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Crew members spray pray black paint over bottom of B-29 Superfortress's fuselage.

United States B-29 Superfortress parked on ground. Crew members spray black paint over bottom of B-29's fuselage.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1945, July 10
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023215
B-29 Superfortress aircraft on Tinian Island, and Saipan, Marianas Islands , during World War II.

View of a B-29 fuselage painted with cartoon bird and lettering: 'The B.A.Bird' written beside it. [This aircraft, Serial number 42-93896, and Tail Code "Circle X, (unseen) belongs to the 1st Squadron, 9th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing stationed on North Field, Tinian. Its aircraft commander is Captain Wendell W. Hutchison, and one of its Crew Chiefs is Sergeant Chester Ziel.] Next seen are B-29s on Saipan, in the Marianas Islands in World War 2 . Numerous United States B-29s parked on the field with plain "V" tail codes, indicating 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 499th Bombardment Group. A Group of B-29 Superfortress bombers in formation over the airbase. A B-29 lands on the runway.

Location: Saipan Marianas Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023220
U.S. B-29 Superfortress of 314th Bomb Wing in flight over ocean and approaching Guam during World War II

United States B-29 Superfortress in flight. Square P tail code identifies it as belonging to 314th Bomb Wing, 39th Bomb Group, stationed at Guam. Aerial view of the air base. View of the island and runway.

Location: Guam Mariana Islands
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023223
U.S. B-29 Superfortress from 73rd Bomb Wing arrives at Saipan.

United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress displaying Plain T tail code of 498th Bomb Group, taxis behind a follow-me jeep, after landing on Saipan. Ground crewman assists parking. Crew of the B-29 seen on the parking ramp as they offload their baggage and climb aboard a truck. Other aircraft displaying Plain A tail codes of the 497th Bomb Group are seen parked on field. (World War II period).

Location: Saipan Marianas Islands
Date: 1945, July 10
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023224
Chief Justice Stone swears in President Harry S Truman in Washington DC, and Truman's early life highlights.

Chief Justice Harland F. Stone swears-in President Harry S Truman in Washington DC as President of the United States. James Forrestal, Edward R Stettinius and others look on. Views of the town of Lamar, Missouri where Truman was born, and of his home in Independence, Missouri. Pictures of Harry Truman in his World War I uniform and battle scenes during the first World War. Truman in front of a statue as a newly elected Senator. Harry Truman chosen as Vice President and view of him speaking with President Roosevelt. View of U.S. Capitol and Washington monument during funeral procession of Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with White House flag at half staff. President Harry Truman gives speech to Congress in the U.S. Capitol.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023232
Construction of the Panama Canal

Construction of the Panama Canal connecting the Caribbean Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Views of abandoned and failed first attempt by French team led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, with scenes of Panama natives cutting vegetation with machetes. Scene of abandoned canal work area. Scenes of United States work to build the canal beginning in 1903. Steam shovels digging and moving earth. Laborers construct railroad for use in canal building. General Glen Edgerton talks about the construction difficulties from malaria, and the worker prescription of quinine three times daily. Views of British and French workers on the site working and arriving by rail to work. Dynamite explosion removes rumble for railroad construction. View of locks under construction 1000 feet long and 110 feet wide. Excerpt from interview with former Canal Zone Governor and Congressman Maurice Thatcher, who characterizes the project as the greatest liberty that man had ever taken with nature. (Thatcher was honored when the first bridge connecting both sides of the Panama Canal was named after him as "Thatcher Ferry Bridge". In 1979 the name was officially changed to the Bridge of the Americas.) Clip next shows 1970's aerial view of the Panama Canal. Ships moving through the Panama Canal.

Location: Panama
Date: 1903
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023504
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