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Manufacturing and testing of Ford Liberty airplane engines at Ford motor company in Highland Park, Michigan.

View of unassembled airplane engine cases stacked and placed in assembly lines in Ford motor company plant. Large American flag hangs overhead. Women workers testing and assembling the Liberty aircraft engines for World War I efforts. Two men open the wire gate and hoist the Liberty engine then attach propeller. A woman instructs another woman the operating procedures of a machine in the plant. A truck rolls by the testing area, carrying a Liberty engine.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030972
Harry S Truman as an officer in the U.S. Army and his birthplace of Lamar in the United States.

President Harry S Truman takes the oath before various U.S. officials in the United States. Sign reads 'Birthplace of President Truman - Lamar.' Buildings and people on the street. Women seated in a garden. Officer Truman stands with other officers of the U.S. Army during World War I. Soldiers in a battlefield in France. Black smoke arises due to the artillery fire and explosions. A trench, soldiers march with the U.S. flag. Truman holds two Madonna statues presented to him during a ceremony in the U.S. An Army officer meets Truman and other officials. Army trucks and artillery during the parade.

Date: 1948, October 18
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031318
Destroyed B-29, its parts and scattered debris viewed the day after it crashed on Tinian in the Northern Marianas Islands.

Remains of United States Army Air Forces B-29A Super fortress that crashed on March 30, 1945, at North Field, Tinian,in the Northern Mariana Islands, during World War 2. Scattered debris on ground. Remaining piece of tail section displays serial number 265283 indicating it is B-29 number 42-65283, nicknamed "Big Wheel," from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron. Reportedly, it experienced mechanical problems during a mission to drop mines in Japanese waters. After jettisoning its munitions, it returned to Tinian, but crashed on the shore. Of the 12 crew, only the radar operator survived.

Date: 1945, March 31
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045365
United States WAC personnel stamp and re-address postal mail in England.

Group of Women's Army Corps (WAC) personnel work at their desks in England during World War 2. The African American women WAC staff sort postal mail. They stamp the mail and re-address the mail.

Date: 1945, April 14
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045504
Women and children in trains and buses evacuate Berlin after an Allied attack, Berlin, Germany.

Women and children German citizens evacuate Berlin after air raida in Germany during World War 2. Military officers in a meeting discuss among themselves. Citizens and soldiers work to load furniture, food, and personal items into trucks, buses, and trains. Views of busy streets and railroad train stations as loading takes place Women and children in trains under German military escort, evacuating to safer locations.

Date: 1943
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045512
Italian civilians operate printing press for printing U.S. military propaganda leaflets in Italy.

The operation of printing press in Italy. Italian civilians operate the printing presses that are turning out propaganda leaflets for the U.S. Army during World War 2, as part of psychological warfare campaigns. They sort bundles of the leaflets coming out from the printing press. A man checks the print.

Date: 1945, February 15
Duration: 4 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045531