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Women Air Force Service Pilots train at Avenger Field in Sweetwater Texas during World War II

American flag flying over U.S. Army Air Forces Sweetwater Airfield (Avenger Field) in Texas, during World War 2. Above one building is seen the image of “Fifinella” on the logo of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). Women Pilots, in civilian clothes arrive by bus and enter the building. Next, they are seen in formation performing calisthenics, led by a male Air Force instructor. They also do pushups, and pullups, on horizontal bars. (Some have difficulty with this.) Next, a woman supervisor is seen blowing a whistle and the women, now dressed in fatigues, lining up in formation. In a classroom, a U.S. Army instructor explains an aircraft engine, using a cutaway engine. They take classes in map reading, navigation, and Morse code, and must pass exams in the various subjects. An Army Air Forces pilot holds a model plane while describing maneuvers. Next, a WASP is seen with an instructor as she enters a Link trainer, to learn and practice instrument flying. Several Link trainers are seen rotating with WASP trainees in them. Two WASP women, in flying suits, don seat pack parachutes. They and others head toward North American T-6 trainer aircraft on a flight line. They board the airplanes, in pairs, with one in the forward cockpit and one in the rear. (Narrator comments that on the next flight they will change cockpit positions.) Closeup from the front, as engine starts and prop turns. Other T-6s are taxiing out for takeoff. The two women pilots being followed by the camera, are next seen on the runway taking off. Views of various T-6 aircraft in flight, including some of two maneuvering in close formation in sky filled with white clouds. A T-6 peels off and dives. T-6s are seen landing back at the field. Closeup of one woman pilot in the cockpit of a larger aircraft, checking her appearance with a compact mirror. Women pilots in bathing suits go for a mass swim in a lake. Views of them swimming. They relax in the sun, afterwards. Women pilots helping one another fashion their hair. Several views of WASP pilots marching and passing in review during a graduation ceremony at the airfield. View from the rear of WASPs standing at parade rest during ceremony where they receive their wings from famous woman pilot, Jacqueline Cochran, founder of the WASP. Closeup of Ms. Cochran, in civilian clothes, on a speakers stand. Closeups of individual women pilots in the formation and of others as they receive their wings from Jacqueline Cochran. Film concludes showing WASPs with their baggage, boarding C-47 transport aircraft to take them to their various assignments. Closeup of U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command logo on side of the C-47. Inside the airplane, the WASPs don parachutes. The aircraft takes off.

Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032858
Traffic and pedestrians on tiered roads in Brooklyn, New York City.

City traffic on tiered roads in Brooklyn. Pedestrians walk on the uppermost tiered road. Two men lean on the railing along the uppermost tier.

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033343
Traffic on Palisades Parkway in New York.

Light traffic on divided Palisades Parkway near New York -New Jersey border. Colorful Autumn trees on both the sides of the highway via POV driver's view as car proceeds down road. Road signs on side of the highway. Exit lane branches off on the right side of the of Palisades Parkway.

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033344
View of traffic on Palisades Parkway in New York.

Traffic on divided Palisades Parkway near New York -New Jersey border. Vehicles move on both the sides of the highway. Trees in Autumn bloom on both the sides of the highway via POV view driving down highway. Road signs on the side of the highway. Vehicles on an overhead bridge which spans the highway. A bridge stretches across Hudson River. Traffic on the bridge.

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033345
General Arnold presents "wings" to future Army Air Force officers at the West Point Military Academy in New York.

A graduation ceremony for West Point Military Academy Cadets. 514 cadets graduate into the American Army. General Henry H Arnold, Chief of the Air Force, presents "wings" to one of the future Army Air Force officers. The graduate salutes back. The Cadet Corps parade in front of the commanding officers and pass in review.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033501
Gunder Hagg, a Swedish track star, lands in the U.S. and begins training.

Gunder Hagg, a Swedish athlete, seeks new records in U.S. A plane lands and Gunder Hagg emerges. He is welcomed by an officer. Hagg waves to the officer. He runs on a race track.

Date: 1943
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033502