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The B-17, "Memphis Belle," on a War Bond Drive tour in the U.S.during world War II

Crowd gathered at an airfield in the U.S. to go aboard the famed "Memphis Belle," during a War Bond Drive in World War 2. People going up a stairway set up by the B-17F parked on the ramp. Scene shifts to Major Robert Morgan, pilot of the aircraft, as he stands on a bunting-decorated platform in front of the Memphis Belle, with crew members behind him. Major Morgan gives a talk about War Bonds. Camera pans over a sizeable crowd gathered for the event. When it returns to Major Morgan, he is holding the crew's mascot, a black scotty dog named "Stuka."

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046276
Technician demonstrates the expanding and closing sidewall canvas of Sherman Tank Duplex Drive at a factory

Sherman Medium M4 Tank Duplex Drive. The Sherman DD- A report to the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations. Sherman Duplex Drive (DD) in water. Four soldiers on Sherman. Sherman covered with canvas. Technician at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory works on the Sherman. Gauges on tank. Machines on tank. Canvas side wall goes up. Technician puts struts into place. The canvas expands. He pushes a lever and the canvas goes down. Barrel of artillery visible. He turns its barrel. (Note: filmed at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory, Birmingham, England who built and designed the DD equipment to be fitted to U.S. built Sherman tanks. As it is a prototype, the air controls are not in the same place as on production machines.) (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046313
German soldiers fire coastal guns at cliffs of Dover during World War II.

Germans attack on Allied positions in Dover, England during World War II. German soldiers scan the cliffs of Dover through binoculars. A large coastal gun loaded. Soldiers fire allied positions on the coast. A large coastal gun fired.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675049868
Convoy of U.S. military trucks and jeeps in England prior to D-day, during World War II

American troops in England during World War 2. A convoy of American military trucks and jeeps proceeding on English country road. Convoy setting temporary camp near Truro, Cornwall, England. Trucks and jeeps lined up. Tents in a field along the road. Convoy being directed down Station Hill past Grammar School. At 00:24 Cornish engine house shown.

Date: 1943
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051441
U.S. Army Sherman tank being loaded into an LCM during a joint amphibious training at Crow Point in Devon, England in World War 2

A joint amphibious training of the United States Army and the Navy at Crow point at the assault training center in Devon, England during World War II. United States troops huddled up on a hill at the beach. Soldiers lounge on the hill. Two soldiers walk away as they move down the hill. Some of the soldiers in a fox hole. A U.S. Army Sherman tank being loaded onto an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized ). Another Sherman tank rolls on the beach. The tank backs into the LCM. The tank aboard the LCM as a ramp is raised.

Date: 1943, October 2
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058866
U.S. troops in amphibious training at Crow Point in Devon, England, during World War II.

A joint amphibious training of the United States Army and the Navy at Crow Point in Devon, England during World War 2. A Landing Craft Mechanized ( LCM ) underway at sea as it approaches the beach. United States troops walk past the RR towards the LCM. Men embark onto the LCM. The troops loaded onto the craft and a ramp being raised. All the LCMs carry markings beginning with "NATB."

Date: 1943, October 2
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058867