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U.S. Navy personnel demonstrates balancing mechanism of fire balloon used to attack North America during World War II.

Diagram shows pattern of air currents that carried Japanese paper balloon fire bombs from Japan to America's West Coast, during World War II. The paper bomb balloon or fire balloon unit consists of the paper gas sac and an automatic balancing and firing control device. United States Navy personnel inspects the balloon as it descends to the ground. He looks at the paper bags filled with sand which provide balance and the central payload,incendiary and bombs. He holds paper material and inspects its strength. The balloon is filled with hydrogen gas. Pressure is exerted by a rubber ring. United States Navy personnel demonstrates the various parts: demolition block,aneroid switches,jacks,blow out plugs,incendiaries and central payload. He demonstrates the balancing mechanism: Balance bags,payloads and incendiaries are suspended by T-hooks switched between the blow out plugs on the balancing ring. A man unhooks the T-hook and releases balance bags.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072436
U.S. Navy personnel demonstrates blow out plugs connection in fire balloon bomb used to attempt attack on North America during World War II.

Demonstration of the Japanese Paper Balloon Bomb or fire balloon used to attempt attack on North America during World War II. United States Navy personnel demonstrates connections of the blow out plugs in a Japanese paper balloon or fire balloon . Animation depicts: rise up and descend of the balloon in air as the blow out plugs are released and plugged in. Personnel explains the diagram showing bomb mechanism of battery, starter fuse, blowout switch, fuse leads, blow out plugs and aneroid.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072438
U.S. service personnel watch movies in various parts of the world during World War II

Audiences of U.S. servicemen and women watching Hollywood movies in a regular base theaters and outdoors in jungle combat settings, during World War 2. Views of the faces of audience members and their reactions as they watch movies on screen. Soldiers leaving a large elaborate movie theater after seeing a movie. Lieutenant General Brehon Burke Somervell, U.S. Army Chief of Logistics, expressing the Army's appreciation to the motion picture industry as he accepts the 10 thousandth Hollywood movie for exhibition to troops overseas. General Somervell mentions visiting troops in Australia, India, China, and Africa and comments on the way movies boost their morale.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062810
U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers bombard Japan during WW2

United States bombers bombard Japan during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over Tokyo, Japan. View of Mount Fuji in Honshu Island, Japan. Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 21st Bomber Command in flight. Aerial view of bomb dropping into a Japanese town. Industrial zone being hit by bombs. General Henry H. Arnold shakes hands with an officer in Washington D.C. A message written on a bomb. Message on the bomb reads “TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN- THE B-29’S WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!”. Buildings in Tokyo, Japan. A map of Saipan. B-29 aircraft land at an airstrip in Saipan. B-29 take off for a mission. Bombs being dropped over Japanese town.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078188
U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers bombard Japan and Japanese attack U.S. airfield in Saipan during World War II.

U.S. aircraft bombard Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft on an airstrip in Saipan. Pilots being briefed by Brigadier General Emmett O' Donell. Officers make final checks about the mission on a map. B-29 aircraft take off for the bombing mission. Aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped on Tokyo and smoke rises as bombs impact. Aircraft return to the air base after the mission. Smoke rises from the airfield as a result of Japanese attack. B-29 aircraft on fire and smoke rises. A Japanese bomber aircraft goes into a kamikaze suicide dive. Smoke rises from the airfield. Wreckage of B-29 aircraft.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078189
Anna Roosevelt reviews troops and Jean Marie Faircloth MacArthur Christens the Australian Destroyer, Bataan the during World War II

Opening scene shows a Boeing B-24 Liberator bomber arriving at an airfield in the Caribbean during World War 2 . U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt steps from the aircraft, stopping here on one of her many trips. She strolls among U.S. servicemen and others. She is escorted by a General and reviews American Troops on parade at an army base. Scene shifts abruptly to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in New South Wales Sydney Australia, where the Australian Destroyer, Bataan, is being Christened on 15 January 1944 by Jean MacArthur, the wife of General Douglas MacArthur. Dockyard workers drive wedges from beneath the destroyer's hull, to free her for launching. Mrs. MacArthur announces the name, Bataan, and swings a bottle of champaign to christen her. The ship proceeds down the ways. View from below of sailors on deck as she launches.

Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067066