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English lancers charging and capture a Boer battery at the Modder River

A Boer battery fire the two large field artillery pieces immediately in the foreground. English lancers advance as urged by their officers at the Modder River during the Second Boer War. The British troops overrun the Boer battery. Some of the Boer soldiers fall dead or wounded in the field. Soldiers wave a flag.

Date: 1900, April 28
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080693
How the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, contract carriers, and U.S. Reserve and National Guard augment active U.S. military airlift capability.

Views of civilian airlines and examples of how they and U.S. Air Force Reserve and National Guard aircraft augment the active U.S. military airlift Command capability in time of emergency. Civilian narrator speaks from inside the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next scene shows U.S. commercial airline passenger airplanes parked on a ramp. United Airlines, Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and Pan American aircraft are seen, some taxi, some parked, some taking off. A Boeing 727 jet taxis on the ramp. A Western Airlines 727 taxis behind a set of baggage carts being pulled by a tractor. The Narrator is discussing the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) to which most U.S. airlines belong, and which can be activated by the Secretary of Defense, for airlift support in the event of a national defense emergency. The Western 727 aircraft takes off. A TWA 727 aircraft takes off. U.S. military personnel and dependent women and children are seen descending a stairway from a commercial airliner contracted by the Department of Defense. Military supplies are seen being offloaded by U.S. Airmen, onto a traveling cargo carrier, from a Flying Tigers Boeing 707 aircraft. Refugees from Southeast Asia are gathered and processed at an airport and then board an American Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft. Refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia boarding an Overseas National Airways Boeing 747. An American Airlines 747 taking off. A glimpse of the narrator in MAC headquarters, at Scott Air Force Base, is followed by a mix of private and military aircraft on a parking ramp, including a, presumably privately owned, Japanese Nakajima B5N Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber (Kate) with Japanese markings. U.S.Air National Guard C-130 and C-123 aircraft are seen taxiing, and taking off from this civilian airfield.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021082
MAC aircraft transport and deliver relief material, bring back prisoners of war, and transport dignitaries

A man talks about American MAC medical missions from the MAC command headquarters. A map shows the path taken by a medically equipped C-141 from Irkutsk to Yokota Air Base hospital, Japan. Ground crewmen signal to a United States Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) aircraft. MAC planes deliver relief material to people during the floods in Pakistan. Men move towards the helicopter along with supplies. Supplies delivered during the famine and drought in North Central Africa. Men carry sacks of China rice. Destruction caused due to an earthquake in Guatemala. Cartons of clothes and other supplies loaded into a MAC plane. Plane taxis and takes off. Pilots talk on radio. U.S. prisoners of war brought back from Vietnam during Operation Home Coming. U.S. President Jimmy Carter exits a helicopter at Andrews Air Force Base and shakes the hand of a general. President Jimmy Carter climbs steps to Air Force One and enters the aircraft. Air Force One takes off from Andrews Air Force Base.

Date: 1978
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021086
Mao Zedong's stand on war, China's foreign policies and aggression towards neighboring nations.

Propaganda piece about living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under Mao Zedong, with images photographed by Indians visiting the country. Delegates from all over the world at an international conference. Representatives from Iraq, Canada, Romania, Australia, and Pakistan among others. Elderly Chinese communist revolutionaries pose. Mao Zedong's views (according to a narrator) are presented: He believes that war in inevitable between capitalist and socialist nations. View of a rally and military parade in China. Explosions during the Korean War in 1951 with Chinese troops in action. In Tibet, homeless, displaced Tibetan children and families after the Chinese take over in 1959 as part of Communist China expansion. Indian Army soldiers return after China's attack on India during the Sino-Indian War in 1962. View of Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Map of Asia depicts Chinese aggression towards its neighbors. Explosions during the Chinese aggression in Vietnam and Laos. Mao Zedong intent on risking a war with the West.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021678
Sammy Davis Jr. and USO troupe, entertain sailors in Hagar deck aboard the Aircraft Carrier, USS Hancock (CVA-19).

Opening scene shows Sammy Davis on a stage set up in Hangar deck of the Aircraft Carrier, USS Hancock (CVA-19) during her 7th Vietnam Cruise, in 1972. He speaks about doing impersonations. Sailors in audience are seen in various places on the hangar deck. Some are perched on structural members and hangar equipment. Views o main audience in seats on hangar floor. Davis onstage, speaks of Frank Sinatra, and then sings the song, "All the way," in the style of Nat King Cole (who never recorded it). Members of audience applauding as Davis sings. He continues singing in style of Tony Bennett, Billy Eckstein. At this point, clip continues with audio only, as Davis sings in styles of Frankie Lane and Louis Armstrong, and then impersonates Humphrey Bogart, James cagney, James Stewart, Cary Grant, and W.C. Fields, speaking the lyrics of "All the Way," as they would. He then impersonates Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Davis then finishes singing the song in his own voice. Audience applauds.

Date: 1972, February 24
Duration: 8 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022318
50th Anniversary of the Douglas DC-3 passenger transport aircraft. Scenes of the aircraft in use over the years.

Original design document of the DC-3. View of a Douglas DC-3 suspended from the ceiling of the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington, DC. View of DC-3 plane taking off and in flight. 'Bonanza' written on the plane. Historic views of military use of the DC-3 over the years, including use in WWII for dropping paratroops, for carrying cargo, such as the Berlin Airlift, and as a gunship in the Vietnam War. Personnel inside a C-47 "Gooney Bird" operating M134 rotary-barreled machine gun miniguns. A newspaper headline reads 'US Depends on Air to Ship Berlin Freight' referring to use of the aircraft in the Berlin Airlift. Interior view of the DC-3 as a luxury passenger aircraft, circa 1939. Discussion with a current executive of the McDonnell Douglas aircraft Company, Michael Burch. Scenes of DC-3 aircraft being manufactured by war production workers in large factory plants during World War 2 era. Various scenes of vintage DC-3 aircraft, crews, passengers, DC-3 at airports, and interior and exterior views over the years. A DC-3 passenger airplane at a commercial airport taxis on a runway.

Date: 1985
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675024214