President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing Congress on January 6, 1941, asking for authority to supply war materiel to Britain and allies. Animated map showing streams of war materiel going to china and to European allies. Views of transport ships, Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft with British roundel on them. A U.S. light tank M2; a large artillery barrel; and sacks of goods, being loaded on a ship. View of U.S. Capitol. Lend Lease Act passed. Animated map shows German forces overrunning Yugoslavia and Greece, and attacking Soviet Union. German troops in small boats crossing river to invade. German tanks and artillery operating on the Eastern front. Civilian men and women digging fortifications. Lend lease war materiel being unloaded in Britain, and at Red Sea port for British in Africa.Trucks carrying supplies over the Burma road to China. Lend lease supplies piled up in Murmansk, Russia, and Iran. "Hammer and Sickle 'em" chalked on a shipment.Stevedores rolling large tires.Hitler speaking. Head of Statue of Liberty. Animated illustrations about effects of Axis victory. U.S. Forces entering Greenland and Iceland, with consent of their governments.
German Arado Ar 196 Floatplane taxi on a lake and take off during World War II in Greece. Sailors fire a battle gun from a German ship as shells burst on the shore. German Junkers JU 88s attack enemy installations on the shore. View through gun sites as island is strafed. Junkers JU 52s fly in formation as paratroopers drop on Samos Island.
Troops lined up, in Greece during World War II. Snow-covered houses and mountains in the background. An officer speaks to the Greek soldiers lined up. (A small boy walks past the troops, in background.)
Native people of Greece during World War II. People in native dress form a line. A man digs a hole. Hillside caravan of native people and pack animals. Mules carry loads.
The German invasion of Crete, Greece during World War II. An animated map of Europe shows distances from Crete island to the nearby coasts. A Nazi aircraft in a field. German soldiers look on at a map before invading Crete island. An officer briefs the soldiers. Men in a field as they work on guns and various other equipment. The equipment being loaded into an aircraft. Aircraft lined up in a field. Soldiers prepare to board the planes. A machine gun on a plane. Men board the aircraft. The aircraft are lined up. Smoke rises in the background. The planes in flight. A pilot in a cockpit works on controls. German Stukas in flight over houses and fields. Paratroopers jump from the planes. A Stuka shoots down a British aircraft. Aerial view of the city. A German plane lands in a field. Soldiers wearing life jackets board the flight. The aircraft in flight and a pilot in the cockpit of the plane. German paratroopers drop and land. Soldiers fire from behind the sand bag mounds. Damaged Nazi planes. Bullet hits on aircraft bodies. A plane parked in a field as soldiers walk past it.
Nazi Germany launches an airborne invasion of Crete, Greece during World War II. A map shows the advance of the German forces towards Crete. Airborne forces commanded by General Kurt Student advance forward. German pilots fly towards Crete. German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52 fly towards Crete. The aircraft drop bombs and attack. German paratroopers descend and land below. Machine gunners fire guns. Wrecked Allied aircraft. The German forces advance. German troops climb hills. German soldiers carry guns and attack Allied soldiers. Airplanes drop bombs on land. Soldiers fire artillery. Soldiers hide behind a rocky hill. Soldiers on foot march Allied prisoners (many of the POW appear to be British). The city after the invasion.
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