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U.S. Army B-6A bomberst fly in formation over Long Island and Hudson River in New York

Formation of B-6A bombers flying over Southern Long Island, New York, above Jones Beach and South shore residential estates. They head northward where Long Island Sound and the North Shore of Long Island can be seen. In one aircraft, a West Point cadet is seen , sitting next to the pilot, in open cockpit of bomber, looking at map. The formation proceeds towards the Hudson River and over a dam, reservoir, and water aeration plant providing water to New York City..

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073090
A military band plays at the Capitol during the John F. Kennedy presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington DC.

Presidential inauguration ceremony of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Washington DC. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the west steps of the U.S. Capitol for the ceremony. The American flag flutters in wind from a flagpole in front of the Capitol. A military band plays.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1961, January 20
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073212
U.S. Army 710th Tank Battalion supporting U.S. Marines in Battle of Peleliu, during World War II in Pacific

M4 Sherman tanks of the U.S. Army 1st. Platoon, A Company, 710th Tank Battalion provide fire support to Marines of 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, at Horseshoe Valley in Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. View from Marine position overlooking the valley, as M4 tanks slowly move through the valley battleground. The tanks are accompanied by Marine infantry. Explosions and smoke rise from hillsides as shells fired by tanks (unseen) explode. View from behind Marines watching the explosions. Glimpse of an M4 Sherman tank with name, "Honey Rose" on its side. Camera pans over smoke rising from shelling. Brief closer view of tanks moving slowly in the valley and firing their guns. Infantry moving beside and behind a tank. Three tanks together firing their guns. More explosions and smoke in the hillsides. Closer view of tanks. Another view of the three tanks firing together. (Note: Reportedly, the tank named "Honey Rose" was driven by Sergeant James A. "Jack" dayton, Jr. of Wheeling, West Virginia, who named the tank after his wife, "Rose." It was later struck by a Japanese anti-tank round that killed their machine gunner.The rest of the crew left the crippled tank with minor injuries.)

Location: Peleliu Palau Islands
Date: 1944, October 7
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063842
Naval transport ship (AP-23) leaves New York harbor carrying deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon

U.S. Navy West Point Class Troop Transport (AP-23) (Formerly the ocean liner, SS America ) backs out of Pier 61, in New York City, with help of tug boats. The ship carries deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon, including A.V.Yannelli, Italian General at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Several of Yanelli's friends, and reporters linger at the entrance to Pier 61. Several taxis and a truck loaded with baggage arrives. Men, women and children are seen with their baggage. The ship proceeds down the Hudson River, carrying 137 Italian citizens and 327 Germans from the closed consulates of those nations. The transport ship is underway at 2:55 PM on July 16th, bound for Lisbon Portugal

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1941, July 16
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064215
Post-World War 1 events in Russia

Crowd milling about in Kronstadt, West of Saint Petersburg,Russia, as group of Russian sailors, soldiers and civilians, marches in their midst carrying a Sign reading "Peace, Freedom, and Bread." On March 7, 1921, The Bolshevik government sends 60,000 troops under command of Mikhail Tukhachevsky to quell the disturbance. They are seen marching in the streets. Next scene shows women looking amongst the fallen for their relatives. View of Leon Trotsky (Commander of the Red Army) walking with some of his staff. View of human remains. Brief view of Lenin. Trotsky writing at his desk. Narrator mentions the State Security Agency called "Cheka," being replaced by the Joint State Political Directorate (AKA OGPU). Narrator calls it the Political Police. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov is seen walking with a group of Soviet workers and politicians ostensibly charged with overseeing the OGPU. Another scene shows Molotov conversing with Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin). Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin stands to Stalin's left. views of Stalin. Lev Kamenev, a leader in Moscow City politics. Russian families on a train platform preparing to travel in box cars (to Siberia?). farmers harvesting grain in Russia. A woman shopkeeper cuts a loaf of bread in pieces and weighs them on a scale for sale to a customer. American foodstuffs provided as aid to Russia. Some of the American food being unloaded at a pier. American Relief Administration Chief, Herbert Hoover, standing at a port. Food being distributed to Russian citizens, and to children. Newspaper of March 14, 1923, announces the Lenin suffers a stroke. In January, 1924, a newspaper headline announces that "Lenin is dead." Lenin seen in coffin. Funeral cortege, including principal Soviet leaders, carries the coffin outdoors in falling snow. Spectators watch and others follow in the solemn funeral march. Narrator states that "Stalin,Zinoviev, and Kamenev force Trotsky into exile." Soviet citizens are seen at hard labor under new "Five year plans."

Location: Russia
Date: 1924
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064327
Communist demonstrations in Budapest and Russian invade Hungary at time of Hungarian Revolution.

In 1956, crowds of Hungarians walk peaceably in their Capital, Budapest, calling for establishment of their own style of communist rule. A woman waves a Hungarian flag from a window. A communist star is pulled down from atop a building. On October 24, 1956 Hungarian authorities crack down, with police supported by Russian troops from local garrison. Russian soldiers in T-34 tanks seen on city street. View of Russian soldiers leaving the area aboard a T-34 tank. Hungarians battling their police. View of Prime Minister,Imry Nagy, ascending steps of a government building. Narrator states that Nagy declares Hungary neutral in conflict between Soviet Union and the West. Soviet books and documents being burned. The next sequence shows Soviet T-34 tanks entering Hungary in force, on November 4, 1956. One is seen firing from a city street. Picture of Imre Nagy shown as Narrator says his execution was announced on June 17, 1958.

Location: Budapest Hungary
Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064333
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