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Air Force test pilot, Major R.L. Johnson, sets speed record in U.S. Air Force North American F-86A airplane number FU-611

Air Force Test pilot, Major R.L. Johnson, boards North American F-86A armaments test Sabrejet aircraft number FU-611 at Muroc Air Base (soon after renamed Edwards Air Force Base). Ground crew assists the pilot with chute. Pilot puts on the helmet and oxygen mask. Aircraft taxis. Aircraft in level flight -- extends and retracts speed brakes. Plane rolls to its right and dives. Men at monitoring post on the ground. Aircraft performs several low level high speed passes.Plane lands, and Major Johnson hops out of cockpit all the way to ground where he is congratulated by another Air Force major and ground crew personnel. He puts cigarette in his mouth and feels in his flight suit for a lighter. Major Johnson set an official record of 670.981 mph by flying four times over a 1.86-mile course at altitudes below 150 feet.

Location: Muroc California USA
Date: 1948, September 15
Duration: 5 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040231
Natives wave as U.S. 9th Infantry Division troops on M113 Armored Personnel Carriers and tanks enter a town in Cambodia.

United States 9th Infantry Division troops in Cambodia during the Cambodian Campaign of the Vietnam War. Troops aboard M113 Armored Personnel Carriers enter a town. Natives wave standing along a road. Cambodian children wave. Vehicles and M-48 Patton tanks on a dirt road. Thatched houses on stilts. Cambodian natives stand in front of their houses and watch the tanks driving past. Soldiers with equipment at a base camp.

Location: Cambodia
Date: 1970, May 9
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064754
Napalm bombs explode on a field in Toy Bien,Nam Phan Province during the Vietnam War in Vietnam.

Aerial view of two areas in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province being bombed by U.S. Air Force aircraft during Vietnam War in Vietnam. The fields in Toy Bien in Nam Phan Province in Vietnam. White smoke rises from the fields in two areas due to napalm bomb explosion from American aircraft.

Location: Nam Phan Province Vietnam
Date: 1965, February 24
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054866
United States President Lyndon Johnson declares that U.S. pilots have resumed bombings over North Vietnam.

United States President Lyndon Johnson addresses the nation. United States resumes bombings over North Vietnam. U.S. aircraft carry out air strikes against Vietnam. President Johnson sits in his office. U.S. pilots inspect their aircraft and work under the wings. Air raids on supply depots and railroad lines. The planes take off from an aircraft carrier. U.S. soldiers in trenches. An aerial view of the land below. Smoke rises up due to explosions. A meeting in the United Nations Headquarters. Dignitaries of various countries seated during the conference. (Vietnam War period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1966, January 31
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054385
U.S. Air Force film about the Military Airlift Command (MAC)

Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.

Location: Illinois United States USA
Date: 1976
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021073
U.S. 13th Air Force plans an attack on Japanese locations on the Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces plans an attack at Munda Point on New Georgia group of Islands, Solomon Islands during World War II. An animated map highlights locations from where the attack is to be launched and the Japanese locations to be attacked including Munda, Ballale Island, Vila, Kahili, Buka and Rabaul. Aerial views of various U.S. air bases on the Solomon Islands. U.S. aircraft in flight. An animation depicts the air cover for U.S. convoy moving between New Georgia and Guadalcanal and the need for fighter patrol. An animated map depicts air attack on Japanese land positions to neutralize air bases and disrupt shipping. The map also depicts direct cooperation of tactical group without ground forces to attack concentrated Japanese troops.

Location: Solomon Islands
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060494
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