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Black-and-white footage depicting significant military events and actions, including aircraft operations and WWII damage assessments.

1934 - Icy winds blow on an Arctic outpost in the summer (narrated by Admiral Byrd).
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Encampment of men in the desert, Libya 1920-30.
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Petrol Bomb Melts Crater in Iceberg. A petroleum incendiary bomblet pocket in an iceberg 450 ft. long, 150 ft. high about water off Virgin Rocks in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, by Coast Guard UF-20 plane leaves a trail of smoke as it burns a crater in the ice. The bomblet, carried in a 1,000-pound cluster type bomb enclosing many petrol bomblets, was released from the plane at an altitude of 800 ft. and speed of 120 knots. A fuse setting detonated the case 50 ft. above the berg. Petrol bombs burn on ice with great flames and smoke. Thermate bombs which produced greater heat than the petrol type were also dropped on iceberg targets during the Ice Patrol's June tests. These smoked little but blasted huge flames on ice lasting as long as 18 minutes. Though the bombs caused no spectacular destruction some effect was observed. One large berg shifted 15 to 20 degrees on its axis. Another berg calved off the section hit by two thermate bombs within two days after the bombing. The purpose
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Rubber company Tjiseroe Tjipari at TjilatjTap. Failed recording or registration loan. March 10, 1948. Cilacap, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Operation Crossroads was a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. It was the first test of a nuclear weapon since the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and the first detonation of a nuclear device since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Its purpose was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on naval ships
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