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U.S. Navy Department develops ships and boats for amphibious assaults during World War II.

Film opens showing the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. Next are views of the U.S. Navy and Munitions building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC (Sign on building reads: "Navy Department.") View of Senior Naval officers in a conference room in the building. Next scene shows a group of military planners discussing a three dimensional model of a Pacific island with landing ships and landing craft near the shore. A group of Army and Navy officers discuss documents as they stand in front of a huge wall map of the world. They walk together and point to the Mediterranean portion of the map. A large sign points toward "Naval Research Lab." Inside a Navy Commander and Lieutenant Commander confer over some maps with two civilians. Next, a room full of draftsmen (including a woman) are seen bent over drawing boards. Two engineers bend over an instrumented cutaway of a ship's hull. Senior military officers sit around a conference table. American and British flags are placed at the end of the room. Closeup of two British officer attendees. Civilian engineers and designers gather around a table. Workers at a shipyard gather on and around a Navy ship that displays a battery of four antiaircraft guns. Men in a foundry preparing to pour molten metal from a ladle into a mold. A milling machine taking a deep cut on the edge of a steel plate. A large engine being moved by an overhead conveyor in a factory. Men fabricating boats in a factory. View, from a moving platform, of men painting a newly manufactured Higgins boat (Landing Craft vehicle personnel, LCVP). A new Landing Ship Tank being launched at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. USS LSTs 340 and 341 at their launchings in Portsmith.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071822
Adolf Hitler in stand, gives Nazi salute as German troops pass in Berlin, Germany.

Adolf Hitler reviews troops on his 50th birthday in Berlin, Germany. Gathering of German troops. German troops goosestep march past Adolf Hitler reviewing them in stand. Army trucks, search lights, sailors and band passing. Eagle and Swastika sign. Hitler, ruler of Germany in stand gives Nazi salute to goose stepping forces.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1939, April 20
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071887
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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071921
Shah of Iran visits Fort Knox, Kentucky. He inspects tanks, watches firepower demonstrations and reviews troops

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, visits the U.S. Army Base at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Shah Pahlavi climbs onto a tank and inspects others. He watches a firepower demonstration showing tanks with flame throwers. He reviews troop formation while standing in a jeep, and then on foot. Troops parade. Troops hold flags of U.S. and Iran.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1949, November
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Farsi
Clip: 65675071927
Wounded U.S. troops from Luzon are transferred from C-46 aircraft, to ambulances, at Tacloban Field, Leyte, Philippines (WW2)

U.S. soldiers carry wounded patients (prisoners of war rescued by U.S. Rangers on Luzon) from air evacuation C-46 airplane, on stretchers, and transfer them to ambulances, at Tacloban Field, Leyte, Philippines during World War II. The ambulances are driven away. Ambulatory former prisoners disembark from a United States Army Air Force Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft. Interior of the C-46 air evacuation airplane shows wounded on bunk beds. The wounded are carried from the C-46 aircraft. The ambulances drive on the airstrip. Aircraft in the background.

Location: Leyte Philippines
Date: 1945, February 14
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071951
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.

Location: Manila Philippines
Date: 1945, February 12
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071952
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