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Commander of the 376th Bomb Group Libya, North Africa, briefs air crews for mission against Nazi aircraft production complex, WW2.

U.S. Army Colonel Keith K. Compton, commander of the 376th Bomb Group in Libya, North Africa briefs his Army Air Force aircraft crews for the first Allied bombing mission against the Nazi German ME-109 (Messerschmitt Bf 109) aircraft manufacturing plant south of Vienna at Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, in World War 2. The map that Colonel Compton is using shows the air routes to and from the target. The mission will commence early the next day, on 13 August 1943. An unrelated scene shows U.S. Army and Army Air Force men conversing with an Australian soldier in a summer uniform.

Date: 1943, August 12
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060793
A Japanese film describes her Empire ambitions in the early 1930s

Film opens with animated map showing Japan and its nearby Asian mainland neighbors. Arrows from Japan point to areas and islands that Japan considers part of the Japanese empire. In addition to Pacific islands, they include Asian mainland places, Manchuria, and the Sakhalin Islands. The map shows the Northern limit of Japan's territorial reach with a line drawn on the map at about 47 degrees North latitude. The map shows the reach of Japan's empire extending South to include all of Manchuria and in the Pacific to encompass all the scattered islands in the Pacific accessible to Japan. The map begins drawing a circular boundary to the East encompassing all these areas of the Japanese Empire. Film shifts to Japanese navy warships patrolling the Eastern Pacific boundaries of the Empire, and bi-wing aircraft flying in formation overhead. Rising sun symbol seen on underwings of biplanes. Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō who was later Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Japanese Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War is seen seen as a young Admiral in 1895. Next, he is seen in 1934 at the age of 86, coming out of a barn and walking toward the camera. He is bent over and walks slowly, dressed in woolens and wearing thick eye glasses. (He died on May 30, 1934.)

Date: 1934
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675061004
Women parade at a bathing suit fashion parade at Bradley Beach, New Jersey.

A bathing suit fashion parade at Bradley Beach, New Jersey, south of Asbury Park. Women parade along a street in bathing suits. African or possibly African American children wearing grass skirts carry a trophy and dance. A boy in a costume resembling a amplifier with horn speaker. Sign reads, "Our Loudspeaker" A girl wears a bushel basket with a sign on her back that reads "another one for the mayor to look into" Young women in bathing suits carry trophies. Some women have shorter hear in flapper style. One wears a sash that reads "Miss Asbury Park" Heavy film reticulation throughout clip.

Date: 1922
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061268
The Mummers Parade on the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shows men and women in dancing costumes.

The Mummers Parade held on New Year's Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Men dressed up as women (men in drag) in dancing costumes parade along South Broad street. Spectators lined up on sidewalks. The American flag is spread and carried along the street by men.

Date: 1944, January 3
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061497
Quaker-sponsored American pacifists sail from Japan in yacht "Phoenix of Hiroshima" to bring medical supplies to North Vietnam

Quaker-sponsored American pacifists sail from Misaki, Japan to bring medical supplies to North Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Yacht "Phoenix of Hiroshima" at a dock in a Japanese harbor, before starting the first of its three trips bringing aid to both North and South Vietnam. Seven American pacifists from "A Quaker Action Group" (AQAG) set sail in the "Phoenix of Hiroshima" bound for the North Vietnamese port of Haiphong, on the group's first of three voyages. A flag flies from the yacht. Views of some of the participants on the boat including Phil Drath, Betty Boardman, Dr. and Mrs. Earle Reynolds, and Bob Eaton. People on the dock wave as the yacht leaves the harbor heading to Vietnam.

Date: 1967, February 16
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061509
U.S. P-40 Warhawks bomb Japanese positions in Battle of Myitkina during Burma campaign of World War II

U.S. P-40 Warhawks bomb Japanese positions in Myitkina, Burma during World War 2. Chinese and U.S. officers at an airfield in Burma. U.S. P-40s take off from the airfield to bomb Japanese positions. Formation of p-40s airplanes. They peel off and drop bombs on Japanese positions. Smoke billows up from explosions. U.S. Army General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell steps from his C-47 transport airplane (named "Uncle Joe's Chariot") and is greeted by U.S. Army Brigadier General Frank Merrill (of Merrill's Marauders) on an airfield in Kandy, Ceylon, where he is to consult with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061532