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German civilians and famous skier Christl Cranz donate coats, woolens, and ski equipment for German soldiers
Response of the German people to the appeal for winter clothing and skis for German soldiers on the Eastern front. A large crowd of German people on a street in Germany outside a donation station. Inside the donation station, a woman holds warm fur coats in her arms. Woman volunteers collect and organize the woolens donated by civilians. A man removes his coat and hands it over to a German soldier while others await their turn in a line. Many citizens hand over woolens and skis and ski poles to the soldiers. Some exchange nazi salutes as they give donations. Famous German World Cup skier Christl Cranz is seen donating her skis and shaking hands with the collection worker. Large number of boots collected. The clothes and equipment are loaded onto trucks by German troops and then into trains to be taken to the troops on the Eastern Front. A soldier closes the railroad car door after the car is filled with skis. (World War II period).
U.S. Pacific fleet at sea before Pearl Harbor attack, and Italian sailors establish barrage balloons around Italian Naval base
The U.S. Naval fleet underway in the Pacific before Pearl Harbor. Italian narrator describing names and sizes of various ships including the USS Arizona,USS Oklahoma, USS West Virginia, USS California and USS New Mexico. Footage of the U.S. Pacific fleet ships in heavy seas with water crashing over their bows. Army Air Force biplanes take off from the deck of the USS Langley Aircraft Carrier. Sailors stand by as a biplane aircraft lands on the deck of the USS Langley (CV-1). Biplane aircraft on the deck of the USS Langley. Topic then changes to Air-Raid Defenses in and around Italian naval bases. Italian Sailors roll helium barrage balloon inflation tanks into ships. Sailors direct air into a balloon. Numerous barrage balloons in the sky. Soldiers prepare to release a balloon from a boat and fasten the metal cables. Deck guns in position. Soldiers observe through binoculars, telescopes, other instruments and monitor gauges and radar on a machine. A soldier talks on the radio from amidst sand bag barricades. Soldiers watch as two play a bacci ball game. They run to take their positions as a soldier signals incoming enemy aircraft. Enemy planes attack the Italian base. Explosions near ships in the water. A barrage balloon is hit and bursts into flames. Sailors fire anti aircraft artillery from behind a barricade. Mobile units dash to substitute the destroyed barrage balloon with a new one. Soldiers in a truck hold onto the new balloon and then release it. (World War II period).
Christmas celebrated among the Italian soldiers in Russia.
Italian troops in Russia celebrating Christmas. A truck driven on a snow covered road. Soldiers collect bottles of wine. Meat slices on a table. A soldier uses a funnel to pour a drink into another soldier's cannister. Bread, meat and drinks distributed among soldiers. Soldiers collect their food in utensils. They distribute cards or other goods to children. A truck and a horse carriage driven on a snow covered road. A soldier on skis moves on snow among trees. He reaches a trench and distributes mail packages to the Italian soldiers. They open their Christmas packages and crouch down as the Russians fire artillery at their positions. They smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).
Donald Nelson and party visit the Ford Bomber Plant in Detroit, Michigan (WW2)
Chairman of the War Production Board Donald Nelson and party visit the Ford and Chrysler plants in Detroit, Michigan during World War II. A C-45 military transport aircraft lands at the new Ford Bomber Plant. The visitors get off the plane. They are greeted by the Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford and others. W. Averell Harriman converses with Henry Ford. Nelson, Harriman and Oliver Lyttelten pose. Photographers take pictures and cameramen record the event. A stationary U.S. bomber B-24 Liberator with engines running. Civilian guard patrolling in the foreground. Hangar and civilian cars in the background. The visitors and hosts near the first bomber built by the Ford Bomber Plant. Henry Ford has trouble being heard because of the aircraft engine noise. The B-24 engines are shut down. Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in civilian clothes, with two U.S. military officers. Henry Ford and others get into a car.
Donald Nelson and party inspect tanks at the Chrysler Tank Arsenal in Detroit, Michigan (WW2)
Chairman of the War Production Board Donald Nelson and party visit the Ford and Chrysler plants in Detroit, Michigan. The visitors get out of a car at the Chrysler Tank Arsenal. They are greeted by a manager. Interior of the plant. The party inspects the plant. Tanks on the assembly line. A tank is lifted. The group comes out of the plant. Tanks on proving grounds. The visitors stand by and watch. Back of a man's shirt reads 'Tank Arsenal Inspection Road Test'. Tanks being put through challenging tests in mud and obstacles on proving grounds. (World War II period)
Adolf Hitler sitting quietly at a memorial service. Hitler at Bayreuth Festival
Brief glimpse of Adolf Hitler in uniform, sitting quietly among other attendees, at a memorial service. Hitler in formal attire (White tie and tails) steps onto balcony at opera house, during annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Bavaria. Several other opera patrons accompany him. Hitler gives several informal Nazi salutes, and returns back into the opera house.