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Arthur Starnes making a delayed parachute jump from six miles up in an Army experiment.

Arthur Starnes with parachute bag and loaded with other equipment, puts on oxygen mask and boarding aircraft C-45A. C-45A taking off and Arthur Starnes drops for five miles in Army experiment and is greeted by his wife and son.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039368
Royal Air Force Pilot's graduation exercises at War Eagle Field in California (WW2)

Royal Air Force Pilots marching and receiving insignia as part of graduation exercises at War Eagle Field in California during World War II. Aircraft AT-6A takes off.

Date: 1941
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039369
Major Stanley Umstead and Army crewmen boarding aircraft B-19 for test flight.

Views of aircraft B-19 and C-47 on ramp. Crewman walking on wings of B-19 and view of landing wheel. Major Stanley Umstead and crewman boarding B-19 and taking off for flight test. Umstead and others in cockpit of the plane and crewman going towards motor repair stations through passage in wings of the aircraft. B-19 flying over Los Angeles accompanied by aircraft P-40C.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039370
Airfield is being constructed at Marston Strip in North Carolina. First use of "Marston Mats."

Views of diesel powered bulldozer leveling off sandy field and pierced steel planking (PSP) laid down by U.S. Army workers to quickly build landing strip at Marston Strip, North Carolina, supporting Camp Hoffman airfield (later renamed Camp Mackall in 1943). A C-47D aircraft landing on the new landing strip. This was the first use of the perforated steel planking, nicknamed "Marston Mats" (or sometimes misspelled "Marsden Mats"), which were widely employed by the U.S. Army in World War 2.

Date: 1941
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039371
United States Army 503rd Battalion paratroopers going through Obstacle course

Shows 503rd Battalion paratroops scramble through Obstacle course. Paratroopers climbing up and moving through Trainasium made up of metal bars at Fort Benning. Paratroopers jumping from Trainasium.

Date: 1941
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039374
United States Army cadets doing Calisthenics at Randolph Field.

United States Army Air cadets doing Calisthenics at Randolph Field, Texas. Cadets performing drills, vascular coordination and pyramids.

Date: 1941
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039375