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U.S. Coast Guard crews, in England, preparing their landing craft for the Normandy invasion of World War II
Landing craft being readied, in England, for the Normandy Invasion in World War 2. Sailors filling water cask on emergency life raft. LCI(L),U.S. Landing craft Infantry, Large, number 87. A small boat leaves that craft and another passes the camera boat. LCI(L) number 325 is seen (and a barrage balloon in far background). Coast Guard crew at work cleaning rust from craft 325. One is painting the deck. View of two LCI(L)s underway in water.
American landing craft in England, preparing for Normandy invasion, during World War II
Large Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) underway during training exercises in England, preparing for the Normandy invasion of World War 2. Glimpse from stern of craft, with American flag flying. LCI(L)s behind and British coastline in background. Several LCI(L)s moving in near formation. Gunners aboard camera craft ready their Oerlikon 20mm antiaircraft cannon. They open a locker and remove canisters of ammunition. Cluster of the landing craft moored in a bay. Camera craft moves past Landing Craft tank 644, run aground on a sand bar.
MB-1 rocket rail-launched from a U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
MB-1 rocket rail-launched from a U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Footage taken from GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) camera mounted under right wing of F- 102 in flight. MB-1 rocket fired from rail launcher. Technicians work on F-102A parked outside a hangar. Two technicians wheel an MB-1 rocket on a dolly, underneath F- 102A parked on ramp. Three technicians check out and calibrate special instrumentation to be used during the test run. The instruments include different types of oscillographs, and photo panels. Special camera installations made on the F-102A vertical stabilizer, fuselage, and wings. Technician installs a l6mm camera inside the aircraft nose, then closes access panel. F-102A takes off. Radar vectoring station T-1 at Holloman AFB. Technician operates one of the tracking scanners installed on roof of building. Two men, inside the vectoring station, control the course of the test aircraft by radio communication from the vectoring machine plotting charts. The pilot in F-102A cockpit as he turns on the recording cameras to activate the armament system. MB-1 bomb extended below the aircraft. Engineer talks on the radio phone inside the vectoring station. Pilot's hand on the control stick as he activates the firing switch. MB-l rocket is fired from the short rail launcher. The aircraft is enveloped in a trail of white smoke. GSAP camera mounted underneath the right wing of the F-102A, shows the MB-l rocket being fired from the short rail launcher. Smoke due to the firing of the rocket.
Montage of scenes from the day before the invasion of Normandy in World War II
D-day minus 1 (June 5, 1944) during World War 2. U.S. soldiers eat a meal while seated on the deck of a Large Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L) number 88, docked in Weymouth, England. (This ship would be the first LCI(L) to carry troops to the Easy Red landing zone during the second wave of landings at Omaha beach, on D-Day. Among troops landing there would be the 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, with support from 7th Field Artillery Battalion;1st Engineer Combat Battalion; 1st Medical Battalion; 741st Tank Battalion (DD); 62d Armored Field Artillery Battalion; and 20th Engineer Combat Battalion.) A Captain and a field grade officer sit next to each other on the ship's deck. One soldier looks through his binoculars at an English woman standing outside her back door, looking back at him through her binoculars. Wash is drying on her line. The soldier tries to call out to her, but stops, realizing it is futile. Several of his buddies are amused by the whole event. Scene shifts to U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bombers flying in formation, and then to aerial views from an aircraft, of bombs exploding on the ground in a city below. Next, a formation of B-17 bombers is seen, escorted by P-47 fighters. Scene shifts back to Weymouth harbor again, where American troops attend a Roman Catholic mass on the pier, adminstered by a military chaplain, wearing traditional clerical garb. LCL(L)s number 89 and 93 are seen tied up in the background. Coast Guardsmen gather around one of their ship's officers who briefs them on the operation.
Labor Union movement grows significantly, but labor strife also continues during 1930s in the U.S.A.
