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Gen. Ridgway sees his truce team board helicopter and take off
MS Front view of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway leading truce group towards helicopter / MS rear view of group bunched around helicopter / PAN Ridgway with group in front of helicopter, letters of US Air Force on side of helicopter / MS member...
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Korean War: US flying aces Fernandez and McConnell
Title card: "Top Jet Aces McConnell, Fernandez Bound for Home" / Korean War / air-to-air CU group of Air Force F-86 Sabre jets in flight / various views of pilots Captain Manuel Fernandez and Captain Joseph McConnell / McConnell boards...
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North Koreans release Guy Bumpas and coffin of Charles Brown to UN officers; both were shot down while flying an unarmed training plane
Title card: "US Flier Freed by Korea Reds" / title superimposed over North Korean officers, one writing on pad, photographer at end / UN delegation approaching exchange location / CU sign "No United Nations Troops Will Go Beyond this...
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US Air Force helicopters rescue 34 passengers from Swedish ship aground off Casablanca
Title "Casablanca: Helicopters Save Victims of Grounded Ship" superimposed over aerial view of Swedish cargo ship Dalsland aground at Casablanca / WS Dalsland aground, waves splashing rocks along shore / rear shot man signaling from...
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US General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's funeral
Title: "Hoyt S. Vandenberg - Arlington Rites for Ex-Chief of Air Force " / CU General Vandenberg / Vandenberg reviewing troops / Vandenberg's body lying in state, with honor guard, at the National Cathedral / cathedral exterior /...
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John Foster Dulles returns from London and the Nine Powers conference
Title: "Washington" superimposed over Secretary of State John Foster Dulles deplaning at airport returning home from London conference regarding West Germany and NATO / Dulles shakes hands with undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith...
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Pres. Dwight Eisenhower's first televised press conference
Title card: "Eyes and Ears on President - First film record of press conference" / US Pres. Dwight Eisenhower enters the room and all stand; he takes his place at two microphones / a man and a women take notes / the room full of...
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Candidates for nomination Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Robert Taft speak in Chicago before 1952 Republican National Convention
Wide overhead shot SOT Dwight Eisenhower, candidate for presidential nomination, at head table speaking at luncheon in honor of 82nd Airborne division / closer shot SOT Eisenhower speaking, becoming emotional as he does so / close shot...
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American POWs return home
Title superimposed on military men: "POWs en route home" / Men pass the cameras and others following them to a landing craft / Scores of men on the craft waving hats; the men walk the gangplank to enter the ship on its side / The camera...
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Police battle left-wing demonstrators, villagers. and labor unions who oppose the expansion of the US runway at Tachikawa Air Base near Tokyo
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 10" / title "Incident in Japan - Villagers Battle Police at Air Base" superimposed over demonstration crowd / plane flying low over airfield / crowd / surveyors at work measuring / worker swinging...
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Late celebration of Christmas in Yuba City, CA, following flood
Title "Flood-delayed Christmas . . . Overdue Santa beings cheer to Yuba City" superimposed over boy sitting on Santa's lap / two men and one woman in Santa Claus outfits walking down street at head of parade / two shots of sign on side...
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HC-123B Provider demonstrated at Mercer Airport in New Jersey
Title card: "New Army Assault Transport" / Scores of soldiers march two by two into the belly of the HC-123B Provider; the men inside seated on flimsy seats with their backpacks and rifles / The airplane takes off and passes over the...
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Wounded French soldiers from Battle of Den Bien Phu in Indochina (now Vietnam) arrive in Japan and then US
Title "'Operation Wounded Warrior'" superimposed over USAF airplane carrying wounded soldiers landing at airport in Tachikawa, Japan / plane taxiing / people waiting on tarmac, pan across to open door in nose of plane / wounded solider...
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US Air Force displays new downward ejector seat in bomber in flight over Gulf of Mexico
Title "Ejected - new downward catapult for US airmen" superimposed over shot from plane of pilot falling downward from bomber after being ejected from it / shot from plane of bomber in flight / shot from plane of bomber in flight above...
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After end of Korean War, Commander of UN Command US General Mark Clark visits US troops in South Korea before his retirement
Two shots of plane carrying Gen. Mark Clark taxiing at airfield / plane taxing, group of people waiting on tarmac / Clark and his wife Maurine coming down steps from plane / VS Clark and Maurine greeted by officials and their wives on...
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Military parades on Armed Forces Day in US and Germany
Card: "Paramount News issue no 79" / title "Armed Forces salute, Power for peace" superimposed over US Army soldiers marching in formation down street in New York City / title "Armed Forces salute, Power for Peace" superimposed over MPOV...
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Pilot Jacqueline Cochran becomes first woman to fly faster than sound in USAF jet from Edwards Air Force Base, CA
Title "Jackie Cochran, First woman to fly faster than sound" superimposed over aerial shot of jet flying low overhead /VS member of ground crew towing jet across tarmac with tractor / Cochran in flight suit walking towards camera next to...
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New US military airplanes on display in New Orleans, LA
Title: "Report on Airpower" superimposed over soldiers standing near military airplane / United States Air Force airplane on display / New Orleans Municipal Auditorium interior / overhead people at Air Force Association Airpower Panorama...
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Storms cause flooding in England and wreck ships in English Channel and Irish Sea
Title "Gales sweep Britain" superimposed over waves crashing over seawall, buildings in background / two shots of waves crashing over seawall / three aerial shots of ship run aground and on its side in waves rolling onto shore / close...
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The new Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, Gen. Matthew Ridgway, arrives in the French Zone of Germany
Title superimposed on the General, "Gen Ridgway, First Inspection of Forces in Germany" / US Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway makes his way down a ladder from his Air Force plane and steps to meet Commander of French Forces Gen. Roger Noirer /...
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Pres. Dwight Eisenhower presents the Harmon Intl trophies to aviator Major Chuck Yeager and aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran at the While House
Title: "Top Awards in Aviation - Harmon Trophies Presented" superimposed over freeze frame - Jacqueline Cochran, noted flyer, and Maj. Charles E. Yeager, U.S. Air Force pilot, and trophies / President Dwight Eisenhower escorting...
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USAF launches new intercontinental guided missile called "The Snark" from Cape Canaveral, FL
Card: "Paramount News issue no 69" / title "First pictures: The Snark intercontinental guided missile" superimposed over missile ready for launching, men standing around it / missile ready for launching / missile launches and starts...
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Felix Endrich and Fritz Stockli win the 1953 FIBT world bobsled championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Paramount Issue logo with mountain and stars / Title card: "Swiss Team Wins World Bobsled Title" over black then superimposed over bobsledders at top of track / VS at the FBIT (Federation international de bobsleigh et de tobogganing)...
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DOD films demonstrate the firing power of fighter F-89D Scorpion in the sky
Title: "F-89 D Fire Power" superimposed over aerial view of Scorpion planes in flight / Aerial view of Scorpions flying in formation / another aerial view of Scorpions flying in formation / Aerial view of B-17 in flight / CU rockets...