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United States Army, Navy and Air Force maneuver in Puerto Rico

United States soldiers carrying baggage and weapons embark onto a ship. Soldiers in landing crafts underway in the sea. Planes fly overhead and paratroopers land on an island. Landing craft comes ashore and troops debark. Soldiers fight in simulated war conditions and explosions occur. Landing crafts and tanks at the beach.

Date: 1950, March 20
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058614
Agricultural activities in Puerto Rico on the eve of World War II

Cattle pulls his plow as a farmer plows his field in Puerto Rico. Man loads sugar cane into a truck. The S.S. Catherine is docked at a passenger terminal. (She makes overnight runs between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands.) Men are seen moving about on the wharf, where some cargo is sitting. . View of farms. A small tugboat pulls a heavily laden barge in coastal waters. A sign reads 'god bless America'. New cars are seen on the docks. Some are covered with cloth covers. Cars of the era are parked at the curb near a sidewalk. Aerial views from an airplane flying over the coastline. Views of Fort San Felipe del Morro from the air.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058641
Japanese A6M Zero planes take off aboard a Japanese carrier and attack Pearl Harbor in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. View from carrier Akagi of two other Japanese aircraft carriers, the Kaga (front), and the Zuikaku (rear) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese naval officers aboard a carrier. Japanese deck crews work on Japanese aircraft aboard a carrier. Japanese pilots assembled on the flight deck to receive final briefings before taking off. Information posted on a large blackboard as pilots are briefed. Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes take off from the aircraft carrier. Planes in flight. View from Japanese airplanes as the attack on Pearl Harbor takes place. Smoke rising from explosions. View from aircraft flying directly overhead as bombs explode on Ford Island airbase.

Date: 1941, December 7
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675058750
Newsmen at Quemoy, China as extensive firing from the Communist China continues during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Conditions in Quemoy, China during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. Western press and media representatives climb up a mountain in Quemoy. The newsmen at a beach. They examine damaged buildings destroyed due to the Communist Chinese firing. Damaged roof of a building. Explosions occur on a nearby island. Chinese children take shelter in the underground of a building. A damaged building.

Date: 1958, September 29
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059105
United States 6th Army soldiers aboard a ship as they prepare to invade Los Negros in the South West Pacific.

The American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. U.S. 6th Army soldiers aboard the ship talk. Ships in the background. A silhouetted soldier looks through binoculars towards a coast. A naval gun being manned. A man at the controls in the engine room of the ship. An officer briefs the troops before the invasion of Los Negros, Admiralty Islands. An officer speaks on a wireless. Naval guns and rockets bombard the coast at night. Smoke rises due to the bombardment.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059149
War industries lead to overcrowded cities and lead to problems of housing, education and congestion in Mobile, Alabama (WW2)

"War Town" shows how War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of war workers at a shipyard in Mobile as they go to work building ships for the war effort in World War 2. Cranes at the shipyard. Men work at the shipyard as they fit Allied torpedoes. The men weld and rivet ship parts. Men work in various other factory and manufacturing industries like paper, aluminum, gypsum, steel, and machine shops supporting need for war material. Many men move out walking through the gates of the "Alabama Dry Dock and Ship Building Company" in Pinto Island, Mobile, Alabama. Many people in war materiel industry leads to congestion on roads and traffic on streets of Mobile. Crowd of workers on foot leaving manufacturing areas. Crowd of workers tries to board a city bus. Woman bus driver puts full bus in gear and drives away. Bus, car, and pedestrian traffic in Mobile on street corner with W.T. Grant Company in background. Long queues outside liquor stores, restaurants, and pay windows. Overcrowded schools as children exit the Barton Academy (Barton Academy Foundation P. O. Box 571 Mobile, Alabama 36601-0571) and are seen playing on playgrounds. Men drink in a crowded bar and men and women dance in a makeshift tented dance hall. Various rides including a Ferris wheel at an amusement park.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059206