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During U.S. military exercises, caterpillar tractor and road scraper scoop up coral from ground at Vieques Island in Puerto Rico

U.S. military engineers employ heavy equipment during joint-services exercises in Puerto Rico. Caterpillar tractor pulls a tournapull (road scraper). Front of the road scraper as it cuts into ground. Man hooks up cable tournapull. It scoops up coral from ground. Wheels of the vehicle roll on ground. tournapull loaded with coral moves downhill.

Location: Vieques Island Puerto Rico
Date: 1950, March 26
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043409
A small boat with a U.S. flag leaves from the side of USS Shangri La at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

USS Shangri La (CV-8) for Operation crossroads at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Isalnds. A small boat with a U.S. flag leaves from the side of USS Shangri La. The name Shangri La written on the ship.

Location: Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 20
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047109
United States B-25 bomber and crew at Alexai point Landing Field, Attu Island, Alaska

Shown is tail section of a U.S. B-25 medium bomber, tail number 43-36154, assigned to the 11th Air Force, 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium). Twin tails and tail gunner position and guns visible. Snowy slopes seen in background. In the first scene that shows members of the flight crew standing in front of number two engine, they are believed to be: starting back left (moving to the right behind the propeller): Armorer/Tail gunner: Samuel Ward Craig (Shelocta, PA), Pilot: Willard L. Castledine (Three Rivers, MA), Radioman/Waist Gunner: Hugh W. Wilson (Paducah, KY), (coming around to the front of the propeller on the right moving left), Navigator/Bombardier: Kemmer W. Schricker (Davenport, IA), Co-Pilot: Kenneth H. Wait (Rickreal, OR), Engineer/Turret Gunner: Roman F. Ales (Luling, TX) The crew members pull engine #2 through, with the propeller, to assure against hydraulic lock, before starting. (World War II period).

Location: Attu Island Alaska USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058438
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston and party at a fur seal farm on St Paul Island, Arctic.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston visits the Arctic region to study Arctic fisheries and fur seals. A group of men throws fur seal pelts into a room. A man sprays water through a pipe. They wash the fur seal pelts. People walk in and out of a building. Claude Huston and other officials stand in front of a building.

Location: Arctic Saint Paul Island
Date: 1922
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064368
Survivors of WWI German U-Boat attacks are processed in Newport Rhode Island USA.

Survivors of German U-Boat attacks off the USA coast during WWI are given tickets by an officer as they disembark from a ship. Survivors massed on pier. A crew of sailors stand in front of their encampment. A short sailor smiles as he smokes a pipe. View of destroyer in harbor. Men, probably more survivors, exit from the hold of a ship. Men, woman, and children walk together through a train yard. Women and children pose with officers. Three children seated together, one wearing a sailor's cap. Brief shot of the U.S. Capitol building dome in Washington at night.

Location: Newport Rhode Island USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078394
General Douglas MacArthur visits elements of the 6th Army in New Guinea, during World War II

General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area) steps from a B-17 bomber at the airfield on Goodenough Island, New Guinea, during World War 2. He converses with Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger, Commander of the Sixth United States Army in the South West Pacific Area. Next they are seen sitting in a spruced up patrol boat underway in waters not far from the island (seen in background). A line of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVT-1s) filled with soldiers, is seen moving across a field. On continues past an audience of sailors and soldiers, and enters the waters off the island. It continues, kicking up a wake as it moves through the water. A line of LVT-1s filled with troops, waits to also enter the water.

Location: Goodenough Island New Guinea
Date: 1943, December
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059159
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