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First flight of Convair XB-36 in Fort Worth, Texas

First flight of Convair XB-36, on August 8, 1946, piloted by Chief test pilot Beryl Erickson and copilot Gus Green. Air and ground crews doing extensive inspections and preflight checks of the XB-36 parked on ramp. Two of the team standing on horizontal stabilizer examining the vertical stabilizer. Tail number 213570 clearly painted on vertical stabilizer. Two Air Force personnel standing next to one of the huge single main gear tires. Engines are started and XB-36 taxis toward runway. It spins around on active runway towards direction of takeoff, and commences takeoff roll, gradually breaking ground in a shallow climb angle.

Date: 1946, August 8
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075682
U.S. submarine fires at a bare 3-masted Japanese boat with its 5-inch deck gun, during World War II

Film begins showing view from a surfaced U.S. submarine, of a three-masted Japanese sailboat at a distance during World War 2. Some smoke is in the air near it. Several tracer rounds are fired from the submarine toward the boat. Rounds are seen falling short. View of the boat when closer to the submarine. Officer and some sailors on the deck of the submarine. The officer holds a hand gun and one sailor holds a Thompson submachine gun. A small power boat sits next to the sailboat, displaying an inordinately large flag. Submarine crew maintains close watch using binoculars. Closeup of sailors on the submarine deck. Next, the sailboat is seen sitting alone at a distance. Glimpse through submarine's periscope of the Japanese sailboat at a distance. View from the camera boat of its crew on deck manning its 5-inch deck gun, with the sailboat a considerable distance away. Gun crew begins firing at the sailboat. Rounds fall short and show water splashes where they hit. Some black smoke is in the air. Sailor loads a clip of shells into the gun. The submarine fires leisurely at the sailboat, with pauses between rounds. View from upper deck of submarine as the gun crew loads and fires. Black smoke rising near the target boat. A round strikes and raises cloud of black smoke.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076046
U.S. infantrymen advancing and P-47 airplanes flying overhead in Normandy, France.

U.S. 2nd Armored Division advances in Normandy, France during World War II. Tank destroyers and infantry being deployed in an open field. Infantrymen advancing. The infantrymen move through hedgerows. Two dead U.S. soldiers in the foreground. The 22nd Infantry Regiment advances. Air support is provided by United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts as they fly overhead.

Date: 1944, July 26
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076252
Hurricane is forecast to cross Cuba and the tip of Florida

A chalkboard sketch showing anticipated course of a hurricane moving across Western part of Cuba and thence across the tip of Florida and into the Atlantic ocean. Animated schematic diagram shows colliding air masses generating counterclockwise rotation of air forming a low pressure condition-- the birth of a Hurricane.

Date: 1951
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076422
37 passengers and crew members of a trans-Atlantic transport airplane escaped death as the airplane crashed in Connecticut.

A trans-Atlantic Air France Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (F-BGNA) crashes in Preston City, Connecticut, United States. 37 passengers and crew members of Air France Flight AF075 escaped death. The wrecked airplane and the damage in the area where the airplane crashed. People look at the wreckage. A woman carrying her child while seated in chair. Wounded in hospital beds. Doctors and nurses treat them. Other passengers are seated in chairs inside the hospital.

Date: 1954, August 3
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076494
JB-2 robot bomb produced and test launched in the United States during WW2.

Manufacture and testing of a new robot bomb in the United States: A Republic Aviation and Ford Motor Company collaboration known as the JB-2 Loon, modeled after the German V-1 flying bomb. Interior of a war production factory. Worker welding part of bomb frame. Workers wheeling completed bomb fuselages on wheeled platforms in the plant. Closeup of an African American man wheeling a bomb. Henry Ford II and Ray Rausch, of Ford Motor Company, who oversaw the production of the pulsejet engines for the JB-2 bomb. Men working for the construction of the robot bomb. Closeup view of engine being fired on a test stand. Men and women war production workers at the Willys-Overland production plant in Toledo, Ohio are seen working on the interior components of the flying bomb, then closing the completed fuselages, and attaching the wings to the flying bomb. Engineering officers from the Army Air Forces Air Technical Command inspect a completed JB-2 flying bomb. View of a test launch o the bomb from a sandy beach area. The bomb engine fires and the bomb launches out over ocean waters, dropping its auxiliary launching apparatus beneath it, close to shore.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076588