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U.S. Navy training film about special flight conditions for airships

From a U.S. Navy training film "Special Conditions of Flight" on the working of airships. Special conditions of flight are explained. An airship in flight. High winds and snow create problems for flight. It also creates problems for ground handling of the airship. The airship lands. Ground crew rushes towards it. 'US Navy' written on the airship. Men at work. Special masts are erected on the ground to handle airships during bad flight conditions. A crew inside the airship. The airship in flight. An instrument panel. A rudder man at the controls of the airship. Guided by careful weather forecast, the airship's operations are conducted.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077418
5 inch 38 caliber artillery being fired and calculations being made at U.S. Naval proving grounds in Dahlgren, Virginia.

A training film about the activities being carried out at United States naval proving grounds in Dahlgren, Virginia. Photographs of ancient ships at sea. An aircraft lands aboard an aircraft carrier. View of the U.S. naval proving grounds in Dahlgren, Virginia. An artillery at the ground. Velocity towers with coils used to determine velocity of a projectile fired. A number of booklets with a sign on them that reads 'AA range table'. Main battery building with the Firing officer at the bridge as he prepares for firing a 5 inch 38 caliber artillery. Men talk over phones as they check their communication instruments. A range boat stands by to ensure clearance of the area before artillery fire. Firing officer checks the firing circuit. Men prepare to record the velocity of the shell through photographs. Coils being raised to correspond with the angle of gun barrel. At the projectile house projectiles being numbered, weighed and measured. A balloon with a radio fixed to it being released to get weather information. Men at the gun mount as they magnetize the shells. Firing officer makes safety checks and 5 inch 38 caliber artillery being fired. Technicians record the velocity of the shell photographically. Photographic strip being developed. Technicians undertake calculation of data range table with the help of a map. Men unroll a map and work on it.

Location: Dahlgren Virginia USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 6 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077429
Five African American men undergo pilot tests to join U.S. Army Air Forces in Tuskegee, Alabama.

A film titled 'African American pilots' about the Tuskegee Airmen African American pilot training in U.S. Army Air Forces in July, 1941. Five African American pilots stand near an aircraft at Tuskegee, Alabama. Cadets and instructors walks past U.S. Army Air Forces BT-13aircraft. BT-13 aircraft take off and fly in formation. A BT-13 aircraft lands. African American pilot talks to an officer. (World War 2 period.)

Location: Tuskegee Alabama USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077452
U.S. medical battalion area set up in Okinawa, Japan during World War II.

United States soldiers in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Medical battalion area at school house in Koteshi, framed through panel window in the foreground. Soldiers open and set up folding cots inside the building. Road grader levels an area to be used by the medical battalion. A school building with tarpaulin over it for protection. Men place tarpaulin over the school roof to be used as a hospital. Trcuks and soldiers around medical battalion area. Soldiers spray walls of medical battalion area. Hall way of a building. Two soldiers come out of the doorway and walk to end of the hall. A doctor operates on the right shoulder of a Colonel, he takes out a 20 mm shell fragment embedded below his chin. A personnel tracks up sign in pharmacy. Shelves with bottles on them.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077502
U.S Department of Agriculture Scientists conduct research on DDT in a laboratory

A U.S. Navy training film titled 'DDT' about the usage and importance of DDT as a disinfectant in the United States. Swarms of worms and insects. A sign on a box reads 'DDT' . A sign reads 'US Department of Agriculture' A woman inside a lab. Man and woman conduct research. They look at a tin of DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane). A woman pours a golden liquid in a flask to dilute DT. DDT emulsion being produced. A mixture with a creamy layer in a flask. Woman stirs the mixture.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077528
Plague causing bacteria being examined by U.S. Navy in a laboratory in North Africa.

A U.S. Navy training film about the prevention and cure of plague in North Africa. Animation shows the nature of rat population that leads to spread of plague. It depicts the tactics to be adopted by the plague control team. A man uses kerosene to kill fleas and catches a rat. Rats caught, are brought to plague control laboratory. Captured rats are chloroformed. Fleas being removed from rats. Fleas being counted and identified. They are placed on slides and a technician looks at the fleas through microscope. Rats being mounted on a table and dissected and being searched for pasteurella pestis. Man looks into a microscope at pasteurella pestis. A guinea pig being inoculated with it and observed for next few days for symptoms of plague. A dead pig being dissected and it shows signs of plague.

Location: North Africa
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077553
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