Men work assembling transmissions on an automobile production line. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers Union, giving a speech supporting formation of the Congress of Industrial organizations (CIO). Group of workers gather to listen to a union speaker. Many wear miners hats. Cheering Union workers march in street carrying posters reading: "Long-Live the C.I.O." and "Forward with C.I.O." Leaders of the early C.I.O., Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA); Philip Murray, Vice President of the C.I.O.; and John L. Lewis, C.I.O. President, circa 1938. David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU); along with Sidney Hillman, and John L. Lewis, are seen mingling with clothing workers. View of a steel mill from workers' residential street on a snowy day. Steel worker in a mill. Deckhand and an engine man aboard a merchant ship. Roustabouts and riggers at an oil well. Nonferris metal miner in rail car. Worker in tire factory. Electrical worker. Union leader speaking to group of workers carrying banner reading: "Shirt workers, Local 128 Allentown, Pennsylvania Joint Board." Labor organizers passing out leaflets to workers leaving a factory. Labor discussions with workers at lunch tables. Draftsman preparing labor organization protest signs calling for "Sanitary Conditions" and "Fair Play." Working women singing a union song. Union workers marching and carrying signs for various causes. Man riding a bicycle displaying sign:"Don't Scab." Car overloaded with people with sign: "Come To Lafollette Labor Rally Monday, July 5, 1937." ACWA workers of Local 95, Atlas Plant. UMWA members of Lafollette, Tennessee. Miners playing cards and playing musical instruments. Miners on strike below in mine for 5 days, cheer leader. Poster encouraging Americans to travel and visit in the USA. Police and military units repel, combat, and arrest striking and protesting workers. Scenes of military uniformed men throwing tear gas grenades into crowds of workers as workers disperse. People assisting injured protesters. Police firing various weapons at protesting workers during labor protests and strikes in San Francisco. U.S. Army soldiers arresting a civilian and throwing tear gas grenades.
Crewmen of Torpedo Squadron 8 pose near aircraft on the flight deck of USS Hornet underway in the Pacific Ocean.
A film on aviators and crewmen of Torpedo Squadron 8 who gave their lives on June 4, 1942 near Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Midway of World War II. Names of Lieutenant Commander John Charles Waldron and Horace Franklin Dobbs who was the chief radioman. They pose in front of an aircraft. Ensign Henry R. Kenyon Jr. and Airman 2nd Class Darwin L. Clarke pose near an aircraft and talk. Ensign E. L. Fayle and Seaman 2nd Class Aswell L. Picou pose seated on the wing of an aircraft. Lieutenant Raymond A Moore and Airman 1st Class Tom Hartsel Pettry seated near a bomb loaded in the aircraft. Ensign William Robinson Evans and Airman 3rd Class Ross Eugene Bibb pose. Lieutenant (jg) Jeff Davis Woodson and Airman 2nd Class Otway David Creasy Jr pose near an airplane. Ensign William W Creamer and Seaman 2nd Class Francis Samuel Polston draw a face on a bomb loaded in an airplane and pose. Other crewmen who pose are: Lieutenant James Charles Owens Jr. and Airman 1st Class Amelio Maffei, Ensign Ulvert Matthew Moore and Airman 3rd Class William F Sawhill, Lieutenant (jg) George Marvin Campbell and Airman 2nd Class Ronald Joseph Fisher, Ensign John Porter Gray and Airman 3rd Class Max Arthir Calkin. Ensign G. H. Gay who was rescued and Airman 3rd Class George Arthir Field pose. Ensign Grant W Teats and Airman 2nd Class Hollis Martin, Ensign John Ellison and Carneiro, Ensign William Abercrombie and Aviation Pilot Robert B Miles, Airman 3rd Class Robert K. Huntington and Airman 2nd Class Bernard P Phelps. A chaplain at funeral services on the deck of the carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). The volley squad fires guns and the bugler blows taps. Sunset at sea. U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless in flight overhead.
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