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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers install Bailey bridges in France during World War II.

A U.S. Army jeep crosses a Bailey Bridge in France during World War II. Army engineers are still working around the bridge. The jeep passes a bulldozer and a dump truck at the site. Wrecked wooden building in the background. Scene shifts to another Bailey Bridge across a canal. A tractor pulling a construction crane and a truck crosses the bridge, followed by dump truck. Several barges are in the canal, including one with a white star identifying it as an American army barge. Scene changes to the site of a bombed out bridge, where Army Engineers are at work. A damaged cathedral dominates the opposite shore. Camera pans to left where a huge steel truss bridge is seen high overhead. Further left, is the Bailey Bridge, shown earlier, across the canal. Closer view of the Bailey Bridge with construction moving across it. Change of scene shows French General Charles de Gaulle and U.S. Major General Leonard Gerow leaving a building, accompanied by a surrendered German General and followed by some American and French soldiers. After posing for the camera, they turn around and all reenter the building.

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043994
Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru, of Japan, visits the U.S. State Department, in Washington, DC

Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru visits the Department of State in Washington, DC. He enters the State Department Building, walking with a cane, and is greeted. U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, meets and converses with him. He also meets with other U.S. officials.

Date: 1955, August
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044025
Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman is greeted by General Matthew Ridgway on visit to U.S. troops in Korea. He conducts Mass.

Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman visits U.S. troops in Korea during Korean War. Cardinal Spellman disembarks from a U.S. Military C-121 (Lockheed Constellation) aircraft, at Seoul Airport, in Korea. He is dressed in black clerical habit for traveling. General Matthew Ridgway greets Cardinal Spellman .A Korean girl presents flowers to the Archbishop who enters a car and drives away. Later, Cardinal Spellman, dressed in Army clothing, arrives at a sanctuary set up under a very large tent. Many soldiers line up to kiss the Cardinal's ring. Cardinal Spellman conducts Mass and administers Holy Communion to soldiers.

Date: 1952
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044055
Dramatization of North American Air Defense (NORAD) operations involving U.S. and Canadian military.

Air Defense displays in NORAD (North American Air Defense) Command Post, Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Airmen updating the displays. NORAD commander, General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy, are in the Control Room. General Kuter uses telephone. Technicians in radar warning site detect two target missile returns on their scope. U.S. ship at sea detects target returns on its radar. EC-121 aircraft aloft detects radar returns. All this information is reported and consolidated at NORAD command post. Views of hands closeup on typewriter and teletype machines. View of vintage punch tape or ticker tape moving through a machine to be read. Close-up views of hand reaching for phones with choice of yellow phone, black phone, or red phone. Canadian and American officers report. General Kuter and Canadian deputy consult.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044163
Dramatization of Strategic War events. North American Air Defense (NORAD) and U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) assets deploy

Cold war exercise dramatization showing actions by NORAD (North American Air Defense) control room (war room) staff in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, and Strategic Air Command (SAC) in missile defense response to enemy attack. A Navy ship's captain reports enemy detected on radar. NORAD pilots run to Royal Canadian interceptor aircraft and take off. NORAD Commander, U.S. Air Force General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy seen in NORAD Command Post. They phone another 4-star general who picks up a red phone to call the White House. SAC bombers are seen in flight. U.S. Air Defense F-102 interceptors are scrambled.

Date: 1962
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044164
Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense,talks about the policies of the Strategic Defense Initiative in the U.S.

A briefing on the Strategic Defense Initiative in Washington DC. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State European and Canadian Affairs Richard Burt and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle discuss United States government policy with regard to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Richard Burt in a studio talks about the Soviet aggression. Richard Perle talks about the policies with regard to the Strategic Defense Initiative.

Date: 1985
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044181