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U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers in flight and a U.S. Task Force underway in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The aircraft in flight over an ocean. Aerial view of ships of a U.S. Task Force underway at sea.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070248
Information about unidentified airplanes is transmitted in the United States.

A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.

Date: 1954
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070284
Japanese aircraft crash after being hit by U.S. battleships underway in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. ships battle Japanese airplanes in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese airplanes in flight. Anti aircraft guns are fired. Smoke rises as Japanese airplanes explode. Heavy columns of smoke rise as a ship explodes. Flaks burst in the sky. Another Japanese airplane crashes. A wrecked airplane is casted into sea from USS Nevada.

Date: 1945, July 30
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070405
American astronaut John Herschel Glenn is taken aboard a ship after his spacecraft lands in the Atlantic Ocean.

A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. John Glenn in Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft traveling in space. A view of the earth from the spacecraft. The location of the spacecraft on TV monitors at Cape Canaveral in Florida. A man talks over a phone. Men at work in a building. Glenn directs the spacecraft back to earth. He is recommended to use the fly-by–wire mode. Caribbean was selected to receive Friendship 7. Glenn says that there is a fireball outside. Men at work in the headquarters building. A ship underway at sea. Men look at the spacecraft through binoculars. The spacecraft lands in the Atlantic Ocean . Glenn is taken aboard. He boards an helicopter and arrives at the headquarters.

Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070449
DUKWs leave an LST and enter water in England during World War II.

U.S. troops in England during World War II. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) underway at sea. The LST being unloaded. Men standing at a doorway. Ships underway in the foreground. Boats underway. DUKWs leave the landing craft. A DUKW enters water.

Date: 1944, June 17
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070456
Two USAAF motor rescue launches, P-713 and P-359 with crew working on board on the Bermuda Islands.

A film depicts safety measures of the United States Army Air Force on the Bermuda Islands. Two USAAF motor rescue launches, P-713 and P-359 (rescue boats) anchored at a sea beach. Crew work on board. Crew personnel smoke while playing cards on a rescue boat.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070535