The Potsdam Conference at the Cecilienhof (Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam, Germany), Potsdam, Germany during World War 2. President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Russian Premier Joseph Stalin and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov shaking hands with each other as they pose for cameramen on steps of the Cecilienhof. President Truman and Marshal Stalin chats to each other. Closer view of Joseph Stalin and President Truman smiling. President Truman and Joseph Stalin stands together. General Dwight Eisenhower stands behind Stalin. The group enters the Cecilienhof together.
Enola Gay atomic bomb mission over Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, prepares to leave for the Hiroshima mission. Army Armed Forces maintenance men and Enola Gay crew prepare the Enola Gay in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, checking their watches as the glance at the horizon. Maintenance men check bomb bay doors before closing. Pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets looks out of cockpit window of Enola Gay. Nose art of Enola Gay is seen. Close up of controls with hand show "starter" and "engine primer." Enola Gay engine starts and one of it propellers turns. The Enola Gay takes off from North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands. Point of view through B-29 cockpit window as plane speeds down runway. Motion picture cameraman films the take off. The Enola Gay seen overhead as it leaves for Japan. Aerial View of Iwo Jima Island in Japan. The Enola Gay begins slow climb to bombing altitude over Iwo Jima. Crew member, possibly Tibbets, uses a pair of binoculars. Aerial view of Hiroshima. Enola Gay crew check instruments last time before dropping. The Enola Gay begins its bomb run. Crew bombardier turning a dial on a bomb site. View of Enola Gay with bomb bay doors open. Moving gauge pointer as bomb is dropped and seen exiting bomb bay. The Enola Gay banks away from Hiroshima at high speed. Aerial view in color of mushroom cloud forming over Hiroshima after the atomic bomb detonates in the city. (This actually shows the Nagasaki bomb blast from August 9, 1945, not the Hiroshima blast, despite the statements of the narrator in this edited film). Gigantic mushroom cloud from atomic bombing.
Types of bombs used during World War 2. Animation enumerates the chemical type bombs- namely the gas, smoke, and incendiary bombs. Fragmentation and demolition bombs are the classification of explosive bombs. Cross-section anatomy of a fragmentation bomb. Animation demonstrates a fragmentation bomb falling and exploding on impact. Close view of actual 20 lb. M41 fragmentation bomb and a 23 lb. M40 bomb.
A man assembles a fragmentation bomb used by the United States during World War 2. Man assembles bomb by hand. The man unscrews the screw in the bomb body. Man fastens the parachute container over the fragmentation bomb. The adaptor is screwed and tightened. The man puts down the fragmentation bomb. Man uses a screwdriver to tighten bolt to complete rear assembly. Man proceeds to fuze the bomb. Man removes closure plug, inserts and tightens the M104 fuze.
United States and Allied invasion craft massed in Bizerte harbor in Tunisia before the invasion of Sicily (WWII). Assault troops are boarding invasion boats. Crates of materiel on the boats. Soldiers receive equipment such as lifebelts on board. Tractor pulls sledges carrying materiel. A DUKW (Duck) 2 ½ -ton amphibious truck boards a boat. A halftrack with an anti-aircraft gun reverses to board the craft. Soldiers pushing a 3 ¼-ton trailer to craft. Men boarding a tank landing ship. Allied invasion craft approach Sicily. United States troops seaborne landing in southern Sicily.
Bombing of the Woleai Atoll during World War 2 (Pacific Ocean theater). Animated map shows the location of Mariaon Island (presently part of the Federated States of Micronesia). A United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in flight. Bombs dropping from the bomb bay of B-24. Bombing of islands in the Woleai Atoll. Aerial view of fire and explosions on the Woleai Atoll and islands.
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