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Ticker tape parade in New York City for General Douglas MacArthur

The City of New York fetes General Douglas MacArthur when he arrives there after being relieved of Command by President Truman. Views of the parade from viewpoint of newsreel cameramen surrounding the General's open car. Fireboats in the harbor create a huge fountain with their pumps. Trees are inundated with ticker tape.

Date: 1951, April 20
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045125
Surrendered German U-boat U-111 is docked in the Brooklyn Navy yard, New York, to help in the American postwar Victory Bond Drive

German U-boat U-111, that was surrendered, after the armistice, and interned at Harwich, England, is seen docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in New York City. It was brought from Harwich by an American crew to help stimulate subscriptions in East Coast cities, during the Victory Bond drive . Sailors demonstrate movement of the deck gun on the U-boat. They also raise the periscope, in a demonstration, while the boat is still docked. Principal naval officers, currently in command, Lieutenant Commanders Garnet Halings and G.W. Russell , pose on the deck with members of the crew including some perched on the conning tower of the submarine. View of German and United States flags on the U-111.

Date: 1919, April 19
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045903
A USAAF C-47D aircraft piloted by Georges Holmes at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama.

The last flying days of 58 year old Master Sergeant George Holmes at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama, United States. A U.S. Air Force C-47D Skytrain aircraft in flight. The airplane is piloted by Holmes. The airplane lands and taxis on a runway. Crew chief waves it into parking area. Master Sergeant Holmes and the co pilot in the cockpit of the airplane.

Date: 1956, June
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076267
U.S. officers examine a wrecked Lockheed XP-38 airplane at the Mitchel Field in New York.

Remains of the Lockheed XP-38 that crashed at Mitchel Field, New York, the day before, after a cross-continental flight from March Field, California. The airplane was flown by Lieutenant Ben Kelsey, who escaped without injury. But the airplane was totally destroyed.

Date: 1939, February 12
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076312
Ships underway in New York Harbor in New York, United States.

New York Harbor in New York, United States. Film starts showing two women on the deck of a ship using binoculars to view the traffic of ships and tugboats working in New York harbor. A variety of commercial vessels, mostly freighters are seen. One ocean liner, the General W.C. Gorgas is seen, with no visible passengers. (USS General W. C. Gorgas (ID-1365) was a a German ship seized by the US Shipping Board in World War I and used as a Navy troop ship. We see her as she departs New York on 25 April 1919 to embark Army troops and load cargo at Bordeaux, France.) Other scenes of interest include one closeup of a tugboat emitting a plume of black smoke.

Date: 1919, April 25
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078130
New Goodyear aircraft plant construction in Litchfield Park, Arizona.

Officials give speeches during the construction of a new Goodyear aircraft parts plant in Litchfield Park, Arizona. Speakers include Attorney Jim Moore of Phoenix and Colonel Whitehead from nearby Luke Field. Men digging in field. Pouring first cement. Workers carry construction materials.

Date: 1941
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030566