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German advance to Don River in Soviet Union during 1942 summer offensive in World War II

Smoke rising from fire burning on West bank of the Don River in Russia. Camera pans down to river and some German soldiers crossing on what appears to be partly a pontoon bridge and partly remnants of a damaged one. German troops hunkered down on the West side by the damaged bridge. Horses and damaged vehicles clutter the approach to the bridge in a scene of utter destruction. Camera pans across scene of fire, smoke, and war materiel abandoned by the Russians. The area has been devastated by attacks from the air and heavy shelling. Away from the river, two German soldiers ride in motorcycle and sidecar. Barrel of a siege gun is raised and fired. German soldiers remove tree branches camouflaging an 8.8cm anti-aircraft gun to fire on attacking soviet bombers (not seen). Others firing a Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun. View of an airplane, hit by the gunfire, falling with smoke trailing.

Location: Russia
Date: 1942, July
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675062716
Oahu Railway and Land Co. (OR&L) Freight Trains, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii ca. 1942

Railroad scene on Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, at Kalihi-Kai just east of the Libby cannery and west of the old Oahu Prison. World War Two "blackout" headlights can be seen. The first locomotive is OR&L No. 39 with three gondolas. The second is OR&L No. 34 with boxcars and the third OR&L No. 32 with a train of boxcars and pineapple cars. Brakemen and Conductor shown riding on top of cars. (The OR&L did have three cabooses, but they were not popular with the crews.)

Location: Hawaii USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062970
Doolittle Raid, fleet fueling operations, 1942. World War II.

Fleet of U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean to launch the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan, early in World War 2. Most of the film is of the Fleet Oiler, USS Sabine, AO-25 fueling aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, CV-6. At times 01:38 to 01:44, the destroyer USS Benham, DD-397, is seen on the starboard side of the USS Sabine. heavy At times 02:15 to 02:20, the fleet oiler USS Cimarron, AO-22, fueling the heavy cruiser USS Northampton, CA-26 with a destroyer and aircraft carrier USS Hornet, CV-8 in background. At times 02:22 to 02:45 fleet oiler USS Cimarron, AO-22, coming along side the USS Enterprise.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065476
Australian boys learn seamanship at an Australian Merchant Marine Academy in Brisbane, Australia.

Australian boys learn seamanship in Brisbane. The attend classes in an Australian Merchant Marine Academy. The cadets stand in lines. 'Sea cadets' written on their caps. They learn elementary navigation. A cadet masters the art of climbing on a hammock. Cadet at steering wheel of ship. Cadets aboard a craft learn seamanship.

Location: Brisbane Australia
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053538
Newsreel "Australian girls stage mass drill at Army hospitals" shows entertainment for injured Australian troops

Australian girls from the Sydney Australia College of Physical Culture perform mass drills in Army Hospitals in Sydney Australia during World War 2. Crowd cheering. Patient on a wheel chair watches the mass drills. The girls perform gymnastics drills and calisthenic exercises with rhythm and precision as the crowd of injured Australian soldiers and sailors watches.

Location: Sydney Australia
Date: 1944
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040781
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress during "Four Freedoms" speech of 1942; also war production scenes

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the U.S. Congress in his "Four Freedoms" speech during the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, in Washington DC, United States. During his address, various war production worker and war materiel manufacturing images are also shown (before the entry of America into World War 2, but during lend-lease production): Tanks, airplanes and flying boat aircraft are shown. Workers at war production factories making artillery shells and munitions. Scenes at a manufacturing plant building bomber aircraft warplanes during World War 2. They appear to be B-25 Mitchell bombers. Workers work installing plexiglass nose cone gunner shield. They assemble various parts of airplanes. Scenes of biplane aircraft in formation and diving. Large, flat landing barge filled with American soldiers approaches a landing area.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941, January 6
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035537
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