Music and example sources

The songs in our free music library are recordings made by United States Air Force bands. As works of the United States federal government, they are in the public domain in the United States, so you may use them in your memorial slideshow, play them at a service and share the finished video without paying or giving credit. We obtained each file from Wikimedia Commons, where its public-domain status is documented.

• Air on the G String (Bach)

  U.S. Air Force Band, Air Force Strings

  Source on Wikimedia Commons

• Amazing Grace

  U.S. Air Force Band, Strolling Strings

  Source on Wikimedia Commons

• Amazing Grace (bagpipes)

  U.S. Air Force Reserve Band, Pipe Band

  Source on Wikimedia Commons

• Clair de Lune (Debussy)

  U.S. Air Force Band of Flight, Wright Brass

  Source on Wikimedia Commons

• Shenandoah

  U.S. Air Force Academy Band

  Source on Wikimedia Commons

Photos in the example slideshow

The example slideshow on our home page uses historical photographs taken for the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information between 1936 and 1943, now in the Library of Congress. They are U.S. government works in the public domain. The people shown are not connected to this website; the photos were chosen only to show how a slideshow looks.

• Mother and child at Okeechobee migratory labor camp (1940)
• Children playing by road near school house, Kansas (1942–43)
• Reading class in Public School Eight, New York (1943)
• High school boys nearing graduation, Lititz, Pennsylvania (1942)
• Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1939–40)
• The wedding of Cecelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak (1943)
• The Grimm family eating Sunday dinner (1943)
• New Year's Eve family party of the Di Costanzo family (1942)
• The Di Costanzo family, Mulberry Street, New York (1942)
• Earle Landis' parents on their wedding anniversary (1942)
• Nick Phillips and his wife, Ashland, Missouri (1936)

The use of these recordings does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Air Force or the Department of Defense. Public-domain status can differ outside the United States.