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Alexander Vandegrift and Clayton Vogel drive in a jeep and a Japanese sunken ship off the coast of the Solomon Islands.

Japanese ships smashed in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II . Henderson Airfield at Gaudacanal. A U.S. aircraft in flight. A new runway built by U.S. soldiers. U.S. Marine Corps Major General Alexander Vandegrift at the airfield with other officers. A burning and sunken Japanese ship at the Solomon Islands. A pilot in the cockpit of a U.S. aircraft in flight. Vandegrift and U.S. Marine Corps Major General Clayton Vogel get in a jeep and move towards a jungle. Japanese troops in jeeps cross a bridge and enter a canal. Japanese infantry men walk on a dirt road. The marines bring supplies on amphibious tanks. A U.S. ship set on fire off the shore. Smoke rises due to the fire. The marines unload supplies from the ship.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069146
Harry S. Truman sails for the Potsdam Conference on cruiser USS Augusta and deplanes in Berlin.

The Berlin Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. USS Augusta underway. U.S. President Harry S. Truman aboard ship USS Augusta. The cruiser underway. Truman stands on a bridge of USS Augusta. Another dignitary stands beside him looks through a binocular. U.S. sailors aboard the cruiser. The sailors salute. Truman climbs down a ladder. People on a dock wave to Truman aboard USS Augusta. A close up Truman seated on a deck with other officials. Truman disembarks in Antwerp with U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Truman gets in a car. People crowd on either side of a street and greet him. Cars drive on an airfield. Aircraft parked at the airfield. Truman shakes hands with an officer. The soldiers stand in formation. President Truman boards an aircraft. Other U.S. officials board after Truman. A man looks out from a window of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis. An officer salutes. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight over clouds. The propeller of the aircraft rotates. President Truman and other U.S. officials deplanes in Berlin. They are greeted by an officer in Berlin. The officers stand under a wing of the aircraft in the background. Truman with U.S. officials walks and shakes hands with a delegate. General Marshall reviews a British military parade. The delegates seated at a conference table. The British soldiers parade. Tanks advance during the parade. The military soldiers fire field guns. Harry S. Truman shakes hands with UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The field guns in formation and soldiers fire the guns together. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, July 7
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069645
Joseph M. Dixon and Scott Leavitt meet Indian chieftains and General Scott speaks to them in Indian sign language in Montana.

A documentary shows U.S. Army Major General Hugh L. Scott and U.S. Representative from Montana Scott Leavitt meeting Native American Indian chiefs at Fort Browning in Montana to evolve methods of perpetuating the Indian sign language in the 1930s. The Indian chieftains of various tribes assemble in front of tents for the council. U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon and Scott Leavitt meet the Indian chieftains. They all enter a Piegan council lodge which is the meeting place. General Scott and Indian chieftains seated inside the lodge for the council. General Scott opens the council and uses sign language to tell his objective. Dick Washakie of the Shoshone tribe speaks using the Indian sign language. General Scott translates stories simultaneously. A short face Piegan tribal speaks using sign language.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069788
General John J. Pershing reviews 11th Marine Regiment and decorates Generals in Tours, France.

U.S. Army General John J. Pershing decorates Generals in Tours, France during World War I. The Generals lined up. U.S. soldiers stand in formation. General Pershing stands in front of them. The U.S. flag in the background. General Pershing escorted by officers decorates U.S. Army General Francis Joseph Kernan, Rogers, and other Generals lined up. The Generals stand with medals around their necks. General Pershing escorted by officers leaves the field after decorating the Generals. U.S. soldiers stand in the background. The decorated Generals standing at attention. A band plays music. U.S. 11th Marine Regiment soldiers parade. The decorated Generals stand in the foreground. General Pershing reviews 11th Marine Regiment. General Pershing leaves after reviewing the parade.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069850
Events leading to Cuban Missile Crisis as United States military prepares for emergency in October 1962.

Events leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. A helicopter lands on the White House lawn in Washington DC. Scenes of Cuba and emergence of Castro in recent prior years. Beach views in Cuba. A military parade in an earlier time, with Cuban troops marching in front of the Monument to the Battleship Maine. Next scene shows desecration and destruction of the Battleship Maine Monument in Cuba.. A crowd of cheering Cuban people as Fidel Castro enters Havana, Cuba in 1959. Exterior view of United Nations building in New York City. Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev embrace during meeting in New York in September 1960. Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union Anastas Mikoyan deplanes and is greeted by Fidel Castro in Havana. A trade agreement between Russia and Cuba signed by Fidel Castro. Russian cargo ships en route to Havana. Cuban refugees in small boats. A map depicts proximity of Cuba to the U.S. U.S. surveillance aircraft heading for Cuba. A sign reads 'HQ. 4080 S W Intelligence Division'. Men examine reconnaissance photographs of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The photographs show transports and tents for fueling and maintenance. A sign reads 'Strategic Missile Facility GAM 77 Combined Systems'. U.S. missiles rolled out of hangar and readied for emergency. A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber aircraft takes off from an airfield. U.S. Navy ships in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. submarine underway at sea.

Date: 1962, October 16
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070167
Information about unidentified airplanes is transmitted in the United States.

A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.

Date: 1954
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070284