Refine Your Search

New Mexico United States 1946 stock footage and images

- Showing 27853 to 27858 of 30777 results
General Alexander Vandegrift, Commander, 1st Marine Division, praises all services for the victory at Guadalcanal, in WW II.

Major General Vandegrift, Commander of the First Marine Division, praises members of all services, including civilians, for their contributions to victory during the battle of Guadalcanal. He remarks that American civilian workers, Army, Marines and Navy exhibited loyalty and sacrifice for their country and the victory was a result of team work. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044990
African American business interests in transportation. Bus line and air charter service.

A bus of the Bison bus lines, in Washington, DC, passes on the street. African American owner, John Nipson, poses in uniform. African American drivers for the company pose. Several chartered buses of the Bison Line drive on a street in Washington DC. Their destination signs read "Blossom Special." Merrill C. Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois. African American pilot and two businessman passengers climb aboard a light airplane of the Lake Air Service. The passenger airplane taxis to a runway and takes off. African American, William Barnett, owner of Lake Air service, is seen, with one of his employees.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045070
Clowns, artists perform various acts in Mummers parade in Philadelphia

Mummers parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The parade passes through streets of a city, primarily along Broad Street. A group of clowns appear on the street. They walk holding a banner reading: "Phila French Clowns". Artists perform an act on the street. Sidewalks are lined with spectators. Marchers in fancy costumes and decorative floats in the parade.

Date: 1937, January 1
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045122
A plow creates furrows, a settler pauses to look at dry dirt, and wheat is harvested on the Great Plains.

A sledgehammer pounds a fence stake into the ground. A plow is used to break the land of the Great Plains. A farmer takes soil into his hands and throws it back as it crumbles in his hands. Combine harvesters pulled by teams of mules harvest a large wheat crop. Wheat grain pours into a sack on a harvester.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045147
Film of the Nazi German bombing on Britain and the British soldiers fighting the Germans (WW2)

Personnel classification and orientation as morale features. Shows and recommends films of Nazi German bombings, burning towns and dead civilians, in World War II. Stresses the need for esprit de corps. Officer addresses soldiers in a hall and discusses about the need to understand that why they fight. Depicts that the Commanding Officers should show war films of Nazi German attacks on people, to motivate the soldiers to fight for their Nation. The film shows the German planes in flight. The planes bombard on the land where the civilians reside. High altitude view of the city. People run to save themselves from the air attack. Dead bodies lay on the field. Fire and smoke due to bombarding. German flag on the flag pole. Soldiers march. The British soldiers prepare to fight the Germans. The British soldiers in airplanes. High altitude view of the wrecked city.

Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045494
Public demonstration of "fire bomb" and its use supporting U.S. Marines in the Battle of Peleliu in World War II

A U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat airplane is seen parked on a ramp, with a bomb slung under its fuselage. The narrator identifies it as a "fire bomb," containing gel gasoline. Scene shifts to an F6F dropping one from several thousand feet, in a demonstration. The incendiary bomb creates a swath of fire along the ground, in the direction of flight. A flight of two F6Fs repeat the demonstration, dropping their bombs simultaneously, from a formation. Another drops a bomb on a pier at a waterfront. View to the rear from an airplane that just dropped a bomb in a wooded area. Views of actual U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, Palau Islands, during World War 2, showing F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, dropping napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. View of smoke rising from bomb strikes at targets near a river.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045622