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Japanese bomb balloons bound for the United States are shot down; examination of parachute and bomb apparatus

Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071921
Allied plane lands and is greeted by Australians; Japanese guns are examined in Balikapapan, Borneo island.

Aftermath of battle on Balikapapan, Borneo island in World War 2. Animated map shows bombing on Balikpapan. Aerial views of Balikpapan harbor. Coastline of Balikpapan. First Allied plane (A Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat aircraft) lands as it is greeted by Australians. Damaged airfield, Japanese guns including big guns, dual purpose guns, HOW and antiaircraft guns on airfield are examined by soldiers. Oil refinery on island.

Date: 1945, July 9
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071923
American troops invasion force aboard LST, landing on D-Day, and formation of B-17s Flying Fortress in flight in Europe.

American troops invasion force group in large numbers in tent area. General Dwight D. Eisenhower walks and talks among the paratroopers and soldiers on the evening before the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. Allied Invasion troops march onto landing craft. LST (Landing Ship Tank) loaded with soldiers. Normandy beaches: fires are burning and smoke is seen along coastline. Troops walk down gangplank into water of Normandy beaches on D-Day. Formation of USAF Boeing B-17s Flying Fortress in flight. Top turret of B-17, large formation of B-17s in the background. German Me 262 aircraft in flight, plane descends toward earth. B-17 bomber going down, engines on fire.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071936
Units of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division entering outskirts of Manila, Philippines, during World War II.

Troops from 5th and 8th Regiments, of the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division, proceeding along a railroad and bordering sidewalks, as they enter outskirts of Manila during World War 2. Scenes of devastation with wooden structures completely destroyed in adjoining fields.

Date: 1945, February 12
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071952
Women's Army Corps visit The Sphinx and Pyramids in Giza and the Mosque of Muhammed Ali in Cairo, Egypt

Women of United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) visit Egypt during World War 2. After leaving Italy, a group of WACs pose for a camera beside The Sphinx in Giza, Egypt. They ride camels. Pyramids in the background. After sandals are tied to their feet, they visit The Mosque of Muhammed Ali in Cairo. They walk the streets of Cairo; one of them touches a donkey as they walk. WACs seen sitting in a row.

Date: 1944, July 18
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071974
German submarines, destroyers, and their crews on naval exercises in the Baltic Sea during World War II

Opening scene, from World War 2, shows German sailors gathered around two naval officers on a dock. One is in a dark uniform with dark hat. The other is in working uniform and a white hat. He renders traditional hand salute. View from further away shows many sailors and a couple of officers crowded together on a wooden pier, and shifts to reveal sailors lined up formally on the deck of a submarine tied to the pier. A closeup from below shows officers saluting from the bridge of the first submarine. Sailors wave their hats from a pier next to a large docked ship, as the submarine sails away into the harbor. Change of scene shows submarine cruising on the surface passing a camera on another boat (unseen). Views of a destroyer with sun in background obscured by mist. Submarine seen submerging. Closeup of sailor using a signal lamp on a submarine. The submarine and a destroyer signalling each other with lamps. The submarine proceeding partially submerged. Scene changes to closeups of a sailor aboard a destroyer using an optical range finder. Next, sailors roll out hose on the deck of the destroyer. An officer and a sailor connect the hose to a seawater pump on the deck. Extreme closeup of the officer. Sailor on deck looks through binoculars at a submarine on the surface. Gun crew responds to battle station manning 20cm Vierling Flak 38 guns on the destroyer. Officer, with hat on backwards, looks through a gun sight. Multiple views of the gun crews firing twin Flak 38 antiaircraft guns. Two German Junkers Ju 88 bombers, flying low, pass the destroyer. Closeup of German naval officer aboard the destroyer. Two more bombers seen high overhead. Several German submarines seen cruising at high speed on the surface. Glimpse of a sailor using signal lamp. View from a destroyer looking astern at another one behind it, as they cruise at high speed, raising large wakes. New segment shows crew at work inside a submarine. Brief view of Captain looking through periscope. Crew members rapidly turning valve control wheels as boat prepares to dive. Another view of destroyers in formation raising huge wakes.

Date: 1944, May
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675071993