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German fighter and bomber aircraft engaged in various missions during World War II.

A sign in German alluding to Greater Germany. ME-109 fighter aircraft takes off from dirt field. Junkers JU-88 bombers in formation. German pilots at controls of JU-88. British Spitfire attacks a JU-88. Gunners on bomber fire at Spitfire. German ME-109 arrives and engages British Spitfire in dogfight. The Spitfire is hit and descends, smoking, then crashes flat and burns. JU-88s continue and drop bombs. Dorner Do 17 bombers are also seen dropping bombs. Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in flight. Views from pilot's cockpit. Formation of Ju-87s. View from cockpit of Ju 87 during dive bombing run against ground target. Smoke seen due to bomb explosion. Formation of Ju-87s with pilots in cockpits. View from cockpit as Ju-87 makes dive bomb attack against allied ship engaged in evasive maneuvers, with bombs falling near it.

Date: 1940
Duration: 5 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041022
French grenades and artillery being used during World War I.

In live fire practice,during World War 1, two French soldiers walk forward and hurl hand grenades, as several others watch from behind protective barricades. The grenade throwers hit the ground as soon as they release them. Others duck down behind their barricades. New scene from atop a building in a town, an artillery shell is seen bursting and smoke rising near a building by a distant road. Two shell explosions are seen on a hillside and one releasing white smoke (possibly gas). French soldiers busy themselves at their fortified positions on high ground above a plain, while an officer slowly rotates a large finned mortar shell on its shaft, vertically. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041209
Early aviators winning different air races and early French aircraft

People attend the Circuit de L' Quest. Alfred LeBlanc is the winner of the race. Leblanc lands aircraft and personnel run out to meet him. LeBlanc congratulated. Jules Vedrines is the winner of the Paris-Madrid race. Jules Vedrines lands at San Sebastian completing the second of three legs in the race to Madrid in 1911. Jules Vedrines alights the plane. View of Andre Beaumont (really Jean Louis Conneau but better known as André Beaumont), winner of the first European Circuit Air race in 1911. André Beaumont smiles from the cockpit of his airplane. Female aviator (aviatrix) Helene Dutrieu (Hélène Dutrieu) seated in cockpit of a Santos-Dumont designed Demoiselle. View of the first multi-passenger aircraft built, the Albessard tandem monoplane.

Date: 1910
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675041655
Italian bombers drop bombs over Austrian positions during World War I.

Italian bombers in flight during World War I. Italian bomber aircraft in flight. A bomb under the wing of an aircraft to be dropped on Austrian trenches. The planes engage in aerial warfare. A blimp or large observation balloon in flames as it descends. Soldiers in a field watch the skies upward. Another blimp or air balloon burns as it descends and a soldier parachuting to the ground.

Date: 1918
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042409
U.S. President Wilson declares war against Germany and U.S. General Pershing arrives in France during World War I.

America declares war against Germany during World War I. A report in ' New York Tribune ' is pictured. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk in his office in Washington D.C., United States as he declares war against Germany. A copy of Joint Resolution declaring war against Germany. General Pershing reaches England and then France where he visits Napoleon's tomb, Les Invalides along with other French officers. United States Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt as America joins the war. Allied ships underway at sea. United States battleship New York at sea. Sailors aboard a ship. Admiral Rodman addresses the crew aboard a ship.

Date: 1917, April
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042413
The story of AFN ( American Forces Network) Radio. Founding announced in 1942. First broadcast in 1943; growth in 1944.

U.S. Army soldier reads newspaper while listening to radio. Soldiers doing their respective chores, listen to AFN (American Forces Network) Radio. General Marshall and General Eisenhower announce the creation of AFN, in 1942. July 4, 1943, the first broadcast of AFN. General Eisenhower mingling with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, on the eve of D-day. U.S. B-26 aircraft in flight. United States soldiers aboard landing craft and wading ashore at Normandy, France, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Soldiers tuning radios in the field. United States Sherman tanks and infantry move along country road in France. Audio includes portions from AFN broadcasts, including an announcer saying "You are listening to AFN Paris. This is the American Forces Network, on the road to Berlin." Road sign points to St. Lo. Group of U.S. soldiers gathered around a jeep with a radio, listening to AFN, in Germany. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043015