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B-24D Liberator “Bomerang” Going-Away party in USAAF Hardwick, East Anglia, UK (WW2)

United States Army Eighth Air Force, Second Air Division celebrate a “Going Away” party for B-24D Liberator “Bomerang” (serial number: #41-23722) (Boomerang) in USAAF Hardwick, East Anglia, United Kingdom during World War 2. B-24 Liberator aircraft named “Bomerang” returns to the United States after completing 53 missions. Graffiti depicting bombs and the word “Ploesti” (referring to the Ploesti oil refinery raid). United States Army soldiers stand in front of a B-24 Liberator with nose art depicting a cartoon kangaroo carrying a bomb in both paws, one held overhead and one held in the kangaroo's pouch and the word “Bomerang”. United States and British pilots gather around a cake in front of B-24 Liberator “Bomerang”. Pilot holding a cake “Bomerang”. A pilot delivers a tribute to B-24 Liberator “Bomerang” in front of a crowd. Crowds cheer after pilot gives his tribute speech. Some pilots are wearing life vests. United States Major General James Pratt Hodges shake hands with pilots. B-24 Liberator “Bomerang” is now covered with written dedications from pilots, maintenance, and combat crews of the “Bomerang”. Men and women write their names, homages, and dedications on the body of B-24 “Bomerang”. B-24 Liberator engines are turned on. “Bomerang”’s pilot, Col. Walter Stewart, looks on. B-24 Liberator “Bomerang” taxiing on the runway on its flight to the United States.

Date: 1944, April 17
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079574
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) workers construct roads and bridges in forests to fight fire.

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in the United States during the Great Depression. Fire control measures taken by CCC shows CCC workers using shovels to dig and build road. Construction equipment in operation. A dump truck loaded with concrete moves along road. Workers construct a bridge. Shows an old house replaced by a new one, as workers work to build a new house. Telephone lines are put up. Men construct a lookout post.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074627
American people demonstrate against war prior to World War II.

Demonstration against war in the United States prior to World War 2. Pacifist anti-war demonstrators gathered around a poster which reads 'War 1914-18 25000 Millionaires - 10 Million Killed'. A picture of skeletons depicting soldiers fighting a war. A sign in the foreground reads 'Abolish Compulsory ROTC'. Cars lined up along the side of a road. People listen to a speaker.

Date: 1936
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074809
Wheat crop is harvested by large mule-drawn combines

Wheat harvesting in the Great Plains, United States. Wheat growing in field. Large teams of horses drive combines to harvest wheat. View of harvested grain as it pours out of the harvester into the hands of a farmer on board. Steam train runs along a track in the distance, with smoke and steam pouring into the air from the locomotive.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070601
Huddie William Leadbetter sings ' Irene Goodnight' for his wife Martha Leadbetter

Enactment about Lead Belly, an American folk and blues musician in United States. Lead Belly also known as Huddie William Ledbetter he sings a song 'Irene Goodnight' and plays guitar as his wife Martha Ledbetter sits in a chair and others stand during a get together. He plays a guitar and hums along. Two men arrive outside the house and enter it.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042897
Conditions leading to the dust bowl on the American Great Plains

A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near the plow. An explosion on the land. World War 1 news headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar decline of the wheat market results in overproduction: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground during dust bowl era. Overproduction of wheat. Notice of 'Farms for Sale' in lower prices. Farm machinery is used. The sun rises in the background. A notice of 'Own a farm away from home'. Overproduction of wheat is shown. Over-exuberance in roaring 20s market is shown by a stock market or commodities market ticker running large amounts of ticker tape and a scene of a 1920s African American jazz musician drummer playing the drums enthusiastically and smiles while another band musician in the background plays bass.

Date: 1936
Duration: 8 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045148