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American Army recruitment posters

Army poster with a picture of Uncle Sam reads "I want you for U.S. Army ". A banner reads "US Army recruiting signal corps" across the road. Another sign reads "men wanted for U.S. Army". A soldier stands in front of a recruiting tent. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058469
The "Big Blowup" forest fire of 1910 in Elk City Idaho. Firefighters recruited.

History of fire fighting in forests in United States. United States President Theodore Roosevelt standing with several persons, including John Muir and Chief Forester, Gifford Pinchot. Roosevelt on speaker's stand. Picture of Northern District Forester, William B. Greely and his staff, in Missoula, Montana. Scenes from 1910 during period of drought. A ranger checks a rain gauge. Picture of Smoke rising in a forest as a fire breaks out in Montana. Firefighters are recruited and head to Montana on horses and mules. Smoke rises as fire spreads across the forest. Firefighters work with hand tools and axes in attempt to control the fires. August 20, 1910, hurricane force winds create the "Big Blowup" fire storm starting in Elk City Idaho. Destruction in Wallace, Idaho. Scenes of aftermath, showing swaths of destroyed forest. Men in area filled with smoke, felling a large tree using axes. Forest Rangers standing on a mountain peak, scanning the horizon, with field glasses, for signs of fire. A Ranger on horseback. A Ranger approaches a fire, puts his backpack down and starts to clear brush. A fire warden standing on a peak looking for signs of fire.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058684
Boat race over Mackenzie in Oregon and an air plane propelled boat race in Everglades, Florida.

Boat race in United States. White water boat race on the rapids of Mackenzie in Oregon, United States. Participants in their boats row through rugged water of the rapids. Air plane propelled boats ready to get underway in Everglade, Florida. Boats drive through grass and water.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951, April 11
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058722
Americans strategy to attack and weaken Japanese position in South West Pacific during World War II.

An orientation film about the American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. A map of the South West Pacific area depicts islands of New Britain and New Ireland as the chief objectives of the Americans. By taking over these islands the Japanese would be isolated in the area. But a strong defense zone around these islands proves to be the main deterrent. U.S. officers including U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur discuss the strategy to attack and isolate the Japanese in the South West Pacific region. Animated map of the region depicts American plan to capture the Admiralty Island by attacking the island of Manus and Los Negros to be followed by an attack in Madang in New Guinea. This would result in isolation of New Britain and New Ireland and weaken apanese position in the region.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059145
Barrage balloons being released for surveillance over the Pacific during World War II.

Barrage balloons being released in the United States during World War II. Barrage balloon anchored at a football field in northwest United States. At the North west defense command headquarters areas to be protected are being spotted on a map. Orders for the release of the barrage balloons being sent through telephones to the various Commanders. Barrage Balloons being released from the football field to keep an eye over the Pacific. Barrage balloons in flight.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059547
American citizens gather around living room console radios and portable radios in other locations, listening to news.

Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1946, December 7
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060480
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