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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. Navy TBM Avenger parked on an airfield and flying in formation over land.

U.S. Navy peace-time operations following World War II. U.S. Navy TBM Avenger aircraft parked at the airfield. The aircraft revved up and ready to take off. The aircraft flying in formation. Aerial view of the ground. The aircraft in flight over clouds.

Date: 1947, April 4
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065680
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
Carrier Group CVG-82 operations aboard the USS Bennington (CV-20) during World War II

U.S. Carrier Group CVG-82, aboard the USS Bennington (CV-20) during World War 2. Marine Corps F4U Corsair aircraft of VMF-112 (Wolfpack) and Navy F6F Hellcat aircraft of VF-82 (Fighting Fools) taking off from the USS Bennington. The Carrier's "Pine Tree" symbol is visible on the tails and upper right wings of the aircraft.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074656
U.S Army soldiers repairing a field wire and loading ammunition in trucks during World War 2

A film on the workings of Air Force Service Group. Their role in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied and in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment during World War II is demonstrated. A small airplane in flight low overhead and it drops a parachute with important aerial reconnaissance photographs to an Air Service Center. Soldiers process the photographs. Other soldiers look at the photographs. Soldiers repairing a break in a field wire. A soldier keeps a watch for the enemy. Messages are send in the field with the help of the field wire and an encoding machine. Other soldiers after receiving messages typing them and decoding them. An officer looking at a document. Resources of the center are mobilized. A soldier talking over a phone. U.S. Army Ordnance Company soldiers loading and packing 50 caliber ammunition belts and loading them into boxes. The boxes are loaded in trucks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076666
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