German Aeronautical research facility in Stuttgart, Germany before World War 2. German technicians opening doors on top of aircraft engine test room. Propellers run on high speed during engine tests. A technician opens door. A large machine that runs engine tests. Technicians operating test consoles. A Tacho Waage speedometer measures engine test speed.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia mobilizes ten million men on the Eastern border during the early stages of World War 1. The Tsar inspects Russian troops and consults with his uncle the Grand Duke Nicholas. Russian troops and the military band march. German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the king of Wurttenberg step from a car in Germany. Officers and civilians gathered around. The Kaiser reviews soldiers in Germany. The Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany readies to command an army. Field Marshall August Von Mackensen, readies to fight the Romanian Army.
America and Europe during post World War 1 period of 1920s Sketches: American workers in factories. The U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding converses with a friend. President with other officials signs a paper. President Harding dies and the Nation mourns. Pallbearers carry coffin of the President. Sketches depict the various scandals under the Harding administration, including the Tea Pot Dome scandal. Vice President John Calvin Coolidge becomes President. Several sketches of the President . Sketches of rich people in America. People in a car. Automobiles driven out of a Ford factory. Sketch of the workers building a road. Various labor saving electrical devices. Sketches depict a housewife relaxing and people becoming better off economically. Ordinary people gamble on the stock market. Various pictures of American farmers suffering, as demand for food falls in the wake of World War 1. Economic and financial crises affect Germany. Hyperinflation and riots occur in Germany. The unrest gives rise to future leaders like Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini, in Italy.
World War 2. Britain (United Kingdom) and France declare war on Germany. German infantry carrying Panzerschreck antitank weapons. British troops mobilizing for war. Sign reads "A Call to Arms." Groups of new recruit British soldiers marching in large columns, including soldiers from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. British Queen Elizabeth class battleship with other warships. Animated map showing units of British fleet blockading Germany at Suez, Malta, Gibralter, the English Channel,and the North Sea. Adolf Hitler and German General staff make war plans. Animated map shows European countries around Germany. Ice skaters near Windmills in Holland. Farmers harvest grain. Bicyclists in Netherlands. Radio towers broadcast Nazi propaganda. Joseph Goebbels. Hitler denying intent to harm other countries. German military planners identify Norway as a target. Map shows German U-boats using Norwegian fjords. Map shows British fleet at Scapa Flow, and blockading ships in range from Norway. April 9, 1940, German army enters Copenhagen as Danes watch. German freighters in Norwegian ports smuggle troops and war materiel. German warships proceeding up Norwegian fjords, carrying troops and equipment. German Ju-87 and Ju-88 bombers and Me 109 aircraft in flight. Ju-88 over treetops. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft carrying German soldiers. Quislings seize power in Norway. View of Vidkun Quisling. Nazi posting up rules for citizen residents of Oslo Norway.
America declares war against Germany during World War I. A report in ' New York Tribune ' is pictured. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk in his office in Washington D.C., United States as he declares war against Germany. A copy of Joint Resolution declaring war against Germany. General Pershing reaches England and then France where he visits Napoleon's tomb, Les Invalides along with other French officers. United States Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt as America joins the war. Allied ships underway at sea. United States battleship New York at sea. Sailors aboard a ship. Admiral Rodman addresses the crew aboard a ship.
United States bombers bomb German-held oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania during World War II (Operation Tidal Wave). Allied military leaders including United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower confer prior to the Normandy Invasion. Cartoon depiction of buildings, tanks, and equipment in Romanian oil refineries. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers raid Romania's Ploesti oil refineries. A group of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs over Ploesti. Explosions throwing billows of smoke up in air. Aerial view of Ploesti being bombarded by bombing and clouds of smoke from explosion. A map of Germany shows synthetic oil plant positions through Central Germany. Bombers drop bombs over synthetic oil plants in Germany. Firefighters rush to put out fire in oil plant during a bombing attack. Firefighters spraying water on burning oil tanks. Thick, dark clouds of smoke cover the burning oil plant. A German synthetic oil plant reduced to rubble. German workers clear the rubble from bombed plants. Ruins of German oil plants after repeated air raid attacks. “The enemy has succeeded in increasing our losses of aviation gasoline up to ninety percent” a voiceover narrates the words of Nazi German Reichsminister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer. German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt speaks to an audience.
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