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European Heads of State review their respective forces mobilizing for World War I. Glimpses of trench warfare.

German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..

Date: 1914
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675056586
British air force and navy raid targets of Japanese in Pacific Theater and Germans on European Front, during World War II.

Allied air force and navy raid Japanese targets in the Pacific Theater and German positions on the European Front, during World War II. British aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean. Airmen and sailors aboard attach bombs and prepare planes for a raid on Japan. Planes take off from the strip of carrier one after the other. Navigator makes plans for returning the planes. The planes land on the strip after completing the mission. Large guns on the ships. British 8th Air Force raids Nazi supply lines on the European Front. Immense smoke rises by the bombs dropped on Nazi positions. A German fighter plane shot in air by Allied warplane.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056372
P-38 planes fly over B-17 planes in European Theatre of Operations

38th and 338th Fighter Squadron P-38H's taxi round perimeter track at Nuthampstead and take-off down main runway. Some of the planes take off in pairs and others singly. Among those seen are , Lt. Jerry Ayers' P-38H coded CG-Q and Lt. Stanley Richardson's P-38H coded CL-X. Views of 55th Fighter Group P-38H planes escorting 91st Bomb Group B-17Fs in European Theater of Operations. Flights of P-38 planes position themselves to protect B-17 formations. Crew officers (including Capt. Hancock of the 38th FS) observe the activities from ground. The P-38s return to land. One P-38 releases drop tank over the airfield before landing. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030629
Soldiers of United States 591st Engineering Corp return home from the European theater of war in World War 2

A newsreel titled '2,000,000th G. I, head for home' shows soldiers of United States 591st Engineering Corp head for home after 22 months from European theater of war. Charles Hudgins being presented a plaque by an officer as other soldiers look on. They bid 'adieu' to their dear ones before embarking onto a ship.

Date: 1945, December 13
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038060
Smoke rises up due to an explosion as a German plane is attacked by a U.S. fighter aircraft in the European Theater.

Operations of United States 8th Air Force Fighter Command in the European Theater during World War II. Pilot Forsyth of 359th Squadron, 356th Fighter Group in flight in a fighter aircraft. An aerial view of the mountains and the land. The aircraft strafes a German aircraft. A German plane explodes on landing. Flames and smoke rise up due to the explosion.

Date: 1944, August 18
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054507
German planes are attacked by U.S. 8th Air Force fighter aircraft in the European Theater.

United States 8th Air Force Fighter Command Fighter Operations in the European Theater during World War II. Pilot E.L. Thompson of 361st Squadron, 356th Fighter Group in flight in a fighter aircraft. Several planes in flight. The United States aircraft strafes a German aircraft. The German plane crashes.

Date: 1944, August 18
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054508