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Support equipment mounted on a half truck driven over a scrub land and the launch of a Pershing missile in the United States

A film about missile launches in the United States. U.S. Army 2nd Missile Battalion of 44th Artillery conducts a test under simulated operational conditions. A mobile launcher and support equipment mounted on a half truck moves over a scrub land at Cape Canaveral. A Pershing missile being erected at a firing site. Personnel go through a countdown and check out the missile launch. Tracking of the Pershing missile. The missile being launched.

Date: 1963
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067237
Major Leroy Gordon Cooper in Faith 7 aboard MA-9 and dining ceremony at an officers club in the United States.

A film about missile launches in the United States. Major Leroy Gordon Cooper, an American astronaut, suiting up. He puts on a space helmet. He goes to a NASA( National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) transfer van followed by others. Cooper goes to an elevator and the elevator lifts up. McDonnell technicians shake hands with the astronaut. He squeezes into a Faith 7 capsule. An MA-9 on a launch pad. The ignition, lifting off and climb up of Mercury-Atlas 9, the last U.S. Mercury spaceflight manned space mission (Atlas 130D), on 15th May, 1963. National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) cameramen at work. Major General Leighton I. Davis, Commander Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTR), observes the launch. The capsule splashes down. A navy recovery team on USS Kearsarge (CVS 33), as the capsule is hoisted aboard and Major Cooper egresses from Faith 7. A band plays as Cooper walks. A dining ceremony at Officers Club on Patrick Air Force Base honoring astronauts and Dyna Soar pilots on 2nd March, 1963. Colonel Henry Dittman Base commander, Dr. Kurt Debus, Major General Leighton I Davis, The Secretary of Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert, Colonel Swanson, Walt Williams, Lee S Harding and Brigadier General Harry J. Sands Jr. seated at a front desk. Immediately in front of the head table are honored guest, astronauts and Dyna Soar pilots: Major Donald K. Slayton,Captain Virgil I Grissom,Major Leroy Gordon Cooper,Milton O Thompson,Major James W.Woods, Major Russel J. Roggers, Major Henry C. Gordon, Captain Edward H. White II,Captain James A. McDivitt. The Secretary of Air Force Zuckert speaking.

Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067243
Saturn rocket test launch; John F. Kennedy present at Polaris missile launch in the United States

A film about missile launches in the United States. A Saturn rocket on a pad. The launch of the rocket. Cameramen in action. Arrival of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a United States Air Force Boeing VC-137C and tour of Cape on November 16, 1963. President Kennedy in a car with Major General Leighton I. Davis Commander Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) and James Webb, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator, together with Launch Operations Center Director Kurt Debus. Astronauts Major Leroy Gordon Cooper and Major Virgil Grissom in civilian clothes brief Kennedy on the Gemini program. The President with Senator George A. Smathers and Werner Von Braun at the base of the Saturn rocket. President Kennedy boards a United States Marine Corps (USMC) VH-3A helicopter. The helicopter takes off and lands on USNS ( United States Navy Ship ) Observation Island (T-AGM-23). President Kennedy wearing a sailor jacket meets the commander of the ship. He observes the Polaris missile launch from USS Andrew Jackson submarine on 16th November, 1963. President Kennedy talks to Major General Davis and Dr. Kurt Debus at the launch operations division of the NASA. He boards a Boeing VC-137C aircraft at Cape Canvaeral and bids farewell.

Date: 1963, November 16
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067244
Construction materials made in factories and the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in the United States.

A historical documentary about German born civil engineer John Augustus Roebling's early experimentation with wire rope suspension bridges in the United States. A suspension bridge. A railroad on tracks. The smoke stacks of John Augustus Roebling's factories. Hot molten metal in containers. Hot metal rods in a factory. Wires being made in the factory. A man operates a machine. A weaving machine in operation. A worker wearing protective gear welds using a welding torch. Insulated wires made on a machine. A rope on the roller of a machine. Flasks in a laboratory. Men work on a wire testing apparatus. A tank atop a factory. The Golden Gate Bridge. Animation depicts the principles of the construction of suspension bridges. The animation depicts the principle of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Aerial view of the bridge under construction. Water gushing beneath the bridge. Machines at operation during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. A steel structure is erected. Barges in a river. Towers made for the bridge. Construction material hoisted a tower.

Date: 1933
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067266
American campaign against Japanese-held islands in the Pacific during World War II

U.S. sea power in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aerial view of landing craft speeding through the water below. Animated map of Pacific Islands including the Solomons, New Britain, and New Guinea. Shows arrows depicting American amphibious assaults on Russell Islands in February, 1943; on New Guinea, and Rendova in June, on New Georgia in July, on Eastern New Georgia in August, on Choiseul, in October, and Bouganvillle in November, 1943. Aerial view of a Pacific Island airfield. Grumman F4F aircraft with engine running on an aircraft carrier. Bow view of an American Essex class Aircraft Carrier making way in heavy seas. A Douglas Dauntless airplane heading away from a carrier (in background). Map showing locations of American North and South Pacific naval forces and arrows pointing to Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and then to the Marshall Islands (Kwajalein Atoll and Enewetak Atoll). American infantry marching with full field packs, at a port, where they board transport ships. An artillery field piece being loaded on the ship, along with landing vehicles tracked, and army trucks. A convoy of troop ships and supply ships at sea.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067284
Frederick M. Harris presents a meritorious plaque to men of 763rd Ordnance Company in Bad Mergentheim, Germany.

A meritorious plaque given to 763rd Ordnance Company in Bad Mergentheim, Germany during World War II. U.S. Army Brigadier General Frederick M. Harris Commander of 63rd Infantry Division presents a meritorious service plaque to men of 763rd Ordnance Company. Brigadier General Harris watches men passing in review.

Date: 1945, June 29
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067314