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U.S. Air Force personnel handling nuclear weapons.Technicians being examined for reliability

Safe use of nuclear weapons by the United States Air Force. A Sergeant (E4) technician works on a nuclear bomb as a Technical Sergeant (E6) supervisor looks on. A Quality Assurance Evaluator takes notes. The technician reacts angrily after dropping a T304C Continuity Tester and his supervisor corrects him. The technician is then questioned by a doctor to ensure his reliability for a nuclear program. Men around an aircraft as a trailer carries a nuclear bomb near the aircraft. The bomb being attached under the fuselage of the plane. Men work in groups using the two men concept to assure that no individual is ever in a position to arm, launch, or detonate a nuclear weapon.

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058831
Workers use rotators to break rocks in an iron mine in New York, United States.

The various types of drills and bits used for drilling into rocks in the United States. An iron mine in northern New York. Men work on rocks in 40 to 100 feet deep mines. Rotators or automatic hammers being used to cut into rocks by a man. The rotators being operated by a hand as they drill into an ore bench in a mine. A man operates a hand rotator to break a large rock fragment.

Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058836
U.S. paratroopers board aircraft and take off from England for the D day invasion during World War II.

Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. United States paratroopers from different professions with camouflage make up on their faces they prepare to leave England for the invasion of Normandy. The paratroopers being briefed before the take off. They put on their combat gear. U.S. General of the 9th Air Force Brereton shakes hands with the paratroopers. The paratroopers board an aircraft and take off. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft take off from different airfields in England to bombard Normandy, France. Aircraft in flight. A gunner aboard an airborne aircraft. Bombs being released. The bombs explode causing a pillar of smoke to rise up. German coastal defenses being bombed.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058871
U.S. paratroopers of 9th Air Force Troop Carrier Command jump and land during practices prior to the D-Day invasion

A film about the D-Day invasion practices by United States Army 9th Air Force Troop Carrier Command in England during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft taxi and take off from an air field in England. The aircraft fly in formation. Paratroopers of U.S. 9th Air Force Troop Carrier Command aboard an airborne plane. Captain Frank L. Lillyman with a cigar. The paratroopers jump from the aircraft during a practice landing prior to the D Day invasion. They jump and descend with parachutes.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058877
Lieutenant General Brereton with U.S. paratroopers leaving RAF Greenham Common, England to invade Normandy in World War II

U.S. paratroopers depart England, the evening before D-day, to be airdropped over Normandy France, in World War 2. U.S. Lieutenant General Louis H. Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force, converses with two other officers as they stand by a staff car on RAF Greenham Common airfield, England. He waves a riding crop as he steps into the staff car, which carries three stars on a bumper plate. Scene shifts to the flight line where General Brereton is smoking a cigarette as he converses with American and British officers, standing beside C-47 aircraft number 43-15296. Brereton chats with two paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and shakes hands with one. The C-47, named, "That's All...Brother," taxis forward, along with several others, toward the active runway. Many aircraft are then seen taking off, one at a time, in the dusk, with their wingtip lights on.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058880
U.S. Coast Guards scrub the deck of a ship and relax while on their way to Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied fleet during the invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A man works to wire brush rust spots. Four Coast Guardsmen scrub the deck of a ship as water is being sprayed from a pipe. Men use wipers to scrub the deck. The deck house in the background. A U.S. Coast Guard man reads comics aboard the ship. Another Coast Guard relaxes. A Coast Guard reads a magazine.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058897