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German girls train to become telephone and teletype operators in Athens during World War II.
During World War 2, German girls are trained as telephone and teletype operators in Athens, Greece. Operators put on their uniforms. Women seated at desks trained as telephone and teletype operators. Women operate telephones and teletype machines. They plug and unplug cables. The instructor supervizes. The trainees run up to a terrace. They exercise. The girls swim. The trainees visit The Acropolis. They tour the monument.
A U.S. Air Force official descends from Air Transport Company aircraft at the Athens airport.
A C-54 Skymaster aircraft of the Air Transport Company lands at the Athens airport, Greece. An officer of the United States Air Force descends from the aircraft. He moves on towards his car. Locals carry his luggage to the car.
British King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visit Athens for the Interim Olympic Games, in 1906
Carriages arriving with Dignitaries, including King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, of Great Britain, for the opening of the Interim Olympic Games, in Athens, in 1906. Greek ceremonial Guards (Evzones), dressed in traditional fustanella uniform, attend to the arriving guests. King George I of Greece and Queen Olga lead King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra across a field to the Royal boxes in the stands at the Panathinaiko (Panathenean) Stadium.
German troops capture Samos and Leros Islands in Greece during World War II.
Opening scene shows map of Greece, highlighting Athens, Samos and Leros. Views of wrecked boats and ships along a shore. Dead soldier lying near a gun position overlooking a town near shore below. German soldiers look at newspaper headline reading (in German) "British Sea base taken." German General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, World War 2 Commander of the operation, mingles with and congratulates ordinary German soldiers. Soldier looking over the island of Samos from a mountain. German soldier looking at large barrels on a pier. Closeup of a bottle of Greek Samos wine. German officers and soldiers drinking the wine. Soldiers cutting bananas from a large bunch carried by a local man. A long line of captured British soldiers and sailors marching under guard along a mountain road. Closeups of them passing the camera. The prisoners descending from a pier into large barges. Glimpse of an Indian colonial soldier among them. Large numbers of prisoners being marched under guard along a road in town.
U.S. Navy sailors assist in transport of Greek and Armenian refugees from Turkey to Athens Greece
Scenes in Constantinople, Turkey . Tenders from U.S. Navy ships shuttling civilian refugee passengers, mostly Greek and Armenian, including many children, to safety during the Greco-Turkish War and unrest during the post-World War 1 partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. Refugees gathered around a cut tree trunk. Construction of small buildings underway in a port area. Refugees with lots of smiling children waving white flags aboard a U.S. Navy tender in a port. Refugees and children on a dock smiling, with some holding an Armenian flag.
Scenes in Ithaca, Greece, following a severe earthquake that hit the Ionian Isles..
Aftermath of the disastrous 1953 Ionian earthquake (or the Great Kefalonia earthquake) in Ionian Isles, Greece. Children running away from houses. A wall collapses during the earthquake. Boys running far from a fallen telephone pole. Scenes in city of Ithaca, showing demolished buildings with rubble piled up on ground. Medics carry a casualty on a stretcher. Nurses treat the wounded. Man and woman holding infants. A woman wails as she mourns the loss of her loved ones.
