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Nazi Germany invades Poland, Allies declare war
Aerial views of burning buildings in Danzig after German invasion / citizens in streets helping out after bombing of Warsaw, people in street with belongings / England and France prepare for war with Germany, troops and huge guns heading...
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B/W 1944 close up machine putting War Bonds into envelopes / World War II / newsreel
B/W 1944 close up machine putting War Bonds into envelopes / World War II / newsreel
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B/W 1940s cashier handing ration stamps to woman waiting at store counter / newsreel
B/W 1940s cashier handing ration stamps to woman waiting at store counter / newsreel
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B/W 1944 close up hands of woman inserting rivets in defense plant / World War II / industrial
B/W 1944 close up hands of woman inserting rivets in defense plant / World War II / industrial
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B/W 1945/46 PAN Nazi defendants sitting in courtroom with MP behind them / Nuremberg / documentary
B/W 1945/46 PAN Nazi defendants sitting in courtroom with MP behind them / Nuremberg / documentary
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B/W Oct. 16, 1946 military men hanging Nazi convicted of war crimes / Nuremberg / newsreel
B/W Oct. 16, 1946 military men hanging Nazi convicted of war crimes / Nuremberg / newsreel
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Tearing down old buildings in post-war Cologne
Bombed out buildings in post-war Cologne are brought down / fire engine pulling down the front of buildings as resident watch / former Nazis forced to dig through the rubble. Tearing down old buildings in post-war Cologne on January 01,...
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Potsdam Conference
Winston Churchill (back to camera) shakes hands with Joseph Stalin / Churchill, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Anthony Eden, President Harry Truman, Clement Attlee, Andrei Vyshinsky, Admiral William Leahy and others shaking hands and...
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B/W 1945 wide shot first atomic bomb testing at Alamogordo, New Mexico / newsreel
B/W 1945 wide shot first atomic bomb testing at Alamogordo, New Mexico / newsreel
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B/W 1945 Japanese Tojo Hideki sitting in courtroom at war crimes trial / Tokyo / newsreel
B/W 1945 Japanese Tojo Hideki sitting in courtroom at war crimes trial / Tokyo / newsreel
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World War 2 landing craft decaying on tropical beach, Australia
World War 2 landing craft decaying on tropical beach, Australia
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Military truck rusts in outback, Kimberley, Australia
Military truck rusts in outback, Kimberley, Australia
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Military vehicle rusts in outback, Australia
Military vehicle rusts in outback, Australia
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Military truck rusts in outback, Kimberley, Australia
Military truck rusts in outback, Kimberley, Australia
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World War 2 landing craft decays on tropical mangrove beach, Australia
World War 2 landing craft decays on tropical mangrove beach, Australia
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Story of a Bataan Death March Survivor: Homecoming
/ Story of Corporal Alfred Jolley / ship carrying POWs pulling into San Francisco Bay / WAGs women soldiers board the ship and pass out mail to the soldiers / soldiers write return letters / gangplank drops and the soldiers begin to...
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Story of Bataan Death March Survivor: Coming Home
/ Story of Corporal Alfred Jolley / boats on the San Francisco Bay / military band plays / thousands crowded onto the docks waiting / ship in the ocean and a blimp in the air / Corporal Alfred Jolley in full uniform standing on a ship /...
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B/W 1944 long shot tilt down fighter plane crashes + explodes in jungle on island in the Pacific / documentary
B/W 1944 long shot tilt down fighter plane crashes + explodes in jungle on island in the Pacific / documentary
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aerial POV from plane flying over ocean, destroyer
Aerial POV from plane flying over ocean, finds destroyer, the USS Kendrick, and dives toward it. aerial POV from plane flying over ocean, destroyer on January 01, 1940 (Footage by Getty Images)
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Nazis plunder Europe's art treasures
Men packing up stolen artwork during WWII as Nazi soldier watches on / man hammering wooden box shut. Nazis plunder Europe's art treasures on January 01, 1944 in Germany (Footage by Getty Images)
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Japanese soldiers in American POW camp during WWII
/ Captured Japanese soldiers walk slowly through the jungle, looking at the camera / Japanese POWs sitting behind the barbed wire walls of a POW camp / soldier performs a search of POW's clothing / bare chested young boys sitting in a...
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Eisenhower Dies
Long queue of mourners waiting to enter US Capitol Building for lying in state of Dwight Eisenhower; mourners passing by American flag-draped coffin; archival (circa late 1940s) footage of General Dwight Eisenhower meeting happily with...
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Douglas DC-4
Shots of Douglas DC-4's taking off and landing. There is one section where a DC-3 takes off / The difference is the DC-4 has two engines on each side and the DC-3 has only one.