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A television presenter introduces Robert Golka's Desert Fire work and a woman rides a bicycle at Wendover Air Force Base.

Robert Golka and Project Tesla - his effort to create an energy source from atomic fusion, called ball lightning, at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Hangars and buildings at the Wendover Air Force Base. Hills in the background and sound of the wind. A television presenter stands before Golka's hangar and talks about the townspeople of Wendover and Golka's Desert Fire. A woman rides a bicycle with bare feet.

Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031281
The Allied invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II

June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Naval bombardment from Allied battleships and other warships. Troops descend rope nets from transports into landing craft. U.S. Coast Guard operated Attack Transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33)is flagship at Utah beach. LCVPs speed toward the beach. Troops wade out of landing craft under fire. Some are hit and fall in water. August 15, 1944, last wave of invasion in the South of France, rockets firing from assault ships. Troops arriving on the beach. Jeep drives off landing craft.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041747
Allied Forces in amphibious assaults, at Normandy, France, on D-Day during World War II

British forces in amphibious assault boats,at Normandy on D-Day, during World War 2. They fire at houses on the beach. American forces encountering German-placed obstacles and fire from pillboxes at Omaha Beach during their D-Day landings. They seek shelter under the Chalk Cliffs. Medics treating American wounded. In the British sector. Special Army engineers leave a landing craft first, followed by medics and troops. Securing the beachhead, the British troops move inland. A second wave of U.S. troops landing at Utah Beach, where German resistance was lighter. Landing craft from the USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) carrying troops to Utah Beach. U.S. troops wading a long way to a Normandy beach. U.S. LCI(L)-537, discharging troop reinforcements. A landing craft (Higgins Boat) from the USS Thurston (AP-77) landing troops at Omaha Beach. Sherman tank equipped with deep wading gear and a bulldozer blade comes ashore at Utah Beach. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 aircraft, in D-Day paint stripes, attacking ground targets.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058847
Captain Eyston in his Thunderbolt car in Wendover, Utah.

Men push a 3600 horsepower Thunderbolt car on the track at salt flats in Wendover, Utah. Speed racer Captain George Eyston gets into the car. Eyston at steering. He gets off the car.

Date: 1938, July 13
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049426
War veteran takes up courses at University of Utah in Utah, United States (WW2)

World War II veterans in Utah, United States. A sign for the city of 'Ogden'. Traffic on the streets. A sign reads 'Entering the Cedar City'. Farmers till and plow farm land. Cattle graze on farm lands. Expansive wide views of farm valley landscape with snow covered mountains in the distance. A war veteran talks to Veteran's Department official. The veteran meets the Dean at the University of Utah campus. He strolls on the tree lined sidewalks of the University campus. He enrolls for a course at the university and attends lectures.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057705
U.S. Army separation center at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City; depiction of Mormon migration westward; Salt Lake City landmarks.

On Utah and Mormonism (LDS or Latter Day Saints). Dramatization of the Mormon migration, showing large wagon train crossing prairies and wagons, horses, and cowboys crossing a river; scenes of snow covered mountains as people continue westward; view of people overlooking Salt Lake City valley. Mormon people farming, locust attack on farms and people massed together beating down locusts with shovels. Depiction of seagulls arriving in mass to destroy the locusts. Actual footage showing elevated view of Salt Lake City including Mormon Temple, Temple Square, and Utah State Capitol building in the mid 1940s. View of Fort Douglas building in Utah. Sign on board reads 'Separation Center Fort Douglas'. U.S. Army soldier at the separation center in Fort Douglas after his return from duty in World War 2. Army corporal receives a certificate that reads 'United States Army Honorable Discharge'. U.S. Army Corporal with his wife.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025699