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German forces engage in realistic live fire exercises in preparation for defense of France against Allies, WWII

German forces engage in live fire exercises as they prepare to defend against anticipated Allied invasion. German gun crew fires artillery piece. Concealed German soldiers look through binoculars toward coastal terrain. .Soldiers climb hilly terrain behind bushes. Soldiers, in trench, hold their ears as they fire a mortar. Artillery guns beinf fired. Heavy smoke rises up due to explosions. Soldiers communicate through radio. View of Atlantic coast from camouflaged defensive position. Sky is filled with German paratrooper chutes. Paratroopers organizing on the ground and moving as a group. Firing a machine gun. German gun crew fires from concealed position. Crewman wipes shells clean before they are placed in gun. German officer looks through periscope. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053928
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation John Edgar Hoover talks about enemy agents in the United States.

A dramatization depicts the presence of German submarines off the Atlantic Coast, equipped with explosives. View of German submarines in the ocean. A man in a laboratory prepares explosives of the type brought by the saboteurs that landed in the United States, having transported by German submarine. They are blocks of TNT with some disguised to look like hunks of coal. Paddy wagons with military guards entering a facility. View inside the paddy wagons of German agents ("submarine saboteurs") are brought to a military trial. Agents sit in a room during the trial. Military judges are seen seated during the trial proceedings. View of a wall of file cabinets and a hand reaching into a cabinet marked "secret." Past events show Adolf Hitler in meetings with his staff. An animated map shows Nazi symbol overlaying an outline of the United States. A United States flag in the background. The director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) John Edgar Hoover in the United States. He sits at a desk in his office. He talks about enemy agents at the time of World War II and the victory of the United States over them.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054488
LCIs underway towards Normandy and an LST unloads heavy equipment at a beach in Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. Four LCIs ( Landing Craft Infantry ) underway. A dim coastline in the background. Sea gulls fly overhead. A British cruiser of the Country Class underway and smoke rises from its stacks. A steel barge being loaded down with heavy gear. An LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) and an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized ) near Normandy beachhead as barrage balloons fly overhead. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) on the beach as it unloads heavy equipment. Rough sea breaks over the wreckage at the beach. A cargo ship anchored off the coast of Normandy with a rough sea in the foreground.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058882
USS Texas bombards the beach of Normandy, France as barrage balloons fly overhead during World War II..

Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A battleship bombards a beach of France. Explosions occur in the background and billows of smoke rise upwards. USS Texas ( BB-35) fires salvos and explosions occur on the coast. An amphibious craft in the background. A Free French cruiser of the Glorie Class. An LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) and an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) underway at sea. The LCI in the foreground as barrage balloons fly overhead. LCTs and an LST ( Landing Ship Tanks ). A Task Force underway. A soldier looks from aboard a vessel in the foreground. A breakwater made up of sunken ships. A man stands on the deck of an LCI in a foul weather jacket and a watch cap. He looks over the horizon. Wounded men being put over into an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized). Three wounded men on stretchers. Men aboard the LCM with an American flag flying from it.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058891
U.S. troops examine bunkers and guns in Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A Free French man stands alongside a wrecked LCM on a beach in Normandy. A U.S. Army Sergeant walks guard on the beach. Debris in the background. A wrecked landing craft. A man examines a German 37 mm gun inside a bunker. A Task Force at the beach. A beach master looks through binoculars. A small slit trench with barbed wires around it. An underground bunker with barbed wires in front of it. Normandy beachhead. A U.S. Coast Guard and an army man walk along a road. The Task Force in the background. Two German prisoners inside a barbed wire enclosure. Two men look towards the Task Force. Sunken ships being used as a breakwater.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058893
Representatives of labor and management observe an aircraft on maneuvers and learn from pilots during navy show in U.S. (WW2)

Executive visit U.S. navy show at Atlantic Coast in the United States during World War II. Representatives of labor and management observe an aircraft on maneuvers. The U.S. aircraft takes off during a navy show. A man signals to the aircraft for take off. Business leaders learn from pilots, crews and executive staff, how industry can best aid war effort. Crew and pilot near and around the aircraft.

Date: 1944, May 4
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071253