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Laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipeline network between Texas and Illinois in the United States during World War 2.

A map shows pipeline network for the transportation of oil and its by-products in the United States, largely for the war effort during World War 2. Shows the laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipelines in Arkansas, Texas, and other locations. Tractors and explosives being used to clear the ground for laying the pipelines. Oil pipeline being laid across a river bed. A welder welds the joints. Pipelines being laid in trenches. Men operate valves to turn on the flow of oil in the new Big Inch pipeline. High octane aviation gas is filled in an aircraft at an airfield. Soldiers fill gas cans all lined up in a lot. An oil tanker in the background. Troops load gasoline jerrycans on trucks. B-17, B-26, and B-24 Bomber aircraft in refueling operations on various airfields. B-17 taking off and formation of aircraft in flight. Formation of tanks and military vehicles move along a battlefield. Narrator encourages American people in giving up home comforts of goods and fuels made from oil so that they can be directed to the war effort.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050493
German mountain troopers climb up a mountain and fire a howitzer during World War II.

German mountain troopers during World War II. The troopers pull mule packs and climb a rugged snow covered mountain slope. German soldiers fire a 7.5 cm German mountain gun (7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz 36) emplaced on the snow capped mountain. Shell explosions on the opposite mountainside. Two German officers near the howitzer. One of them looks through a pair of binoculars. The other one uses a Battery Commander's scope (BC Scope).

Date: 1943, January
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675050523
Antiaircraft training with camouflaged 90 mm gun, near Hammond Army Air Field, Louisiana, in World War II

U.S. Army anti aircraft gun of the 55th Brigade AAA during training exercise at Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range near the Army Air Field in Hammond Louisiana during World War 2. Main anti aircraft batteries. A 90 mm canon. The muzzle of the 90 mm gun turns around. Camouflaged nets cover the gun. A jeep moves on a dirt road. A soldier with Antiaircraft Command (AA in a circle) shoulder patch steps from the jeep and walks toward a gun position.

Date: 1943, September 29
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050732
Bofors gun and Browning machine gun during training near Hammond Army Air Field during World War 2

U.S. Army anti aircraft artillery of the 55th Brigade AAA, during training exercises during World War II, at Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range, near the Army Air Field in Hammond, Louisiana. A 40 mm Bofors gun in action. Radar equipment in operation on a field. A camouflaged .50 caliber Browning machine gun.

Date: 1943, September 29
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050733
siren is sounded and antiaircraft gun readied during training exercises near Hammond Army Air Field during World War II

U.S. Army anti aircraft artillery of the 55th Brigade AAA training Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range, near Hammond Army Air Field during World War II. Bombs burst amidst trees and smoke rises. Aircraft spotters look through binoculars towards the sky. A soldier sounds a hand operated air raid siren. View from above as a soldier drops into a fox hole. An U.S. Army soldier puts on a gas mask. Crew members operate a gun. A 90 mm gun is elevated.

Date: 1943, October 1
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050734
A camouflaged gun emplacement during training exercises near Hammond Army Air Field during World War II.

U.S. Army anti aircraft artillery of the 55th Brigade AAA, during training exercises at Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range, adjacent to Hammond Army Air Field in Hammond Louisiana during World War II. A camouflaged gun emplacement with crew around antiaircraft gun. A Sergeant puts on a gas mask and sounds a gas alarm by striking it with a piece of iron. Scene shifts to a U.S. Army Air Force P-47D aircraft flying over the training area as it comes in for a landing at Hammond Army Air Field.

Date: 1943, October 1
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050735