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Lyndon B. Johnson attends opening of market in Athens, Turkish farmers practice terracing method of farming, Iranian scientists study cotton

Road graders in Athens, Greece. Construction work for the new wholesale market center in Athens. Workers push a wooden handcar during construction of market center. Workers sweep and clean surroundings before the opening of the new Athens market center. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives and visits the new wholesale market center in Athens, Greece. Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Greek women. Lyndon B. Johnson notices a small-scale model of the market center. Wholesale market center sign written in English and Greek. Greek spectators wave Greek and American flags to welcome United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon B. Johnson poses together with Greek women for picture. Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Greek man in sunglasses. Crowds gather in new wholesale marketplace to welcome Lyndon B. Johnson. Donkey in hilly farmland in Turkey. Turkish farmers till the terraced farmland with hoes. Hill converted for farming through terracing method in Turkey. Ship sails in the Bosporus strait. View of Rumelihisarı (also known as Rumelian Castle ,Roumeli Hissar Castle, or Boğazkesen Castle). Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands and talk with Iranian scientists. Iranian Ministry of Agriculture sign in front of Varamin Agricultural Research Center. Iranian scientists analyze cotton samples at Varamin Agricultural Research Center. Iranian scientist in looks into a microscope at cotton sample. A Mitchell cotton gin in Iran.

Location: Athens Greece
Date: 1962, August
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078551
German troops capture Samos and Leros Islands in Greece during World War II.

Opening scene shows map of Greece, highlighting Athens, Samos and Leros. Views of wrecked boats and ships along a shore. Dead soldier lying near a gun position overlooking a town near shore below. German soldiers look at newspaper headline reading (in German) "British Sea base taken." German General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, World War 2 Commander of the operation, mingles with and congratulates ordinary German soldiers. Soldier looking over the island of Samos from a mountain. German soldier looking at large barrels on a pier. Closeup of a bottle of Greek Samos wine. German officers and soldiers drinking the wine. Soldiers cutting bananas from a large bunch carried by a local man. A long line of captured British soldiers and sailors marching under guard along a mountain road. Closeups of them passing the camera. The prisoners descending from a pier into large barges. Glimpse of an Indian colonial soldier among them. Large numbers of prisoners being marched under guard along a road in town.

Location: Samos Greece
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053352
Axis forces conquer Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II.

Film opens showing Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Benito Mussolini of Italy. Next Mussolini is seen addressing a large crowd from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Italy announcing plans to invade Greece. Views of Greek troops marching during the Greco-Italian War between the kingdoms of Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. Animated map depicts Italian advances into Greece with subsequent withdrawal as the Greeks drive them back and then invade Albania. Closeup of Hitler enraged about this turn of events, delaying his military Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. Glimpse of Mussolini visiting his troops in the field. Newspaper headline reads: "Jugoslavia Gets Hitler Terms." A sub headline reads: "Nazi move in Greece Seen." Another view of Greek troops marching. A Junkers JU-87 Stuka dive bomber in flight, enters a steep dive to bomb a target. Bombs exploding in forest. Another Stuka diving and dropping bombs on a city building. Closeup glimpse of a Stuka speeding past the camera. View of a bombed out Yugoslavian building from German air attack on April 6, 1941. Animated map shows German and Italian forces attack paths from their bases in Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Hungary, vanquishing Yugoslavia. Map extends to Greece, where German forces overwhelm three defending Greek Divisions (aided by some British forces). Aerial view of a German Junkers Ju 52 transport plane flying over the Parthenon in Athens.

Location: The Balkans Europe
Date: 1941, April
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065790
The U.S. officers being greeted by and meeting other officials in China.

U.S. officers arrive in China. Commandant of the U.S. forces in China General Albert Wedemeyer makes an inspection tour of the American installations in China. He comes out of an aircraft. Other officials greet him. U.S. Ambassador to China Patrick Jay Hurley arrives and meets Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill meets local leaders in Athens, Greece.

Location: China
Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076585
King Paul and Queen Fredericka arrive in parliament of Greece, in Athens to take oath as new monarch of Greece.

King Paul and Queen Fredericka arrive in parliament of Greece, in Athens to take oath as new monarch of Greece. Deputies stand on their seats and clap for the King and Queen. King Paul replaces his recently deceased brother King George. After the oath taking King and Queen went out of the parliament saluted and greeted by deputies.

Location: Athens Greece
Date: 1947, April
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036721
Officials and Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church gather for unveiling the statue of President Harry S Truman in Greece.

Unveiling of the statue of United States President Harry S. Truman in Athens, Greece (Leof. Vasileos Konstantinou 42, Athina 116 35, Greece). Greek and American officials and Chrysostomos II of Athens, the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church gather for the unveiling of the 12-foot bronze statue of former U.S. President Harry S Truman. Large crowd of civilians gather during the ceremony. The Truman statue is dedicated by the American Hellenic Educational Association.

Location: Greece
Date: 1963, June 3
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073169
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