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German tanks, artillery, and airplanes in action in France during World War II
Close shot of German officer and soldiers riding on tank / VS tanks rolling past camera / officer and soldiers riding on tank / same tank rolling past camera / German tanks firing cannons / rockets firing / explosion at night / VS...
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French, British, Canadian, and US POWs in France during World War II
Two shots of French collaborationist soldiers standing at attention / French Resistance POWs coming out of building with their hands on heads / two shots of French Resistance fighters marching along street with their hands on heads /...
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Nazi forces plow through Europe as Hitler's war machine deploys and delivers destruction
MS-PAN LEFT German Luftwaffe plane takes off / CU nose of plane in flight with spinning propeller / MS gunner inside plane / VS bombs drop from plane, hit ground and explode / VS people running and taking cover on city streets during air...
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Battle of Midway aftermath
[Video unstable at times] World War II / Midway Island battle aftermath / wreckage / bombed ruin of hospital / priest dressing for mass in bombed-out chapel / soldiers at attention for funeral of battle casualties / flag-draped bodies /...
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Canadian government film "Wings of Youth" shows members of Royal Canadian Air Force undergoing training at start of WWII
Man turning propeller / close shot of pilot in cockpit / close shot of pilot's hand moving flight control stick / elevator and aileron on plane moving up and down / pilot in cockpit signaling / close shot of stop being removed from in...
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Midway Island at sunset
Seagulls flying over Midway Island / CU seagull on beach / adult and young seagulls / seagulls in flight / sunset / sailor playing accordion / other sailors listening / sailors watching sunset / American flag / thunder and heavy black...
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World War II British propaganda film: building tanks
World War II / "Behind the Guns," propaganda film / factory interior / men building tanks / welding / adding tracks to tank / automotive workers / tank engines / Note: exact day not known
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Stockshots of the Auschwitz Birkenau Nazi extermination camp (1)
Images of the German Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz Birkenau where more than a million people mostly Jewish were murdered by SS soldiers during the Second World War (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Students and instructors in navigation classroom at Kelly Field AFB in San Antonio, 1942
VS Kelly Field navigation classroom with instructor at front of class pointing things out on large wheel calculator / PAN students at desks, instructors walking up and down aisles helping students / VS students and instructor look at...
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Aerial views of US airmen in training at San Antonio's Kelly Field
VS AERIAL US Army Air Forces airplanes fly in formation in white puffy clouds after taking off from Kelly Field
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Translator reads Andrei Gromyko's speech at maybe press conference
Pan seated audience down to speaker at podium, men seated above / CU Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko beside woman translator reading his statements before microphone with letters KTUR, SOT she says that US and allies...
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Benito Mussolini's Italy tests out new tanks in preparation for war on the European continent
LS Italian tanks proceed across field towards camera and trees in foreground / VS tanks plow thru muddy terrain / VS Italian military truck with tracks over wheels rides over and thru sluggish, muddy ground, towing artillery cannon / LS...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : STOCKSHOTS: Former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof
STOCKSHOTS of former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof, now in Poland. A Hamburg court is set to deliver its verdict in the trial of a former SS soldier who was a guard in the Nazi concentration camp of Stutthof near the Baltic Sea ...
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World War II: White House Press Secretary Stephen Early
World War II / News media outside White House gate / news media surround White House Press Secretary Stephen Early
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World War II: German troops in Cologne; Envoys meet in Paris; Nazis march
Title "The March on the Rhine, first pictures of actual occupation" is superimposed on marchers with flags / German soldiers crossing a bridge in Koblenz // Cologne: crowds wave as they march along a street with numerous people giving...
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British PM Clement Attlee concludes speech to US Congress and receives standing ovation
MLS well of the House of Representatives chamber as British Prime Minister Clement Attlee speaks with House Speaker Sam Rayburn before returning to podium with Rayburn and VP Alben Barkley looking on / VS high angle shots of the floor of...
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Bombers and paratroopers over France on D-Day, World War II
Parallel lines of bomber's contrails in the sky with a view from a plane flying under the aircraft / Scores of soldiers marching and a crooked road with a vehicle driving away / Scores of airplanes drop many paratroopers; the men jump...
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During World War II, US military assaulting Japanese forces Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands; transport barges head ashore
Shot from US Navy ship of US Navy warplanes flying in formation overhead / wide shot from ship of bombs exploding on Tarawa (Tarawa is now the nation of Kiribati) / wide shot from ship of smoke rising from bomb explosions on Tarawa /...
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Gen. John Pershing warns if another world war takes place, western civilization can not survive
Title card: "France" superimposed over Meuse-Argonne American Memorial (a/k/a the Montfaucon American Monument) / Tilt down the Monument, dedicated to the 123,000 Americans who fell on the Meuse Argonne battlefield, to crowd gathered in...
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During World War II, celebrities participate in parade and show in Washington, DC, opening war bonds drive
Title card: "3rd war loan drive opens" / actors Greer Garson and James Cagney walking together out of building, actor Dick Powell behind them crowd watching during "Hollywood Bond Cavalcade" appearance to kick off the Third War Bond...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender brings the World War II to a close in the Pacific
Atomic bomb explosion – LS huge explosion from atomic bomb, fireball rising up into sky, shaping into a mushroom cloud / flames curl ad wind into hug ball of ire and rest of the screen in darkness // Japanese surrenders aboard the USS...
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Gen. Charles de Gaulle and others celebrate the end of Nazi occupation in Paris
MS Gen. Charles de Gaulle with cigarette in mouth talking with French officers in railway station / shaking hands with French officer / VS de Gaulle walking with other French officers thru railway station and through crowded street / WS...
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US Marines honor all fallen Marines with memorial
Title "Marines Break Ground For War Memorial" superimposed over Iwo Jima Memorial / WS ceremony, Marines and civilians attend/ MS General Lemuel Shepherd, Major General Merrit Edson, Interior Secretary James McKay and Felix de Weldon,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Audie Murphy talks military reserves
Title card: "The National Security Committee Introduces Audie Murphy - The Most Decorated Soldier of World War II" / actor Audie Murphy on movie set / SOT Murphy talks about military reserve training program / CU Murphy / Note: exact...