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Cease-fire ends 6 day Arab-Israeli War in the Middle East; scenes from the 6-day war.
Six day war in middIe east ends as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. At the United Nations Security Council in the United States: Syrian Ambassador, Russian delegate Nikolay Prokofyevich Fedorenko, Israeli Ambassador Gideon Raphael state their points during the session. War scenes from the Six-day war: Burning buildings. Bodies lying on desert. Prisoners of war are taken by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF). Prisoners walk with raised hands. Bullet holes in train and car. Damaged military vehicles on streets. Wounded soldiers are moved on stretchers to hospitals. Damaged UAR military vehicles along the Gaza Strip. Arabs under arrest. Egyptian prisoners of war. Empty offices with photo frames of President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. UAR Commander General Abdul Hussein meets Israeli military leaders. He signs the cease-fire agreement. Israeli flag flutters in wind. In Bethlehem, Palestine: Israeli troops on streets with tanks. Civilians watch the tanks. In Jerusalem: Tanks move through streets and enter city. Women weep. Jewish people on streets. Israeli troops enter the Old City. Defense Minister of Israel, Moshe Dayan with soldiers offers prayers at the Wailing Wall or Western Wall. Israeli troops march through the streets with weapons including some UZI submachine guns.
Education in the Muslim world of the Middle East
Boys asembled at a madrassa Islamic school outside a mosque in the Middle East. They sit on a large rug on the ground. Their shoes are off (on the ground near the rug). Their teacher, dressed in black, holds a stick as he conducts their study. The students sway forward and back as they recite passages from the Koran. At the end of the scene, one of the boys is playfully roughed up by several others. Scene shifts to the Al Azhar Mosque and its Minarets in Cairo, Egypt. (The Al Azhar University is associated with it.) Next, a public scribe is seen writing a letter for an illiterate customer. Closeup of the scribe writing in ink.
Allied leaders attend the Cairo Conference and the Tehran Conference in the Middle East during World War II.
Allied leaders at conferences in the Middle East during World War II. Aerial views of pyramids in Cairo, Egypt. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife Madame Chiang Kai-shek seated during the Cairo Conference. Allied officers stand behind the seated leaders. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference in Tehran, Iran. Churchill's daughter Sarah, an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, is introduced to Premier Stalin by President Roosevelt. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Averell Harriman and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov stand behind the Big Three with other officials. During a ceremony, Winston Churchill presents the Sword of Stalingrad to Premier Stalin which he accepts on behalf of Russian people. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall present.
U.S. Engineers work to construct supply routes throughout the world during World War II.
PBY Catalina aircraft seen inflight above an Allied convoy of ships at sea. Closeup of British flag displayed at stern of one ship. A destroyer escort in the convoy. U.S. Army engineers creating a road in an area of wilderness. A steam shovel empties its bucket into a truck. A surveyor taking readings with a transit. Two graders moving side-by side as they level a new road A tractor pulling a drum compactor. A vehicle drives on a mountainside road built by Army engineers. Snow covered mountains seen in background. Animated map showing far flung places where military supplies had to be delivered during World War 2. An open Army truck carrying American troops on Guadalcanal in the Pacific. U.S. soldiers walking on a pier at Attu in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. American soldiers arriving at a pier in Accra, Gold Coast. Soldiers hold the American flag on a hilltop in Casablanca, French Morocco. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang, in Chungking. American troops in foul weather gear neat tents in Kiska, the Aleutians. Troops offloading from a troop transport ship in Cairo, Egypt. Troops in Algiers, and in Sicily. Troops hitting the beach in an amphibious assault.
German Afrika Korps troops travel to Libya for the North African Campaign (WW2)
German Afrika Korps fly to Libya during the North African Campaign of World War II. An outline of the African continent with word “AFRIKA”. German Afrika Korps soldiers rest outside tents in Southern Greece. They receive mails. A shirtless German soldier hammers a Quadriga cutout on top of an arch into place. Afrika Korps soldiers fall in line and receive food supplies. A German soldier fills his canteen from water fountain. Troops carry supplies and move. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft are parked on airfield. Afrika Korps soldiers load supplies into transport planes. Soldiers wearing life vests board the plane. Junkers Ju 52 transport plane takes off. German soldiers peer from the window onboard the aircraft. Soldiers cuddle a pet dog mascot they brought to the flight. Division title on uniform sleeve reads “AFRIKA KORPS”. Afrika Korps soldiers rest during the flight. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft landing in Libya. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft cockpit bears the Coat of Arms of Berlin. Pilot in the cockpit. German Afrika Korps in desert uniform climb out of the plane. Two aircraft flying over a makeshift arch. Sign on arch reads “15000 hinsatz”. Afrika Korps troops carry an engine. Soldiers smoke cigarettes. Axis soldiers march to El Alamein, Egypt. An Italian Royal Air Force plane is parked behind. Fighter planes in the sky. A pilot jumps down from a German fighter plane. Axis pilots talking to one another. A pilot stencils a kill mark. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel confers with General Albert Kesselring. Italian Field Marshal Count Ugo Cavallero gets out of his car, meets Rommel and Kesselring. Italian General Ettore Bastico joins Cavallero, Rommel and Kesselring.
Film 'Why We Fight' episode "Prelude to War" depicts battle scenes in various countries during World War II.
Series 'Why We Fight' episode "Prelude to War" depicts the battles during World War II. United States soldiers parade on street lead by a band. Japanese bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The London Blitz with buildings destroyed and burning. The Eiffel Tower in Paris with Nazi flag flying atop it. German troops marching into Paris, through the Arc de Triomphe. Japanese warplanes bombing shanghai, China, in 1937. Chinese residents running for shelter. Glimpse of German "Schwerer Gustav" 80 cmrailway gun firing during German offensive against Soviet Union in 1941. German forces entering Czechoslovakia in 1938. German mounted troops entering France in 1940. Heavy guns firing. German ships en route to Norway 1940. German Ju-52 aircraft flying low over trees. Montage showing rapid succession of war scenes, including heavy guns firing, smoke rising, explosions, an aircraft shot down and crashing straight down, German armor on the move, German Ju-52 aircraft dropping paratroopers into Holland and one flying over Athens, Greece, with Mount Lykabettus in the background. More of the same with Narrator mentioning Belgium, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Russia (where citizens are seen digging anti-tank trenches and fortifications). Cavalry charging across a field. A German tank rolling forward. A German Dornier Do-17 bomber taking off, and bombs falling.