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Views of France during Allied bombings showing Normandy, French civilians and American prisoners of War (WW2)

French cities and ports are shown in a campaign map of Northern France during World War II. Normandy peasants drive sheep and cows. German mechanized forces move forward to combat the Allied invasion. Allied planes bomb a French city. View of wrecked French city. French civilians dig through debris and remove the dead. Roads are filled with refugees. American prisoners of war are marched through Paris. French civilians kick and strike at some in the marching POW line.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039043
U.S. Navy warships and fighter aircraft during World War II

U.S. Iowa-class Battleship displays its 16-inch guns in triple turrets, during World War 2. The turrets rotate independently during the demonstration. U.S. Navy sailors riding on motorized dolleys transporting bombs on a Naval base. A flight of three U.S. Navy F6F aircraft, equipped with centerline gasoline drop tanks, is seen in formation. The flight leader, begins to dive. Partial closeup of a U.S. heavy cruiser, with forward triple turret guns elevated toward the port stern and next set of guns only slightly elevated in the same direction.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039519
U.S. Destroyer Escort ship USS McConnell (DE-163) is launched in Newark, New Jersey in World War 2

Scene at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Port Newark, New Jersey, as the U.S. Destroyer Escort USS McConnell is launched. Shipyard workers aboard the deck and handling lines. U.S. Naval Ensign displayed at her bow and crew looking down. Mrs. Grace Otteson McConnell swings the bottle of champagne and the USS McConnell slides down the ways after christening. View from deck of the McConnell as she goes down the ways. View from water, as she enters, stern-first. Change of scene to high vantage point overlooking the shipyard, at change of shift, when those ending leave and those arriving enter the yard to start work. Workers leaving through guarded gate. Incoming workers punching in on the time clock.

Date: 1943, March 28
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039520
The USS George Washington carrying President Wilson to Brest, France, at end of World War I

President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, on the deck of the USS George Washington, nearing France, en route to the Paris Peace Conference, at the end of World War 1. The President looks through binoculars, briefly. A U.S. battleshipis seen steaming ahead to port. The President motions with his hand towards another battleship,while speaking to Mrs. Wilson. (U.S. battleships and destroyers deployed in European waters joined the Presidential convoy as it approached Brest, France.) The camera pans across U.S. warships in the convoy. A dirigible is seen several hundred feet above the convoy. Closeup of the battleship, USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Camera shows French coast and flotilla moving toward Brest. President Wilson, dressed in overcoat and top hat, is seen on deck of the USS George Washington. He stands with Naval officers looking at the flotilla of U.S. warships.

Date: 1918, December 13
Duration: 4 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039610
A troop ship departs France carrying American soldiers returning home to the United States, at the end of World War I.

Scene opens showing large ocean liner at a pier with some American soldiers on board at the end of World War 1. . A dozen people stand on the dock, some holding umbrellas. Scene shifts to soldiers crowded on the upper deck, outdoors. Next, boys are seen on a cobblestone wharf beside the ship looking expectantly up towards the soldiers who occasionally toss things down to them. Some of the boys tussle over over these items as they attempt to catch them as they fall. A black dog mingles with the boys. Suddenly, a contingent of American soldiers marches past on their way to board the ship. View from a high vantage point on the ship shows the top deck completely filled with soldiers crammed together, waving happily. A tug boat moves close to maneuver the ship from the dock. Camera captures soldiers gathered around as two of their group take turns tap dancing on the wooden deck, while those watching clap in time to the dancers and express their approval of their performances. Next, two women are seen standing on the balcony of a building. They wave white scarfs in farewell. The ship makes its way slowly away from the port.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039659
Descendants of ancient Norsemen perform the mystic ceremonies of their ancestors at Up Helly Aa fire festival.

Titled 'Viking Customs Revived'. Descendants of ancient Norsemen pay homage to their ancestors. The men carry a Viking galley to dock at a port. Town crier ringing bell stands before a tall sign explaining the ritual. A picture of an old viking ship is seen atop the sign. Guizer Jarl leads Jarl Squad wearing ancient style viking clothes with swords and shields as they board the galley boat. Night scenes show torch light parade in the town, followed by parade goers throwing torches onto the galley and the burning of the Viking galley.

Date: 1935, February 20
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039746