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United States B-25 bombers, B-24 bombers, and P-38 fighters attack Japanese positions in Papua New Guinea.

August 1943: Animated map depicts Allied ground advances, 5th AAF air fleet stations, Japanese opposition base at Rabaul as well as Japanese positions and network in Papua New Guinea. Map depicting strategic Japanese positions of Wewak and Boram. 5th AAF soldiers decide to raid the two posts. 17 August 1943: USAAF B-25 Mitchell bombers and P-38 Lightning fighters attack the Japanese post of Wewak. Heavy bombardment by the American bombers. Smoke and explosion from the bombardment. Aerial view of the Japanese airplanes parked on the airstrip. 20 August 1943: USAAF B-24 Liberatoor bombers and P-38 Lightning fighters attack the Japanese position at Boram. Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Mitsubishi Zeros attack the B-24s, P-38s intervene. Bombs dropped on the target. Smoke and explosion from the bombardment. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020567
United States Vice President Richard Nixon in a meeting at Rue Gia Long palace in Saigon, Vietnam

United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives at the Dinh Gia Long Palace (now known as the Ho Chi Minh City Museum 65 Lý Tự Trọng, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Flags of the United States and Vietnam fly atop the palace. Soldiers dressed in white stand for an honor guard. Vice President Nixon, American Ambassador to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam) Donald R. Heath, along with other officials from Vietnam enter the palace where they have a meeting. After the meeting they come out of the palace.

Date: 1953
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037412
20th Anniversary of the Voice of America. Scenes of Washington, DC and headquarters of the Voice of America. Staff at work.

Fountain and pool in front of U.S. Capitol. Washington Monument in Washington DC, United States. Voice of America Headquarters, Wilbur J. Cohen Building, 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC. News editorial and newsroom staff busy writing materials for broadcast Teletype tapes being cut by journalist. Banks of teletype machines receiving news from all over the world. VOI staff person assembles incoming story from teletype machine printer. Vast files of VOI broadcast tape recordings related to many countries. One file rack is labeled: Lao, Thai, Cambodia. Staff member retrieves tapes while another signs for some.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024505
Japanese representatives at the UN Assembly, UN and UNESCO in United States and Paris.

Japanese diplomats in the United States. Car and bus traffic of 1950s cars on street in Washington Dc with the United States Capitol building in the background. Elected Japanese representatives climb up stairs of the U.S. assembly. The U.S. Vice President Allen W Barkley and Secretary David Rice Atchison receives Japanese representatives and shake hands with them. They pose. Building of the United Nations (The temporary United Nations Headquarters building in Lake Success, Long Island, New York, in the Sperry Gyroscope Corp building.) Japanese representatives go in the building. Warren Austin, a U.S. delegate stands and shakes hands with the representatives. They sit in hall, wear headphones and listen to the translated discussions. Scene changes to Paris, with car traffic on street and Arc de Triomphe in background. Building of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization). Japanese representatives get in the building. Meeting in session. Representatives of Japan, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Japanese representative addresses and shakes hands with the UNESCO president and other members.

Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026683
American soldiers being taken as prisoners in Vietnam by Viet Cong

Air kinescope of TV news broadcast about U.S. soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POWs) by the Viet Cong. Large illustration of POWs on wall behind newscaster, Charles Collingwood. A map of Vietnam highlights Con Thien, on the Vietnam-Laos border. Viet Cong film shows them, covered with foliage camouflage, firing small arms as they move through brush and surprise a group of American soldiers who surrender and are taken prisoner. The Americans are escorted by armed Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Views of individual American POWs. The news anchor speaks with a sign in the background that reads ' Causality reporting officer ' (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1970, August 31
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042351
Major events in various countries during 1961 including Lumumba's death, Algerian and Vietnam War and Congo crisis.

Major events around the world in the year 1961, causing international tensions and crisis after crisis. A large crowd runs on roads during riots in Cairo caused by death of African anti-colonial leader Patrice Lumumba. Fidel Castro strengthens his regime in Cuba. Castro addresses a large crowd of his supporters. Warfare splits newly formed nation of Congo. Katanga President Moïse Tshombe waves hands towards crowd of his supporters. Soldiers fire rifles and advance cautiously in grasslands of Laos and South Vietnam during Vietnam War. War between brothers in Algeria. Soldiers fight on streets of a town.

Date: 1961
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056465