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Iranian Air Force jets and pilot training.

Aircraft from the Imperial Iranian Air Force fleet includes United States McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Northrop F-5 fighter jets. A row of Northrop F-5 fighter jets at an airfield in Iran. Sign in English and Persian reads “31st T.F. (Tactical Fighter) Squadron”. Imperial Iranian Air Force pilots attend class. A map of the Middle East showing flight paths, radii, flags of the various Air Forces in the region. Flags and roundels of the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon. A bomb is installed into a jet fighter-bomber. A fuze is fitted into the bomb nose. A man wearing a jacket with an “F-5 Iran” patch. Iranian military pilots run out of a building and board trucks.

Date: 1973
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080197
Views of Tehran, when Iran was the "Persian Corridor" for American Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union in World War II

Opening scene is of ordinary day in teheran, Iran, during World War 2. A horse and wagon sits quietly in shade at edge of a traffic circle centered on monument topped with a statue of Reza Shah Pahlavi . A U.S. Army truck, displaying a white star, and a jeep, drive by on the nearby roadway. A horse-drawn wagon passes at edge of toad. A military truck drives around the road closest to the statue of Reza Shah Pahlavi . Closeups of the statue. Change of scene shows an official-looking modern building, with a guard at its open gate. A sculpture above the gate depicts a crown flanked by two lions. Several pedestrians pass by casually on the road and sidewalk. The pedestrian women include some in Western dress and ant least one with head modestly covered. View through the open gate shows a circular drive around a garden and a large building behind it. Two military officers walk out the gate. One wears a steel helmet. They pass the guard standing by his booth. Street scenes showing a modern building and light traffic, including another American jeep, a horse-drawn wagon, a car and a bus. Several multistory apartment buildings. View looking down on a horse-drawn cart moving along a tree-lined city street.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041193
Scenes of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company facility at Abadan, Iran.

Crew operate Anglo-Iranian Oil Company facility at Abadan, Iran. Under the watchful eye of a supervisor, Iranian petroleum workers labor together in teams of several men each, to manipulate valves on a network of large pipes running close to the ground, at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company facility in Abadan, Iran. To obtain better spacing and turning leverage, the workers employ shaped steel rods inserted into the valve wheels. A single worker closes a valve, inside a building. Another worker looks at a meter amongst a group of such devices, in the building. Two workes close a valve, as a supervisor watches. Several men walk across network of pipes and manipulate control valves outdoors. View of building with "Gas Oil Pump House" written on it in English and Persian.

Date: 1951, July 16
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035724
United States Coast Guard protects ports and patrols the area off the coast of Saudi Arabia

Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Desert Storm. Coast Guards protect the ports in Persian Gulf with the help of a Boston Whaler. Men patrol the area off the coast off Saudi Arabia in patrol boats. BM1 Bob Fong explains the importance of patrolling. Coast Guards look for suspicious objects in the sea. BM2 Joe Gosh explains how patrolling party conducts a search on vessels underway at sea. A patrolling party checks the identity proofs of locals on board a private boat.

Date: 1991
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048327
Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) facilities post World War II

Iraqi and British officials at an event involving visitors at a facility of the Iraq Petroleum Company, following World War 2. Officials emerge from a warehouse building. One official wears sunglasses and holds a tobacco pipe. British officials accompanied by wives, walk along a boardwalk to a gangplank, where they climb aboard a ship. Change of scene shows a. street scene at a bridge where several street vendors display their wares. City buildings across the bridge, in background. A man wearing keffiyeh walks past. Camera moves to the wellhead inside an oil drilling rig, where Iraqi "roughnecks" are working with Byron Jackson Company oil drilling equipment. They insert a new section of pipe and proceed with drilling. Views up and down of the drill rig in operation. Views of other areas at the petroleum complex. Two huge pipes lying parallel. A worker climbs stairs of oil tank no. 235. Technicians work on large pieces of piping. View of a ship docked near the facility, on the Shat Al-Arab. At this point, the scene switches completely to the Persian Gulf City of Dubai and a waterfront scene dominated by Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque. (This is number 3, of three mosques by that name in the area, and is located on the creek in the old Bur Dubai part of the city.)

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022193
U.S. Tanks moving across the deserts of Kuwait and Iraq during Operation Desert Storm

Scenes from Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War). U.S. tanks and soldiers in near the tanks, in the sandy deserts of Iraq and Kuwait. A U.S.soldier with his gun keeps watch across the desert. Cloud of dust in the desert from the moving tanks. Large number of tanks parked in a long line in the desert.

Date: 1991
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028321