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North American Air Defense System (NORAD) being exercised

Actor Raymond Massey in an office discussing importance of American military readiness. Street scenes in Manhattan, New York City. View from buiding overlooking Times Square in Mahattan, with Astor Hotel at left. Camera pans up (northward). Shift to North American Air Defense (NORAD) command center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where U.S. Air Force men and women mark aircraft positions on plexiglass status board. During this exercise,NORAD Commander,General Laurence S. Kuter,USAF,with NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, at his side, picks up phone to alert defense forces. View of DEW line radar site where men monitoring radar screens pick up returns from two incoming bombers. A NORAD radar picket ship at sea and sailor inside detecting incoming bombers on his radar screen. An airborne Lockheed EC121 Radar picket aircraft and crew member inside detecting targets on his radar screen. Views of personnel at various NORAD centers sending and receiving detailed information about the detected aircraft. Canadian and U.S. officers communicating on "red telephone." General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon, consulting in NORAD headquarters command center. A Navy Captain on the "red phone." Klaxon horn alerts Royal Canadian Air Force intercepter crew who scramble to their aircraft. Canadian Avro CF-100 Canuck interceptors taking off. General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon engaged in the NORAD command center. Unidentified 4-star Air Force General using "red phone." SAC bombers on airborne alert. Air Force officer alerts interceptor squadron. Pilots scramble and run to their F-102 aircraft. F-102, tail number 53-107 taxiing from hangar. Pilots quickly entering their aircraft and being secured in cockpits. F-102s taxiing at high speed.BOMARC missile readied. Civil defense officials issue air raid alert.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062848
Fictional enactment of U.S. actions in response to enemy bomber attack against North America

Cold war, nuclear war preparedness film. Air raid alarm sounding and civilians in New York City running down into subway for shelter. Surface-to-air BOMARC missiles raising into firing position. Civil Defense Air Raid Warden, in white helmet, directing people to shelter. BOMARC and NIKE-Hercules missiles readied for launch. F-102 interceptor aircraft in flight. NORAD personnel monitoring radar displays. Formation of F-102s and closeup of a pilot in a cockpit. Activities of personnel inside NORAD command Center, coordinating defense forces. NORAD Commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, on "Red Phone" for conference call receiving White House authority to strike back. SAC bomber crews scramble to their bomber aircraft. B-47s and B-52s taking off. NORAD headquarters authorizing missile sites to commence firing.SM-65 Atlas missiles being launched. Nike-Hercules missiles being raised and BOMARC missiles being fired. Enemy aircraft being destroyed in the air, by missiles. Comments by actor Raymond Massey regarding U.S. military preparedness.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062849
Scenes at end and during cleanup from Saint Patrick's Day Flood in Johnstown Pennsylvania, 1936

Damage due to Saint Patrick's Day Flood in Johnstown Pennsylvania, in March 1936. People crowding on top of the Coopersdale Bridge in Johnstown as large pieces of flood debris rush toward and underneath the bridge. People standing on another bridge as part of a building floats into it atop rushing flood waters. The river level very high due to the floods. Buildings in an area of the town. First National Bank building in background. Men stand in front of wrecked vehicles and a toppled statue in the area. The people lift a statue that appears to have fallen from its pedestal (it appears to be of a Civil War era figure). Flood damaged buildings, one which says "Democrat Headquarters." People walking in the flood damaged city.

Location: Johnstown Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1936, March 19
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063003
Women and children bid farewell to new soldier recruits in America heading for service in World War I

Young men recruits leaving a city to join the United States Army, for service in World War I. A crowd of mostly women behind ropes at a train station, saying goodbye to young men as they prepare to join military service in the American Expeditionary Force heading to France in World War 1. Women crying and in tears as they say goodbye to soldiers. Soldiers receiving new uniforms and putting them on. Soldiers pulling on new boots and getting measured for pants and shirts. Newly recruited soldiers doing "setting-up exercise" drills and calisthenics at a training camp.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063005
U.S. Army soldiers reading postal mail after the mail call at the battlefront in France.

Activities of American soldiers in France during World War I. The exterior of a building. The mail call for the soldiers. A rooster stands outside the mail call slot and then goes back inside. The soldiers arrive near the building and receive postal mail through the same slot. They read their mail. The chow wagon for the soldiers. The soldiers eat food. Soldiers walking in a battle trench. An American soldier and a French soldier stand beside a sign post showing "5th Avenue" going one way and "Broadway" going the other (humorous signs recalling the New York City famous streets). The American soldier appears to be explaining the signs to the French soldier.

Location: France
Date: 1917
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063071
Jews walking on the streets of Dombrowa, Poland.

Jews in German-occupied Dombrowa, Poland, during World War 2. Jews on streets of the city of Dombrowa. Many Jewish people of all ages wearing the star of David with text on it "Jude" identifying them as Jewish. People walking on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Crowd of people gather outside a building. Men watching from the window of the building. Many people wearing star of David.

Location: Dombrowa Poland
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063122
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