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Various means of bringing water to fight forest fires. Back packs, pumping from streams, truck mounted pumps, and airplanes

Fire fighters using backpack manual pumps to fight forest fire in United States. Water being pumped by gasoline driven pump, from a stream. Water tanks mounted on trucks for use in fighting forest fires. Aerial view looking down on a Douglas O-2 aircraft in flight over forest. 1930s experiments in using aircraft to deliver water to fight a fire. A man carries a 10 gallon water bomb and another one fixes it below the wing of an aircraft.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058691
Helicopters and aircraft help to fight fire in forests in United States by detecting fire and helping in firefighting.

Man drives an offroad vehicle specially designed, with individually suspended wheels, to traverse difficult terrain during a forest fire. A Canadair CL-215 "Super Scooper" twin engine float plane filling its 1400 gallon water tanks as it skims over a lake and then discharging it in a demonstration, in Quebec, Canada. Solar energy powered weather instruments and a tower with view of its instruments and a solar panel with solar cells on it. A satellite in the space. Closeup aerial view of Cessna O-2 Skymaster surveillance aircraft in flight. Technician inside aircraft using infrared detectors to find forest fires. Image of the territory below on monitor screen aboard the airplane. "Smoke Jumpers" parachute from an aircraft. A helicopter hovers over trees in forest and lowers a rope that firefighter uses to rappel into the forest. Firefighters manually fighting a fire with hand tools at the fire's edge. They quickly leave the area, as a flareup occurs and then return to continue fighting the fire.

Date: 1984
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058694
General Tojo of Japan declares the outbreak of war with United States during World War II.

OSS film from World War 2. Japanese declare war against United States during World War II. Japanese warships underway at sea as they fire broadsides. Japanese military and Naval officers at a press conference. An officer reads out the declaration of war with the United States to the press as newsmen take down notes. Japanese General Hideki Tojo announces the outbreak of hostilities. Crowds on street listen to the radio broadcast. Students parade down a street in Japan. Women bow in respect outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. An animated map shows the Japanese position in Indochina region including Singapore, Philippines.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675058749
American troops aboard United States ship Thomas Barry return home via New York at end of World War II in Europe.

United States troops ship USAT Thomas H. Barry (formerly the SS Oriente) carrying American soldiers as they arrive back home in New York, United States following the end of World War 2 in Europe. Men and women on the dock welcome the troops and wave in the foreground with United States troopship Thomas Barry underway as it approaches pier 16 at Staten Island in New York City, United States. American troops aboard the USAT Thomas Barry as they return from Europe after World War II. People on the pier wave to the soldiers. Troops on board the ship shout and whistle. War brides and babies on board the ship along with the troops. United States ship SS Santa Rosa waiting to dock.

Date: 1945, May 19
Duration: 5 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058760
An insurance agent highlights the benefits of Veterans Administration's insurance policy in United States.

United States Veterans Administration's role for the war veterans of World War II. An enactment: A World War 2 veteran talks to a man at desk. An insurance agent named Joe speaks about the insurance provided by Veterans Administration. A graph depicts the business that Veterans Administration has surpassed the business of all the insurance companies put together in last five years. He lights a cigarette and then explains the reason for low insurance premium rates available especially to veterans. Piles of insurance mail received at the United States Veterans Administration. Postal letters and mail being sorted out. A map of United States shows the number of civilian deaths and accidents during World War II years. A man at desk as he reviews an insurance coverage document.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058767
Canadian war veterans at McGill University in Montreal, Canada where they take up engineering courses after the war.

Canadian World War II (WW2) veterans enroll at McGill University (845 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada) in Montreal, Canada. War veterans in their uniforms at the McGill university campus in Montreal, Canada. Veterans enter a building with a sign on it that reads "McGill Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium." Men walk up the snow-covered stairs of a building on the university campus. A sign on a building reads ' McGill McDonald Engineering building' veterans in a classroom inside the building. A math professor writing on the blackboard. A woman professor demonstrates a model as students listen. A laboratory professor explains various dimensions of a model to students.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058771