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Bob Hope and Frances Langford in USO tour, entertain U.S. troops on Bougainville in World War II

The Bob Hope Troupe on U.S.O. tour in the South West Pacific in World War 2. During tour, they entertain U.S. soldiers on Bougainville. Bob Hope engages in comic banter with Frances Langford. She then sings "I'll be seeing you," accompanied by the troupe's guitarist, Tony Romano. Views of the soldiers in audience seated close together on the ground. They seem to want an encore and engage in banter with Bob Hope.

Location: Bougainville Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, August 2
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033573
U.S. 26th "Yankee" Infantry Division celebrates Thanksgiving, 1944, during World War II.

Thanksgiving 1944 in Northeastern France, with the U.S. 26th Infantry Division, during World War 2. Several U.S. Army women nurses walk through muddy snow covered field in Northeastern France, during World War II. One of them pulls a small sled. At the same time,US troops march along sides of a nearby road. A U.S. soldier is issued a winter coat by a quartermaster.Other soldiers putting on new overcoats. U.S. troops in overcoats march along a wet road. A soldier holds up a sign reading," 26 'Yankee' Infantry Division, HAPPY- THANKSGIVING !, Europe 1944." The troops huddle over field cook stoves in a field. They smoke cigarettes. Large group of U.S. soldiers in a chow line near a cemetery in a French town (probably Dieuze, which they captured on November 20th). They receive a Thanksgiving dinner. Soldiers playing football on a snow covered field.

Location: France
Date: 1944, November 23
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024443
LSTs unload equipment and ammunition Omaha Beach in Normandy, France during World War II.

LCI(L)s approaching the Omaha Beach shore during the D-day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Among those see is LCI(L)541. Officer calling with a megaphone from ship's deck. The LCIs advance toward the beach. Explosion seen ahead. U.S. troops wade from LCIs under continuous German machine gun fire. Larger Landing Ships Tank, including USS LST-282, waiting out of range of enemy fire. U.S. troops and motorized equipment on shore. Burning U.S. truck. Fallen U.S. soldiers in the sand.M4A1 Sherman tank with bulldozer blade and "DT-7" painted on its side, moving along Utah Beach. LCI(L)88 pulls up to a transport ship to load more troops for transport to the shore. Vehicles being transferred from an LST to a LCT. Larger vehicles, such as tanks, being transferred to "Rhino Ferries" (powered barges) to be taken ashore.Troop reinforcements being landed at the beachhead. Major General Charles H.Corlett, " Cowboy Pete," Commander of XIX Corps,US 1st Army, seen speaking on the radio, after landing on D-Day+4 (June 10th) at Omaha Beach, near Colleville-su-Mer. Army trucks drive ashore in surf. A buldozer moves in the surf.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065482
German troops reinforce defenses in Southern France after Allied 1944 invasion of Normandy in World War II

Film opens with map of western coast and towns in France. Camouflaged trucks filled with German infantry drive along rural French road in World War 2. Closeup of smiling soldiers in one truck. A makeshift sign reads (in German) "One-way street to the front." A soldier passes out newspapers to other soldiers riding bicycles. Closeup of a soldier reading the newspaper. Closeup of the paper has headline reading (in German) "Eisenhower has not surprised us." Troops on bicycles ride through a village. Large wooden sign warns (in German) that the enemy understands things you might say about military activities. Camouflaged vehicles drive along a road, passing overturned civilian vehicles at the sides of the road. View from rear of German soldier on motorcycle, with foliage on his helmet, looking skyward for aircraft. Formations of Allied aircraft are seen overhead, and German troops seek protection in ditches at side of the road. Scene shifts to German troops firing anti-aircraft guns at the planes. Black flak clouds are seen near the Allied airplanes. A lone B-17 bomber is seen overhead. Next, burning wreckage of an aircraft is seen strewn across a field. No markings are visible on the wreckage. A sign identifies the town of Avranches in Southern France. German infantry enter the war-torn town on civilian cars and other vehicles of opportunity and motorcycles. A German half track personnel carrier tows an artillery field piece.

Location: France
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078950
The story of AFN ( American Forces Network) Radio. Founding announced in 1942. First broadcast in 1943; growth in 1944.

U.S. Army soldier reads newspaper while listening to radio. Soldiers doing their respective chores, listen to AFN (American Forces Network) Radio. General Marshall and General Eisenhower announce the creation of AFN, in 1942. July 4, 1943, the first broadcast of AFN. General Eisenhower mingling with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, on the eve of D-day. U.S. B-26 aircraft in flight. United States soldiers aboard landing craft and wading ashore at Normandy, France, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Soldiers tuning radios in the field. United States Sherman tanks and infantry move along country road in France. Audio includes portions from AFN broadcasts, including an announcer saying "You are listening to AFN Paris. This is the American Forces Network, on the road to Berlin." Road sign points to St. Lo. Group of U.S. soldiers gathered around a jeep with a radio, listening to AFN, in Germany. (World War II period).

Location: Europe
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043015
American troops welcomed in France, but suffer casualties when Germans counterattack in December 1944.

American troops welcomed in village, by Nuns and children, and in Paris, France, in August, 1944. December 16, 1944, German counterattack causes American casualties. Dead and wounded shown being picked up on stretchers. American troops advancing across fields.Tanks and burning buildings. Americans fight in streets of town and from trenches, with snow on ground. Chaplain prays over body of fallen American soldier. More views of U.S. wounded on stretchers. German officers led by General Manteuffel planning actions. German home front civilian guards (Volkssturm national militia) seen on parade. German Tiger II tanks of s.Pz.Abt.503 parade in a training area. German SS troops advance during the Battle of the Bulge. German "buzz bomb" shown in flight. Smoke rises from buzz bomb strike on town. (World War II period).

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041930
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