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Hovercraft to carry commuters is demonstrated in Oakland, California

Spectators on shore of Lake Merritt, in Oakland, California, watch demonstration of British-built hovercraft scheduled to carry commuters between San Francisco and Oakland. This will be the first commercial use of hovercraft in the U.S.A. Various views of the hovercraft in operation, including from inside the vehicle. Its ability to float, with engine stopped, is demonstrated. Narrator comments that the hovercraft can operate over any surface.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033540
Patti Thomas, of USO Bob Hope Troupe, entertains troops with soldier volunteers, on Bougainville, during World War II.

The Bob Hope Troupe on U.S.O. tour to entertain troops in the South West Pacific, during World War 2. Three enlisted men take turns performing with Patti Thomas on the stage, in Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Several soldier volunteers share the stage with performer Patti Thomas. One Soldier does a Hawaiian hula dance with her and another attempts to keep up with her doing the "can can." A third soldier does a "Boomps-a-daisy" routine with Patti Thomas.

Date: 1944, August 2
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033575
Meeting of the NATO Military Committee to address a trouble spot warranting their attention.

Cars drive up to NATO headquarters at the Palais de Chaillot (Palais de Chaillot 1 place du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre - 75116 Paris) Paris. Inside some delegates to the NATO military committee are seen seated around a large round conference table. Closeup of some delegates as they deliberate about a trouble spot at a location in France, described in a newspaper that one holds up for all to see. The delegates are seated with National identities shown on place markers. German General Adolf Heusinger is the Chairman of the NATO military committee. Camera pans about to different delegates as the chairman asks for their comments and thoughts. It focuses briefly on delegate from Germany, then quickly to other delegates, not identified. Later it pauses on Norway, Turkey, and the U.S.A. NATO members are polled by the Chairman and vote unanimously to support the consensus position. Scene shifts to a steam whistle blowing at end of shift at a heavy industrial complex. Some workers depart on bicycles. Others leave by private cars. Steam and smoke rise from multiple smokestacks and other sources at the plant. Scene shifts to airbase where two jet fighters with single bubble canopies and twin intakes, taxi on a ramp. In the background several Dassault Mirage III aircraft are seen parked in a line. The taxiing aircraft are headed toward two more like them that have just arrived and parked on the ramp. The pilots move those two forward as French pilots approach them. Closeup of pilot climbing out of the cockpit. View of the NATO conference table being abandoned for the day. In the headquarters, A man walks about, where machines are seen that have transmitted the results of the day's meeting and decision, to all the NATO member nations. NATO staff chefs in a planning session. View of the empty NATO conference room.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034032
USAAF P-38 aircraft heading to Sicily on bombing mission, from North Africa, in World War II

P-38, of the U.S.Army Air Forces 14th Fighter Group, raises dust as it taxis close to the camera on Telergma airfield in Algeria, North Africa. Several 3-plane flights of P-38s take off, join up in formations, and fly overhead. A series of views, from inside a P-38, of others in formation as they fly over North African territory en route on bombing mission to Sicily, Italy, during World War 2.

Date: 1943, June 21
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034870
YR-4 Whirlaway helicopter pilot checks a crashed B-25 in Burma during World War II

U.S.Air Force pilot examines a crashed B-25 bomber in Burma, during World War 2. American pilot steps from Whirlaway helicopter, carrying a paint can and brush. He walks through deep grass, to a crashed B-25J Mitchell bomber, serial 43-3951 "Cornhusker" of the 83rd Bomb Squadron, 12th Bombardment Group. He climbs onto the B-25 and paints a large cross on one wing (visible from the air) to indicate that the crash has been reported and checked. He climbs into the cockpit, from the top, and removes instruments.

Date: 1945, February 5
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037630
Munitions handling team installs fuzes in M82 bombs at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand

U.S.Air Force munitions handlers wait as an Air Force tractor pulls a flatbed trailer of M82 bombs into in a bomb assembly area. The team of Air Force and Thai workers manuallu unscrew caps from noses ot the bombs while a Thai worker uses a type of lug wrench on the fuze well of the bomb bodies. The scene is repeated in a re-take. The Air Force truck driver speaks on a mobile telephone. Closeup of Thai workers prying caps from rear of the bombs and inserting fuzes.

Date: 1969, April 23
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039078