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B/W 1945 wide shot blimp flying over military ships on Hudson River / NYC / newsreel
B/W 1945 wide shot blimp flying over military ships on Hudson River / NYC / newsreel
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B/W Dec. 7 1941 AERIAL Japanese bomber passing ship after dropping bomb, Pearl Harbor / newsreel
B/W Dec. 7 1941 AERIAL Japanese bomber passing ship after dropping bomb, Pearl Harbor / newsreel
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New York theater district
Various shots of Broadway in New York City at night / theater marquee announcing 'Porgy and Bess', of marquee announcing 'Latin Quarter Nightclub' with The Andrews Sisters / pedestrians, two sailors seeing the sights, sidewalk vendors....
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Woman Joins The Navy To Find Love
Sequence from Silent Short Navy Blues / Woman acquires Naval Uniform to join Navy / Her love is mopping the deck of USS California and falls overboard / Brief underwater scene / She finds him / Woman Joins The Navy To Find Love on...
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Navy Blues
Silent Short film Navy Blues / Naval recruit must sleep in storage room / Girlfriend opens port hole and water rushes in / She is sent to sleep in storage room / They lay down and hammock and shelf's fall onto them / Navy Blues on...
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Joining The Navy
Navy Blues silent short / Man crashes into Naval recruitment poster / Man enlists / Officer demands that he stop smoking / Man runs to report to USS California / Joining The Navy on September 16, 1923 in Los Angeles, California...
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You Can't Quit The Navy
Navy Blues Silent Short / A Naval recruit kisses his love / Naval crew finds out he is missing / Naval buddies trip him and haul him off / You Can't Quit The Navy on September 16, 1923 in Los Angeles, California (Footage by Getty Images)
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Bunk Problems
Navy Blues silent short / Naval recruit cuts up the hammocks / Naval recruit breaks the bunks and makes everyone angry / Bunk Problems on September 16, 1923 in Los Angeles, California (Footage by Getty Images)
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Japanese Navy Squadron Visits Newport Naval Base
CU Japanese ships at Newport Naval base during visit / CU Japanese flag and military band / military parade in streets as crowd watches and Japanese Navy take part / ceremony on base under statue of Commodore Perry / Admiral Johnson...
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US Navy seaplane flies in early 1940s
Sailors in bathing suits hop onto US Navy seaplane's wheel units as the plane moves down ramp into water, away from camera / tilt-up shot pilot in glass cockpit / POV from camera plane of plane in flight / seaplanes flying in formation /...
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US Navy Curtiss NC-4s attempt first transatlantic crossing by flying boat in 1919
Flight crew works on airplane / pilot jumps out of plane, wearing his flight gear / MS US Navy Curtiss NC-4 flying boat No. 1 moves in water away from camera / flying boat No. 3 moves away / VS individual NC-4s in the sky / VS No. 3 in...
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Viscount Bernard Montgomery attends 1949 Army-Navy football game at Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia
US Naval Academy midshipmen march in formation onto football field at Municipal Stadium / CU midshipmen walk past / military band plays as midshipmen assume their positions on the football field / tilt-down LS midshipmen in formations on...
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Soldiers, sailors, planes on ships head for Manila area
Title card: "Soldiers Sail for Far East to Guard Pacific Outposts - Army transport leaves San Francisco, Calif., en route to Manila, P.I. with 1,000 regulars" / soldiers walk single file carrying duffel bags / soldiers walking into open...
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CLEAN : US ship prepares for Syria mission
The US Navy shows off the recently outfitted Cape Ray a ship that will take part in the destruction of Syria's chemical weapon stockpile CLEAN : US ship prepares for Syria mission on January 03, 2014 in Portsmouth, Dominica (Footage by...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt tours US territorial possessions in the 1930s
Title card: "Roosevelt Tours US Possessions" / US Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, with other dignitaries and Navy officers, walking down street, soldiers at attention along side, crowds in front of buildings in bg / they walk along pier, car...
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Building a US Navy dirigible, 1932
Title card: "Skeleton of Navy's Newest Sky Giant Nearing Completion - Macon, sister ship of dirigible Akron, takes shape in Ohio hangar as tail section is added to towering framework" / interior of large hangar with dirigible frame...
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Navy Secretary Charles Adams speaks to 1932 US Naval Academy graduates
Title card: "Annapolis Gives 'Bachelor Degrees' To Wifeless Ensigns - Forbidden to marry on graduation, Midshipmen receive their diplomas at colorful Naval Academy exercises" / elevation shot of midshipmen in dress whites and audience at...
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US Navy airship "Akron" takes off from Camp Kearny, CA, accidentally carries three mooring crew members aloft
Title card: "Akron saves man dangling on line 2,000 feet in air, Giant Navy dirigible carrying three of mooring crew aloft at Camp Kearney, Cal. [sic] rescues one after two others fall to death" / two shots shot from ground of airship in...
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Three sailors are killed when USS Akron accidentally carries them on its mooring lines; one sailor is rescued
QS title card: "Akron saves man dangling on line 2,000 feet in air, Giant Navy dirigible carrying three of mooring crew aloft at Camp Kearney, Cal. [sic] rescues one after two others fall to death" / two shots shot from ground of airship...
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USS Utah undergoes remote control apparatus
Title card: "Battleship run by radio! Utah, 22,000-ton dreadnaught, shows possibilities of remote control in amazing test without a man aboard" / A sailor blows a trumpet and others run to board a ship alongside the Utah (a dog is...
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US Navy airship "Los Angeles" flying over NY City
Shot from ground level of airship "Los Angeles" flying over Empire State Building / Note: exact day not known
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Italian Air Marshal Balbo at White House with Ethiopian Prince Ras Desta Demtu
MCU Italian Air Force Marshal Italo Balbo with Italian Ambassador to the US Augusto Rosso with US Navy officers / MWS Prince Ras Desta Demtu with military and civilian officials / MCU Prince with diplomat in top hat (possibly US Under...
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Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo greeted with military pomp at Bolling Field
VS US and Italian military officials, civilian dignitaries, military band, greet Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo at Bolling Field; camera truck rolls past in background / VS Balbo walks past and thru crowd, salutes / LS prop plane starts...
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Italian Air Marshal Balbo with US Navy Secretary Swanson and Italian Ambassador Rosso at presser
MS elevated view of US Navy Secretary Claude Swanson, Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo, and Italian Ambassador to the US Augusto Rosso behind NBC and CBS microphones for press conference / MLS Balbo, Swanson and Rosso in crowd, Balbo...