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Wounded U.S. soldiers are airlifted to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted families and news reporters and photographers

Wounded soldiers from European Theater of Operation arrive by Air Evac C-54 aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, New York, where they are greeted by families and friends during World War II. Film opens with view through main cargo door into cabin of a military C-54 transport parked on the ramp at LaGuardia Airport, New York. The cabin is configured for air evacuation. Inside, wounded American soldiers are seen in a rack of litters stacked four high. A man in civilian clothes holds a clip board and speaks to soldiers on the airport ramp. A man drives a fork lift to the cargo door and lowers two of the wounded on litters to the ground, where waiting family members reach down to kiss and embrace them. Photographers take pictures and Army officers welcome the wounded. Media technicians set up microphones near on soldier who is with a woman. They record as the woman and soldier embrace and speak to each other. After momentary break, scene shifts back to cargo door of the C-54, where several Army soldiers watch the activities below where women greeting two more wounded are being photographed and recorded as they are reunited. The next scene is in a hangar, where a wounded soldier is sitting up in his litter with wife or sweetheart beside him and a man and woman behind him. Two microphones are set up next to them. The young couple kiss and embrace. Closeup of them.

Date: 1945, August 21
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071111
New York Firemen work to extinguish fire at the Lee Brothers storage warehouse at 8th Avenue and 123rd Street in New York City.

Scenes of fire fighters battling fire at the Lee Brothers warehouse at 2296 Eighth Avenue at 123rd Street in New York City. The warehouse blazes. Firemen spray water from hoses at the blaze. Two men talk to each other at the site. View of damaged fire fighting equipment, cars, and debris. (FDNY Firemen Elbert Hardman and Nelson Tuite, both of Engine 36 were operating the deckpipe on the 1929 Seagrave hose wagon of Engine 36, when an explosion blew out the top corner of the building front wall. Both fire fighters were killed and the hose wagon was destroyed.) The firemen evacuate casualties and transfer them into ambulance. Thick ice covers the building from freezing temperatures, after the blaze was extinguished. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, January 9
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071148
Ski racers skiing through a race course in the United States.

Ski racers on a race course in the United States. The ski race starts. The racers ski through the race course. Spectators watch the racers. Trees in view. The winner of the race poses.

Date: 1945, November 11
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071150
M-4 tank with dozer blade clearing snow from road and U.S. soldiers hit by gunfire in Belgium during World War II.

U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division advances in Sterpigny, Belgium during World War 2. M-4 tank with dozer blade clearing snow from road. It moves past damaged German Mark V Panther tank. Photographer with a camera taking pictures, while lying in snow. Across the road behind him, U.S. soldiers, in a parked 3/4 ton truck, are hit by gunfire from unseen source, and tumble from the truck,to the ground, where they writhe in pain. One of their unhurt companions runs for help, as a jeep stops near the truck. Next, soldiers are seen lifting the wounded from the truck, on litters. Medics carry them into a building.

Date: 1945, January 20
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071155
U.S. 3rd Armored Division soldiers examine a damaged tank and march on snow covered road in Belgium during World War II.

U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division advance in Sterpigny, Belgium during World War 2. Knocked out German Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer and American M4 Sherman tanks, line side of a road. Soldiers examine them. Tired, cold, unshaven U.S. soldiers march on snow covered road past the damaged tanks.

Date: 1945, January 20
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071157
7th Armored M-4 tanks pull off snow covered road onto a field in Belgium during World War II.

U.S. Army 7th Armored Tanks in Belgium during World War II. M-4 tanks pull off snow covered road onto a field.

Date: 1945, January 20
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071158