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Massive U.S. Paratroop attack captures airfield in Tunisia from Axis forces, during World War 2

U.S.Paratroopers attack after a 1500 mile trip from the UK. The load aboard 44 C-47 troop transport aircraft in Algeria and take off. They are escorted by U.S. P-38 Lightning fighters. The C-47s swoop low over the target airfield and paratroopers jump. They secure the airport. The C-47s are seen parked back at their airfield in Algeria, having returned with no losses.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058490
Laura Ingalls non-stop coast-to-coast U.S. record flight; also Margaret Waley found guilty in Weyerhaeuser kidnapping

Aviatrix Laura Ingalls in flight gear. Her aircraft, Lockheed Orion 9D Special, NR14222, takes off from Floyd Bennett field in New York. It sets a new nonstop flight record of eighteen hours and twenty minute flight from east coast to west coast in the United States. Ingalls was the first woman pilot to cross the U.S. non-stop from east to west. Next scenes are unrelated to Ingalls' flight: A group of men and women jurors walking on sidewalk in Tacoma Washington, during trial of Margaret Waley, wife of Harmon Waley, for her involvement in the kidnapping of young George Weyerhaeuser (nine year old heir to thriving Weyerhaeuser Company timber business in Washington state). Kaufman Leonard Company furniture delivery truck seen behind the group as they walk. The group of men and women seen entering a building. Next scene shows 9 year old boy George Weyerhaeuser holding closely to a man and avoiding cameras as he is led on the sidewalk, likely before or after giving testimony. Next scene shows 19 year old Margaret Waley, flanked by a man and a woman as she walks on the sidewalk, likely to or from court. Final scene is a group of men and women, possibly including the jurors in the case, posing on the steps of a building in Tacoma, Washington.

Date: 1935, July 12
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058524
National Guardsmen use gas bombs to disperse lumber mill strikers in Tacoma, Washington

'Strikers battle guardsmen as bayonets flash'. Lumber mill strikers clash with National Guardsmen in Tacoma, Washington. Guardsmen use cold steel and gas bombs to disperse strikers. Strikers set a jeep ablaze in the street.

Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058527
Weather Vane anemometer among scientific instruments used for weather forecasting

Scientific instruments used for weather forecast. Wind vane shows the direction of wind blow. An anemometer indicates speed of the wind.

Date: 1931
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058552
Thermograph is seen among scientific instruments used for weather forecasting in the United States

Scientific instruments used for weather forecast at a weather bureau in United States. A thermograph shows an increase and decrease in the temperature.

Date: 1931
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058555
Rain Gauge used for weather analysis and forecasting in the United States

Scientific instruments used for weather forecast at a weather bureau in United States. A man takes out water from a rain gauge into a tumbler and measures the amount of rainfall with a scale. He records the data.

Date: 1931
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058556