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Soldiers discuss strategies and enter a village captured by the enemy in the United States.

A training film shows an enactment of invasion of a village by U.S. soldiers. A group of soldiers discussing the model of a village in the United States. They are divided into three groups- the killing party, the covering party and the searching party. The soldiers advance towards the village and enter it. Houses and buildings in the village. Aerial view of the village. The killing and the covering party take their positions. They fire rifles and guns. The searching party searches the houses. They take care of booby traps and search the houses. Smoke rises from explosions inside a building. Every possible hiding place is investigated by the soldiers. The soldiers come out of the building. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076750
Men taking measurements of recruits for uniforms and shoes at a training camp in the United States.

A training film in the United States depicts training of soldiers in the army. A U.S. flag on a building. New army recruits seated in the hall. An officer addressing them. The army recruits taking the oath of the army. They arrive at a training camp. The recruits standing outside buses and officers instructing them. They march towards camp buildings. A board outside a building reads: 'Infirmary'. The recruits enter the building. Their physical examination is conducted. The recruits march towards another building after their physical examination. A board outside the building reads: 'Insurance and Allotments'. The recruits seated in chairs outside the building. An officer instructing them. They are given papers. The recruits reading the papers. Men taking fingerprints of the recruits for their routine records. The recruits lined up outside a building. Men taking measurements for their uniforms inside the building. Measurements for shoes are also taken. A board reads: 'Here Stands the Best Dressed Soldier in the World'. A recruit putting on his uniform. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076754
Recruits board a train as they leave for their first assignment in the United States.

A training film in the United States depicts training of soldiers in the army. A board outside a building reads: 'Infirmary'. The recruits enter the building. A medical examination being conducted. The recruits seated in a theater. A surgeon talking about contamination of diseases by the soldiers. The recruits drill. An officer instructing them. The recruits sweeping the ground with brooms. Some of the recruits cleaning containers and dishes in a mess. A bugler blows a bugle. The U.S. flag flying on a flag pole. Officers and the recruits saluting the flag. They arrive at a railroad station with their personal belongings. They board a train and the train moves on the railroads. They move for their first assignment. Men seated in a house discussing about the training. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076758
Observation stations located to provide information to pilots about weather conditions at airports

A United States Air Force Weather Service meteorologist points at a large synoptic chart and briefs about the weather, while being recorded and broadcast via television. USAF operators in a control tower as an airplane lands on a runway. To provide information to the pilots observation stations of the Air Weather Service are located at the end of the runways. A man enters an observation station. He works on equipment. Voice messages using pre recorded words translate machine weather data into understandable information for pilots.

Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076762
Hurricane Hunters. USAF and the National Hurricane Advisory Center working in cooperation in Miami, Florida.

Operations of the Hurricane Hunters in the United States. Extremely high altitude view looking down on a hurricane On the ground, trees blown up by winds and a town submerged in water. Meterologists and technicians working in the National Hurricane Advisory Center in Miami, Florida. Flight Operations building at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. Air Force personnel reading weather messages. View from below of U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) Weather Service WC-130E/H aircraft taking off. A notice about the hurricane being printed out. The WC-130E/H aircraft in flight during a regular mission for checking wind speed and direction. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls of the aircraft, which is encountering considerable turbulence. A dropsonde being ejected out from the aircraft. A man working on an instrument. A MAC Weather Service WC-130E/H aircraft taking off.

Date: 1966
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076778
Characteristics and names by which tropical cyclones are known in different places is discussed in the United States.

A documentary in the United States on occurrence of tropical cyclones. A rubbled area after being hit by a tropical cyclone. Soldiers carrying a dead body on a stretcher. Cyclones are known by different names based on their geographical locations. Animation depicts names of cyclones in different areas with the help of a map. In the Western Pacific they are known as typhoons. They are known as Baguio in the Philippines. They are called cyclones in the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. In Australia they are called Willy-Willy. A cyclone is called a hurricane in the Eastern Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Characteristics of tropical cyclones. Counter clockwise wind flow at the time of a cyclone. The pressure when the tropical cyclone approaches. The eye of the tropical cyclone may be very small or very large in diameter. The strongest winds around an eye average from 90-150 knots. The storm is divided into semicircles for orientation. The right semicircle is considered to be the most dangerous semicircle because of its stronger wind. The left is considered to be relatively less dangerous because of somewhat weaker winds. A demonstration is done by considering ships stuck in both the parts. The ship stuck in the right semicircle revolving in the area. The ship stuck in the left one arrives towards the end and comes out of the storm. Ships underway at sea during a storm. Clouds in the sky. Rain begins to fall. A man checking a parametric center. Animation shows a ship arriving towards the storm center. The ship's radar used to locate the ship's location.

Date: 1971
Duration: 6 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076784