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Numerous wrecked Allied warplanes. German ace Adolf Galland and other pilots. FW-190s and ME-109 airplanes in flight (WW2)

German soldiers climbing over a crash-landed B-17 bomber of the USAAF 96th Bomb Group, 337th Bomb Squadron, with tail number 42-3353. Its props are all bent and skin is peeled off its rudder and horizontal stabilizer. (This aircraft, named "Tar Fly," was hit by flak on September 9, 1943, and crash-landed west of Evreux, at Beamont-Le Roger, France. Two crew were killed and 8 taken as prisoners of war.) Smoking wreckage of an Allied aircraft in a field with two dead fliers lying on the ground about 50 yards away. Engines of a downed U.S. aircraft. Numerous views of wrecked American and British airplanes. Sign painted on one piece of wreckage reads: "When I go sightseeing in Tokyo, Tojo's gonna be my Ricksha Boy!" Piles of scrap alumunum from crashed airplanes piled up at a railroad siding, where German workers load it into rail freight cars. German army workers using tools to dismantle parts. Sequence shifts to a Messerschmitt Bf 109 that lands in a field. German airmen run to greet the pilot, who steps from the cockpit and describes some aerial maneuvers to a surrounding audience. Next, German ace, Adolf Galland is seen discussing tactics with other pilots. Several camouflaged Me Bf-109s lined up on a grass field, where ground crews are repairing and maintaining them. Closeups of German pilots climbing into cockpits of planes. Ground crews hand crank their starters. Next sequence shows Focke-Wulf FW-190 aircraft taxiing and then making a formation takeoff from grass field. Then an Me-Bf-109 is shown right after takeoff. FW-190s and Me-109s buzz the field. (World War II period)

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056342
American flyers being repatriated from internment in Switzerland during World War II

A Swiss Border guard walks toward camera, on the French side of the Franco-Swiss border crossing near Annecy, France, during World War 2. He confers with an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force. A tram arrives on the Swiss side and stops at the border. A large group of American pilots and crew step from the tram with their baggage. They are barred from moving further, by Swiss guards. But one man in a raincoat, walks past the guards and greets U.S. officers and an official, outside a customs office at the border. A Swiss border guard supervisor directs guards to move the flyers to a walkway. Another American Army officer arrives and greets those already there. The flyers being repatriated from Switzerland, walk en masse across the border and climb aboard a bus waiting on the French side.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060615
U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower and Chief of Staff of United States Army George Marshal in a French town during World War II.

American officers aboard a cruiser in France during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces General Dwight Eisenhower, Chief of Staff of the United States Army George Marshal, U.S. Army Air Force General Henry Arnold and U.S. Fleet Admiral Ernest King on bridge of cruiser. Generals in dukw (six wheel drive amphibious truck). U.S. troops and jeeps along road. General Eisenhower and General Arnold get into a jeep. Jeep passes through damaged French village

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075129
High ranking United States army officials visit a French town during World War II.

U.S. Generals in France during World War II. U.S. C-47 Skytrain transport plane taxis down field. C-47 on field with crowd of soldiers around. U.S. General Omar Bradley, Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces General Dwight Eisenhower, and Chief of Staff of the United States Army General George Marshal get out of C-47 and talk together. General Marshal talks to a soldier. General Eisenhower, General Marshal, and U.S. Fleet Admiral Ernest King pull away in command car. Jeep passes through a French town. Generals walk along a field. General Marshal washes face outside a tent.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075130
German SS troops prepared to defend positions in Southern Normandy after Allied D-day invasion in World War II

Film starts showing a camouflaged German Stug IV assault gun parked in front of a sidewalk and building in Southern France during World War 2. German soldiers are congregated on the sidewalk. Closeup of German SS (Schutzstaffel) officers huddled together looking at a map held by one of them. They all display the Death Head (totenkopf) insignia on their caps. Closeup of seated SS officers consulting a map. One wears insignia of SS-Storm Unit Leader (Sturmbannfuhrer). Scene shifts to German soldiers moving rapidly out of a village in a camouflaged Leopard I tanks and camouflaged (with foliage) "Kübelwagens." A camouflaged half track carrying supplies and towing an artillery piece is accompanied by several walking troops. Scene shifts to a soldier with surveying scope on tripod giving hand signals to assistant (unseen). German soldiers remove a rocket launcher (Nebelwerfer) hidden in trees at the edge of a field. View of several such launchers lined up in a battery at edge of forest. View of German infantry moving under cover and of a soldier crawling under a tank for protection. Change of scene shows several soldiers relaxing inside a dugout. Four soldiers share a single dish meal. A small hog is shown as a pet in a camp. Troops pet it. A soldier on a bicycle carries treats to one in a defensive position. Soldier with binoculars looks out on Normandy terrain comprised of mixed woodland and pasture (Bocage: also called Hedgerows by Americans in World War 2.) German soldier slogging through mud. A soldier calls to another who peers out from his well established dugout. Soldiers dressed in camouflage consult a map. German patrol sets out. One of the soldiers climbs a tree. Closeup of him climbing. Another soldier seen comfortably perched a tree with his weapon. Two patrolling soldiers run from cover of a tree, and make their way across a grassy plain. Officer looking through binoculars. Soldiers in grassy field stay down as explosions sound and smoke rises from shells striking in distance. Closeups of Several soldiers helping each other as they go through hip deep water in swampy part of grassy field. German artillery firing from established positions near a river. Several soldiers make their way from across the grassy field to join others in well established camouflaged defensive positions.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078952
Allied supplies and soldiers arrive in Normandy, United States soldiers landing from LCM on D-Day during WW2.

British and United States troops and supplies arrive in Normandy during the Invasion of France (D-Day) in World War 2. POV inside landing craft as British troops land ashore at beachhead. French houses can be seen in the background. Ashore on the beach, troops and other landing crafts wade in the water. A half-timbered Norman house in ruins near the beach. Strong waves on the beach. A man pushes bicycle as another man wades near a stack of supplies on the beach. United States soldiers disembark from the LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized). United States soldiers wade on the beach during their landing in Normandy. View of an LCM as troops disembark to land on the beach.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078801