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Smoke column rises up as German battleship fires shells in Westerplatte,Poland during Battle of Westerplatte of World War II.

German battleships fire shells in Poland during Battle of Westerplatte of World War II. German battleship fires shells at Westerplatte. Shells explodes. Smoke column rises up. Commander looks through binoculars. Bridge of battleship. (Start of invasion of Poland, WW2)

Date: 1939, November
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072858
USS Princeton burning and sinking near USS Essex off Luzon at Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II.

Smoke rises from bombed aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23) off Luzon in World War 2. Time code 00:29,shows F6F-5 #7 "Paper Doll," of VF-27, (mount of Ensign Bob Burnell who painted most of the famous "cat mouths" on the cowls of VF-27 Hellcats).Pilots walk across flight deck of USS Essex (CV-9). TC:01:04, F6F-5 #47 (VF-15) is seen with Horizontal stripe near rudder tip identifying it as an Air Group 15 aircraft. Further along is F6F-3 #8 (VF-15) Late production -3 with superseded tri-color paint scheme and 7 Japanese victory flag emblems under cockpit. F6F-3 #F-11 (VF-27) Late production -3, "F-11" lettered prefix to aircraft number (unusual on an operational fighter probably indicating a recent replacement). Plane captain is cleaning windshield on the "Minzi III" when Captain David S. McCampbell, the top U.S. Navy ace, approaches and climbs aboard the aircraft. Thirty Japanese flags are painted on the fuselage below the cockpit. McCampbell straps in and starts his engine. He gives a "thumbs up" sign. "Airedales" push empty Hellcat belly tanks across Essex flight deck. A Destroyer fires antiaircraft guns. Japanese aircraft seen in flight over water. Fire from 40 mm guns. (Note: Some planes of Squadron VF-27 on the Princeton, were recovered on the Essex.)

Date: 1944, October 24
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072895
Crematory at Buchenwald; torture instruments at Lublin, massacres at Leipzig, German citizens see Nazi horrors and atrocities

Scenes at liberated concentration camps near end of World War 2 in Europe. A man opens crematory ovens at Buchenwald concentration camp. Heaps of bones and ashes. Sign of oven manufacturer: J A Topf and Sons, Erfurt, Germany. Men empty an oven of burned bones. View of instruments of torture in prison at Lublin, Poland (possibly part of Majdanek Concentration Camp in Lubin?) Victims of torture by Nazi German captors. Dead bodies of victims killed near fence at "schlachthaus" (slaughter house) in Leipzig Germany. Women look through fence at the dead. Bodies of victims who died attempting to flee burning barn. Local German citizens walk amongst the dead lying in concentration buildings and yards. German citizens are pressed into service loading the bodies of the dead on litters and into trucks. Concentration camp survivors are seen being given food and assistance. Two emaciated young victim survivors (they appear to be teenage boys) share a bowl of soup. German soldiers held as prisoners of war. German tribunal considers charges against Nazis. German citizens removing Nazi victims from mass grave. Bodies of the dead laid out on hillside. German citizens visit Buchenwald and see display of Nazi art and keepsakes created from human skin and bodies of victims.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675072908
Kellett KD-1 autogiro lands and takes off from parking lot of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC

Panning view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Numerous cars are parked but a fairly open space is preserved near the Capitol building. A Kellett KD-1 autogiro lands in the open space. Pilot Lou Leavitt seen in the rear cockpit (front cockpit empty).The autogiro takes off. A chart contrasts Federal expenditures of 485 million dollars for airplane development with only 485 thousand dollars for autogiro development, with result that 96 companies are engaged in airplane work but only 2 in autogiro work. The chart depicts other relative data impacting negatively on autogiro development.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072926
General Buckner visits 7th Infantry Division OP and tours area in the Pacific Theater during Ryukyu Campaign of World War II.

U.S. Army 77th Infantry Division advance in the Pacific Theater during Ryukyu Campaign of World War 2. Soldiers fire American M-18 Hellcat tank against Shuri Line. Mountains in the background. Tanks move through rugged terrain. United States Army Lieutenant General, Simon Bolivar Buckner visits United States Army 77th Infantry Division and tours area. Soldiers moved past damaged United States tank. Soldiers advance toward hillside. They fire into caves as they progress. Explosions rise.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072977
U.S. troops on M8 Armored Car fire guns near the Erftwerk factory in Grevenbroich,Germany during World War II

United States Army 4th Cavalry Regiment advancing through Grevenbroich,Germany during World War 2. Soldiers look at encouraging German messages to workers written on the Erftwerk factory walls. Soldiers aboard M8 Greyhound Armored Car fire 50 caliber machine gun and 37mm gun at buildings on the outskirts of the factory, where German forces may still linger. Vehicle moves forward and soldiers fire machine gun.

Date: 1945, March 3
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072983