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B-29 bomber dimensions and scenes of B-29 in flight.

Japanese air front, B-29 raid on Japan. Aerial view of target area in Japan. View of destroyed buildings and harbor in Japan. Japanese crowds in streets of Yawata, Japan. B-29 is displayed. Diagram of new B-29 bomber shows its dimensions and scenes of B-29 in flight.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044550
3rd Division fires rocket barrages and First United States Army Infantry advances through German towns east of Inde River

Activities of First United States Army pressing eastward in Germany during World War 2. U.S. engineers and soldiers build a bridge over the Inde River since all nearby crossings had been destroyed by retreating German forces. Army vehicles cross the completed bridge. Soldiers bring heavy artillery and adjust it. View changes to Mausbach area to the South, where rockets are launched by 3rd Armored Division toward the river. Line of 75 U.S. Army rockets seen being loaded by U.S. soldiers and then fired together. Bright flashes and smoke as rockets are fired. Tanks of the 3rd Division moving out from the town. A U.S. vehicle in the advancing column toward Gressenich is hit by German guns. U.S. Army tanks, lined up like artillery, fire on German forces at Gressenich. Continuous line of 3rd Armored Division tanks, armored vehicles, and 6x6 vehicles come to the front and advance on roads of cities and villages moving eastward, and supporting the U.S. First Army Infantry. 1st Army infantry move through Hurtgen forest near Aachen. Ruined German factory is used as an observtion base by U.S. forces to coordinate attack on Gressenich, which was captured on November 19, 1944. 3rd Armored Division tanks move into open fields to continue offensive toward Werth, with U.S. infantry soldiers staying close to tanks for cover. Soldiers carry the wounded U.S. tank commander after German counter fire hits lead U.S. tank in the column. The wounded soldier is dragged to safety. Men of U.S. Army 1st Division Infantry enter town of Werth under German mortar fire and move from house to house clearing enemy snipers and mopping up in the ruins. U.S. Army soldiers guard a column of German prisoners (POW) who surrendered in Werth. View of ruined and destroyed buildings in German towns like Hamich after defeat. U.S. Army soldiers move through the town on foot with a small church in the background. U.S. Army trucks arrive in a rubbled village with food and ammunition for the offensive drive toward the Ruhr.

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044554
U.S. Army troops and engineers building roads, placing guns, transporting German POWs in Germany near Hurtgen Forest region.

Activities of American First Army from Aachen to Roer River in Germany. Animated map shows First Army entering into Hurtgen Forest and arrive Cologne plain going through the Roer River. 28th Division controls key roadways of Vossenack and Schmidt. Engineers build roads through the Hurtgen Forest. Large tree trunks are laid into place as foundation and then milled wooden planks are nailed atop to quickly create a usable road surface. Jeep passes over the newly built road. U.S. Army forces start a fire for protection against the cold. 28th Division troops with mortar and machine gun support advance (November, 1944) through a wooded area. Infantry columns move to the front. Smoke clouds rise. Ground forces move out from wooded area. German POW's file into an assembly area and are evacuated by truck. U.S. Army soldier hangs a sign around the neck of a Germany prisoner of war that says "200,000th prisoner of war captured by troops of U.S. First Army." Artillery and antitank guns are placed for defense. Soldiers work on telephone tower. Underground emplacements are built as snow falls. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044564
Pope Pius X is elevated to sainthood in Rome, Italy

The canonization of Pope Pius X in Vatican City. Nearly half a million people gather for the ceremony of canonization. A funeral carriage transports the glass casket containing the remains of Pope Pius X. Priests wearing Jerusalem Cross vestments watch the procession. The remains of Pope Pius X heads towards St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City. A large crowd gathers at the St. Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro 00120 Città del Vaticano Vatican City). Italians clapping. Priests carrying the canopy and banner of St. Pius X in St. Peter’s Square. Pope Pius XII sits on the sedia gestatoria while carried though by footmen. The late Pope Pius X is elevated to Sainthood. Italian woman makes the “Sign of the Cross” while kneeling on St. Peter’s Square. A man carries a girl who fainted from the heat. Pope Pius XII gives blessing to people. A tapestry depicting St. Pius X hangs in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Date: 1954, June 3
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044582
Allied officers accept surrender of a German unit in Cordemais France; scenes of relief work for citizens and elderly in France.

Scenes in France near the end of World War 2, a sign "Cordemais" on a damaged building (likely the train station at Cordemais, France). A white flag of German surrender flies in the breeze. American sldiers stand near the building as a German surrender delegation approaches, led by negotiator Hauptmann Reinhold Mueller, to arrange handover of the St Nazaire enclave. A US Army soldier translator is seen speaking to the German officers and taking notes. French negotiator representatives are also seen, including one in black beret with a paratrooper insignia on his uniform. Red Cross representatives are seen taking notes. German and Allied officers (American, British, French) at the surrender conference. French civilians repair railroad tracks damaged during the war. French refugees are assisted by Red Cross workers. Troops board a train and it departs. A sign "Chantenay" (presumably at the train station in Chantenay-Villedieu). Group of people including boy scouts waiting to greet relief train as it pulls in to station. Close up views of the faces of men and women waiting to greet the train with civilians on board. Red Cross nurses walk quickly on railway tracks after train to greet it as it pulls into station. Men and women on train wave. Women, infants, and children first are seen getting off the train at an evacuation center. Scene changes to a snowy woods area and a large dwelling in the woods. A elderly woman collects firewood. An elderly man collects burnable twigs from trash cans and puts them in a bag. Three different older men shown filing a metal item in a vice with a metal file. Man picks up a small frame with a photo depicting a French officer in uniform. Grave site of a French soldier with cross marker and combat helmet hung from the cross top. Ground level view of a line of graves of French soldiers killed in World War 2, each with a helmet hanging on the cross grave marker. An old French woman praying with a rosary. A old woman sitting by a window. Another old woman huddled beside a wood stove rubbing her cold hands and pulling her blanket shawl higher on her shoulders. An old man taking tea in bed. A man rings a doorbell (hanging from a cord) in front of a hospice. Elderly man smokes a pipe and another lights his cigarette from it, women knit. Close up views of faces of elderly French people. Elderly dine at long tables in large hall. French people standing in a line outside a shop. Dix Francs currency of France shown. Views of young women typing and sewing. A diagram of human figures shown. Scenes from a house: An old woman knits, an old man reads, a young woman greets them with kisses.

Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044600
Red Army attacks and pushes Germans back in Poland. Marshal Zhukov directs the Soviet Offensive.

Red Army advances against German forces in Poland. At the front Marshall Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Soviet officers look at a map. (Marshal Zhukov has cotton stuffed in his ears.) German ME-110 aircraft dive bomb Soviet positions. Soviet Ilyushin II-2 aircraft bomb German positions. Smoking terrain of battlefield. Soviet troops cross river in small boats. Soviets conduct an amphibious assault. There are explosions on the opposite shore. Russian infantry advances under German fire, cutting barbed wire and marking position of land mines. Soviet tanks and artillery fire. Marshalls Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovskiy look at a map. Shells explode and Soviet infantry advances past German antitank barricades. At the command post Marshall Georgy Zhukov looks at a map. Views of German defensive fortifications, including Barbed wire entanglements; concrete forts and bunkers, one with barbed wire on top and a periscope on a steel turret. German antitank barricades along the river. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675044602