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Hundreds of soldiers parachute from airplanes during World War II.
Hundreds of soldiers parachute from airplanes during World War II.
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Members of the Women's Army Corps run an obstacle course.
Members of the Women's Army Corps run an obstacle course.
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British and American flags wave as hundred of citizens, soldiers, men, and women gather together dancing and cheering celebrating VE Day in Trafalgar Square in London.
British and American flags wave as hundred of citizens, soldiers, men, and women gather together dancing and cheering celebrating VE Day in Trafalgar Square in London.
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Line women climb electrical poles during World War II.
Line women climb electrical poles during World War II.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Iva Sprout sews on sewing machine at homestead in California
VS Iva Sprout, wife of USAAF veteran Dale Sprout, works at sewing machine in room of their homestead house; she sews a dress / VS Iva looks at the finished dress, smiles / Dale sits in armchair (with antimacassars in place) in living...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Marian Anderson christens SS Booker T. Washington in 1942
Three well-dressed African-American women (one with large corsage) / famed singer Marian Anderson stands on platform; photographers / Anderson swings a bottle and it crashes on side of Liberty ship SS Booker T. Washington / black...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US warplanes on loan to USSR as per Lend-Lease policy
MLS propellers on front ends of planes lined up / MLS cockpits of planes lined up
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Miners using pickaxes extract salt for war effort from mine in Nova Scotia during World War II
Miner using rope climbs up mine wall holding pickaxe, he stops climbing and loosens salt from wall with pickaxe / two miners using rope to climb mine wall, miner higher up uses pickaxe to loosen salt from wall, he hands miner squatting...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: naval battle
Title card: "Sur Les Divers Front (On Various Fronts)" / World War II / French language / view from airplane of planes in flight / United States Navy ships in battle / CU guns firing across water / ship being hit / explosions / planes...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: Gebirgsjaeger (German mountain soldiers)
World War II / European theater / Eastern Front /French language / part of propaganda film / WS Caucasus Mountains / German mountain soldiers, Gebirgsjaeger, at base of mountain / soldier and loaded mule going up mountain / sign / German...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: Rommel in North Africa
World War II / French language / North Africa campaign / German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel getting out of car, joining other German officers / German soldiers on tanks / CU soldier / Note: exact month/day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: learning to fly blind
World War II / Allies propaganda film, "Wings of Youth", from Canada / British Commonwealth Air Training Plan / pilot training / simulation learning to fly and land blind (without instruments) / CU instructor / CU pilot / CU Lorenz beam...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: pilot training
World War II / Allies propaganda film, "Wings of Youth", from Canada / British Commonwealth Air Training Plan / plow horses being used to pull airplane / row of planes with propellers moving / armed soldiers marching / CU pilot / pilot...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Airplane navigation simulators in use at Kelly Field, San Antonio, 1942
MLS US Army Air Forces students at desks pick up pads of paper and walk over to and step up on curtained, rotating desk and chairs with gauges (early navigation simulator pods?) / VS student doing navigation on simulators, instructors...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
After his 1953 death, a look at Joseph Stalin's tenure as leader of the Soviet Union
[GHOC Episode 0-07] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title: "Stalin Dies" with photo of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin / [1930s, Moscow] VS Stalin / VS Soviet Army marches in Red Square; Stalin and officials on the Lenin...
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Listening To Morse Code
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Listening To Morse Code
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Soldiers open packages from home during World War II.
Soldiers open packages from home during World War II.
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The shadow of an airplane moves swiftly over the countryside.
The shadow of an airplane moves swiftly over the countryside.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Winston Churchill attends church on Christmas Day with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during his 1941 visit to Washington, DC
[Probably Christmas Eve, 12/24/41] Lighted Christmas tree on the Ellipse, with White House South Portico in background / crowd on lawn outside South Portico / VS lighted tree at night // 12/25/41: VS photo opportunity under awning,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Miners working in salt mine in Nova Scotia to extract salt for war effort during World War II
Miners getting into elevator / elevator goes down / miner walks along shaft cut at steep angle / he reaches steps and climbs up steps past miner using drill / two shots of miner using drill to make holes in mine wall for dynamite / miner...
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Large salt cutter machine extracting salt from mine in Nova Scotia for war effort during World War II
Two shots of miners putting salt in bags / WS salt mine buildings, snow on ground / three close shots of cutting machine cutting into mine wall / train moving past salt mine buildings / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II British propaganda film
World War II / "Behind the Guns," propaganda film / military ships at sea firing guns / plane in flight / tanks and in the field / explosions around tanks / CU tanks / armed British soldiers in the field walking through explosions /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: action in the Pacific
[Video unstable at times] World War II / Pacific theater / military ships and aircraft carriers at sea / military planes in flight / American insignia on plane taking off from aircraft carrier / ships firing / anti-aircraft guns firing /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Scenes of prosperity in US, poverty elsewhere, Communism in Europe and Soviet Union, and growing conflict between US and Soviet Union
Title card: "Now - the story that affects the welfare and freedom of all the earth's people . . . The Story of the East-West split!" / title card: "What was behind this clash of ideals and the widening breach in the political structure...