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Activities at U.S. Medical detachment of 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Division, near Brest, France, in World War 2

A sign identifies field installation of the 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment. A group of U.S. Army medics, wearing red cross helmets, carry a wounded soldier of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division, on a stretcher. They are assisted by a captured German soldier, and followed by an armed U.S. soldier. They carry the wounded soldier into a concrete block building that serves as a field medical treatment center.

Date: 1944, August 26
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034896
American Expeditionary Forces troops depart France at Brest, after World War I.

United States troops board boats to ferry them out to troop transport ships for return home at end of World War 1. The troops are seen aboard a number of steam ferry boats, ready to leave the port. More soldiers march onto the pier and board boats. View from a departing boat as it leaves the docks. Views of the port facilities as the boat passes them. Houses on shore in the distance. Officers in wheel house of the camera boat as it makes way. More views of commercial activities on the waterfront as the boat departs.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039808
Events leading to World War II in Europe and German attack on Poland in 1939

Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering walk together up the steps of Hitler's Berghof residence in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. Inside the two walk about and converse. Views of them in several different rooms of the building. Hitler and Goering silhouetted against the large windows in one room, containing a long table and a world globe. Change of scene showing Nazi foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, being greeted by Soviet Union Minister of Foreign affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov, in Moscow, Russia, where they negotiated a Nazi–Soviet non-aggression pact (also called the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) in August 1939. Von Ribbentrop is seen seated with Soviet negotiators. Various newspapers reflect mixed world wide views. Some question whether war or peace is ahead. Another notes that the Reichstag supports the diplomatic initiative. Another suggests that England and France must decide. One headline says Chamberlain will want war. Next, Polish forces are seen on parade being reviewed by General Władysław Bortnowski. Among forces parading are mounted cavalry, marching infantry, a formation of PZL P.11 fighter planes, Tk-3 tankettes (Tankietka), 120 mm wz. field guns, CP7 Ursus artillery tractors pulling wagons, antiaircraft guns mounted on trucks, and army trucks carrying soldiers. Scene shifts to German airmen loading bombs on aircraft; arming machine guns; refueling; and testing functionality of aircraft elements, such as turrets. Pilot in cockpit as engines start on a Dornier Do 17 bomber. Ground crew pull chocks and aircraft taxis out. A Heinkel He 111 bomber taxiing. Two of them take off. A Do 17 takes off, followed by more He 111s. Closeup of one flying low over the camera on takeoff. A mixed formation of German aircraft aloft, including several fighters flying top cover; nine Dornier Do 17s; and other bombers. Aerial closeup of a Do 17 seen from adjacent wingman. Closeup of several He 111s in formation. Closeup of gunner in turret. View from above of three camouflaged Do 17s flying far below. Closeup of pilot in cockpit of He 111 with wingman off to left side. More views of Do 17s flying over patchwork of farmlands. Gunner preparing in his turret. Clouds from antiaircraft fire seen from plane cockpit. Bombs falling and exploding on city below. Succession of bomb craters in a line across a flat area of land. View from aircraft of damaged Polish aircraft on an airfield. Scenes of devastation on the ground including destroyed buildings and Polish aircraft. Waves of German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bombers taking off; in formation; and peeling off to dive on targets. View from cockpit of one, through rotating propeller, as it dives to bomb a railroad marshaling yard, and view back as it pulls out, showing clouds of smoke rising in its wake. Several German officers peruse damage at rail site. Destroyed Bridge and shipyard. The German battleship, Schleswig-Holstein bombarding the Polish base at Danzig's Westerplatte on September 1st, 1939. German artillery firing in Poland. Formation of Do 17 bombers overhead. Damaged and abandoned wooden wagons at side of road traveled by Polish civilians evacuating in a horse-drawn wagon and herding their cattle to safety. Destroyed Polish artillery and equipment and horses. Men dig graves and bury dead Polish soldiers. Vies from air of bombed out part of Warsaw. Polish citizens gathered in places seeking assistance. German forces on parade in Warsaw, including German soldiers goosestepping. Closeups of Adolf Hitler reviewing them.

Date: 1939, September 1
Duration: 8 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044317
Ships transport U.S. Soldiers returning home from France at the end of World War I.

A French boat named the "Wenette" ferrying American troops, is seen alongside a two funnel ocean liner, in Brest Harbor, France, at the end of World War 1. A Connecticut class American battleship is also seen in the harbor, to transport troops home from the war. Another two-stacker ocean liner anchored in the harbor. American soldiers fill the decks of an armed transport ship, flying the American flag. Several views of French tug boats assisting a transport ship as it leaves the harbor. A large 4-funnnel transport ship surrounded by tugs and other small boats. Closeup of an armed transport ship filled with soldiers, making way slowly out of the harbor.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039810
The ship RMS Olympic transporting troops returning home from France at end of World War I

Opening scene shows clear images of the ocean liner, RMS Olympic (sister ship of the RMS Titanic) in the harbor at Brest, France, right after World War 1. American soldiers boarding a small ferry boat at a pier. The ferry boat is then seen tied up beside the Olympic. The deck of a large ferry boat filled with United States soldiers. Soldiers entering a hatch of the ferry boat. A barge containing coal, tied up to the RMS Olympic. Workers smile for the camera as they shovel coal into the bunkers of the Olympic. Civilian passengers on deck of the RMS Olympic, chatting with an American Navy and Army officer. Soldiers with their gear gathered on a pier. They use a gangplank to board another transport ship.

Date: 1919
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039814
A convoy of United States ships in the Atlantic Ocean.

United States Ships en route to France during World War I. A dirigible in flight as it escorts a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Smoke rises from a ship.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049588