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The Battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) in live firing exercise after her commissioning

U.S. Battleship, USS North Carolina (BB-55) underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Sailors raise signal flags. Bosun's mate pipes signal, and sailors respond to battle stations for live fire exercise. One of the ship's triple turret rotates with its 16 in (410 mm)/45 calibre Mark 6 guns. Her1.1 in (28 mm) anti-aircraft guns begin firing, followed by the 16 inch guns. Closeup of Captain Olaf M. Hustvedt, the first Commander of the U.S. North Carolina. He looks through binoculars. Night firing of the North Carolina's guns. (World War II period).

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1941
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063047
German zeppelin Hindenburg lands at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey and people flock to watch it.

German zeppelin Hindenburg lands at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey on the morning of 9 May 1936, after the airship's maiden voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean. People gather to watch the zeppelin after a successful transatlantic flight in 60 hours. The zeppelin enters a waiting hangar as a huge crowd gathers to watch. A Nazi swastika on the airship. Dr. Hugo Eckener thanks American government for their cooperation and talks about the successful flight across the North Atlantic. (This is the only portion of the clip that includes audio). People look at the zeppelin in the hangar.

Location: Lakehurst Naval Air Station New Jersey USA
Date: 1936, May 9
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051385
Canadian jet aircraft are in formation flight and land at Scotland.

62 Canadian Canadair Sabre Jets arrives at an RAF (Royal Air Force) base in Scotland. Canadair Sabre jets (variant of North American F-86 Sabre jet) are in formation flight Soldiers stand beside jeeps. A Canadian jets lands after completing a jet formation flight across the Atlantic Ocean successfully. A Royal Canadian Air Force pilot is greeted for an impressive achievement. Jets parked in a line after major contribution in NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) defense.

Location: Scotland United Kingdom
Date: 1954, June 3
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044585
A demonstration of anti submarine warfare activities as planes take off and submarines underway in the Atlantic Ocean.

Activities of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for anti submarine warfare. Headquarters Joint Royal Navy Coastal Command (SACLANT), where officers use models and large floor displays to refine techniques of antisubmarine warfare such as the "Hunter-Killer Group." Example,of such, seen in formation at sea, consisting of aircraft carrier; destroyers; submarines; and aircraft. Aircraft being catapulted from flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Signal officer gives direction for take off. Helicopter carrier underway. Helicopter hovering over surface of ocean as it lowers sonar device into water. An unmanned robot helicopter being operated from a control center onboad ship and launching an antisubmarine torpedo, on command. British Shackelton bomber flies by the carrier "Hunter Killer mother ship." Controllers at work on the mother ship. Neptune aircraft dropping bombs, in flight. Explosions and splashes in water. Ship fires depth charges using the British "Limbo" semiautomatic firing system. Missile being launched from surface vessels. Skipjack nuclear submarine at dock. Development testing of Polaris missile firing from below water towards giant overhead crane. Large three funnel luxury ocean liner underway at sea.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1957
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054546
German Atlantic Wall coastal defenses. German forces enter the Crimean Peninsula in World War II.

In opening scene, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is giving a "pep talk" to senior officers assembled at the Northern part of the German "Atlantic Wall" defenses in Scandinavia, during World War 2. A German sentry is seen in front of a large coastal fortification bearing the name "Skagerrak." Camera focuses on the barrel of a huge coastal gun. Closeup of the sentry. Troops travel on a small gauge railway carrying canisters of propellant and shells to a unique heavy coastal gun installed , near Kristiansand, Norway, overlooking the Skagerak Strait. (The gun is a 28 cm SK C/34 naval gun, similar to those installed on some battleships. But this one was appropriated from an abandoned German Army super-tank project.) An alarm bell sounds in the fort and soldiers respond. Next, huge coastal gun shells are seen being moved on conveyors to the gun. A team of gun operators recite preparation steps out loud as they adjust range, bearing, and other parameters before firing the weapon. Gunners load a shell into the gun breech, followed by several propellant charges. The breech lowers inside the fort as the gun barrel is raised to desired elevation. The gun is fired. More commands are spoken aloud and another round is fired. Glimpse from outside of gun flash at night. Complete change of scene shows a map of Crimean Peninsula. Anti-aircraft guns are shown at coastal areas. A quad-barreled FlaKvierling 38 gun is seen. German forces entering the Crimea. Infantry walk in and others, ride in open trucks.One soldier mans a light gun mounted on the back of a 6-wheeled truck. German soldiers posted on roads directing incoming traffic of trucks carrying troops. Closeups of German soldiers riding in open trucks. A trio of German Army officers watches the incoming troops. Local refugees carry their belongings as they flee from battle fronts.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675065456
British convoy rescues survivors from an Allied freighter as it sinks in the North Atlantic after German attack during World War II

Allied supply convoy in North Atlantic ocean during World War 2. British Naval officers aboard warships escorting the convoy. Depth charges exploding; submarine periscope seen in water; depth charges being launched from warship; Officer looks through binoculars; black smoke rising from a freighter torpedoed by a German submarine. Explosion on the freighter. Survivors covered in oil being rescued from torpedoed ship. British woman working in a British headquarters center plotting positions of ships on a large wall map.

Location: North Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060092
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