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British fire artillery during Battle of the Somme, German POWs , WWI

British Empire soldiers, sometimes referred to as "Tommies”, fire artillery in the Battle of the Somme, during World War 1. A BL 9.2 inch heavy howitzer fired by Canadian troops during the Battle of the Somme. Words written on gun mounting read, "I am the Hun's Father Christmas" A line of British British BL 8-inch Howitzers firing. Explosion in battlefield throws dirt into the air. British soldiers fire a 6 inch gun. A heavy gun, perhaps 8 inch, recoils on track after firing. Shirtless Australian soldiers wearing slouch hats fire artillery, including a BL 9.2-inch Howitzer. Shell hits and explodes under tree, causing it to fall. Captured German soldiers march. German prisoners eat fruit, receive bowls of soup from large kettles on the ground. German prisoners take showers in makeshift shower hut. British army doctor vaccinates a German POW. German prisoners of war rest together in a field.

Date: 1916, November
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078699
Imperial Japanese Army invades and bomb Mandalay, Burmese refugees flee for India, British soldiers destroy supplies during WW2

Imperial Japanese Army marches towards Mandalay, Central Burma (present-day Myanmar) during World War 2. They pass sign post reading, "Mandalay 82, Rangoon 348, Hanza 6" Imperial Japanese Army Mitsubishi G3M1 Model 11 Land-based Attack Aircraft bombers drop bombs on Mandalay. Explosion from dropped bombs as viewed from air. Children run away. Japanese bombers drop more bombs. Bomb explosion at ground level. Buildings on fire in Mandalay. A train full of evacuating Burmese locals, some holding on to railings of rail cars. Animated map showing Japanese capture of Burma. British troops in retreat driving a crowded truck. POV driving down road past long line of refugees fleeing Burma for India. Refugees in ox carts. British Army demolition squad destroys equipment and materiel, burn oil supplies to prevent Japanese Army usage. Oil derricks burning. British soldiers retreat at a running pace to small boats. British soldiers retreat on boats as oil supply burns. Huge fire from oil supply. Refugees carry their belongings, flee on foot. Line of Chines soldiers retreating. Burmese and British soldiers lead refugees on foot on elephant trails, jungle, across river and mountains, to India. Camp for Burmese refugees in India. Soldiers carry an injured patient on a stretcher. United States General Joseph Stilwell talks to a Chinese colleague. “We got run out of Burma, that's humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake the place.” General Joseph Stilwell says.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078816
Camouflaged British tanks massed for attack on Caen after D-Day (WW2)

British military equipment is massed for the attack on Caen after the Allied Normandy landings in World War 2. British tanks covered with tree branches and net as camouflage. Rows of British tanks (likely the Mk IV Churchill tanks) park in a field near Caen. Red Cross medical ambulance trucks near Caen. Red Cross medics unload supplies from ambulance trucks. British forces moving into Caen for an attack. British Army trucks and jeeps move towards Caen.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079307
German troops moving into Dunkirk amongst abandoned British tanks and equipment (WW2)

German Army troops marching and vehicles moving into Dunkirk during World War II. Allied vehicle wreckage and debris on both sides of the road. Abandoned war materiel and horses left behind by the British Army are seen. A ship on fire at Dunkirk harbor. Trucks on fire. Thick black smoke at Dunkirk. German Wehrmacht troops carrying supplies and Howitzers onto the beach. A body of a dead British soldier lying face down. Truck wreckage and abandoned war materiel at Dunkirk beach. Captured British prisoners of war being led away by German soldiers on bicycles. German soldiers light their cigarettes. Crowds of French and British prisoners of war fill a square in Dunkirk. Abandoned British tanks at Dunkirk.

Date: 1940, June
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080366
British, Turkish, Belgian, Serb, French, and Australian soldiers mobilize for World War I.

Headlines in various New York and Belgian newspapers report the entry of Austria, Germany, Russia and Great Britain into the World War 1. A poster part of the recruitment campaign by Lord Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War. British troops in the streets of England, mobilize for the war. King George V, his son and uncle, inspect British troops. Turkey: The Sultan of Turkey and other military officials emerge from a building. The Sultan takes his seat in horse carriage and is driven away. Turkish troops at a port and soldiers seated in a ship. Belgium: Bombarded buildings and ruins in Louvain. People and soldiers on the street. People in carts on a road in search of new homes. Military officers study a map. Belgrade: Serbians bomb Belgrade. Soldiers fire artillery guns. Bomb explosions on a hill. British soldiers camp with French soldiers across the channel. Australian soldiers march ahead to join the war. Germany: Retired General Paul Von Hindenburg, commander of the Germans, and other military officers pose outside a building. The German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II ascends from the sand dunes of Belgium to inspect his troops in a field. France: French soldiers on alert in trenches and bunkers, defend the borders of Paris. General Gallieni and his troops leave Paris for the front in taxicabs.

Date: 1914
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020554
British soldiers fight the Nazis in Lisieux and General Charles De Gaulle visits Chartres en route to Paris liberation

British soldiers enter the town of Lisieux, France. Armed British soldiers patrol the streets. Soldiers walk past the destroyed buildings. Firing and bombardment. Soldiers and British tanks fire at Nazis hiding in the town. A French civilian woman brings a glass of water and a pitcher to a prone British soldier firing at German positions from a street corner. Soldier prone firing a machine gun. People in the town of Chartres, a center of resistance. A young woman resistance soldier talks to an Allied French soldier. French General Charles De Gaulle and other officers greeted by the town on August 23, 1944. De Gaulle addressed the town to commend their resistance. De Gaulle looks at the Chateau de Rambouillet in Rambouillet, France, from where he directed the French armored divisions in their push to Paris. Views of the palace, gardens, and a lake at the Chateau de Rambouillet with Charles De Gaulle standing beside the lake. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021091