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United States Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy, CA-71 and battleship USS Nevada, BB-36, in World War II

Night action at sea during World War 2. A massive explosion occurs as a mine detonates. Flashes in the dark as tracers are fired at night and flares fall on the surface. United States Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy, CA-71, painted in Camouflage Measure 31-32-33 series Design 18D. Next is the battleship USS Nevada, BB-36, painted in Camouflage Measure 22. ( Note: This was likely filmed between May 1944 and September 1944 when these two ships supported both the Normandy and Southern France Invasions.)

Date: 1944
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049221
Liberated civilians cheer arrival of the American troops in Lyon, France during Operation Dragoon (WW2)

Allied Invasion of Lyon, Southern France during Operation Dragoon of World War II on 3 September 1944. Liberated Lyons civilians cheer arrival of the American troops. United States M4 Sherman tank drives into town. Damaged bridges, railroads, and blocked highways. Sign points to a bypass due to bridge out. Major General John W. O' Daniel, commander of 3rd Division, crosses river using bypass and directs pursuit of the German forces. French armored division enters Dijon on 11 September 1944. An M8 Greyhound and other armored vehicles. Allied soldiers shaking hands. Liberated civilians celebrate their arrival on street. French troops of the Seventh Army join with the French units of Third army. Map of France. United States soldiers parade through streets after victory.

Date: 1944, September 3
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072839
Wounded soldiers are given first aid and blood transmit in Southern France during Operation Dragoon of World War 2

Allied Invasion of Southern France during Operation Dragoon in World War II, 19 August 1944. Wounded soldiers are evacuated to floating ambulances. Enemy troops fire artillery to block Allied advance. Several explosions. Aircraft in flight drop bombs. Tanks advance. Map of Marseilles and Toulon. Wounded soldiers are given first aid and blood transfusion. Prisoners evacuated from combat zone. Prisoners of war exit a gate with sign “36 Div. PN Enclosure”. United States Army General Alexander M. Patch and French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny award soldiers. A medal on soldier’s chest.

Date: 1944, August 19
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072831
Dramatization depicts: members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington during civil war.

Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro Southern dramatization on the effect of the Civil War and the reconstruction. Prewar conditions on the Cameron estate in Piedmont, South Carolina. The members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington are introduced. Men and women reading a newspaper outside a house. The newspaper headlined read: 'If the North carries the election, the South will secede'. An abolitionists meeting. They discuss about the news. The Stoneman library in Washington. Women cleaning the library. One of the woman leaves. A man enters and talks to the woman. They argue and the man leaves the room. The woman cry. Man portrayed as Leader of the Senate Charles Sumner in the library. He looks at the books kept on a table. He arrives near the woman and talks to her. A woman and a man talking amongst themselves in a room. Other man enters and talks to them.

Date: 1916
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076594
Damaged plantation homes after Civil War, barren land, and African American family migration

Activities around the Mississippi river in the United States in the early 1900s, in areas still affected by the Civil War. Text of General Robert E. Lee's announcement about surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865. Image of flames and fire burning a town or city. United States Civil War aftermath in the South. Scenes of several different empty and burned down plantation homes in the southern United States. View of the barren land and effects of erosion. Poor African American family with many things in a horse drawn wagon, walking on foot during migration to a new area of the United States in the north or west. View of the Mississippi River as seen from a moving boat at water level.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032220
The United States Army presence in Europe and America during the Cold War era.

Opening scene shows Headquarters, United States Army, Europe (USAREUR) at Campbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany. A line of U.S. 7th Army M48 Patton tanks contributing to NATO defenses. One backs out of position. A line of M113 Armored personnel carriers proceeding along a dirt field. A tank destroyer followed by M113 APC. M113s of a U.S. Armored Brigade drive in Berlin, affirming allied rights in the city. Bridge in Italy displays logo of U.S. Army Southern European Task Force (SETAF). A Sergeant Missile Battalion of SETAF provides nuclear capable support to NATO. One of its Sergeant missiles is seen maneuvering on its mobile launch platform. Two Italian soldiers are seen being trained in missile operations. A motorized tractor pulls several wheeled containers of military supplies stockpiled at one of NATO's European storage facilities. More supplies are seen being moved outside a warehouse. Army personnel using keyboards and computer tape drives to keep track of war materiel. Yards full of military hardware, including lines of jeeps, provide backup for military operations. A sign at the Headquarters United States Southern Command in Quarry Heights, Panama. A ship is seen moving through the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal. U.S. and allied soldiers are seen working with ropes to traverse a river, during Jungle Warfare training. Soldiers seen moving through jungle underbrush during training at the Southern Command School of the Americas. Scene shifts to U.S. Army, Alaska at Fort Richardson, near Anchorage. A U.S. M113 APC is seen driving and firing its weapon on a snowy field. Its stops and soldiers in white arctic gear step from a rear hatch to take up positions. A Piasecki H-21 Army helicopter is seen flying low above the terrain. It is equipped with landing gear skis. Rear view of tank moving in snow.

Date: 1968
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038109