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Benito Mussolini reviews Fascist women parade at the Piazza Venezia in Rome, Italy.

70,000 Fascist women parade at the Piazza Venezia in Rome, Italy. Thousands of women in military uniforms and costumes parade down the Via dei Fori Imperiali from the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia. Prime Minister and Fascist leader Benito Mussolini reviews the parade from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia (Piazza di S. Marco, 49, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). The flag of the Kingdom of Italy stands in the Altar of the Fatherland. Mussolini waves to the huge crowd gathered to watch the parade.

Location: Rome Italy
Date: 1939, June 5
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043534
Japanese 1931 aggression in Manchuria condemned by the League of Nations. Continued Japanese aggression in the Pacific, through World War II

Japanese international activities during 1931-1945. Opening scene shows Japanese troops embarking on ships bound for an invasion of Manchuria, in 1931. Officers walking on the dock, amongst the departing troops. Scenes of explosions and destruction. Views of Shanghai during Japanese attacks in 1937. Destroyed buildings. Civilian dead lying in the streets. Japanese soldiers racing along a street in a three wheeled motorcycle vehicle. Change of scene shows Japanese diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka addressing a League of Nations meeting in 1933, after that body adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. He objects to that action and then leads his delegation in walking out of the meeting. View of Japanese delegates in top hats and bowler hats exiting the building. Scene shifts to Japanese forces firing artillery and machine guns in Manchuria.They wave large Japanese flag victoriously after a battle. The next scene shows Italian forces occupying Ethiopia and raising the flag of the Kingdom of Italy, as Italian troops salute, presenting arms of rifles with fixed bayonets. Axis leaders celebrate the 1940 Tripartite Pact between German, Italy and Japan. The festivities take place in a hall displaying the three nation's flags on the walls. A large number of persons attend including Japan's Prime Minister, General Hideki Tojo, seen with two celebrants. Scene reverts to China with Chinese civilian people trying to escape from invading Japanese forces. The refugees carry their belongings as they flee. Occasional shell burst is seen among advancing Japanese troops as Chinese soldiers put up resistance. Chinese soldiers firing artillery. In the U.S., Japanese envoys Kichisaburō Nomura and Saburō Kurusu are seen walking together into a building and entering a room inside. Next, are views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with huge plumes of smoke obscuring the bombed U.S. battleships in the harbor. U.S. battleships in line formation in the Pacific during World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. warships moving in parallel. British ships augmenting the U.S. warships. Naval guns firing. U.S. amphibious assaults on Japanese held islands in the Pacific. Prisoners of the Japanese who suffered in the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur mingling with former prisoners and internees upon his return to Manila in 1944. Aerial views of Iwo Jima. Naval bombardment and amphibious assault of Iwo Jima. Numerous fallen Japanese soldiers. The iconic American flag raising by U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima. View of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. during the campaign on Okinawa, where he was killed in action. A Soldier being carried on a stretcher. Another throwing a hand grenade. U.S. soldier firing at a Japanese defender who falls out of his bunker. Large numbers of Japanese prisoners of war assembled in a field. Japanese Kamikaze attacking U.S. warships off Okinawa. The sky filled with antiaircraft flak clouds. View of 40mm Bofors antiaircraft cannon firing and a Japanese plane falling and exploding on impact in the ocean.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051624
Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini arrives by train at Munich Central Station where he is welcomed by Adolf Hitler

Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini visits Munich, Germany. Flags of Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy hang in the streets of Munich. Nazi flags hung from buildings. A Bundesadler eagle metal plate adorns a wall. Cars move along the roads. Italian leader Benito Mussolini arrives at Munich Central Station (München Hauptbahnhof, Bayerstraße 10A, 80335 München, Germany). He shakes hands with Adolf Hitler. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler walk on the railway platform, the officers follow them. Military troops in formation on the platform. The two Axis leaders review formations of soldiers and sailors as military brass band plays the German and Italian national anthems (“Marcia Reale Italiana” and “Deutschlandlied”). Spectators line the streets. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler enter open cars. Nazi banners and decorations adorn the Munich New Torn Hall and Marienplatz (Marienplatz 8, 80331 München, Germany). Hitler and Mussolini in Marienplatz. Crowds cheer and wave, as their cars drive down the streets of Munich, which are festooned with Nazi and Italian banners.

Location: Munich Germany
Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675053637
Ship's company take part in a line-crossing ceremony aboard LST 554 during World War II

U.S. Sailors and Marines participate in traditional nautical ceremonies marking the crossing of the Equator, aboard the Landing Ship Tank, LST 554, during World War 2. This involves "Shellbacks" (sailors who have already crossed the equator) intiating "pollywogs" (sailors who have never crossed the Equator) into the Kingdom of Neptune. "Pollywogs" are seen assembled below, and then brought up on deck where they are subject to various forms of horseplay and embarrassment (all in good fun). Some are seen in silly lookout poses. One is seen nearly atop the ship's mast. One, naked, pours water over the head of another. Another is made to dance with a mop. Then two are made to dance together, after which they must mop the deck. Finally, the Pollywogs have their heads shaved, and dunked in water, after which they run a gauntlet of shellbacks who hit them hard (with soft paddles). Initiates being sprayed with water on deck.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056742
Francisco Franco reviews Spanish Army maneuvers in Spain during World War 2

Spanish Head of State Regent of the Kingdom Francisco Franco in Spain during World War II. Francisco Franco reviews Spanish Army maneuvers. Francisco Franco arrives with other officers. He see as soldiers load a boat. The soldiers construct a pontoon bridge. They march in review.

Location: Spain
Date: 1943
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675057917
Francisco Franco reviews a parade and honors dead during a Falangist ceremony in Fuenterrabia, Spain.

Spanish Head of State Regent of the Kingdom Francisco Franco attends a Falangist ceremony in Fuenterrabia, Spain. Francisco Franco with other officials followed by women walk to review troops. Cavalry troops followed by other troops marching. Women watch standing in a balcony. General Franco reviews the parade. People gathered to honor dead. Soldiers place wreaths on a memorial. (World War II period).

Location: Spain
Date: 1943
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675057923
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