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Trainees receive instructions by an officer and a map shows the connecting routes in the United States.

Boeing-Steerman PT-13, Kaydet airplanes in a row at training station.Flight instructors accompanying student pilots to the aircraft. Pt-13s start up, taxi, and one is seen taking off. Pilot trainees are shown a radial engine, by an officer.A student inserts a cylinder into engine block. Pilots from North and South American countries line up in front of At-6 (Texan) training aircraft. they run to their respective aircraft and start them up. Fuselage of one airplane shows crossed flags of United States and Chile. Formation of AT-6s in flight. A map shows airways in America. Another shows them in Central and South America. A map of the world shows the military Air Transport Commands routes.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031729
A United Airlines passenger plane equipped with modern, luxurious facilities takes flight in the United States.

Passengers board DC-2 airliner parked at airport. View inside cabin. Baggage being loaded in door under cockpit. Engine starts. Fire extinguisher near wheels in foreground. Aircraft taxis out. "U.S.Mail" painted on tail. "United Airlines" logo on fuselage. View of takeoff from underneath aircraft. Stewardess (flight attendant) passes out newspapers to passengers. DC-2 in flight near clouds. A child watches the plane in flight. Old man watches airplane overhead. First class luxury in flight: A steward in uniform serves passengers as they dine on fine food inside the plane. A steward arranges sleeping berths for the passengers. They climb into the berths. A globe shows the development of aviation.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031730
End of WWII in Europe. German and American prisoners of war are exchanged in France.

End of World War II in Europe. A map shows Atlantic coast of France. American and German officers facilitate the repatriation of their soldiers at port of Dunkirk. Red Cross workers exchange papers with officers. Officers and soldiers in a boat. The soldiers stand in a group and talk. They stand at a road side. They happily board boats to take them home. German military high command consult and broadcast to the people of Germany about actions being taken to return their troops to their homeland of Germany.

Date: 1945
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675032098
U.S. Labor leader, John L. Lewis, President of United Mine Workers of America, at official function

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, at an official function. Mr. Lewis listens as he is being introduced by an unseen person.

Date: 1945
Duration: 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032175
Atrocities on prisoners in Nazi concentration camps at different places in Germany.

Atrocities against prisoners in Nazi camps at different places in Germany. Wounded and emaciated Americans are fed and given medical care by Yank Armies of Liberation in Grasleben, Germany. Masked grave diggers open graves in Hadamar, Germany. Around 35,000 political prisoners found buried. General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley inspect Camp Ohrdruf (a Nazi Camp) in Germany. Heaps of human bodies and lime pits filled with corpses can be seen. 21,000 prisoners stumble around with their broken skulls in Buchenwald Concentration Camp (a Nazi camp in Germany). Corpses lie everywhere with large tattooed numbers on their stomachs. Two roast ovens were used as crematoria. Starved people loaded into ambulances for treatment. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 26
Duration: 6 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032522
Opening day of San Francisco Conference of United Nations.

First day of the San Francisco Conference of United Nations (United Nations Conference on International Organization). Representatives from 46 nations attended the conference, some can be seen entering the hall. Representatives seated inside the hall. Conference is officially opened by Secretary of States Edward Stettinius. President Harry S. Truman gives a speech.

Date: 1945, April 25
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032523