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Views of Thule Air Force Base in Greenland and interior of Convair B-36D.

Exterior of a building, sign on the building reads 'Thule Air Base, Greenland'. Views of Thule Air Base from South Mountain. Convair B-36D taxiing. Crew near the nose of the plane. Gunners scan skies through traversing sight. Interior of Convair B-36, flight engineer at his station with throttles and engine instruments visible. Interior of the radio operators station in Convair B-36. Radio operator sending a message by modulated carrier wave (morse code).

Date: 1953, October 26
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032430
Part of U.S. Air Force indoctrination film for Airman being assigned to stations overseas in Great Britain.Various views of United Kingdom.

In a training film for American airmen in the early 1950s, actor Larry Hagman plays role of a U.S. Airman being entertained as guest in a British home, where differences in daily life are discussed. British family seated in living room and having tea with the American military airman, and tending a fireplace. Examples of notable British manufacturing. A British Canberra jet bomber taking off. A class A4 streamlined 4-6-2 British steam locomotive, bearing British Railways number 60027 (Named Kingfisher and built at Doncaster Works). Pistons moving on large British marine engine. Fabric printing and manufacture.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065566
Maintenance operations performed upon B-47s after they land at Sidi Slimane Air Base in Morocco.

Refueling of U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet aircraft after it lands at Sidi Slimane Air Base in Morocco. A rain covered parking ramp. A B-47 taxis in a heavy rain fall. Across an airfield men stand around in rain awaiting the arrival of the B-47. An airman directs the B-47 into a parking area. The aircraft being directed into the refueling station . An airman in the foreground give hand signals. Ground crewmen activity during the refueling and maintenance operations performed upon the aircraft when they land. A ground crew chief opens a door and attempts to lower a ladder, which is out of reach. A B-47 parked on taxi or maintenance strip. Heavy rains in the area. Activity around the aircraft as they are maintained after flight. A B-47 taxis into the refueling station. An airman attaches a refueling hoist to the aircraft. A flight line director uses a radio communications system during the maintenance operations. The flight line operator standing outside the aircraft talks to a person inside over a radio phone. A B-47 taxis into the maintenance area. Already stationary B-47s being maintained along the sector of the strip.

Date: 1953, November 2
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068773
Allied paratroopers train during World War II, in England

A film titled 'Paratroopers Maneuver' about the British and U.S. paratroopers training in England during World War 2. Formation of Allied C-47 Skytrain in flight. Paratroopers in training seen in aircraft as they prepare to jump from the aircraft over RAF Ramsbury (USAAF Station 469) in Wiltshire county. Paratrooper soldiers inside the aircraft hookup to static lines. The jump master is photographed, by a camera strapped to his chest, as he descends with a cigar in mouth. Unusual view of face of paratrooper as he descends in mid air before parachute opens, and then relief and smile on his face as the chute opens and slows his descent.The paratroopers jump, descend and hit ground. The static lines are pulled back into the aircraft. Several paratroopers are pulled by strong breeze across the ground, before they can spill their chutes. One paratrooper being treated for injury suffered from collision with another trooper. Preparations made inside an aircraft to drop supplies. Supplies in parachutes dropped and land on ground. (These shots are taken flying just to the north of Ramsbury village and looking down on the woods and fields that are divided by Hilldrop Lane.) The airdrop of supplies is made by C-47 aircraft. The supplies descend and hit ground. (The C-47 aircraft in low flight formation drop the supplies in fields to the east of Hilldrop Lane just north of Ramsbury.)

Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067748
U.S. AAF personnel cleaning weapons, talk with Captain Clark Gable at RAF Polebrook in England, during World War II

Scenes from filming of "Combat America," during World War 2, at RAF Station Polebrook in Northamptonshire England. United States Army Air Force personnel standing near a basin for cleaning weapons. They clean the weapons. Airbase buildings in the background. Views of Captain Clark Gable approaching the two men and talking to them as they clean and ready the guns.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062860
How the automobile and new highways and roads changed life in America, up to 1953

Closeup of early 1900s Ford Model T wheels turning while car is moving. Scene opens to newly built modern highways of 1953 with lots of mixed traffic. Views from roadways of industrial plants, sheep grazing, and farmer plowing his land with a tractor. Close up views of 1950s car tires running on highway at high speed. A woman carrying groceries from her station wagon to her house. People outdoors in front of garden apartments. Children leaving school and boarding buses. View from car of an oil field worker driving to work. Modern apartment buildings.Scenic views from car driving along near lakes, hills, and ocean. Modern car passing a Model T on the road.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068823