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L-4 airplanes of 25th Liaison Squadron take off with Indian soldiers liberated from New Guinea Japanese prison camp in World War II

Two Indian Punjab soldiers, liberated from a Japanese prisoner camp, walk towards a Piper L-4 Grasshopper airplane of the USAAC 25th Liaison Squadron, parked on a muddy field at Senai, New Guinea, in World War 2. A U.S. Airman escorts another Punjab soldier. Several grass huts are seen in the background. The Indian soldier boards the airplane. The airplane's pilot approaches and stops momentarily, to allow cameraman to photograph the passenger, before he gets into the front cockpit. Side of the airplane is painted with the words: "Guinea Short Lines" and image of a kangaroo. Next, the airplane is seen splashing water during taking off from the muddy field, past several persons watching from the side of the field. Another L-4 begins to take off.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072748
Indian soldiers, freed from Japanese prison camp, are ferried out of Senai airfield, New Guinea, by L-4 airplanes, during World War II

Pilot sits in cockpit of a Piper L-4 airplane of the U.S. Army Air Corps 25th Liaison Squadron, parked on a grass field at Senai, New Guinea, during World War 2. An Indian Punjab soldier, recently freed from a Japanese prison camp, sits in the back seat of the airplane. Several soldiers watch as the airplane takes off. A local tribesman sits near an Australian officer and an American pilot, who have a map spread out in front of them. A local native approaches followed by another liberated Indian soldier, walking with help of a stick. The American pilot walks out to greet the Indian who shakes his hand and bows. Another Indian also walks out to greet him, salutes, and shakes his hand. Three Indian soldiers pose for the camera, with the U.S. pilot standing nearby. The one with the walking stick salutes. Then two of them shake hands. Several Australian soldiers pose for the camera. Closeup of a Piper L-4 airplane with "Guinea Short Lines," and image of kangaroo, painted on its fuselage.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072749
Officers learn operating tools,bridge building,demolition work at Fort Belvoir Engineers School in Virginia,United States.

Officers training at Fort Belvoir Engineers School in Virginia,United States. View of the Headquarters Engineers School. Officers receive a complete training using steel models. They practice mechanical skills. They learn to operate precession tools,to reproduce maps, to interpret aerial photographs and survey terrains. They learn to operate heavy construction equipment to level hills and build roads. They learn to build and maintain bridge. They learn to handle explosions and demolitions work. They learn to blast heavy fortifications for combat function and front line infantry support. Officers practice amphibious landing

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072754
Ordinary life resuming in Stuttgart, Germany at the end of World War II in Europe.

Normal life of resuming for residents in Stuttgart,Germany at the end of World War 2. in Europe. People enter trolley cars (aka trams or street cars) powered by overhead electric cables, in front of the Stuttgart Königsbau (which later became a pedestrian district). View from inside a moving tram as it traverses a route in the city., first towards the train station and then left past the Gloria passage where you can see bomb-damaged buildings and heaps of debris at sides of the roadway. A large group of people step out from where they had been waiting, and walk beside rubble in a narrow part of one street, to board a waiting street car.

Date: 1945, June 3
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072770
Seventh U.S. Army soldiers prepare for the Allied Invasion of Southern France during Operation Dragoon of World War 2

From a 1952 U.S. Army television program titled The Big Picture. U.S. troops in a fox hole in Korea. A U.S. tank carrying many GIs in Germany.US ski troops in Alaska. Amphibious training on beach in Puerto Rico. United States Army Sergeant James Mansfield introduces the story of United States Seventh Army in the Allied Invasion of Southern France, "Operation Dragoon." Army Colonel William Wilson Quinn seated in office, with army rifle on his desk. He refers to the "Blue Badge" which is the Army infantryman's badge. Then he introduces the story of the Seventh United States Army: On 14 August 1944 Bay of Naples is seen as an open air Marshalling area. Barrage balloons float above the area. Large landing ships sit at dock with their front loading doors open. 3rd,45th and 36th division combined into 7th United States Army. Mechanized war equipment being loaded and checked off the loading chart. 7th army soldiers march through streets. Red Cross workers distribute donuts. Soldiers board ships. Ships leave harbor to join convoy. Ships docked at the West Coast of Corsica. Officers meet for conference aboard ship. Men attend last minute details. Some pray. Animated map depicts the route of the advancement by the troops. Port Cros and Levant : French commandos landed on these islands. U.S. B-25 bombers in flight drop bombs. Fighting ships take their positions. Navigators, gunners and signal men alert. Soldiers prepare for fight. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft fly in formation. A B-24 bomber over mountains. B-25s in flight.509th Parachute Infantry Battalion being inspected at airport. Paratroopers get into aircraft. Aircraft taxis and takes off. United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain and C-54 Skymaster military transport aircraft in flight toward Southern France. Paratroopers descend to ground and advance. Gliders land. Soldiers unload and ready artillery. Aerial view of rugged terrain. Ships underway at sea. Officers look through binoculars aboard ship.

Date: 1944, August 15
Duration: 7 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072829
Two former Japanese sailors meet again, 20 years after WWII, and reminisce together

Japan roughly twenty years after World War II. The front page of a Japanese newspaper. A Japanese banner. A large outdoor gathering of Japanese people kneeling. They rise all together at the beginning of some event. A family of three, father, mother and daughter, seated on the floor in a house. The man reads from a scroll, perhaps something written by his daughter. A Japanese newspaper showing a map of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding regions. Pedestrians move along a street. A man drops a rolled piece of artwork and another pedestrian picks it up. He hands it to the man who dropped it and expresses pleasure at recognizing him from the past. The two of them go to the artist's studio. Oil paintings in the studio, some on a wall and some rest against tables. The visitor admires the paintings as his host, the artist, bends over small Hibachi. The two men squat on the floor over a Hibachi. One of them looks through a magazine of art work from around the world. Two men talk. View of studio shows tubes of oil paints, paintings and sketches of warships, painting of Japanese Naval war ensign, and paintings and books on a shelf. Models of warships in a bookcase. The two men converse, as one smokes. Papers pinned on a wall include a painting of a warship; a warship recognition chart; a picture of a submarine and a picture of a Cruiser warship. The two men lie on the floor and reminisce. Articles on furniture in the room include: radio; a bust; model airplane; model of a naval warship.The two men settle down to sleep, on the floor, still reminiscing.

Date: 1965
Duration: 6 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675066714