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General Dwight D Eisenhower and Allied forces capture North Africa and Sicily, receives the French Legion of Honour medal (WWII)
General Dwight D Eisenhower from the North Africa campaign to the D-Day Normandy landings during World War II. Eisenhower with other military officers in the War Plan Office discusses strategy. A mural covering the west wall of the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas. An animated map shows plan to seize key positions in North Africa. Fight in Algiers and Casablanca. Allied troops fire artillery, bombarding a North African coastal town. Troops advancing from beachhead, engage in street fighting with Vichy French troops in Casablanca, Morocco. A flare gun is fired. Unfavorable weather conditions delay the troops advancing towards Tunis and Bizerte. Allied troops fighting at nighttime. Allied soldiers walk through mud, allied military vehicles pass through water on the roads. Troops fire artillery under a canopy, hitting the side of a hill. Thick clouds of smoke cover a hill. U.S. General Omar Bradley and his troops capture Bizerte, Tunisia and the British 1st Army captures Tunis. German and Italian prisoners raise their hands up upon surrender. Animated map shows the surrender of the Axis troops. A ceremony commemorates the victory. North African cavalrymen join the parade. General Eisenhower and Free French Forces General Henri Giraud review a military parade. Henri Giraud bestows to General Eisenhower the French Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. A mural on a wall of the Eisenhower Museum depicts the Allied invasion of Sicily. Allied troops march into Sicily in 1943.Civilians in the streets to celebrate. A mural on the wall of Eisenhower Museum depicts invasion of Italy. Allied troops land ashore and march into Italy. U.S. General Mark Clark 5th Army at Salerno. A sign reads Napoli. Eisenhower comes out of a tent. U.S. President Roosevelt visits the troops in the combat area with Eisenhower. United States President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in Cairo, Egypt. Another mural on the wall of the Eisenhower Museum. Eisenhower with other officers. Dramatization of German troops guarding and preparing the defenses of Normandy before the Allied landings. Eisenhower reviews training of the troops. Allied troops undergo physical training though obstacle courses. Churchill inspects the troops. Eisenhower reviews the troops on the eve of invasion. Eisenhower speaks to airborne troops wearing blackened camouflage face paint.
Scenes from career of U.S. Air Force General Henry (Hap) Arnold in latter part of World War 2; Arnold with WASP women pilots.
General Henry Arnold stands with other senior Allied military officers, behind Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, President Franklin D Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Madame Chiang, in Cairo, Egypt during the Cairo Conference. General Arnold meeting with other Allied military chiefs at the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, Canada. General Arnold conversing with Prime Minister Churchill. Women pilots of the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP) in front of their T-6 training aircraft. General Arnold at the graduation ceremony of the first class of WASP pilots.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel along with his troops establishes new forward positions in Africa during World War II.
Plans and preparations made by the Germans for the campaign in North Africa during World War II. Animated map shows the territories occupied by the Allies and the Axis powers during the war. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel along with his troops establishes new forward positions. The troops working to build a canal. A number of ships in a harbor. Supplies being loaded on rail cars. Camels crossing a track. Animated map shows Erwin Rommel's troops advancing in Palestine. The British Forces fire at the Germans. A fleet of United States aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over German targets on the ground. Explosions on the ground with tanks advancing. A soldier stands in front of signboards. A convoy of army trucks on a road. German airplanes parked. German troops along with a General march on their way to Egypt.
Wrecked tanks, airplanes and guns litter a desert and British 8th Army troops on tanks roll past the wreckage in Libya.
British 8th Army tanks roll past wreckage of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps in Libya during World War II . Wrecked German tanks, German airplanes and guns litter the desert. British troops stand around a field gun. A wrecked truck in the background. A wrecked Nazi seaplane. British 8th Army troops on tanks roll past the wreckage. A burning German truck. The British troops in tanks and jeeps cross a flooded road. Supply bases are established on the route. Harbor at at Marsa Matruh Egypt littered with wrecked supply ships and German seaplanes. Nazi prisoners in trucks along a road towards a prison camp. Italian prisoners driving themselves to prison camps even though not under guard. Nazi prisoners in line entering a prisoner of war camp. A high ranked Nazi officer is searched. Some Nazi prisoners seated and a few stand.
Protective measures taken by Americans in Hawaii, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Aftermath of Pearl Harbor attack. People in Oahu, Hawaii, prepare to deal with more air attacks by Japanese. Armed U.S. soldier in sandbagged position, in Hawaii. The territorial governor of Hawaii, Joseph Poindexter, signing a declaration of Martial Law. Four thousand members of Oahu's Civil Defense Committee, dressed in dark bottoms and white tops, wearing steel helmets with "W" on them, standing at attention in formation on grounds of a stadium. Windows in all downtown shops taped to prevent flying glass. Sand bags surrounding a power substation. Huge quantities of barbed wire in a storage yard and strung along the beaches, along highways, around schools, and public buildings of Oahu. A man pushing a lawn mower between sandbagged defense positions in a residential neighborhood. Construction machinery digging defensive trenches. Bomb shelters being constructed of precast concrete. Air raid sirens installed and school children leaving their building and sheltering in deep trenches during a test. Very small children taking shelter in zig-zag trenches and donning gas masks. Huge assemblies of children, and of grownups, all donning gas masks. Little children being dressed in capsule-like "bunny mask" protective gear.One of them crying inside the covering. Crowds of women and children lined up on a veranda waiting to receive these "bunny masks." Military personnel, civilians, and school children, all carrying personal gas masks with them at all times. Innumerable old rubber tires saved in an open yard. Japanese-Americans donating blood to the American Red Cross and lined up to buy war bonds. Soldiers arresting a Japanese resident known to be an enemy agent. Boarded up shops of Japanese-Americans, who had been interned. Japanese-Americans removing all Japanese language signs from their areas. Language school buildings with closed signs. An empty and boarded-up Shinto temple. One Japanese-American replacing his cafe sign with one reading: "Keep 'Em Flying Cafe." U.S. Army troops posted on roadways. The Aloha Tower in camouflage paint. A Lurline steamship leaving port, and being replaced by warships. Prewar view of people enjoying Waikakee beach, and current view of two boys playing in sand near barbed wire barriers. City streets deserted at twilight, as blackout procedures take effect at dusk. Views of darkened homes and palm trees silhouetted against sky at dusk. The "ghost" of a sailor killed in World War II, stands in front of Arlington cemetery, Washington, DC, and converses with the ghost of a soldier killed in World War I. They discuss idealistic notions about ending wars for good. Displays of flags is seen, including: Australia; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; China; Costa Rica; Cuba; Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; England; Ethopia; Greece; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; India; Yugoslavia; Luxembourg; Mexico; The Netherlands; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Norway; Panama; The Philippines; Poland; Russia; El Salvador; South Africa; and the U.S.A. "V" created in the sky by a skywriting airplane.
The Palace of Sultan Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco (WW2)
The Dar-al-Makhzen Palace of Sultan Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. Exterior of the Dar-al-Makhzen Palace, officially known as the El Mechouar Essaid Palace (Cité Universitaire Rabat-agdal, Avenue Omar Ibn Al Khattab, Rabat, Morocco). Horses and their caretakers in the Palace courtyard. A procession enters the Palace. Native troops enter yard led by drum and bugle corps. The band in the yard. (World War II period)
