
Smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks as B-17s drop bombs on Heligoland island in Germany.

U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Heligoland island in Germany during World War II. B-17s in flight. Several aerial views of the island and another island next to it. Smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks on Heligoland island. A runway on the island in the background. Heavy flak. German coastline: Heligoland and Friesian islands. Bomb craters and smoke from burning oil storage tanks. Bombs are dropped from Allied aircraft. The aircraft are in formation over clouds.

Date: 1944, June 20
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070662