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United States soldiers make framework of a tank and place it on jeeps for disguise in World War II

Disguise and camouflage techniques for U.S. Army military equipment in World War 2. United States soldiers place lightweight framework over tank to make it look like a truck, during World War II. Soldier removes framework from the tank when not in use. Jeep moves with a decoy framework on it. Soldier parks the jeep and comes out of the framework. Soldiers cover the assembled framework with cloth. The dummy tank lightweight construction is easily lifted by two men and placed over a jeep. Soldier drives away with the tank dummy. Aircraft flies overhead. Camouflaged tank drives on road.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043272
United States M-24 Chaffee tank compared to German tanks, during World War II.

United States M-24 Light Tank of the U.S. 9th Army fires at a target. Soldiers aboard tank. Narrator describes the M-24 to help distinguish it in appearance from German tanks, during World War 2. The torsion bar suspension of M-24 Light Tank and its 16 inch wide tracks. The 75 mm gun barrel of the tank. Side by side shot of M5A1 and the M-24 replacing it. Comparing ammunition placed on ground. Recognition features of M-24.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043291
German Tank Panzer Division advances with artillery in Paris and Versailles.

German Tank Panzer Division advances with artillery in Paris, France, during Battle of France and occupation of France in World War 2. Oil tanks and surrounding building on fire. Black smoke rises from the oil tanks. German soldiers enter city with tanks and artillery. German tanks and soldiers on grounds of Palace of Versailles. Nazi German flag hoisted at Versailles. 'Tories Les Gloires Dela France' written on a building. Small German aircraft parked on streets of Paris. German soldier climbs Eiffel Tower and hoists Nazi German flag atop Eiffel Tower.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675043355
Young German boys of Hitler Youth work on annexed Polish farm fields

Hitler Youth work on Polish annexed fields a year after the German invasion of Poland during World War 2. Houses with German flag in front. Young German boys ride horse carts on dirt road. They work on field digging with spades. Two tractors plow fields. Two young boys on the wheel of the second tractor, a Lanz Bulldog.

Location: Poland
Date: 1940, September
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043394
United States women wearing uniforms and special shoes work at gun cotton factory in United States.

United States civilian war production workers at gun cotton factory (making flammable guncotton, or Nitrocellulose or Pyrocellulose) in United States during World War 2. Men and women enter the building. Board at the entrance reads 'Absence'. Women are searched to be sure they are bringing nothing in to the factory that can spark or start a fire. Women wear badges and special shoes. A number of women wearing uniforms work inside the gun cotton factory. Men and women workers manufacture gun cotton at the plant. They demonstrate emergency slides for exiting the factory quickly in the event of a fire or emergency.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043429
Allied forces attack German-occupied Ortona, and San Pietro in Italy during World War II

Opening scene shows British artillerymen bombarding the Italian town of Ortona, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, which is held by paratroops of the German 1st Parachute Division in World War 2. Closeups of British soldier operating 155mm gun. British officers planning the barrage. Battery of guns firing. View of shells striking Ortona, along the coastline. Heavy guns firing from under camouflage netting. Smoke rising from artillery strikes. Scene shifts to Allied occupied airfield in Foggia, on the coast, South of Ortona, where P-40 aircraft of the 99th Pursuit Squadron are preparing to fly in support of the Ortona offensive. (This U.S Army Air Forces unit is comprised entirely of African American pilots and support personnel including Tuskegee Airmen.) Closeups of airmen fueling and arming the aircraft, and of pilots gathered in a mission briefing. 99th Squadron aircraft taking off and departing overhead in formations. View from the British artillery position of numerous bombs bursting on Ortona. Film shifts to the Central Front in Italy where U.S. forces are engaged in the Battle of San Pietro. Views of American artillery bombarding German positions in San Pietro. Closeups of numerous U.S. guns being fired. An ejected shell flies through the air from a U.S. Sherman tank during the bombardment. Views of U.S. troops passing a Sherman tank as they enter San Pietro and begin searching for booby traps in the wreckage of the town. Closeup of a soldier dismantling a booby trap. German aircraft sweep overhead and bomb the town. American soldiers dig out a buddy who was buried by a bomb burst, but rescued unhurt. He smiles for the camera. Casualties of the fighting, including many civilians are carried on stretchers and assisted. Local residents are seen grieving over fallen relatives and friends. Groups of townspeople stand along a hillside and watch as Italian soldiers join with the Allies in the fighting. Jeeps are seen navigating the muddy mountain trails as far as possible. Then further movement requires the use of mules. Troops are seen with mule trains. Soldiers shoulder heavy ammunition crates and slog uphill with them over a muddy mountain trail.

Location: Italy
Date: 1943, December
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043438
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