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The security and demolition squad carry out the destruction of a bridge in the United States.

A film depicts the use of demolition equipment by the paratroopers during World War II. Paratroop engineers aboard a truck arrive at the air base. Airplanes parked on the air base. The paratroopers come out of the trucks. They pack and carry their demolition bags. They discuss a map of the target area over which they have to jump from their airplanes. The paratroopers are divided into two squads, the security squad and the demolition squad. They board the airplanes and the planes take off. The paratroopers jump out of the airplanes over the target area and descend with the help of parachutes. The paratroopers land and advance on the field towards the bridge. The demolition squad arrives and fixes the demolition charges on the bridge. The security squad guards them from enemy. The bridge explodes. The wrecked bridge.

Date: 1943
Duration: 7 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075878
Master Sergeant George Holmes and a copilot walking outside Operations building in the United States.

Master Sergeant George Holmes at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama, United States. 'Flying Operations' written on the top of a building. Master Sergeant Holmes and a copilot walking outside the building. A sign board reads: 'Welcome to Brookley Air Force Base'. Holmes and the copilot walking.

Date: 1956, June
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076275
WB-29A crew of 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron returns from mission and prepares for next.

Views from window of a WB-29A aircraft in landing pattern at Kindley Air Force base, Bermuda. Flight crew members walking into the operations office of the 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron on the base. Flying carpet logo of the Squadron is displayed on their sign. A teletype message being received, addressed to the 53rd Squadron, containing information about a storm. Squadron officers discussing the matter in front of a weather map. Closeup of a weather map on the front of a podium from which an Air Force Captain is briefing aircrews about their next mission. A Captain in the audience questions the briefer.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076428
Activities of the USAF 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at Kindley AFB, Bermuda

WB-29A, tail number 42-94947, of the 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters) taxiing on Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda. It stops momentarily, with engines running. Squadron logo and "Hurricane Hunters," are displayed on fuselage of the aircraft. Next, it is seen taking off (repeated twice). Long sequence showing the aircraft cruising inflight, over water. Closeup of a weather map on the front of a briefing podium. A USAF Captain briefs aircrews about a mission. Aerial view of a WB-29A aircraft in landing pattern for Kindley Air Force Base. The hand of radio operator keying a message, inside a WB-29A aircraft, as it encounters severe turbulence. An airman typing a message.

Date: 1951
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076429
U.S. Navy fighter and bomber aircraft from USS Yorktown strafe Japanese bases and positions on the Truk Islands.

USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Naval officers and sailors discuss over a map on a table. Animated map depicts Japanese fleet positions on the Truk Atoll of Islands. USS Yorktown Navy flier squadron and squadrons from other carriers take off for combat over the Truk Islands. Sailors talk over the radio aboard USS Yorktown. A map shows the heavily fortified islands surrounded by air strips, and naval anchorages among the islands. Crewmen aboard Yorktown prepare the planes for take off. Machine gun fire from the planes over the Truk Islands. They dive bomb the island. The aircraft are hit and descend to the ground. A plane drops into the ocean. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese planes on fighter strips, bomb bases and sea plane ranches. Smoke due to heavy bombardment. Planes dive and drop bombs. Fire due to bombing of a fast fleet tanker hiding in a sheltered cove. U.S. bombers and fighter planes strafe other fleet auxiliaries including rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They are set on fire with 50 caliber incendiaries and armor piercing plugs. The ships on fire sink into the ocean.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 4 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021560
Bombing over secret enemy dispersal base in Beauvis, France.

Mission over secret enemy dispersal base: bombing in Beauvis, France. U.S. Army Air Force bomb group in flight to hit bombs over target. Aerial views of targets in city. Smoke rises over targets. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September 3
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024659