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Captain Gehres aboard the damaged USS Franklin approaches the Brooklyn Navy yard after Japanese Kamakazi attacks

USS Franklin (CV-13) arriving at Brooklyn Navy yard in New York City, after being severely damaged by Japanese attacks in the Pacific, during World War II. Navy band plays at the pier. Captain Lesslie H. Gehres standing with his Navigation Officer, Commander Stephen Jurika,Jr., aboard the USS Franklin as it approaches the Navy Yard. The Captain looks through the binoculars and talks with Commander Jurika. He smokes a cigarette. He issues instructions through the voice tube. Damaged flight deck of the USS Franklin. (Note: West Coast repair facilities were all full of damaged U.S. ships, so the USS Franklin had to proceed to the East Coast for final repairs.)

Date: 1945, April 26
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059687
Wall of ice-flow and water sweeps down a gorge and inundates an entire village of Wassaic in town of Amenia.

Huge wall of ice hits Wassaic village in town of Amenia, New York. Wall of ice-floes and water sweeps down a gorge and floods an entire village of Wassaic.

Date: 1934, March 5
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060547
U.S. WACs (Women's Army Corps) during a close order drill and drive jeeps in Astoria during World War II.

African American Women's Army Corps of U.S. Army undergo military training in Astoria, New York during World War II. Interiors of building show African American dentists at work on patients. African American women of U.S. WACs (Women's Army Corps) perform a close order drill and drive jeeps.

Date: 1944, April
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060605
Crew of a United States destroyer launches a paravane during maneuvers in the Atlantic Ocean.

U.S. warships, including 4-stacker destroyers, leave New York Harbor for maneuvers in the Atlantic Ocean after World War I. Sailors relaxing on crowded deck of a U.S. Destroyer. Another destroyer and other vessels off to starboard. Crew maneuvers what appears to be a paravane (used in minesweeping operations), on davit. The ship's officers look down from the deck of the destroyer, where device is lowered into the water. Smoke rises from water, below the deck. Pieces of material being towed in water by lines from the Destroyer. Officer and sailors salute an officer disembarking. Officer,holding a megaphone, steps to platform and descends toward a launch. Views of streamers flying from a ship's mast and cables being pulled skyward above the ship. (holding a balloon, or other object aloft?) A motor launch filled with sailors passes rapidly. Buildings nearby in background.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061036
United States sailors and officers transferring old submarines to British Navy and Polish Navy early in World War 2.

US Navy ceremony handing over older submarines, early in World War 2 to the British Navy and Polish Navy, in New London, Connecticut. U.S. Navy officer reads a document as sailor stand and watch. U.S. Navy officers and sailors leave submarine and walk onto dock. British sailors take possession of the submarine. British officers conduct review of sailors on the submarine. Polish flag raised on another submarine as personnel salute. A sailor raises a ribbon flag on the conning tower. A Polish Navy sailor holds the flag of Poland on the submarine deck. An officer near a deck gun.

Date: 1941, December
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062833
Men standing on a street in the United States read newspapers about the Russians exploding an atomic bomb.

Men reading various newspapers (mostly from New York) in the United States. Views of several newspaper headlines such as 'Truman says Russia set of Atomic blast' after President Truman revealed to the American public that the Soviet Union had successfully detonated an atomic bomb in a weapons test. Traffic on a road. Man in 1940's suit and hat standing on a street reading a newspaper. (World War II period).

Date: 1949, September 23
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063476