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German Major General Kurt Student speaks to soldiers, German troops advance in Crete, Greece (WW2)

The Battle of Crete during World War II. German Major General Kurt Student with German officers and soldiers in Crete. General Student meets a man in a field. General Student talks and salutes to some men while walking together. German troops stand behind a wall facing the Mediterranean Sea. View of the Mediterranean Sea from a beach in Crete, Greece. German infantry advance on Crete by foot, walking on rugged village and mountain roads. A German soldier mounts and rides a small horse. Bullet holes near the roundel of a downed British Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft.

Date: 1941, June
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080094
Heavy columns of smoke rise up as HMS Barham explodes after being torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea.

Sinking of Queen Elizabeth-class British Royal Navy battleship HMS Barham in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. The ship sinks after being torpedoed by German U-Boat U-331. Smoke rises from the ship. The ship explodes and heavy columns of smoke rise up.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065533
Axis aircraft bomb Malta during World War II. British naval warships at Malta for replenishing.

At beginning of film, camera pans over Malta. A map of that area of the Mediterranean Sea is shown. A street scene in Malta, with pedestrians on the sidewalks. A local police officer speaks to a group of men and women wearing steel helmets. Closeup of some of them. (They appear to be a group of volunteers.) Scene shifts to view from a street of flak clouds in the sky above, from anti-aircraft fire directed at Axis planes bombing Malta. People pointing toward the sky at an Axis bomber. Bombs exploding on the city. An old woman and several children pose in front buildings totally destroyed with nothing but rubble remaining. Views of destroyed buildings. Film shifts to a British Illustrious class aircraft carrier anchored in waters near Malta. It then shows a view of sailors on a British warship. A British sailor poses in a small boat with the British battleship HMS Warspite in the background. Glimpse of naval gun shells in a container. Some guns on ship's deck with mechanism for rotating them into vertical position. View of the barrels pointing upward. In rearming operations, A heavy naval gun shell being moved by a winch with a clamp around its body, onto the HMS Warspite. Sailors gathered around the shell to remove it from the winch. Sailors rolling a heavy shell on a platform. More sailors lowering a heavy shell into the hold of the battleship. British Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, on the deck of HMS Warspite, his flagship.

Date: 1941, May 13
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053967
British Navy ships defend against Axis aircraft in the Mediterranean, during World War II.

Film opens showing aerial view of an Illustrious class British aircraft carrier at sea, during World War 2. The original HMS Illustrious (87) in the Mediterranean. Cargo ships in the distance. View from flight deck of aircraft carrier, following a gunboat. Several British warships underway. A British Havant class destroyer. Several British sailors in hard hats observing a Havant class destroyer in the background. Sailors in battle gear firing antiaircraft guns at Axis aircraft. A British fighter bomber takes off from a carrier. Anti-aircraft guns firing from British ships. Bombs burst in the water close to an aircraft carrier. A British Blackburn B-24 Skua dive bomber takes off from a carrier.

Date: 1941, January 16
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056189
An Italian fleet on maneuvers in the Mediterranean.

Italian fleet on maneuvers in the Mediterranean. The Italian flag on a battleship. A fleet of Italian ships. Airplanes on the ship deck. Sailors work on a plane. The plane is catapulted into flight. Officers and sailors survey the surroundings through binoculars. Gun on the ship deck. Sailors in the engine room. Water splashing along the ship. Flags on the ship. Explosions in the water. Ships fire during the exercise. Ships are hit. Black smoke from the ships on fire. Charred deck of a ship. Firemen try to put out the fire with water hoses. An officer looks through a telescope. A burning ship. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020684
German Navy SM U-35, under Commander Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, captures and sinks a British ship (WW1)

The German SM U-35 U-boat sinks a British ship in the Mediterranean Sea during World War 1. German U-Boat Commander Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière uses a pair of binoculars, with subordinates taking down notes, while the SM U-35 cruises in the Mediterranean. A British merchant ship sails the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. German U-Boat crew sails to the British merchant ship on a small boat. German seamen return with seized cargo of turtles. Seized turtles are laid down on the U-Boat’s deck. A commander of the British ship is offloaded by the German. A captured crew member tosses a hat to the commander. Captured British crew members, wearing life vests, are left adrift in a lifeboat. The SM U-35 crew fires deck gun to sink the British merchant ship. Sailing ship listing as it begins to sink. Commander Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière marks off the sunken ship in a log book as other captured British commanders gather on the submarine deck. Lifeboats with captured British crewmen are left adrift in the Mediterranean Sea.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079199
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