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The Dutch submarine O 19 stranded on Ladd Reef in the South China Sea, near the end of World War II

Low altitude aerial views from an aircraft circling the Dutch submarine, O 19, stranded on Ladd Reef, in the South China Sea, with bow raised high above water and stern submerged. Note: According to Klaas van der Veen,of the Netherlands, whose father was second in command on the O 19, the boat went aground while on the way to Subic Bay, Phillipines, on July 8, 1945 (July 7th East of the International Date Line). After three days trying to free the O 19 using full reverse power at high tide, blowing air, firing torpedoes, and jettisoning ballast, the crew was rescued by the U.S. submarine, USS Cod, which torpedoed the O 19, after all critical equipment had been removed.

Date: 1945, July 8
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076034
Allied soldiers cross a bridge and advance across Rhineland in Germany during World War II.

Allied soldiers in Rhineland, Germany during World War II. A truck drives through muddy road. A truck crosses a bridge during a flood. Water in the river gushing from under the bridge. United States Third Army soldiers advance across an area in Rhineland. A soldier looks through binoculars at the enemy position. An aircraft drops bomb on German position and explosions occurs. Soldiers cross over a newly built foot bridge. Smoke screen being laid down. Smokescreen machine emits smoke. Smoke screen canisters are floated downstream. Troops carry crates containing medical and ammunition supplies to the other side of the river. Smoke envelopes the whole river. Tanks and trucks cross over the bridge. Troops advance and tanks fire guns. A dead German soldier lying in the mud. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) are led away by Allied troops. A map of Belgium and the Netherlands. First Canadian Army under General Harry Crerar attacks east of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Sign reads “Stadt Goch Kreis Kleve” in Kleve (Cleves), Germany. Red Cross and army trucks and ambulance advance into Kleve. British General Bernard Montgomery with British soldiers. Tanks advance and British and Canadian troops fire artillery in battle. Shells being loaded. Machine gun (Lewis gun) being fired. Canadian troops marching to Goch, Germany. Tank rolls past a damage building. German civilians watch the arrival of Canadian troops in Goch. Some German refugees leave town.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078177
Princess Beatrix of Netherlands visits Curacao in Dutch West Indies

Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands visits Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies for a month. Her mother Queen Juliana bids farewell to Princess Beatrix. Princess Beatrix boards a KLM Douglas DC-6 “Prinses Marijke” (PJ-DPM). A huge crowd welcomes Princess Beatrix on the Curaçao International Airport (known at the time as “Dr. Albert Plesman airport”). Princess Beatrix climbs down a KLM airstair. The Governor of the Netherlands Antilles and other leaders welcome her on the airport. Princess Beatrix and Dutch Antilles leaders leave in an open car. Princess Beatrix waves to crowd gathered to welcome her.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040877
Japanese paratroopers attack Palembang in Dutch East Indies during World War II.

Japanese attack on Palembang, Dutch East Indies, during World War 2. Japanese paratroopers debark from a plane before an attack on oil field in Palembang, Dutch East Indies. Fleet of Japanese aircraft in flight. Pilot and co-pilot seated inside the aircraft. Japanese paratroopers descend on ground with parachutes. Paratroopers run and gather their equipment after descending and engage in fire fights. A destroyed American aircraft is seen. smoke rising from Japanese bombardment of the city and oil processing installations.

Date: 1942, February 14
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675043483
Pilots and planes of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army Air Corp, or ML-KNIL, in Singapore during World War II..

