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Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Tehran conference; also Yugoslavian and French resistance fighters.

General Secretary of the Communist Party Joseph Stalin, President Franklin D Roosevelt of the U.S. and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the UK seated on porch of Soviet Embassy building in Tehran, Iran, 28 November 1943, during World War 2. Scene shifts to group of Yugoslav Partisans and closeup of their leader, Marshal Tito, at their mountain headquarters. Yugoslavian Marshal Tito smoking a pipe while standing on the porch of his headquarters with American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Officer, Army Major Linn M. Farish, U.S. Liaison to the Partisans, and British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslavia leader. Next scene shows French resistance fighters with their flag on a mountaineer's pick. It reads,""Vaincre ou Mourir"" and displays a cross of Lorraine. Closeups of French resistance fighters at attention and also relaxed, smiling, and singing. Scenes of various such groups joining in the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion at Normandy, France. Aerial glimpse of D-day task force crossing the English Channel. Animated map shows Germany being attacked by Russian forces from the East, by the other allies from Britain in the West and from Italy, in the South. Allied forces moving across a pontoon bridge and engaging German forces in France. A U.S. M3 Gun Motor Carriage firing its 75mm gun. American troops firing machine guns, carrying wounded on stretchers and using flame throwers. Troops, including ambulatory wounded moving under enemy fire. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in France. One carries a wounded buddy. American troops firing a variety of artillery from under camouflage netting. French underground forces engaged in Paris. Closeup of one wearing a French Adrian helmet firing a rifle. Another throws a grenade out an apartment window. An American tank moving under the base of the Eiffel Tower as French Resistance fighters run across the area. French citizens celebrating the liberation of Paris. View from an American jeep as French people cheer. Closeups of French people. A bombed out bridge. A battlefield cemetery. Destruction and death in the wake of combat. Fallen French civilians lying on pavement. A U.S. tank slowly driving through a masonry wall. Soviet forces advancing through destroyed buildings. Chinese troops marching along the Great Wall. British troops on parade in tropics. Asian ally troops marching. Huge formation of marching U.S. soldiers. United Nations flags in the breeze.

Location: Tehran Iran
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040075
Aftermath of World War II. A wrecked bridge and abandoned United States Army gliders in France.

Reminders of World War 2, in France, 1945. A high bridge of about eight masonry arches with two bombed out, in mountainous region of France. Camera pans right, showing a number of substantial homes scattered across the valley, with tall mountains behind. Scene shifts to a different, flatter landscape, where about a dozen U.S. Waco CG-4A gliders are seen abandoned in a field, in various states of disrepair. Writing in chalk on the side of one glider reads, "Whispering Yoddles, Fort Worth Texas, Little One Alice". There are no D-day stripes on these gliders, indicating they were probably used subsequent to the Normandy invasion, in other operations such as "Bluebird & Dove" in the South of France, in August, 1944.

Location: France
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070332
United States soldiers walk near Mount Vesuvius and take a mountain tramway in Italy.

United States soldiers, on leave, visit Mount Vesuvius, Italy. The soldiers walk near the summit of a mountain. Snow fall over the mountain. The soldiers walk on a mountain path. They take the mountain tramway. Soldiers sitting in a tram. (World War II period).

Location: Italy
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046497
United States troops advance on mountain roads in Volturno River Valley, Italy, during World War II.

U.S. Army trucks moving along a paved mountain road in Volturno River valley region of Italy during World War 2. Sign at the road reads: "Road under direct observation and Artillery Fire. Keep 100 yds interval." U.S. troops gathered at roadside are passed by a jeep and a light truck with a protected anti-aircraft gun mounted in its back. Army signal corps soldiers installing telephone wires on an existing Italian pole. A peaceful valley pasture is disturbed by German artillery shells bursting in it. American army gunners firing a 105mm howitzers at German positions. A cluster of the shells bursting on a distant hillside. U.S. 155mm long tom guns being loaded and fired from camouflaged position in trees, and from under a camouflage netting. The shells exploding and raising white smoke along the base of hill overlooking the valley. Various views of the 155s firing. A wounded soldier being transported on a stretcher, down some mountainous terrain. U.S. infantry marching single file past a dead German soldier. Views of mountain roads blown away by retreating German forces. Combat engineers are challenged to build a bridge against a sheer cliff on the mountain. They employ jackhammers and manual tools and improvise support structures of heavy timbers. An engineer using a sledge hammer to drive a spike into the timbers. A team of men carry a heavy timber. Engineers creating a bridging structure, on the spot, to allow passage from one section of road to another. Finally, a jeep drives across the new bridge.

Location: Volturno River Valley Italy
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053484
Views of Mount Vesuvius eruption in Naples, Italy field and house in the foreground of mountain.

Mount Vesuvius erupts. Scene of smoke cloud erupt from mountain. Tree and field in the foreground. Smoke rises from mountain. A house in the field. Erupted mountain.

Location: Naples Italy
Date: 1944, March
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026165
Dugouts ("Yaodongs"),Huts and houses in a mountain valley where men graze domestic animals in a village of China.

Inhabitance in mountain village, Shaanxi Province, China. Houses carved out of mountain side (called "Yaodongs"). Valley under the foot of a mountain. Huts and houses in the valley. A man grazes domestic animals. A building in the village. Bactrian Camels loaded with luggage, a man walks along side.

Location: Shaanxi Province China
Date: 1944
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046864
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