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German submarine crew celebrates Christmas in the Caribbean Sea

A German Submarine moves through heavy seas in the Caribbean. Water breaks on the submarine's bow. View of the crew cabins inside the submarine. Sailor rests inside his cabin. A sailor decorates a miniature Christmas tree. Food prepared inside kitchen. Calendar date reads 'December 24'. Sailors celebrate on Christmas Eve. Sailors are shown a miniature ship model and a cactus plant. All burst in laughter. View of the horizon as seen from the submarine's deck.

Date: 1943, December 24
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675030198
Destroyer Escort, USS Currier (DE-700) is launched at Bay City in Michigan, USA during World War 2

The eve of launching Destroyer Escort, USS Currier (DE-700), at Bay City in Michigan, USA. View of the Defoe Shipbuilding shipyard. A ship upside down showing rolls. Men knock out support beams of USS Currier. Men work on ship. Men work on propellers of ship. Rope is cut. USS Currier slides down ways. Mrs Betty Baker Currier christens ship. Views of another ship hull upside down, under construction. Spectators watch the ship as it is moved upright by a giant crane and hook assembly. Spectators watch ship righted. Men work on this next ship in queue.

Date: 1943, October 14
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030327
P-38 planes fly over B-17 planes in European Theatre of Operations

38th and 338th Fighter Squadron P-38H's taxi round perimeter track at Nuthampstead and take-off down main runway. Some of the planes take off in pairs and others singly. Among those seen are , Lt. Jerry Ayers' P-38H coded CG-Q and Lt. Stanley Richardson's P-38H coded CL-X. Views of 55th Fighter Group P-38H planes escorting 91st Bomb Group B-17Fs in European Theater of Operations. Flights of P-38 planes position themselves to protect B-17 formations. Crew officers (including Capt. Hancock of the 38th FS) observe the activities from ground. The P-38s return to land. One P-38 releases drop tank over the airfield before landing. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030629
U.S. Air Force pilots listen to instructions from their senior officers during briefings

U.S. Air Force pilots in European Theatre of Operations. American pilots sit together in a room. A Senior officer gives instructions to the pilots. Pilots walk towards the navigator room. Officer shows and instruct the pilots about attack from the navigation map. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030631
A-4 / A-5 rocket test firings from mobile propulsion units at Peenemunde and Kummersdorf,Germany, in World War II

Clip begins in Peenemunde Germany, during World War 2. You can see the huge assembly building at test stand 7. Doors of the assembly building slide to open. Mobile propulsion unit taken for tests of A-4 missile. Next shots are from Kummersdor. Fire comes out from rear part of an A-5 rocket during fire-test. Repeated scenes of test firing from various directions.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030636
Static tests of A-5 missile mobile propulsion unit at Kummersdorf Germany.

A-5 missile mobile propulsion unit testings at Kummersdorf in Germany. Technicians and scientists atop mobile propulsion rolling out for tests. Repeated scenes of fire-test from various directions with vanes in different positions. Technician checks and observe readings. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030637