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B-47 SAC unit is briefed about a mission at Brize-Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom.

SAC unit arrives for a briefing session at Brize-Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet SAC(Strategic Air Command ) unit members arrive in a room for a briefing session. An officer with long mustaches holds papers in his hands. A paper kept on a desk. Members seated on chairs. Men stand at the base. A medical van arrives and they get in the van. Vehicles move in the background. Buildings in the background. A sign reads 'Brize Norton, R.A.F. Station 3920th Air Base Group, Welcomes You'. SAC members take notes. Colonel Kunkle uses a pointer to point out an aerial route for the unit. He passes the stick to next officer Major Hess. He attaches maps onto another map, and describes the mission to the bomb wing. The crew members take notes.

Date: 1953, October 31
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068765
U.S. Army Tactical nuclear weapons and preparations for Atomic Exercise Desert Rock VI at the Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Proving Grounds in 1955

United States Army cameraman seen recording Nike missile launch. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud in the distance. Army troops carried to a field by Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. U.S. infantry climb a hill firing their rifles. U.S. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen narrates the film. He speaks about the role of the soldier in the United States Army. Scientists inside a control room during a rocket launch. A rocket launch in the United States. Rocket tracker and telescope move to the rocket’s direction. Cameramen taking footage of rocket launch. Jet propulsion with rocket. A V2 rocket launch. A jet explodes after launching. A nuclear bomb explosion. A missile takes off. Devices and people track missile takeoff. A rocket launches from a ship. Midair explosion after a rocket hits a target aircraft.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061659
Airmen operate controls in a control tower unit at Brize Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom.

A control tower unit at Brize Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. A U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet aircraft after it takes off. The control tower unit. Tower operators in the control room. They are seated on chairs. Airmen operate the controls. A man speaks over a radio. Men speak into ground to air radio microphones. A close up of a man talking over the radio.

Date: 1953, October 29
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068770
United States 8th Air Force Officers parade before a formation of men in United Kingdom (WW2)

United States 8th Air Force Officers parade on a field on 'Victory in Europe Day' (VE Day) in United Kingdom after the end of World War II. A military band plays before the formation of men. Reviewing officers in foreground. The reviewing party salutes as the marching troops pass by. An officer carries a flag.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054222
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States Ambassador Winant sign the Epochal treaty in London, United Kingdom.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States Ambassador Winant in London, United Kingdom. They sign the Epochal treaty leasing Air and Naval bases to the United States in return for the fifty Destroyers. Men stand and watch the dignitaries signing the treaty.

Date: 1941, April 8
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028541
United States troops create a Shanty town made of glider crates in the United Kingdom (WW2)

Bomber towing a glider over an air base in the United Kingdom during World War II. Aerial view of a glider assembly field. Glider crates in assembly field. A soldier stands on the balcony of a “shanty” house made from glider crates. Sign reads “Shanty Town”. Soldiers open a glider crate. Men remove the glider carefully from the crate. Two men take a metal bed frame to the crate. A man stands by the door of a shanty house. “Vine and Hollywood” is written beside the door. Soldiers relaxing inside Shanty houses. Soldier sitting on bunk bed polishes his shoes while another writes letters. A soldier with headset listens to his homemade crystal set radio and reads a magazine. Specially constructed blinds of glider crate tiny house open. Troops lined outside a glider crate barber shop. A sign detailing the rates for a haircut. A barber shop made from scrap. A barber cuts the hair of a soldier inside makeshift barber shop.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079914