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Equipment is loaded and soldiers board railroad cars at railroad stations in the United States (WW2)

Role of U.S. railroads during World War II. Soldiers and officers walk carrying personal belongings in the United States. They enter a building. Railroad freight cars parked on a railroad station. Tanks and artillery parked. Transport and equipment loaded on flat cars moving along a track. Soldiers entrain for a war front. A railroad train carrying U.S. troops and cargo moves along a railway track, with the black locomotive approaching camera position.

Date: 1945, July 30
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070404
Former Vice President Richard Nixon is nominated for the election of the Governor of California in the United States..

Former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in California, United States.. Aerial view of the city. Nixon gets off a car with his wife and enters a building. He poses in front of cameramen. He casts his vote for the Republican nomination for Governor of California. His opponent Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. arrives with his wife. Cameramen take their photographs

Date: 1962, June 7
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070434
Pilots perform acceptance test flights on new P-40 aircraft at Curtiss Aircraft facility in Buffalo, NY during World War II

Pilots test fly a P-40 airplane at a Curtiss Company facility at Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo municipal airport) during World War II. Curtiss company employees giving a final cleanup and polish to a shiny P-40 airplane. parked on the ramp. Two pilots are suited up to fly: H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left), and a U.S. Army Air Force major (at right), are dressed in flight suits, helmets, goggles, and wearing seat-pack parachutes. They stand beside a well-worn P-40 airplane that has a pilot/technician in its cockpit, checking controls. H. Lloyd Child (at left), points to a clipboard on his leg with information on it and discusses it with another pilot (the USAAF major). Next, a pilot is seen taxiing the shiny P-40 at fairly high speed, with the canopy open. He taxis past parked aircraft in front of a hangar, including a Curtiss SBC Helldiver; a Stinson Gullwing; and a Spartan Executive airplane. The P-40 taxis out to the runway where the pilot makes a long takeoff roll before breaking ground. Then he pulls the P-40 into a fairly steep climb, leveling off at about traffic pattern altitude, without retracting his landing gear.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070470
New P-40 aircraft at Curtiss Aircraft Company in Buffalo, NY during World War II

Two pilots stand in front of a P-40 airplane at the Curtiss Aircraft Company in Buffalo, NY. The pilots are H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left) and apparently a USAAF major (at right). They are performing acceptance flight tests on new planes during World War II. Another pilot is in the cockpit of the plane behind them. A P-40 is seen taxiing rapidly on the ramp near the Curtiss hangars at the Buffalo Airport. A shiny P-40 being taxied. The first P-40 takes off and climbs out with landing gear extended. The shiny one does likewise. The first P-40 is seen circling high overhead, with landing gear still extended. Next, it is seen over the runway on final approach, about to land. Curtiss employees move aircraft parts in an open stake truck, next to a building, in the foreground.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070472
Observers test guns in cockpits of French airplanes in France during World War I.

Aviation activities in France during World War I. A French Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft parked at an airfield. A ground crewman turns the propeller of the aircraft. Tent hangars in the background. An observer in the rear cockpit of the Salmson 2 A.2 tests movement of twin machine gun mounts. Observer Lieutenant T. E. Hibbon fires a machine gun in the observer's cockpit of a stationary Spad 11 aircraft. A pilot is seated in the front cockpit of the aircraft.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070485
Care of the Vietnamese in a refugee camp and removal of debris in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive.

Care of the Vietnamese in a refugee camp in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. Women and children, whose husbands and fathers are dead, sit in a street. They are homeless and helpless. The government helps the orphans. A civic action team begins a disease prevention camp especially for the refugees. Team members treat people suffering from diseases in the camp. The civic action organization distribute food from trucks on the streets. The team members distribute simple and nourishing food to the refugees. The children eat the food in the camp. Army engineers remove garbage and debris from the streets. The garbage is loaded onto trucks using a front end loader. Traffic on the roads. Views of city after the violence.

Date: 1968
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070509