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African American recruits in U.S. Army are issued uniforms and begin basic training in World War II

African American recruit sits in a chair with feet on a measuring device. A sergeant gives him a pair of shoes. But before he wears them the Sergeant tells him to stand, in the measuring device, holding two 20 pound weights. He then tells him to put on the shoes and go into the next room, where other African American recruits are lined up. They are instructed to remove all civilian clothes and begin dressing in army clothing. Next, completely dressed in their army uniforms, the recruits carrying duffel bags as they leave the snow-covered camp to board a train. Views of steam locomotives pulling trains in various places in the country. A convoy of army trucks carrying the new soldiers into a military base. The trucks park side-by-side in a line and the soldiers jump out with their gear to begin their basic training. A sergeant instructing the new soldiers on how to make a bed and other responsibilities. The new African American soldiers assembled in formation outside their barracks, on the snow, practicing close order drill, and making mistakes in the process. Next they are seen in a cross country march, carrying rifles. they take a 10-minute break. Soldiers in an infirmary, being visited by army doctors and African American nurses. Newly recruited soldiers being tended in an army dental clinic by African American dentists and hygienists. Soldiers shooting rifles on a firing range. Targets moving up and down on the range. Soldiers participating in sports, including football, baseball, boxing, and ping pong. A woman in the base library reading poetry aloud from a book entitled: "An Anthology of American African American Literature." African American members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) are seen at another base, engaged in close order drill. Next these WACs are seen driving and riding in jeeps over rough terrain. A soldier shines his shoes, on Saturday night. African American soldiers and women dancing to music from an orchestra. The soldiers performing calisthenics in the open air. Rifles are held in some of the exercises. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077356
USAF Brig. Gen. Pfautz introduces a USAF documentary on Soviet military equipment and its use.

United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program titled 'Heirs of Victory' depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Introduction by Brigadier General James C. Pfautz, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Pfautz gives details about the subject, translation, narration, and editing. The Soviet Communist hammer and sickle symbol. A Soviet long winged early warning radar keeps a watch in the sky. Soviet Air Force MiG-25 (Mikoyan-Gurevich) interceptor bombers with air to air missiles. Pilots board aircraft and they take off. The aircraft in flight. Soviet missiles and rockets protect the borders. World War II Soviet Air Force fighter pilot Nikolai Kozmoff talks to highly trained young Soviet pilots at a air base.

Date: 1975
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021653
Crew Members board AC-47 and attach lanyard wires to parachute flares.

Interiors of aircraft AC-47 shows crew members boarding plane. Last crewman aboard stores away ladder in tail compartment. Parachute flares in flare rack. AC-47 No 1 engine starts as seen from AC-47 door. Pilots at controls. Radio man and crewman attach lanyard wires to parachute flares.

Date: 1967, April 23
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052036
American and Japanese aircraft attack each others airfields in World War II. B-24 and B-29 heavy bombers strike Japanese targets

Formation of U.S Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers, flying over Iwo Jima during World War 2. View from one of the aircraft of Japanese air field below. Nightime view of American anti-aircraft fire directed at Japanese bombers attacking Saipan. Explosions and fire silhouetting American aircraft on Saipan's Isely field during Japanese air raid. Burning U.S. B-29 bombers. Scene changes to Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground at the air base on Iwo Jima. Bodies of dead Japanese airmen on the air field. Later view of P-51Ds from the 21st Fighter Group at Central Field on Iwo Jima, in the summer of 1945,after the field had been substantially upgraded to allow B-29 operations. A B-29 is seen displaying an "F" tail code. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers in flight on a bombing raid. Waist gunner inside a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese fighter aircraft. A Japanese fighter going down in flames at night. View from a B-24 of another, off its left wing, flying in formation with its number 3 engine shutdown and propeller feathered. View from B-24 bombing oil facilities at Balikpapan, Borneo. Bombs bursting on the ground. Glimpse of B-24s in formation. Aerial views of bomb bursts carpeting target areas below. Aerial view of B-24s flying above smoke rising rapidly from bombs bursting below. View of bomb craters left below (probably from later reconnaissance flight).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036305
Rescue operations for B-52 crash on Elephant Mountain, Maine.

Ground and air search operations for missing crewmen of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 aircraft of 99th Bomb Wing. The plane crashed against the side of Elephant Mountain, Maine. Brigadier General Alvan C Gillem II (Commander 57th Air Division, SAC), Major General James H Walsh (Deputy Commander, SAC, 8th Air Force ), doctor, medic and ambulance driver waiting for arrival of helicopter at Dow Air Force Base, Maine. CH-3B landing and taxiing to stop as directed. B-52 survivors, Captain Gerald Adler (navigator) and Lieutenant Colonel Dante Bulli (flight commander) transferred from aircraft, by Pararescueman TSgt Gene Slabinski, to field ambulance.

Date: 1963, January 25
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042037
Boeing aircraft plant in United States.

Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Electric engine generator used for firing the engines of the B-47 as officer starts its operation. A small cylinder holding hydraulic fluid hit by unseen object, a flame erupts and it burns up immediately. A B-47 aircraft lands at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. A parachute brakes trail behind as the aircraft lands. Boeing aircraft manufacturing plant with the nose section of B-47 aircraft protrudes in the scene, large shaping machine in the foreground. Operator shapes section of an aircraft fuselage at production factory. A typist at desk. A young woman operates a mimeograph machine. Civilian men office workers wearing suits sit at desks and confer on drawings and plans for aircraft. A man gets into a U.S. mail carrier cab. A young woman operates an adding machine and makes entries into a ledger. A steno and a woman Air Force officer file cabinets. A mechanic works on an electrical generator section of wind tunnel. A worker takes out books at a library, a female worker cuts out sections of Photostats from large roll. A document marked secret. Women Air Force officers assemble sections of paper work on aircraft. File clerk files up paper work on project. Air Force Officer and a civilian contractor discuss plans.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048862