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Two hundred thousand Hungarians flee Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956
Hungarian rebels in crowd during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Hungarian rebels with Hungarian soldiers in Budapest. Damaged buildings in Budapest. A devastated street car in Budapest after the Hungarian Revolution. Abandoned Soviet military vehicle, equipment and tank in Budapest. Hungarians curiously observe the tank. Hungarian freedom fighters, with rifles, patrol Budapest. Piles of blocks in road near apartment buildings in Budapest. Russian tanks roll in Budapest, returning to the Hungarian Revolution with more reinforcements. Soviet military vehicles pouring into Andrassy Avenue, Budapest. Hungarians cross a river and walk to the Austrian border. Hungarian refugee smokes a cigarette. A Hungarian couple kiss and laugh together. Two hundred thousand Hungarian refugees trekking towards the temporary refugee shelters in Austria. Austrian border control. Hungarian refugees flee with their luggage and bicycles, hoping to make it to countries that could accept them such as England, France, Scandinavia, Switzerland and the United States.
Germans building fortifications in the Maginot and Siegfried lines (WW2)
German fortifications in the Maginot and Siegfried Lines in World War 2. Illustrated map of Western Europe depicting Great Britain, Netherlands, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium and Germany during World War 2. The Swastika symbol is shown on the German-occupied side. German soldiers and slave labor workers digging ditches for fortification. Shadows of men digging ditches. Men building tank barriers and roadblocks. A man twists a wire in place. Men constructing a bunker. German troops marching on the beach under watch by soldiers with guns. German troops enter a bunker. German soldiers ducking to go through a bunker door one by one. Nazi German soldiers push a field gun to a camouflaged underground bunker. German soldier puts down his telephone. A howitzer in a German fortification facing the coast. Gun turrets moving up. German soldiers with a Karl-Gerät siege mortar called “Thor” during the Battle of Sevastopol. Nazi German railgun “Schwerer Gustav” during the Battle of Sevastopol. German soldiers load a 7.1 ton shell to the “Schwerer Gustav” railgun. A German officer uses a telescope. Dragon’s teeth tank obstacles in the Siegfred Line fortification in Western Germany. Barbed wire fences in a battlefield.
German invasion of Norway and Denmark in World War II.
Opening scene shows German infantry marching along a road next to a body of water. A horse-drawn wagon carries some supplies. A German Army soldier climbs atop a stone monument with a metal representation of the word, showing the North and South arctic circles. It is dated 1937. He attaches a ribbon to the sculpture. Views of Norwegian coastal defense guns. German Navy gunships underway in background. Closeups of some gunships. Aerial views of German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft flying in formation over snow-covered mountains in Bergen, Norway. View from co-pilot's seat in a bomber. The He 111s flying low over a body of water. A long steel bridge over a body of water. German soldiers standing guard on the bridge, with a bicycles, and a tripod mounted M42 machine gun, as German troops on motorcycles pass along the bridge. sign on bridge marking boundary between two administrative entities (counties). Troops on bicycles riding across the bridge. Glimpse of coastal defense guns in Denmark and a German Soldier sentry.
The first draft lottery being conducted in Washington DC, under the 1940 Selective Service Act of 1940
The first Selective Service lottery conducted in Washington, DC, on October 29, 1940, in the United States. An American Legion member, in uniform, poses with Mrs. Robert Bell and her son and a young woman (her daughter?) after her son's draft number (158) had been the first one drawn in the Washington DC Lottery. Dr. Baxter talks with Mrs. Bell and asks why she exclaimed out loud when the first number was drawn. Dr. Baxter gives her the capsule in which her son's draft number was contained. Views of the audience at the The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, where the lottery was being conducted.
Famous football games between Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins and between Cornell and Dartmouth
Some 1940 U.S. football highlights. Scenes of a long touchdown run and an interception and touchdown run from the 1940 National Football League Championship Game that the Chicago Bears won 73-0, on December 8, 1940. Scenes from the Dartmouth-Cornell "Fifth-Down" game of November 16, 1940, with Cornell quarterback "Pop" Scholl throwing a "winning" touchdown pass to William Murphy.
Patriotic parade floats during the 1940 Portland Rose Festival
The city of Portland holds the annual Portland Rose Festival with a patriotic flair in June 1940. Two United States flags are hanging from a building. The parade route is marked by banners that read "For You A Rose In Portland Grows." Parade floats made of roses in the 1940 Grand Floral Parade. Portland Rose Festival girls on a “Constitution” float wave at crowds as their float round the corner in front of the New Heathman Hotel (now the Heathman Hotel) at 712 SW Salmon Street. Two men dressed as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln sit on the “Portland Dist. No. 2 Mantle Club” "America First" float, which features an Eagle on its front. Portland Rose Festival “queens” and “princesses” on a “Peacock” themed float wave at crowds. Boy scouts flank the “Peacock” float as passes the Alisky Building and the Harry Semler Dentist and Optical offices. A “Treasure Island Exposition 1940” float. Women and a man on the “Portland Realtors” float, traveling down SW Morrison St. The Portland Hotel is seen in the background at the corner of SW 6th Ave. and SW Morrison St. A “Pasadena” float with an effigy of the bald eagle and the United States flag made of roses is flanked by marching boy scouts.
