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U.S. Army Air Forces pilots, on the ground, direct bombing of German military fortifications a month after VE day.

German Hilltop fortifications and related ground targets being bombed by U.S. Army Air Forces P-47s a month after the end of World War 2 in Europe. A U.S. Army Air Force field grade officer and a sergeant on the ground, both wearing steel helmets. Another U.S. field grade officer, also wearing a steel helmet. Both officers wear Air Force pilot's wings. They communicate with P-47 aircraft via radio. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts drop demolition bombs on the hilltop fortifications. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft drop napalm incendiary bomb on an installation below the hill. Smoke and fire rises.

Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059362
U.S. Marines in final days of Battle of Saipan, Mariana Islands, during World War II.

United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War 2. Flame trees in bloom. Lake Susupe from Fina Susu Ridge, overlooking Aslito Road, back toward the landing beaches around Charan-Kanoa. Marines cook food over fire. Marines seated with sand bag mounds in the background. Japanese prisoners carry gear. A Marine comes out of a building as he smokes. Men board a DUKW (amphibious vehicle) as it moves away.

Date: 1944, July 3
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059635
Non-military diversions and graduation day for recruits at the U.S. Great Lakes Naval Training Center during World War II.

A U.S. Navy band swing ensemble practices at an auditorium in the U.S. Great Lakes Naval Training Center during World War 2. Sailors and family members stroll out of a building together. Scene shifts to a football stadium, filled with sailors watching a game. A large formation of sailors in white uniforms march to a large chapel. Inside, a choir of sailors leads the congregation in the hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers." Glimpse of a large formation of trained recruits, followed by view of one standing alone, casting shadow on otherwise empty parade grounds. Successive groups of recruits are added until an entire regiment is seen. Two Naval officers, in blues, walk past a formation of graduating recruits. A Petty Officer Third Class band master leads a military band that marches ahead of a color guard bearing the American flag and that of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. They are followed by contingents of graduating recruits identified by their training unit flags. Scene shifts to several U.S. battleships underway at sea in formation. They fire their heavy guns.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059909
Repatriated American prisoners of war pose for pictures and German civilians evacuate the area in final days of World War II in Europe.

United States troops in Germany during World War 2. Group of repatriated United States soldiers pose for a photograph. They are sitting on a fuselage of a German Me-262 jet airplane, at the "REIMAHG-A" underground aircraft factory on the Walpersberg sandstone mesa, near Kahla, in Thuringia, Germany. Some repatriated soldiers pose seated on a tank. In change of scene, a long line of German civilians is seen evacuating the area. The refugees carry household and personal belongings in wagons pulled by oxen. Closeup of one wagon with children riding atop it. German women walk beside the wagons. More views of the evacuating civilians. Some use bicycles to carry their goods. An old woman tries to budge a sitting goat to take him along with her. She succeeds and leads him away on a tether. More views of evacuating families with their wagons and animals.

Date: 1945, April 18
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063832
U.S. infantry and armor of 6th Armored Division advance through village of Oberdorla, near Muhlhausen,Germany, in final days of World War II in Europe

American forces of 6th Armored Division advancing through village of Oberdorla, Germany, a month before the end of World War 2, in Europe. U.S. infantrymen moving cautiously near buildings in the village. Two Germans, one wearing a helmet, and the other in civilian clothing, walk past the camera, gesturing. Gunner in an M4 Sherman tank fires machine gun at upper floor of adjacent building, as local citizens scramble out of the way, and U.S. infantrymen move along sidewalk and pause at bend in road. Back to the Sherman tank, and smoke rising from the area of building that it fired upon. American soldiers hurry past the camera and move cautiously along the sidewalk. Two soldiers move slowly along street in a jeep. More views of U.S. infantry accompanied by M18 Hellcat tank destroyer and M4 Sherman tanks moving through the village. A sign identifies village as Oberdorla. The jeep is seen again, moving along with tanks and infantry. It parks outside a building that infantrymen are entering. As soldiers cluster outside the building, one fires several shots into it.

Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066990
German 88mm antiaircraft guns seen by American forces as they move deep into Germany in final days of World War II in Europe

Numerous views of abandoned German 88mm flak antiaircraft guns as seen by invading American forces during their incursions deep into Germany in final month of World War 2, in Europe. Many have barrels broken or spiked. At least one appears intact, pointed vertically toward the sky. These guns appear to surround an airfield or other open space.

Date: 1945, April 29
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076618