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American family of German or Italian descent leaves their house with their belongings for relocation to an internment camp
American evacuees leave their house with their belongings in the United States during World War 2. A woman, boy, and a girl (the three possibly of German or Italian descent) stand by as their belongings are packed up. Their belongings being loaded onto a truck with assistance from U.S. military personnel, and the truck moves away. Two policemen and a dog, patrol in front of an internment center. Military guard stops the cars passing by at the entrance. A Japanese relocation center under construction. Men load bags of sand building a sandbag wall beside a building and painting windows with black paint. Views again of the same American family from earlier in the clip, possibly of German or Italian heritage, begin relocated to an alien internment center.
Enemy officer interrogates British airmen taken as prisoners by them (WW2)
A film titled 'Interrogation of prisoners' shows an American officer speaking about the do's and don't s for Prisoners of Wars. He also introduces the cast of the film to follow. An enactment shows British airmen being caught by enemy in World War II. Their uniforms being searched and enemy recovers a slip of paper which ultimately proves handy for them. Enemy officer interrogates the prisoners.
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in presaged by a decade of Japanese military aggression in China (WW2)
Opening scene shows the famous image of American battleship USS Arizona as attacked by Japanese forces in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 in World War II. The ship is engulfed in black smoke, and listing. Change of scene to a waterfront in Japan during 1938, where numerous Japanese soldiers board troop ships bound for Manchuria, China. Next, are scenes of Japanese troops marching as they occupy Manchuria. Closeups of some Japanese soldiers. Scene shifts to a train moving on the South Manchurian railway, at a station showing a sign reading,"Chin Hsien." View of steam locomotive pulling a train away from the camera position. (Narrator states that a Japanese train, on the South Manchurian Railway, had been dynamited) This incident triggered a Japanese attack on Mukden, Manchuria. Japanese infantry are seen placing numerous bundles of reeds as a bridge across a wide, shallow, stream and proceeding to cross on their way to invade Mukden. Military supplies are carried on pack animals. In the air, overhead Japanese Mitsubishi G3M Type 96 land-based attack aircraft are seen flying in precision "V" formation. On the ground, Chinese civilians run for cover in the City of Mukden. (The date is September 18, 1931.) Glimpse of Chinese civilians looking at bombing victims on street of Mukden. Brief view of Geneva Switzerland, where League of Nations was housed. A memorial stone monument in that city to Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States and founder of the League of Nations. An entrance to the League of Nations headquarters in the Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland. League delegates in session inside the Palais Wilson. A Japanese Naval Fleet, under command of Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura, is seen steaming toward the Chinese coast and begin a naval bombardment, firing their guns, 15 miles from Shanghai. Japanese Naval biplanes are seen in flight overhead. Japanese troops marching in the streets of Shanghai, as sidewalks of onlookers wave Japanese flags. Next, Japanese troops are seen marching out of Shanghai, at the insistence of the League of Nations. (Narrator states Japan signed a truce with China on May 4th, 1932.) View of Japanese troops entering further, into Mongolia. Japanese soldiers waving flag celebrating formation of the Puppet State of Manchuko in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia, in 1932. Japanese statesmen leaving the League of Nations headquarters, after Japan resigned from the League on February 24, 1933. Japanese infantry moving further into China supported by field artillery fire. Explosions from artillery and damaged buildings, as Japanese troops advance in China. Invaders using tall ladders to scale walls of a damaged fortress in China. Japanese pilots receiving briefing and boarding their Mitsubishi Ki-30 single engine light bomber aircraft at an airfield. View of them taking off and inflight, dropping bombs on Chinese targets. Aerial views of bombs exploding on ground below. Retreating Chinese army marching along the Great Wall of China. Chinese people and military forces moving their military and civilian resources deep into the Chinese interior.
Battle of Midway between America and Japan in Pacific Theater during World War 2
Barrage balloons fly as anti air craft guns are fired from a destroyer in the Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Tracers fired as antiaircraft guns burst barrage balloons. Japanese plane comes in for attack. 5"guns aboard a destroyer fired. Japanese plane crashes. United States Navy SBD dauntless makes a landing on the flight deck of Yorktown, an aircraft carrier. F4F coming in for landing.
American sailors at work on board United States aircraft carrier Yorktown during Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater
American sailors at work on board United States aircraft carrier Yorktown during Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Thick smoke rises in the background.
German and Romanian troops fight against Soviets during the battle of Caucasus in World War 2
German film about the Battle for the Caucasus. Opens showing a map of the region, centered on Pyatigorsk. German troops are seen descending from wooded hills above the Kuban river. They launch a rubber raft and start crossing the river in it, as Soviet artillery shells splash in the water near them. Closeup of soldiers paddling the raft. Views from inside one of two rafts being paddled across the river, under artillery fire. German and Romanian soldiers participate in the crossings and make their way through heavy brush on the other side. They throw hand grenades. One Romanian soldier fires a vz.26 light machine gun. Others hunt Soviet snipers hidden in trees. They encounter one and shoot him down with their rifles. View from shore of a raft of Romanian soldiers being pulled by a cable toward the camera. Some are seen crossing the river in a power boat. Closeup of boatman at the tiller of the boat. Views of Romanian soldiers moving along the river bank near houses and roads. They move an artillery field piece along the shoreline. Movements of trucks raise much obscuring dust at the foot of the Caucasus mountains. Romanian troops hunkered down beside a road as a tank moves raising lots of dust in the background. Closeup of a Romanian T-4 tank (or German Panzer IV) advancing toward the camera. German forces with armor, artillery, and vehicles enter the town of Pyatigorsk. German forces setting up positions on a plain, and firing artillery at zero elevation and anti aircraft guns at Soviet positions. Armored vehicles and crews taking a break. German infantry marching in loose formation deeper into the Caucasus. Horses pulling artillery pieces and supplies through the water. A German SdKfz 7 half track proceeding through the water, towing an s.F.H. 18, 15cm field howitzer. A soldier hitches a ride on the hood of a staff car being towed through the water. View of Maikop, an Oil city on North Slope of Caucuses. Local Commissars taken prisoner, being escorted. Soldiers display a captured Bolshevik flag containing image of Joseph Stalin. Captured prisoners being marched, guarded by armed German soldiers on horseback. Scene shifts to German artillerymen setting up in a cornfield for a battle for the oil fields South of Maikop. Artillery firing, with operations continuing into the night. Fires raging at night from Soviet artillery strikes. German infantry advancing in the daylight. SdKfz 7 half tracks towing s.F.H. 18, 15cm field howitzers, past burning buildings. Closeup of infantry and armor advancing through dust and heat.