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Prisoners and others listen to a prisoner's orchestra as it plays in an open courtyard in Valencia, Spain
A prisoner leads an orchestra of prisoners as it plays in an open courtyard in Valencia, Spain. Prisoners and others listen to the music as they stand in the background. Writing above a doorway in the courtyard is obscured, but possibly reads something like: "academia de música y artes." (World War II period).
Political prisoners stage a play in Valencia, Spain, during era of fascism under General Francisco Franco
An organized theatrical group of prisoners stage a play at a prison in Valencia, Spain. The leading character is a missionary who preaches the Christian Gospel to Native American Indians. Prison audience applauds. Painting of Virgin of Merced, Saint of pardon, Saint of prisoners, adorns the wall of the theater. Director and staff of the prison applaud. (World War II period).
Guns aboard United States ship Minneapolis (CA-36) firing during the Battle of Wake Island in World War II.
Battle of Wake Island and Santa Cruz Island in Pacific Theater during World War 2. United States sailors on board the USS Minneapolis (CA-36). One of the sailors drinks from a glass and another one scans the sky during shelling of Wake island. 5 inch-25 caliber multipurpose guns trained skyward. Curtiss Scout observation plane (SOC Sea gull) warms up on catapult. Gun crew with helmets and masks, man their guns. Explosions occur from shelling of Wake Island. A ship strafed by aircraft. Smoke rises as shells drop in the sea. Turrets of guns trained to starboard as officer stands on a bridge. Wake Island being shelled and antiaircraft flak seen in sky. U.S. heavy cruiser fires. Main battery, 8 inch 55 caliber guns, firing from turrets aboard the USS Minneapolis as officers stand in the foreground. Antiaircraft guns firing.
Survivors from the USS Hornet, are transferred from the USS Russell to the cruiser USS Northampton during World War II.
Battle of Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. Survivors from the abandoned aircraft carrier USS Hornet, CV-8, are being transferred, from the port side of the USS Russell, DD-414 (one of the destroyers that rescued them) to the starboard side of the cruiser USS Northampton (CL-26), by means of lines and breeches buoy. After several are transferred, this way, some wounded on litters are also transferred. Initial views are toward the Russell's stern, from the deck of the Northampton, where sailors are handling lines. Camera pans as survivors move across the space between the ships and are lowered to the Northampton deck. View from Northampton toward bow of Russell, showing two of her single turret 8-inch guns (one pointed up) as a litter passes between the ships. (Camera changes viewpoint occasionally.) An officer transfers on a bosun chair, followed by a sailor. In the final seconds, the USS Salt Lake City (CV-25) is seen in the background.
F4F aircraft take off aboard the United States ship Saratoga during the Battle of Wake Island in Pacific Theater.
Battle of Wake Island and Santa Cruz Island in Pacific Theater during World War II. F4F aircraft take off aboard the United States aircraft carrier Saratoga SBD dauntless takes off aboard Saratoga. A 500 pound bomb under the wing of SBD dauntless aircraft. Planes parked on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, a TBF avenger pushed backwards by men.
Soviet forces defend against German offensive in East and capture a Nazi tank along the Black Sea front during World War Two.
Soviet troops at the Black Sea front during World War II. Russian soldiers carry shells and supply boxes as they prepare to resist an attack by Nazi Panzer units. Sand bags piled up. Soldiers ride horses. Soviets fire artillery at German positions. A soldier looks through binoculars. Soviet infantrymen move across a field and attack German forces. They bring back a captured Nazi Pz.III Ausf.N tank as a prize.
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