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Nazi Kriegsmarine launch Operation Zitronella on Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago (349th Grenadier Regiment and 230th infantry division) during World War II.

A battleship sails in strong waves in the Norwegian Sea at start of Operation Zitronella during World War 2. German Kriegsmarine navy lookouts survey the surroundings with binoculars, camera pans to show the waves. A destroyer sailing. Men in life-jackets on deck. A Kriegsmarine smokes his pipe on deck. A Kriegsmarine navy in sunglasses smokes cigarette. View of the Norwegian sea with German destroyers and Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on deck. A dinghy was hanging above the waters. Captain on the battleship Tirpitz, Vice-Admiral Friedrich Karl Topp, surveys Spitsbergen through binoculars. Battleship Tirpitz and other destroyers sail near Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on the gun turret of the Tirpitz are ready to fire (38 cm SK C/34 naval guns). Ammunition fired towards Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine men deploys a dinghy to the waters. Another round of ammunition fired to Spitsbergen. A dinghy with Kriegsmarine men deploys to the sea. Another round of ammunition fired towards the island again. A picket boat from a battleship prepares to sail. Another dinghy is deployed from a battleship. A German soldier gets into the dinghy. German soldiers climb down a steel ladder to get on a picket boat. A dinghy full of soldiers sails towards the island. More boats filled with soldiers deploy from the battleships towards the island. A dinghy sails away from a battleship. Spitsbergen island covered in smoke. Smoke emanating from the sailing battleship firing more ammunition. German soldier in a life-jacket smiling and sticking his tongue out as his group sails towards the island. Boats approach Spitsbergen island. Soldiers get off their boats after landing on the island. the island. Soldiers tie three explosives on a post. German soldiers patrolling nearby as an explosion booms. Boats filled with soldiers sail back to the battleships after they successfully seized the installations on the island. Soldiers in life-vests climb back to the battleships. Two German soldiers helped a comrade climb up to the battleship. A victorious German soldier smiles. German soldiers congratulates each other for the successful takeover of Spitsbergen. Battleships successfully sail with Spitsbergen in the background.

Date: 1943, September 8
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078958
German troops land in Spitsbergen, Norway and plant demolition charges during World War II.

German occupation of Spitsbergen, Norway during World War 2. German fleet underway in the Arctic Ocean off Spitsbergen. German soldiers aboard a ship. Naval guns aboard a ship bombards the coast. German soldiers loaded in a landing craft as it is being lowered into the sea along the side the ship. A German destroyer lays a smoke screen. The soldiers transfer from the ship into the landing craft. Troops land at the coast of Spitsbergen. Engineers plant demolition charges on a tree.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675059099
Captain Wilkins and Lt. Eielson stand near an aircraft in Spitsbergen, Svalbard after completing a trans-Arctic flight.

The history of famous airplanes. Australian polar explorer Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins and American aviator Lieutenant Carl Benjamin Eielson in Spitsbergen, Svalbard after completing a 2,200 mile trans-Arctic flight from Alaska to Spitszbergen. Captain Wilkins in a civilian dress. An aircraft being moved out of the area. 'Detroit news, Arctic expedition' written on the side of the airplane. Captain Wilkins and Lt Eielson check over the airplane prior to a take off. Men dressed in civilian garb. The aircraft starts to taxi across the field. It is a Lockheed Vega aircraft. Animated world map shows the start of the Wilkins flight on April 15th from Point Barrow in Alaska and traces the route of the flight to Spitsbergen. The time of the flight was 20 hours, 20 minutes. They land at Green Bay in Spitsbergen.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070313
Lt. Commander Byrd's Fokker tri-motor aircraft returns to Spitsbergen, Svalbard after a flight to the North Pole.

United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett become the first to reach the North Pole by air. Byrd's streamer Chantler arrives at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Two ships in an ice clogged harbor. Lt. Commander Byrd is welcomed by his friendly rival Captain Roald Amundsen. Amundsen climbs from one ship to another and shakes hands with Byrd. Byrd and Amundsen walk around and look over Byrd's Fokker tri-motor aircraft 'Josephine Ford' which is equipped with skis and is parked in snow. Workmen push fuselage and wing section of the Fokker tri-motor across the snow. The airplane moves down a snow clad incline. The ski equipped Fokker tri-motor aircraft takes off from a snow covered field in Spitsbergen. The aircraft returns and lands on a snow covered field after a flight to the North Pole. A large hangar and snow covered mountains in the background. Capt. Amundsen congratulates Byrd and shakes hands with him. Many people, dressed in heavy clothing, shake hand with Lt. Commander Byrd.

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051108
Amundsen and Ellsworth wave to people as airship Norge takes off from Spitsbergen, Svalbard for a North Pole expedition.

A North Pole expedition undertaken by Captain Roald Amundsen and American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. Capt. Amundsen and Ellsworth aboard USS Knut Skaaloren arrive at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. They walk back and forth on the deck of the ship. Dirigible Norge arrives for a landing. A large hangar and snow covered mountains in background. A close up of Amundsen and Ellsworth. Airship Norge being backed out of a hangar. Snow clad hills in the background. A workman works on one of the motors on the side of the airship. Amundsen and Ellsworth in the gondola of the airship. They wave to the people around the gondola. Airship Norge takes off. 'Norge' written on the airship.

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051109
The first Polar expedition led by Richard Byrd, in 1926, leaves New York, bound for King's Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway..

United States Navy Lieutenant Commander, Richard Evelyn Byrd's arctic expedition to fly an airplane over the North Pole. U.S. Freighter Chantier docked in New York harbor. A Tug boat pushes the SS Chantier away from her pier in New York Harbor. Lt.Cmdr. Byrd, pilot Floyd Bennett, and two other members of the expedition, consult charts to plan their flight, during the cruise from New York to Norway. View from the ship's deck as they traverse sea covered with floating ice floes. closeups of the ice floes. View from the deck, as the SS Chantier approaches land, in King's Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway. A Norwegian gunboat is docked at the only pier. Snow and ice-covered mountains rise in the background. Several buildings, including a hangar, for the airship, Norge, are seen at the Norwegian camp. The Harbor master comes out to the Chantier, with three other men, in a dingy. They struggle through the ice floes, using long poles to help them maneuver.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063325
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