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Incendiary bombs moved from United States to England during WW2.

Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) handles the distribution of incendiary bombs in Europe during World War II. Lieutenant Colonel R. N. Isbell of the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) makes calculations from his desk. An incendiary order addressed to the Commanding General is typed on a typewriter. Buses arrive at the motor pool of the United States War Department, now known as the Pentagon. Women disembark from the buses and head to the War Department. Employees working in the office inside the War Department. Men prepare bombs at an arsenal. Men hauling carts with large incendiary bombs in warehouse. A man stencils labels onto bomb that read, "PT-1 Incendiary," and "Bomb Burster." The United States flag waving on a ship. Ships carry a shipment of incendiary bombs to the United Kingdom. Incendiary bombs inside wooden crates are unloaded from ships. Steam locomotive train running on track as railroad signal activates. Incendiary bombs are removed from train cars. Two munitions are suspended on a crane. Trucks loaded with bombs drive out of the depot, passing past village cemetery. An Air Division Chemical Officer receives new shipment information. The Air Division Chemical Officer reads the document and updates bomb listings on chalkboard.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079922
Artistic renditions of United States surface-to-surface cruise missiles.

United States Air Force officers meeting. Artist’s concept of surface-to-surface cruise missiles by the United States Army Air Force such as the MX-771 (MGM-1 Matador), MX-770, and the MX-775A (MX775A Snark).

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079929
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) receives radio commands at Camp Huckstep, United States bombers launch Balkans attack (WW2)

United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents relaying reports via radio to high command in Egypt during World War II. Animated map shows radio waves from the Balkan region reaching Cairo. Radio towers at Huckstep station inside Camp Huckstep. Radio operators pick up radio signals in control room. A radio operator takes message to his colleague. High command officers deliberate plans in Europe before a large map. United States Army Air Force 15th Bombing Command bombardiers and pilots attend a briefing with officer pointing to maps. Ground control radio operator gives commands at air field. United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers taxiing and then taking off from airfield, including one dubbed, "Ready, Willing, and Able" and another named "Strawberry Bitch." Bombers in formation overhead. Close up of a hand of bombardier pushing bomb release button to drop bombs. Close up view of bombs dropping out of open bomb bay of B-24. View of bombs dropping over what narrator claims to be a Balkan city. Aerial view shows thick smoke covering the bomb sites.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079985
United States troops move against German counterattacks, Belgian civilians flee during the Battle of the Bulge (WWII)

Allied troops move against German counterattacks in Belgium and Western Germany during World War II. United States troops move along a muddy road in Belgium. Incendiary explosion. Tire on fire from incendiary. A soldier looks at wrecked American military jeeps and ruined buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a pile of wreckage. Fleeing civilians and refugees walk on the road on foot. Some of the civilians bring bicycles. Belgian Roman Catholic priests wearing Cappello romano hats are seen moving with the group. African American motorized infantry moving into Belgium. An African American soldier smoking cigarette on passing truck. Soldiers in the Ardennes Forest. A soldier plants M1 anti-tank mines in the Ardennes. He places a mine in a hole in the ground. The soldier covers the mine with a pile of dried leaves. Soldiers setting up roadblocks and covering tanks with foliage for camouflage. An M3 Stuart light tank is covered with hay to disguise as a haystack. United States soldiers carefully search the field for Nazi paratroopers. A soldier finds abandoned parachute equipment and white snow cape. Soldiers inspect passing trucks at an intersection between Bastogne and Martelange in Wallonia, Belgium. Belgian civilians fleeing a German advance on Highway 15. American Military Police personnel diligently searching for disguised German soldiers to prevent infiltration. A Military Police officer inspects a Belgian man’s identification paper. Military Police personnel questions a driver of a Jeep. Soldiers digging a dugout. Soldier with an M1917 Browning Machine gun. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer. A pile of shells stands beside the Howitzer. An officer gives out orders to fire over telephone. Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 tanks firing in the Ardennes. A soldier inspects with binoculars. Infantry troops moving across a field and village. Soldiers firing rifles from behind a stone fence. A soldier deposits a charge into a basement window, followed by explosion. Soldier fires bazooka in haze. Soldiers looking up to the sky searching for air support. Allied bombers flying over Belgium. British Royal Air Force bombers dropping bombs over a road junction as seen from bomb bay view.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080038
Crane lifts and lowers cars from dock to ship in England.

A 1947 Wolseley 14-60 Series III automobile on wooden platform is lifted via crane. The car is lowered to the dock, rotated slightly, and then lowered into a ship's cargo hold. Another saloon style car is lifted into the air. A 1947 Morris Eight Series E is lifted into the air.

Date: 1947, April 18
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080090
German in flight refueling demonstrated (WW2)

A captured World War II German film describing procedures of the Junkers in-flight re-fueling. Early tests being conducted with obsolete aircraft, and later with Junkers 290 Cargo-transport planes. Junkers Ju-290 cargo-transport aircraft towing a Junkers Ju-88 bomber inflight. View of a single-engine, high-wing obsolete model monoplane parked on a field with pilot in open cockpit. View of the aircraft tail showing the in-flight refueling coupling assembly as it is attached to aircraft tail. A mechanic walks over to the aircraft’s tail assembly, picks up the square-shaped coupler and shows how it pulls away on cable from aircraft tail assembly. German mechanic holding the coupler in his hands and demonstrating the hook-on attachment. View of the interior or open cockpit of same obsolete plane showing the coupling cable pulley assembly. German mechanic placing and pulling the coupler assembly away from tail of parked aircraft. The pilot starts engine. The obsolete aircraft flies. View of an unidentified twin-engine, low-wing, light aircraft. Light aircraft showing nose upon which a special hook arresting device is attached for catching the coupler. An extreme close-up view of the tip of hook refueling setup. Extreme close-up view of a civilian demonstrating way in which coupler hook assembly attaches to the hook arresting device. View of the pilot inside pilot's cockpit as his hand pulls levers which release coupler hook from arresting device. Aerial view of same high-wing old type monoplane flying with the coupler coupling assembly attached to its tail. Pilot wearing goggles in cockpit unwinds coupler cable. Coupler trailing on cable behind aircraft. Twin-engine light aircraft flying behind first aircraft. Same aircraft as the refueling coupler hook-device gets closer to its nose. View of same coupler taken from first aircraft housing coupler cable release. Aircraft with hook arresting device flying as coupler comes closer to being engaged. Coupler and arresting device as they become coupled. Two coupled aircraft flying for refueling. Pilot in rear seat of first aircraft cranks the coupling cable or pulls the second coupled aircraft towards tail of first aircraft. View of the two aircraft as they slowly draw to each other. The same scene as seen from the rear of first towing-coupled aircraft. Extreme close-up of the coupler and air-to-air refueling device as they become disengaged when pilot pulls a releasing handle. The two aircraft as coupler disengages from the arresting device and the aircraft become uncoupled. The coupler hook assembly taken from rear of second aircraft having the arresting device attached to its nose. Coupler hook catches the arresting device midair. Twin-engine light aircraft flying from left to right with the coupler assembly gliding in front of it until it becomes engaged.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080108