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Saigon evacuees, including Nguyen Cao Ky, on deck of USS Midway. Cessna O-1 lands with Vietnamese family aboard

Evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese refugees from Saigon during Operation Frequent Wind (fall of Saigon), at conclusion of Vietnam War. Large group of South Vietnamese people escaping Vietnam are seen on deck of aircraft carrier USS Midway. Former Vice President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, is seen leaving a helicopter and being escorted across the deck. Midway's deck crew prepares for emergency landing of a Cessna L-19/O-1 airplane, carrying a family of 7 persons. Lacking a radio headset, the pilot dropped a note that requested permission to land. The deck had been cleared of several helicopters (pushed overboard) to make room for the Cessna to land. A fire truck and firefighters stand ready. The Cessna aircraft is seen circling the Midway and setting up a landing pattern, above the ship. It lands smoothly on the carrier deck. The pilot, South Vietnamese Air Force Major Ly Bung, and his wife, are seen walking across the deck. Major Ly Bung holds his arm up acknowledging the other evacuees on board. (Note: This Cessna O-1 airplane was eventually brought to the U.S. and can be seen in the National Museum of Naval Aviation, at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida.)

Date: 1975, April 29
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069507
South Vietnamese evacuees board the USS Blue Ridge from small boats off the coast of Vietnam

South Vietnamese civilians escaping Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese, at the end of the Vietnam War. USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) maneuvering off shore of South Vietnam. Flotilla of small Vietnamese civilian boats carrying evacuees approach the USS Blue Ridge. U.S. Navy sailors take lines from the boats and help refugees to board the US Navy ship.

Date: 1975, April 30
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069510
A man takes measurement of Private John's big feet to make Army shoes in San Francisco, California.

A U.S. Army soldier having big feet in San Francisco, California. The soldiers march in a squad. Private John from New Jersey wearing sandals while marching. A drill instructor speaks to him. The long feet of the soldier. The soldier gets a desk duty. John seated at a desk. 'US Army' written on his uniform. A close up of the soldier having big feet. A man takes measurement of his feet for making Army shoes.

Date: 1957, August 15
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069548
Keystone planes drop bundles of food to Tangier Island residents cut-off by ice jams in Chesapeake Bay, United States.

Ice jams in areas of Tangier Island and Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay Maryland, leave resident fishing community cut-off from supplies for weeks and starving. A truck drives up in front of a U.S. Army Air Corps Keystone B-6A biplane bomber at a hangar of Langley Field. The U.S. airmen transfer bundles of food supplies from truck to aircraft. The B-6A in flight. Aerial view of ice-jammed area showing houses and barns surrounded by ice jam. The bundles of food being dropped from B-6A onto Tangier Island. The B-6A in flight.

Date: 1936, February
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069576
Men carry repatriated injured soldiers aboard ambulances at the Tokyo annex and Mrs. Clark shakes hands with former prisoners.

Operation Little Switch for repatriation of former prisoners of war late in the Korean War (followed by Operation Big Switch in August). Released United States soldiers who were POW (Prisoners Of War) are in transport from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo annex in Japan. Medics load sick or injured U.S. Army soldiers aboard ambulances at the Tokyo annex. An African American soldier, former prisoner of war, smiles. Ambulatory former prisoners walk out. Several views of smiling African American patients. Mrs. Maruine Doran Clark, wife of General Mark Clark, shakes hand with repatriated U.S. Army soldiers at the airbase.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069615
Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill sit around a conference table and the Potsdam Conference begins, Berlin.

The Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. The delegates in a conference hall. A German officer after defeat signs a document. The officers shake hands with Generals. The ruins in Berlin. A damaged building. People stand on the ruins and debris . Men use shovels and fill the dirt in buckets. A close up of a German woman. A woman shows her anger. The delegates enter a hall for the Potsdam conference. Stalin meets a delegate. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill stand together. Other stand in the background. The delegates meet each other. The conference begins. All delegates including Truman, Stalin and Churchill sit around a conference table.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069648