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American citizens gather around living room console radios and portable radios in other locations, listening to news.

Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.

Date: 1946, December 7
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060480
Chinese airmen board a U.S. troop carrier aircraft at Austin, Texas

United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063424
A German V-2 rocket, vertical launch tower and a gantry crane at the Guided Missile Proving Ground in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Testing of German V-2 rocket at the Guided Missile Proving Ground in Alamogordo, New Mexico. An aerial view showing the vertical launching tower for small-type missile and a gantry crane. V-2 on the ground nearby. A view of surrounding countryside.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047460
V-2 rocket explodes during test firing at White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico,United States

A newsreel titled ' Rocket crashes in test' shows a V-2 rocket being carried away to White Sands Proving Grounds for test firing in New Mexico,United States. Rocket being launched off and it begins to descend soon after taking off. It crashes into the ground and explosion occurs.

Date: 1946, November 11
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038448
A German V-2 rocket crashes after being launched at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.

A German V-2 rocket at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. A U.S. personnel standing around. A range control building, a gantry crane, a V-2 in launching position and a vertical launching tower for other types of missiles. The V-2 is launched and crashes in the far background. The gantry crane and a smaller type missile launching device in the area. Mountains surrounding the area. A couple of workers stand around and discuss.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047461
Various types of radar screens used in tracking the missiles at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.

A German V-2 rocket is launched and tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Parked vehicles and mountains in the background. A radar installation shows various types of radar screens used in tracking the the missiles.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047462