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The Quebec and Tehran Conferences in World War II. German defenses in the Western Wall. The air war in Europe.

Allied strategic Conferences in World War 2. Opening scene shows Château Frontenac. Then President Franklin Roosevelt seated with Canada Prime Minister, McKensie King, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Scene shifts to their respective military staffs conferring at a table. Next scene shows the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran, with the Big Three (Joseph Stalin, FDR, and Churchill) seated on the portico, and their top ranking military officers standing behind them. Soviet Marshal Kliment Voroshilov stands behind Stalin. American officers are seen in next scene, including General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King (lighting a cigarette) and General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, stands behind King and Arnold. Closeup of Churchill. Shift to an animated map of Europe. It illustrates the massive fortifications put in place by the Nazis along the coast of occupied Europe. Camera pans across heavy German coastal guns, Pill Boxes, and shore obstacles in place on the beaches. Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel leads a group of German officers on an inspection tour of the "Atlantic Wall" defenses. Closeup of Rommel. British Bristol Blenheim bombers en route to attack targets in the German occupied areas. Views of Allied airmen inside cockpit of their bomber aircraft. A flight of five German fighters (appear to be Bf-109s) peeling off to attack an Allied bomber. View inside bomber of American gunner in bomber firing machine gun at attacking German fighter. Head on view of German Focke Wulf FW-190 fighter heading straight toward the camera, and point of view from gun camera as German aircraft zooms up over it. Gunner in bomber firing. An aircraft exploding inflight. View inside Allied bomber, through cracked windshield, of aircraft in a formation of U.S. Martin B-26 Marauder bombers. Next shot is rearward from bomb bay showing bombs away view as bombs are released from a B-26. Scene shifts to aerial view from rear of a U.S. B-17 bomber dropping bombs. View of the bombs striking a railroad marshaling yard. Another view of a B-26 bomber in flight.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041991
Bombing by Japanese planes on USS Princeton and USS Langley in Pacific Theater.

Japanese planes attack USS Princeton and USS Langley in Pacific Theater. Smoke rises from USS Princeton. Japanese planes in flight above water. The planes drop bombs near USS Langley. Plane crashes in water. Japanese planes dive midst flak. Planes dive on light aircraft carriers (CVL). (World War II period).

Date: 1944, October 26
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042078
Various types of aircraft land on flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific, during World War II

A United States Navy aircraft carrier underway in Pacific ocean during World War 2. Numerous carrier landings are shown, involviing F6Fs, TBMs, and SB2C aircraft . There are no mishaps, and only one aircraft is seen getting a wave-off and going around. The various aircraft approach and land in a mixed sequence of the different types.

Date: 1944, October 26
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042079
Bombing by Japanese planes on USS Princeton and Iowa class battleships in Pacific Theater.

Japanese planes attack USS Princeton and USS Langley in Pacific Theater. A burning light aircraft carrier (CVL). Smoke arises from Iowa class battleships. Explosion on USS Princeton. Splashes in water. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, October 26
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042080
Allied troops battle German forces after landing on Elba island, Italy and during World War II.

Liberation of Elba island in Italy from German forces during World War II. Animated map highlights Elba island. Allied ships bombard German shore installations on Elba. A smoke screen covers the landings of the Allies. Allied troops wade ashore. Allied LST (Landing Ship, Tank) at Elba shores. Allied troops advance inland. Shell explosions on the island. German soldiers are taken prisoners. Allied soldiers carry wounded soldiers on stretchers.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073831
Marshal Josip Broz Tito at his mountain headquarters near Drvar, Bosnia.Yugoslavia. Tito's troops training in Italy during World War II

Note: This film was shown during World War 2 and edited for security reasons. Accordingly, some narrated statements are incorrect or misleading, and should be disregarded. Film opens showing a sentry posted at Yugoslav Partisan Leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito's mountain headquarters in Drvar, Western Bosnia, Yugoslavia. Marshal Tito steps from his headquarters to a lower porch where he stands with American OSS Officer, American Army Major Linn M. Farish, American Liaison to the Partisans, and British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslav leader. (For security reasons, they are identified as war correspondents.) Scene shifts to the town of Drvar that has experienced several periods of German occupation. Local people go about their daily activities and some pose for the camera. Women are seen salvaging silk from Allied parachutes, that they have spread out on the ground. It will be used as bandages for their Partisan army. View from above of a number of Partisan fighters gathering before the camera. One, a woman with dark hair wearing a black coat, is identified by the narrator, as a 21-year old Montenegrin who left school to join the Partisans. Closeup of that woman conversing with uniformed women soldiers. Next, a loose column of Partisan fighters is seen marching slowly through the town of Drvar. Scene shifts to a large formation of marching Yugoslav Partisan soldiers, who are training in Italy. They are seen standing if formation in a field, under Marshal Tito's command. He orders their officers forward and exchanges salutes with them. Marshal Tito then inspects the ranks. Women soldiers are seen conversing with Tito. He converses with his Chief of Staff, General Koča Popović. Closeup of a smiling woman Partisan fighter. Closeup of a soldier with a notable white moustache. Closeup of two uniformed women with Red Cross armbands. The Partisan soldiers marching across the field with shouldered arms. Film closes with closeup of Marshal Tito in front of his headquarters.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073832