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U.S. soldiers aboard ships and landing crafts advance towards a battlefront in the European Theater.

A war film titled 'Soldiers without guns' depicts the contribution of army messengers during World War II. A U.S. ship convoy underway at sea in the European Theater. Smoke from the stacks of the ships. Soldiers aboard the ships and a landing craft. The soldiers fire guns from battleships. Smoke rises from the firing of the guns. Supplies loaded on the ships. Tanks and trucks advance on a beach. Paratroopers descend on the land. Airplanes fly in formation. A soldier speaks over a radio. The airplanes bombard a target area. Trucks and jeeps advance along a street. Troops fire rifles. Men in a radio room directing them. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in chairs, discussing. Men study a map and locate areas on the map.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062825
A Port of Embarkation switchboard operator continues working after receiving news of the death of her son in World War II.

Contribution of Signal Corps and army messengers during World War II. A map locates target areas. Telephone operators seated at a switchboard in the United States, at a Port of Embarkation. Men and women work in a room and pass messages to soldiers at a battlefield. The switchboard operator goes on break and places a call to her 10 year old boy at home using a pay phone booth. The woman picks up the phone and dials a number. She talks to her son and gets the information of the death of her eldest son, a Signal Corps soldier in combat. She puts the phone down and sits in her chair. Other women talk to her and suggest that she go home. She continues with her work.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062826
A Pentagon messenger performs his duties in Arlington, Virginia unaware of the vital information he carries.

Contribution of messengers during World War II. Wrecked tanks and equipment on a field. U.S. Army soldiers guarding prisoner of war German soldiers as they march. View of German prisoners at an encampment. Duties of an African American messenger at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Augustus Johnson walks in various corridors of the Pentagon building, carrying messages. He talks to an African American dispatching supervisor. He places an envelope carrying information on a rack. A sign board reads: 'Army Air Forces'. He meets a visiting official and escorts him to his destination. Narrator extols importance of the messenger job during World War 2.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062827
P-61 Black Widow aircraft of the 425th Night Fighter Squadron operating from Voisins Aerodrome, Coulommiers, France, in World War II

Aerial views of U.S. 425th Night Fighter Squadron P-61s flying in formation at a high altitude above Colomiers, France. They display D-day invasion stripes. Glimpse of ground crewman working near oxygen cylinders. More views of P-61s in formation. View from one P-61, of another in flight behind it. View from a P-61 joining up on left wing of another (number42-5550), which then breaks off to the right. View from inside a landing P-61, showing extended landing gear.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029121
French workers gather stones to repair a runway in Colomiers, France.

U.S. GI's come in from breakfast with lunch kits in their hands in Colomiers, France. P-61s (Black Widow) can be seen parked in background. Farmer plows a field with pair of oxen. French workers gather stones to repair a runway.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029122
U.S. P-61s (Black Widow) take off and land on an airstrip in Colomiers, France.

Scenes of U.S. P-61s (Black Widow) taking off and landing on an airstrip in Colomiers, France.

Date: 1944
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029123