Scenes of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army Air Corp (ML-KNIL) at Kallang Airfield in Singapore during World War 2. Group of Dutch pilots gathered together for a group photo around aircraft B-3111, the plane of Lt. Frederik Pelder. The pilots are from 2-VLG V which was ordered to Singapore when the shooting war began, arriving 9 December 1941 and returning back to Semplak on 18 January 1942. Skull and cross bones held by commanding officer of 2-VLG-V, Captain Jacob Pieter van Helsdingen. The pilots and crew laugh and smile for the group photo shoot. A Dutch Martin 139WH (export version of the B-10) being loaded with bombs. Machine gunner seated in position in the aircraft. The Dutch Martin 139WH in flight overhead. Several views of Dutch Brewster B-339D fighter aircraft taxiing and in flight. Dutch pilots "scramble" (in response to alarm )and run quickly to their "Brewsters." Dutch Brewster B-339D aircraft take off in flights of three and join up in formation. An Australian Hudson I aircraft with Twin Wasp engines seen briefly as it taxis on the airfield.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061822
United States and Russian troops in Germany after World war 2; division of West Germany and East Germany

Bomb damaged and ruined buildings of Nazi Germany in 1945, including the Reichstag. Nazi Eagle symbol of Third Reich pulled down from building and crashes to the ground at end of World War 2. United States Army of occupation marches into city as German population lines sidewalks and watches them parade. Sign on a shop reads "Gaststatte Schosser." Many buildings in view are damaged or destroyed from bomb attacks during World War 2. American soldiers occupying German give candy to German children who at first hide from them. Nazi leaders including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, seen on trial in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. German people struggling to rebuild. women and children trying to gather wood from stumps of trees for fuel. A woman sawing a log. Women and children scraping food from inside trash cans and refuse bins, to stay alive during scarcity and shortages after the war. Americans providing food assistance and feeding German children in relief lines. Close up of a smiling boy as he receives food or drink. Soviet Russian Army soldiers occupying East Berlin and marching in formation. Russians removing an industrial lathe and other machinery and tools from Germany as the Soviet Union continues to strip Germany of resources after the war. A map of Germany and Berlin seen with divided regions as American, British, French and Soviet zones. Views of empty streets and heavily damaged buildings of Berlin after the end of the war. Children play amidst the desolation and destruction in East Berlin. View of Kammergericht, Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Leaders seen meeting inside include American General Joseph T. McNarney, French General Marie Pierre Kœnig (Marie-Pierre Koenig), Soviet General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov,. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. View of Spandau Prison guarded by troops of occupying powers. Soviet and American troops drill and march on the grounds of Spandau Prison. An American soldier relieves a Soviet soldier at a watch post. Soviet blockade of West Berlin begins in June 1948. View of a man shutting down power in a power plant and lights going dark in Berlin. Blackout conditions in Berlin during the blockade. Germans plant vegetables in city to survive. Germans exchange goods in black market setting. A man plants vegetables in view of the Brandenburg Gate. The Berlin Airlift operations underway. U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft flying low and arriving in Berlin, bringing supplies to West Berlin. C-97 landing. U.S. military forces unloading relief supplies and food from airlift aircraft. American C-47s and C-54s in the Berlin Airlift. Soap and milk being unloaded from airplanes. German children gather on a hill and watch low-flying American airlift planes as they approach to land at Tempelhof Aerodrome in Berlin. An Air Force airman throws a package out of the aircraft. It is a very small parachute with candy that drops from the American airplane to the waiting children. Children run to retrieve it and they share and eat the candy. Blockade is lifted in 1949 and rebuilding of West Berlin resumes. View of railroad tracks being re-linked, a locomotive running on tracks, and trains cross between East and West Berlin. Ships loading goods onto trains for Berlin. A coal processing factory running again in Germany. German workers producing industrial parts and goods again in production factories. West German construction workers rebuilding structures in West Germany. German people cast votes, establishing Federated German Republic (West Germany). Figures seen include U.S. General Alfred B. Gruenther with Konrad Adenauer, President of the new German Republic, together in Bonn, Germany. Soviet Russian troops marching on parade in East Germany. East German workers rioting in 1953, in protest of increased production quotas in Communist controlled East Germany. Soviet forces in armored vehicles patrol the streets and disperse the crowd. A large electronic billboard banner flashes West German messages and propaganda to those who can view it in East Berlin. Citizen refugees from East Germany arriving in a processing center in West Germany, carrying bags and luggage. East German refugees laying on the ground on blankets in a crowded immigration processing center of West Germany. A woman irons clothes in the immigration center, while a child plays with dolls.

Date: 1949
Duration: 7 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040632