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The United States Naval fleet is termed as the best fleet in the world on the Navy Day.

The United States Naval fleet on Navy Day. U.S. fleet is termed the best in the world. U.S. battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines underway at a sea. Planes take off from an aircraft carrier. An aerial view of the ships. Men work with equipment on a ship. Soldiers fire guns from a battleship. Smoke from firing and bombardment. A flag flutters from a flag pole on the ship. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046166
German invasion of Norway in World War II.

Norwegian citizens flee Oslo in advance of invading German troops, who are seen marching into the Capital city during World War 2. Street scenes as the German troops occupy Oslo. Offshore, German warships are seen, including an F-class escort vessel (Flottenbegeleiter), the F-26. German naval guns firing and torpedo launched. Norwegian vessels being sunk. View of Norwegian harbor with parts of sunken vessels seen above the water.

Date: 1940
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046167
German bombers and paratroopers attack France during blitzkrieg. Civilians flee. Bombs explode and destroy buildings (WW2)

World War II Nazi German Blitzkrieg (lightning war) in Western Europe. German bombers in flight. Luftwaffe He-111 aircraft taking off. German Paratroopers jump from their Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. French soldiers and police stand on cobblestone street. French civilians seek shelter from the bombing: A woman with her children, a young boy and young girl, hurry to take shelter during bombing. Scenes of bombs exploding and resulting destruction in a French town during Battle of France.

Date: 1940, May
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046168
Scenes of the Battle of Britain. London Blitz. King George VI; Queen Elizabeth; Prime Minister Churchill visit bombed areas (WW2)

German warplanes attack and bomb British ships in the English Channel. White Cliffs of Dover visible in background. British fighter planes engage Germans. View of a British Spitfire airplane in flight. Gun camera view from British fighter plane destroying a German bomber in the air. Views of the Houses of Parliament (London SW1A 0AA, UK) in London. British sailors fire pom pom anti-aircraft guns from aboard ship. Fire storms in London from the German bombing. Destroyed buildings, wrecked equipment, and rubble. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon visit the bombed areas. Prime Minister Winston Churchill also visits areas of bombing destruction. Londoners go about their affairs and work to clean up after the bombing. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046169
The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State, United States.

Sightseers and several parked cars are seen on one bank of the Tacoma Narrows. They are watching undulations of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, called "Galloping Gertie" in the State of Washington, United States. Scene shifts to the bridge roadway as vibrations and oscillations increase leading to the total destruction of the the bridge. Pulsating winds blowing through the narrows caused vibrations of the bridge to reach its natural resonance frequency resulting in increased amplitude of oscillations until the structure was destroyed. Leonard Coatsworth, a Tacoma newspaper editor, is seen walking from the bridge near its end after abandoning his car, which is still on the bridge, until it collapses.

Date: 1940, November 7
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046173
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "Great Arsenal of Democracy" speech.

President Franklin Roosevelt's address about national security, to the nation from Washington DC. Cameramen set their cameras to broadcast the speech. Roosevelt talks about the prosperity and the security of the nation and that the nation should work together for the preservation of American independence. He states about German intention of invading Europe and then the rest of the world using Europe's resources. He talks about German, Italian and Japanese forces which are engaged in war against other countries. He also states that U.S. fleet is in the Pacific Ocean for the defense of the country.

Date: 1940, December 29
Duration: 7 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046197