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Test on waterborne missile 'Campbell' (WW2)

Series of tests performed on waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television in World War II. Missile disguised as motor boat. Recording shows aircraft on flight deck of a carrier. Ship underway in the sea. Destroyers approach. Man on radio. Big guns at the field. Aerials of harbor show submarine nets, antitank positions, nearby airport and radar. A bridge. Troops aboard a ship. Ships in harbor. Officers at dock. Two men aboard a motorboat in water. Plane in flight. Motorboat runs in water. Radio control receiver and radio transmitter on a missile in the boat. Boat runs in water as seen from the top, controlled by radio and television. TV scans the images from bow of the missile. Motorboat move towards the freighter.

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040187
Waterborne missile 'Campbell' disguised as a fishing boat.

Series of tests on waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television. Missile disguised as a fishing boat. Recording shows a freighter underway in the Gulf of Mexico. Workers work on fishing boat. Boat at the shores. Sounds of various engine speeds as heard through hydro phonic detectors during the test. Men in the control room. Different boats at different speed run on water. equipment on the boat. Explanation of how a ship is attacked. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040188
equipment loaded on a waterborne missile Campbell.

Waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television. Missile disguised as a motorboat. Recording shows boats at harbor. Men load equipment and explosives. Top view shows bombs placed inside a boat. Television equipment carried by men on the boat. Radio equipment control installed and batteries kept charged. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040189
Campbell missile attacks a target underway at sea.

Test on waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television. Missile disguised as a fishing board. Recording shows boat at harbor. Crew prepares to carry out test. Attacking projectile in boat revealed. Television transmitter and radio control receiver. B-17 planes. Plane in flight. Disguised missile as fishing boat taken into sea from docks by two men. Missile underway at sea in control of the plane. Plane in flight and crew at radio and television controls. Boat (missile) remotely controlled from plane. Images transmitted from missile shown. Freighter underway as seen from missile. Missile approaches freighter. Missile collides with freighter. Huge explosion in water raises smoke. Freighter sinks in water. Diver goes underwater to assess damage to the target. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 11 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040190
Assembling an aircraft to be ferried to Russia.

Aerials of Anglo-Iranian oil refineries and planes parked at an airfield. Truck pulls trailer loaded with disassembled aircraft. Overhead crane stack supplies in storage depot. African American (US) soldiers remove side from crated airplane parts. P-40 and A-20 assembled at an airfield. Russian officers ferrying planes to Russia, arrive in C-47. Various Russian pilots, officers and U.S. officers. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040216
U.S. Lend-lease aircraft being supplied to USSR by way of Iran in World War II

Film about the shipping of American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Soviet Union, via the " Persian Corridor " during World War 2. It focuses on activities at Abadan Airfield, Iran. U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Colonel Charles Porter, Commanding Officer of the Allied Abadan military establishment in Iran, stands with a Soviet Colonel, who supervises Soviet work on the field. With them is USAAF Brigadier General Macmillan., who was visiting the base at this time. They pose in front of a P-39 Bell Aircobra airplane displaying a red Soviet Star insignia. Next, ground crews are seen towing aircraft on the field, including a Douglas A-20 Havoc and a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. Mechanics work on several P-40 airplanes on the ramp. A North American Aviation T-6 Texan aircraft is being refueled from a truck .Closeup of ground crewman holding refueling hose over the wing of the T-6. USAAF mechanics conduct post-assembly checks on a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber and tow another one (Serial number 41-3225) from a hangar, to the Soviet side of the field, after completing its inspection. Soviet mechanics are seen checking guns in the rear cockpit of an aircraft. Glimpse of several P-40 aircraft and a T-6 aircraft on a ramp. Soviet and American mechanics working together on the wings of aircraft. Closeup of two working together. As a Soviet soldier watches, an American airman uses a paint brush to change the American white star on an airplane, into the Soviet red star. The two shake hands when the painting is done. Soviet ground crew push a P-40 aircraft into position for starting. A soviet pilot, wearing a seat pack parachute, climbs into the cockpit. Closeup of him as he nods to a ground crewman for engine start. He taxis out and takes off. Several T-6 aircraft on the Soviet side of the field are seen, ready to be flown away. Views of other aircraft being readied for ferrying to Russia. Camera pans over the airfield and the many aircraft parked there.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040217