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Crates are unloaded and truck parts are assembled at an automotive reassembly plant in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.

Automotive reassembly plant called 'Little Detroit' in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations during World War II. A soldier works on a typing machine. The assembly area of automotive reassembly plant. Crates are unloaded from a ship and loaded onto trucks. The trucks are driven to the plant. The crates are unloaded by a crane. Parts are hoisted by the crane and placed at an assembly line. Wheels of trucks are rolled on the assembly line. Workers assemble parts of a truck. The trolley of a truck is hoisted by the crane and assembled. Insignia of the U.S. is painted on the truck. Tires, motors, air filters and steering gear are checked. The trucks are driven out of the assembly area after approval.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058120
Brigadier General Wilson and Lieutenant General Devers meet in North African Theater during World War II.

Meeting of Generals in North African Theater of World War II. U.S. Army Brigadier General James Wilson Holsinger and U.S. Army Lieutenant General Jacob Devers meet at the Allied Forces headquarters. Brigadier General Wilson at a desk. The two officers look at a map of the Mediterranean Theater as they confer.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059162
A montage of World War II scenes from the Mediterranean, U.S., Japan, Australia, and Pacific, in the early 1940s

Pictures taken by military and news cameramen during World War 2. The Battle of the Mediterranean at Malta: Smoke from burning buildings. Explosion due to bombardment. British soldiers look through binoculars, confirm target, take aim and fire antiaircraft guns at Nazi German aircraft in flight. Nazi aircraft drop bombs. Japan: Japanese Emperor Hirohito reviews Japanese troops. Japanese troops, tanks, artillery and cavalry parade. Japanese bombers strike Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941. Civilians run for cover. Burning U.S. warships. Debris removed from the Harbor. U.S. troops mobilize for the War. Australia: U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur arrives to take command of the Pacific Theater. New Guinea: The jungle campaign. U.S. troops advance over rough terrain. Natives run for cover as huts burn down. Australian and U.S. soldiers in combat. Smoke due to fire on a hill. Soldiers help wounded comrades through the New Guinea mud. Natives carry war equipment.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021765
Dwight Eisenhower, Robert Carney and Matthias Gardner with sailors and marines on USS Des Moines in the Pacific Theater.

U.S.General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe, aboard USS Des Moines (CA-134) with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. General Eisenhower takes photographs of United States Navy Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney and Vice Admiral Matthias B. Gardner with his stereo camera. Sailors and marines in formation on the deck. Dwight David Eisenhower, Robert Bostwick Carney and Matthias B. Gardner talk. A Sikorsky H-5 helicopter rises from the deck and flies off. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) at sea. The rails of USS Des Moines (CA-134) in the foreground. Several carrier-based aircraft put on a demonstration, strafing and firing rockets into the water.

Date: 1951, October 16
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067176
The USS Lexington entering World War II in the Pacific Theater and unrelated scenes of aircraft carrier warfare

A newsreel compilation of several unrelated shots. A P-40 of the 57th Fighter Group takes off from deck of the USS Ranger (CV-4). In an unrelated shot, a view looking back past tail of an aircraft after takeoff, with the USS Enterprise behind. A Douglas Dauntless airplane takes off from a Yorktown class carrier. View back past its tail in a pre-war shot as an airplane leaves the Lexington behind. On Feb. 20, 1942, during World War 2, while en route to attack Rabaul,in New Guinea, the Lexington is attacked by eighteen Japanese planes. She shoots down several of them. Machine gunners firing. Bombs bursting in water near the ship. An F4F with collapsed landing gear near edge of flight deck. Black smoke rising from burning Japanese plane in water. Sky blackened with flak. Machine gun tracer bullets visible. Inserted scenes show the stern of a British carrier, and views of a bombing attack in the Mediterranean against a British Illustrious class carrier. Another inserted scene shows a lone sailor running the length of the flight deck on the USS Enterprise in the Battle of Santa Cruz. A Japanese airplane bursts into flames. Another is struck and dives trailing smoke.( An inserted view of U.S. Douglas TBD Devastators peeling off and launching torpedoes.) Douglas Dauntless aircraft recovering back on the Lexington. Flight deck full of aircraft as the Lexington makes way in the Pacific. Animated segment showing numerous drawings of aircraft carriers and airplanes headed toward Japan. (Inserted view of Four U.S. aircraft carriers, USS Lexington, USS Ranger, USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise seen together in prewar maneuvers.)

Date: 1942, February
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675054242
Allied victories over Nazis in European Theater in 1944 and 1945 during World War 2

Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058350