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Disabled veterans trained as watchmakers at Joseph Bulova Watch Corporation school in New York.

Disabled veterans of World War 2 are trained as watchmakers at a school in the Woodside suburb of Queens, New York City. Disabled veterans enter the Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking (40-24 62nd St., Flushing, NY 11377). Doors with electric eye controls open school doors automatically for students in wheel chairs. The school also includes a wheelchair ramp. Disabled veterans in wheelchairs enter the school, followed by others walking. Faculty teach the men in a group. Some of the veterans were formerly employed as truck drivers, a chef and a music teacher. Veterans work on various equipment and manipulate small parts of watches. Veterans in a class receive training to receive new jobs as watch makers.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021159
German civilian Pusch testifies in trial of Franz Strasser for shooting of American aviator prisoners; scenes from tribunal in Dachau (WW2)

Excerpts from 24 August, 1945 (World War II) military commission tribunal in Dachau. Swearing in of translator and charges read against Franz Strasser for: "Violation of the Laws and Usages of War. In that on or about 9 December 1944, FRANZ STRASSER, Kreisleiter of Kreis Kaplitz, an Austrian National, did at or near Kaplitz, Czechoslovakia, wrongfully and unlawfully kill an American airman, whose name, rank and serial number are unknown, [by shooting him with a machine pistol]. Strasser replies with a plea of not guilty. Next scene shows entry of German civilian truck driver, Josef Pusch, who is sworn in and provides testimony about the incident. Pusch describes the events of the shooting of the American prisoners by Strasser. United States flag and judges on raised platform. U.S. officials, defendants and civilians in the court room. Shows hearing as it begins. The Nazi commandant seated with other officials. The German civilian is questioned by an interpreter. German civilian Pusch identifies Strasser. Pusch gives his account to the tribunal about the shooting of the American flyers.

Location: Dachau Germany
Date: 1945, August 24
Duration: 8 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021221
Forks of Cypress plantation home and other sites, likely in Alabama, circa 1939; African American man tending a large bell.

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary "The Land." A seemingly abandoned, dilapidated house at an unidentified farm or former plantation location, possibly in Alabama, during the Great Depression. Spanish moss hanging from nearby trees. Views of a different, wooden, rundown house with a front porch, possibly at a different location. Scene changes again to a third different house, this one made of brick. A lone African American man emerges from double doors of the house. He walks up to a bell, cleans it, and rings it. Distant open view in front of the bell includes a valley and river (possibly the Tennessee River in western Lauderdale County, but not confirmed.) Scene changes again to show the first house and the trees with Spanish Moss. View returns to the location with the man tending the bell. Next scene shows the Forks of Cypress plantation house in Florence Alabama, (Lauderdale County). View of the old main Greek Revival Forks of Cypress house built in 1830 for James Jackson. View of the west elevation of the house. The smokehouse is seen behind and to the side of the main house. A clothes line with clothes on it is beside the smokehouse. Chickens walk on the porch of the house, past its tall colonnade of 24 ionic columns. (Note: The house burned completely in a 1966 fire). Next scene is again the elderly African American man at the brick house location. He looks around, mumbling to himself, walks back towards the house, and pauses on the front steps. The first wooden house with Spanish moss in nearby trees is shown again. Scene returns to the elderly African American man who enters the brick house and closes the doors behind him. Film directed and narrated by Robert Flaherty.

Location: Florence Alabama USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021571
Propaganda piece shows Soviet troops, military equipment, agriculture, and industry contributing to the progress of the USSR.

United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program shows a Soviet propaganda film with English translated voice over. Soviet troops rest after a training mission. Russian soldiers seated on and around tanks. Mountainous and wooded regions in the Soviet Union. Modern, developing, industrialized areas and cities. Women work in factories. Roads under construction. Modern farm equipment and views of farm fields in the Soviet countryside. The Soviet War Memorial or the Soviet Cenotaph in Berlin's Treptower Park. Soviet soldiers descend steps into a Soviet missile silo. Changing of personnel in a 24 hour missile silo. Soldiers at attention as a military band plays. Soviet soldiers salute. A Soviet soldier stands guard in the snow. A mission control center with men seated at some radar screens. Soviet soldiers on duty in various places. A Soviet pilot or astronaut in an aircraft or spacecraft cockpit.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1975
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021660
U.S. AAF VIII Fighter Command Lieutenant O.R. Jones attacks a German FW 190 in Germany during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 24 April 1944: Lieutenant O.R. Jones of the 4th Fighter Group 335th Squadron attacks a German Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighter aircraft. The U.S. aircraft in flight amidst clouds. The FW 190 in sight. The two aircraft in a dogfight. Firing and explosions.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021830
U.S. AAF VIII Fighter Command Captain Woody attacks 5 ME 109s in flight over Germany during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 24 April 1944: Captain Woody of the 355th Fighter Group 354th Squadron attacks 5 German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt (ME) 109 fighter aircraft. The U.S. aircraft in flight amidst clouds. The ME 109s in flight. Captain Woody attacks the German aircraft. A ME 109 is hit, descends towards the ground. Other ME 109s in flight.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021831
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