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Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn in as Director of the United States Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WW2)

Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn into the Army with the rank of Director of the United States Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. The organization would later be called the Women's Army Corps (WAC). Major General Myron C. Kramer administers oath of office to Oveta Culp Hobby. General George C. Marshall stands between Kramer and Hobby as he witnesses the ceremony. United States Secretary of War Henry Stimson also witnesses the event. Hobby stands with her arm raised under oath. Hobby shakes hands with Stimson, Marshall, and Kramer after the oath taking. Oveta Culp Hobby makes short statement, noting that, "This new corps is the 1942 expression of the patriotism and courage that the women of America have always demonstrated in every national crisis." Hobby continues, “In a total war, there is a total responsibility of all citizens regardless of sex, race, or creed. Every woman must do her part. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps offers an opportunity for every woman eligible under the law to do her part.”

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942, May 16
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080232
Operation Doorstep personnel bring model cars and mannequins into the Nevada Test Site

Explosion from nuclear blast. Destroyed houses and debris after a nuclear weapon explosion during nuclear testing by the United States. A mannequin partially covered by wood debris. Two men inspect groups of sitting mannequins. View of male, female, and infant mannequins. A man carries a female mannequin into a truck. Old and new passenger cars parked on the side of a road. Cars are marked with numbers. Cars start to drive in a convoy. Cars driving on the highway to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)’s Nevada Test Site, formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, in Nye County Nevada. Cars are left at Yucca Flat. Joshua trees and weeds on Yucca Flat. Instruments to measure temperature are attached to the cars. A radiation film badge behind a car seat. Parked cars are stationed in various ranges from intended ground zero of shot Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear test during Operation Doorstep. A man places a female mannequin on the passenger seat of a car. A boy mannequin is seen inside the car.

Location: Nye County Nevada USA
Date: 1953, March
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080260
Mannequins posed inside rooms of model houses at the Nevada Test Site before nuclear blast

Vehicles parked outside a model framed house at the Nevada Test Site before Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep. United States Civil Defense personnel gather outside the model framed houses. A KTLA news van parked outside a model house at the Nevada Test Site. Venetian blinds on house windows. Mannequins sitting in a model first floor living room and dining room. Girl and toddler mannequins sitting on the floor together. A mannequin lying in a sickbed. A pair of shoes on top of bedside table. A mannequin holding a book faces the window. A scale model of a box-type shelter. Mannequin inside a shelter. A bomb tower seen from a distance. Model house and a car near the bomb tower. Outdoor shelter of reinforced concrete at the Nevada Test Site. A scale model shows the interior view of a basement exit type home shelter.

Location: Nye County Nevada USA
Date: 1953, March
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080261
VF-124 squadron Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment repair aircraft parts

A petty officer gives a newly hired woman officer a tour of the Naval Air Station Miramar, California (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States). The petty officer showing the hangar of the NAS Miramar to the female maintenance officer. Electronics technician checking the radar of a Grumman F-14 Tomcat aircraft. Petty officer takes his new colleague to the maintenance control desk. A man talks to a chief at the maintenance control desk. A squadron man repairing an aircraft part at the AIMD or Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment. Mechanics repair a piece of aircraft wing or tail.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1974, August
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080443
VF-124 squadron support crew engage in various talks at NAS Miramar, California

Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft landing at the Naval Air Station Miramar (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States), California. A man walks past a fuel tanker. A mechanic in front of dashboard. Squadron support crew with parachutes. A man communicates from a control tower. Crew shows a new helmet to an airman. A petty officer and a woman system maintenance officer tour the survival equipment room where pilots suit up before a flight. The pilot raises his concern about a mask to crewman.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1974, August
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080444
Ohio Senator George H. Bender delivers a campaign speech

Incumbent President Eisenhower with wife Mamie Eisenhower, Ohio Senator George H. Bender, and Bender's wife Edna Eckhardt in Cleveland, Ohio soon after President Eisenhower’s 1956 Republican nomination as president. “Special B&O” sign in front of President Eisenhower and others. Crowds of Republican supporters hold United States flags and signs “Re-elect President Eisenhower” and “Re-elect Senator Bender” in Cleveland, Ohio. Senator Bender delivers a speech in front of the crowds at at Cleveland Public Square (50 Public Square Suite 1700, Cleveland, OH 44113). News van from media such as WSRS radio are seen.

Location: Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: 1956, August
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080495
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