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World War I trench warfare. U.S. Presidential election campaign.

Sketches of World War I. Sketches : U.S. president Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Trench warfare. Rail guns and heavy artillery. Explosions on the land. Battle of Verdun. Battle of the Somme. Soldiers of both sides lying dead on the ground. Soldiers run with artillery into the trenches. Cemetery. British tanks. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson reads casualty reports in newspaper. British troops blinded by mustard gas. The German and the British newspapers. President Wilson sends advisor Colonel Edward M. House to plead for peace without victory. U.S. Presidential election. The campaigns during the elections in America. President Wilson is peace candidate. Charles Evans Hughes, backed by Theodore Roosevelt, is war candidate. Members of the army and navy league protest on the streets. Women holding a sign that reads 'Real patriots keep cool'. German Americans favor the German war cause.

Date: 1916
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032131
A documentary titled 'One Year in Korea'.

Scenes from the first year of the Korean War. The United Nations General Assembly meeting in Lake Success, New York. Delegates from Iceland seated. Osten Unden, Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, seen reading a newspaper. Glimpse of delegates from Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia (with Amir Faisal al Saud, seated at the right). Delegates from other nations are also seen. American soldiers slowly retreating during initial phase of action in Korea. Closeup of U.S. Lieutenant General Walton Walker and Major General Bill Dean. More views of retreating U.S. and South Korean soldiers. An injured soldier carried on a litter. A small Korean child and crying baby. Long line of Korean civilians carrying all their possessions, walk behind the retreating UN forces. Injured soldiers being assisted by comrades. Animated map of Korea and surrounding countries. The Yalu River; 38th parallel; and Port of Pusan are shown. UN Defense of Pusan perimeter is illustrated. Scene shifts to 105mm field artillery batteries firing at the perimeter. An M46 Patton tank dug in and firing its 90mm M3A1 gun. UN troops firing M1 81mm mortars. Infantry firing their rifles. UN Reinforcements arriving at Pusan in boats from the U.S. Transport ship, USS Union (AKA-106). U.S. troops arriving from LST 607. Troop reinforcements assembling and moving out from Pusan Harbor. British Commonwealth troops of the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade arriving at Pusan aboard the British aircraft carrier, HMS Unicorn (D-72). Military supplies piled up on the wharf. Heavy equipment being offloaded from transport ships. Troops attending a religious service at the Pusan battle front. UN 105mm artillery pieces firing at the front. Australian infantry moving past a burning hut. UN troops moving forward through a Korean town, where the UN flag flies from a building. Troops advancing through unusual landscape including monumental balancing rock formation. (Korean War)

Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032621
Devastation and clean-up efforts in London on a morning following German blitzkrieg (blitz) air raid attack during World War 2

Views of a London morning after the German air raid during World War II. Wrecked city and destroyed buildings are seen. Workers rake up debris and extinguish fires as citizens go to work as usual. Men and women emerging from underground tube and taking to streets to go to work amidst rubble. Man in suit going to work with briefcase observes the damage and devastation and workers clean up streets. Train passes overhead spanning a partially destroyed overpass trestle. Workers sit on the back of a motorized open air cart that helps shuttle them to work through the debris of the bombing. Views of a crowded London street. A woman goes shopping and steps directly into a formerly glass-enclosed display window at a clothing store to hand the proprietor an article of clothing that she wishes to buy or to assist him in cleaning up his wares. Brief view of royalty (King George VI) and Queen visiting ruins. A clean-up brigade wearing hard helmets digs through rubble with pick axes. Double-decker bus and cars and pedestrians passing by on street near bombed out building. Views of rubble among prominent London landmarks. Street view of citizens walking to work, and St. Paul's Cathedral dome in distance. Fire fighting crews train hoses on a fire from the bombing; view of exhausted and dirty fire fighters at work. Citizens with children gather at a civic center to load children into buses and evacuate them out of the city for their protection. A man with a megaphone addresses the crowd of parents and children to be evacuated to give them instructions. Men, women, and children are seen among the crowd. Line of double-decker buses departing from a queue, carrying children to safety, as parents look on and wave goodbye. Royal Air Force (RAF) crew loads a bomb into the underside of a British aircraft bound for Berlin. Views of three British airplanes in flight bound for bombing run over Germany. More scenes of rubble in British streets, and dirtied workers cleaning up after the bombing raids of the blitz. A man passes a rescued cat to another red cross rescue worker, amidst the rubble of a building. Worker gets cigarette lit.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032716
Building a Navy ship in Great Britain during World War 2.

British Naval officers seated in the projection room, viewing movie and an instructor standing. Wax model of British naval warship hull being tested in a special water basin. Royal Navy architects at work. Drawings being transformed into full scale in a mould loft. Views slipway in a shipyard. A huge structure of ship is been made, men at work. Two men with a paper, discussing. Various views of the shipyard. British ship is launched in sea, views of ship in sea. Views on board the ship including boiler or engine room and other interior views.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 5 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032934
Industrial area and bomb wreckage, Germany.

War damage of an industrial district in the British Occupied Zone, Germany after World War 2. British flag waving in front of smokestacks and damaged factory buildings. Smoke coming out of a damaged factory. View of damaged steel and metal works at Buer, a suburb of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia (British Occupied Zone). A coal mine in the background. Interior of a factory show its wreckage and debris from an aerial bombing attack. Some bombed factories show heavy damage that only the building framing and piles of debris remain.

Date: 1946, October
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033273
Celebrations in the U.S. on the surrender of Italy and the conditions in Sicily leading to the surrender.

The Allied Forces crush the Axis troops in the Mediterranean during World War II. Italy surrenders. Newspapers in the U.S. show headlines of surrender of Italy. People in the streets read the newspapers. In New York the Americans of Italian descent celebrate Italy's surrender. Roll of honor. A child holds an American flag. American and Italian flags side by side. An Allied convoy moves towards North Africa. Allied troops land in North Africa. U.S. General Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander; British General Montgomery, commander 8th Army and Lieutenant General Clark, commander of U.S. 5th Army are shown. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Churchill meet at Casablanca. Prelude to surrender- Allied planes drop bombs on islands off Italy. Allied warships off the coast of Sicily. Fighting off the coast. Sicily is invaded by the Allied troops. Americans land on shore. The U.S. 7th Army and the British 8th Army land on Italy's mainland behind a naval bombardment. The Allied soldiers in the streets. U.S. Army Corporal Salvatore DeMarco, of Italian origin, reunites with his family after having left home at age 15. German troops surrender to the U.S. troops and are sent out of the country in ships.

Date: 1943, September
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033556