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British soldiers move supplies through deep mud, and advance across non man's land during World War I

British soldiers moving horses and supplies through thick mud during the First World War. A soldier with his face covered with mud. A shell bursts showering British soldiers with shrapnel, as they hunker down in the mud at night. In daytime scene British infantry advances across no man's land as the unit piper plays bagpipes and marches along crest of hill in World War 1. (Slate states Piper Richardson was killed later that day and was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.) Scenes are from a British film released post-war.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066066
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel visits Mrs. Goebbels and her children during World War II.

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on a break in assignments, in Germany, during World War II. On a visit to the home of his friend, Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, he is seen helping Magda Goebbels roll her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down their backyard playground slide, on a wheeled board.The Goebbels son, Helmut, tries out the scooter on the slide while his sister, Helga, does a somersault on the climbing bar behind. She pushes Helmut too hard and he falls off the slide. Marshall Rommel and his aides watch with amusement, as all the Goebbels children, and their dog, frolic on, and around, the slide. Their mother, Magda, helps the little girls.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066071
Soviet troops recapture lost area from the Nazis in the Soviet Union during World War II.

After effects of German attack on the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet soldiers fire mortars. Tanks roll as they drive the Nazis backwards. Animated map shows the Russian offensive along an entire belt and the area regained by them from the Nazis. Tanks roll into a city. Helmets on a snow covered field. A sign in German. German prisoners march on a snow covered field.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066079
A seaplane being towed by a tugboat in the United States.

A Ford 5-AT Tri-motor Float plane is seen being moving under its own power in a river during tests in 1925. (Its first flight was in 1926.) Later, it is seen being towed close to a tugboat, by a line fastened to its nose. Two men in life jackets stand atop its wing, and several follow in a dory. Several men monitor the tow line from the back of the tugboat.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066086
Men lift a wing for a Tri-Motor aircraft from a sealing area at the Ford aircraft plant in Dearborn, Michigan

Ford company aircraft in the United States. Interiors of an aircraft factory. Men at work. Men lift a wing from a sealing area.

Date: 1926
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066087
U.S. Army DH-4 aircraft on domestic border patrol duty in the United States.

A flight of 5 U.S. Army DH-4 pursuit airplanes takes off in loose formation from a grass field in the U.S.A. They join up in a "v" formation and fly overhead. The location is a well-established air base, containing many large hangars and other buildings and a tall water tower. Slate alludes to them performing a border patrol mission. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066091