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MATS C-124 and Navy R5D aircraft operating in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze

During U.S. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. A tracked vehicle moves on snow in front of Observation Hill. (This area would become Mcmurdo Station.) A Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-124C Aircraft taxis down sea-ice runway and turns around to takeoff . It makes makes a long takeoff roll and breaks ground with slow rate of climb, churning up a fog of snow in the process. . Small weasel with small trailer with fire extinguisher on it. Navy R5D Aircraft in the background taxiing for take off. R5D taxis. Yellow fuel truck is seen. R5D makes a jet assisted takeoff. Flame is seen from the JATO bottles under the aircraft during takeoff roll and much trailing smoke, as the aircraft breaks ground with a high rate of climb.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052043
Dr. Hugo Eckener addresses crowd upon arrival of the Dirigible Hindenburg (LZ-129) at Lakehurst New Jersey.

Crowd gathered outside offices of the Zeppelin Transport Company at a building in Lakehurst Naval Air Station, upon arrival of the German zeppelin dirigible, Hindenburg (LZ-129) following its flight from Germany. A commercial bus is parked ready to transport passengers from the Hindenburg. A photographer sits on the bus roof. Crowd listens to Dr. Hugo Eckener, of the Zeppelin Company, who just arrived on the Hindenburg. After speaking, Dr. Eckener struggles through the crowd to enter the office. Sign overhead reads, among other things, 'German Zeppelin Transport Co' and 'American Airlines Inc'. Arriving passengers leave the office and make their way, through the throng, to the bus. Several speak to reporters on their way. The name: "Pulion and Shirla Bus Company, Inc." is painted on the siide of bus, as well as lists of places it stops, including:Lakewood, Point Pleasant, and Madison Square Garden.

Date: 1936, May 9
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052060
Several passengers helped out of airship LZ 129 Hindenburg as ground crew secures it to mooring and maneuvers it on the ground

Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg, in flight, preparing to land at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey. Passengers looking out from ship's Cabin. View of control gondola, under LZ 129. Passengers are helped to disembark. Bow of airship is secured to mooring mast. Ground crewmen surround the control gondola under the Hindenburg, in efforts to control movement during landing, as other ground crews grasp lines fastened to the airship. Stern views of Hindenburg, as ground crew maneuvers her on the ground.

Date: 1936
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052071
Activities aboard the U.S. Aircraft carrier Ranger (CV-61) during deployment in Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, 1982.

Navy yellow shirt plane director guides an A-6E Intruder aircraft of VA-145, with folded wings, on deck of the USS Ranger (CV-61). The aircraft displays tail code NE of Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) and the Swordsmen insignia of VA-145. Closeup of an F-14A Tomcat tail, displaying the red wolfhead insignia of VF-1 (The Wolfpack). An aviation fuels purple shirt clambers over the top of the F-14A. Two aviation ordnance red shirts seen transporting 20mm belt ammunition across the deck for the the ship's Phalanx CIWS anti-missile Gatling gun. Yellow shirt directs a Grumman E-2 Hawkeye tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft as it proceeds along the flight deck.

Date: 1982
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052139
Destroyer and battleship fire antiaircraft guns underway at sea, Pacific Ocean.

Destroyer and battleship fire antiaircraft guns underway at sea. Japanese plane explodes and tailspins into water midst tracers. Man floats through air in parachute and lands in water. Antiaircraft guns fire. Japanese plane crashes in water. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, May 5
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052159
Herbert Roslyn (Bud) Ekins describes plan to fly around the world by commercial craft, including the Hindenburg

Herbert Roslyn "Bud" Ekins and other newsmen and reporters working at desks in the newsroom offices of the New York World Telegram newspaper (Scripps-Howard Newspapers). Ekins smokes while he types. He is going to be a passenger on the LZ-129 Hindenburg as part of his plan to circle the globe entirely by commercial air carriers. The event is sponsored by his employer, the NY World Telegram and Scripps-Howard Newspapers .Elkins describes the planned itinerary. Editor, Roy Wilson Howard, walks in and wishes Elkins good luck, telling him to make the trip in 21 days or less. Elkins puts on his suit jacket and overcoat, and departs for Lakehurst New Jersey, where he will board the Hindenburg for the first leg of his journey.

Date: 1936, September 29
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052179