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U.S. General Lucius Clay in Washington DC warns that continued food shortage in Germany will harm the European Recovery Program

U.S. providing Marshall Plan aid to Europeans U.S. Commander of occupation zone in Germany Lucius D. Clay climbs down a ladder. General Lucius Clay interviewed by men at the airport. The General speaks into a microphone. General Clay gives a report about communist inspired strike and food demonstration. General Clay says that if food shortage continues in Germany, communists may stir up greater trouble and harm the European Recovery Program. Congressmen Smith and Mundt seated on a chair. The men talk about the European Recovery Program also known as Marshall Plan. The men talk about various ways through which they can give information about the plan to the whole world.

Date: 1948, January 26
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069637
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
Improvement of miners, condition of mines and factories and civilians of war affected countries of Europe, by Marshall Plan.

Film titled 'Me and Mr. Marshall' depicts developments of coal mines in Germany and aid to other European nations affected by World War II. German coal miners dig deep in a coal mine soon after the end of World War 2. Volunteers awarded at a ceremony. Volunteers board a train and proceed for work at coal mines. Volunteers eat food, give their shoe size, under go training on mine machinery. Miners on lift move underground. Miners at end of the day walk out tired and blackened by coal dust, from a mine. Miners take hot showers after work and get clean clothing hung high on ropes. Salary given to workers for a day's work. Headlines of German newspapers about Marshall Plan. General George C. Marshall speaks his plans at a meeting in Washington DC, America. Aerial views of ruined buildings and factories, wrecked harbor, refugees in tenements in Europe after World War II. Buildings, monuments and bridges in London and Eiffel Tower and other buildings and civilians on roads in Paris, and view of Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union. Map shows countries under Marshall recovery plan. View of meeting in progress of Conference for European Economic Cooperation in July 1947, in the Grand Dining Room of the French Foreign Office. Meetings of leaders of nations adopting Marshall plan. Ruins of industries of Germany. Ruins on the ground after war in London, with Big Ben in the far distance. Workers at a factory. Miners take a horse inside a coal mine. Empty coal cars at a German coal mine. Men push coal cars full with mined coal out from mine, on rails. Views of buyers in suits at a German trade show and conference, promoting German products and industries to potential buyers in other countries, a few years after the end of World War 2. U.S. Congress and President Harry Truman in Washington DC approve the Marshall Plan and provide monitory aid to other European countries. Scenes in Germany as it recovers economically after the war: Workers in a factory. Harbor, fruit and vegetable market; customers in a bakery; coal cars and machinery at a coal mine under normal operation under the plan.

Date: 1948
Duration: 12 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036984
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