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German artillery fired and bombing at installations in Southeastern Russia on the Eastern Front of World War II.
The Eastern Front of World War II. German soldiers load and fire artillery in Southeastern Russia. Many soldiers naked from waist up due to the heat. Grasslands and mountains in the background. Few soldiers in tunnels. Soldiers holding guns walk through woods. Barbed wires seen. Massive explosions. German infantry advances. German Messerschmitt bombers take off on bombing mission. Aircraft in flight. Pilot at controls. Bombs dropping on the enemy targets..
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks about continuing needs
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks about the continuing problem of refugees resulting from the upheavals of World War II. He speaks of the many refugee camps, both official and unofficial that are still occupied throughout the world, and the problems of people in them.
Views of German air and naval nighttime operations in World War II
Nighttime operations in World War 2, by German military air and naval units. German Air Force aviators discuss a mission. German armorers fastening large bombs under fuselage of a German Dornier 17 twin engine bomber, at night. The aircrew boarding the aircraft. Engines running and the bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Scene switches to a German coastal gun firing in the darkness. Next, the wake from a German torpedo boat, is seen at night. Interior of the boat, showing controls. A gun on deck, and face of sailor operating the boat. TWo torpedoes being launched. Explosion and fire from torpedo striking a ship, seen at night. Controls of a ship set to full speed ahead. A torpedo being launched from a surfaced submarine at night. A huge explosion from the torpedo striking a target ship.
European Heads of State review their respective forces mobilizing for World War I. Glimpses of trench warfare.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..
Nations in various stages of mobilization before and during World War I
Nations mobilizing for World War 1 (The Great War).from 1914 through 1917-18. Civilians in a Slavic country react to information fastened on a large circular post. Closeup of British Mark II tanks moving near the camera, followed by view of British Whippet tank in front of army trucks. Uniformed, armed, German troops assembling in a town square. German General Paul von Hindenburg leading members of his staff and a diplomat, on inspection of troops. A Russian officer on horseback with troops assembled in a city park. Unusual grouping of Military officers from Germany (wearing Picklehaube helmets); France; and Russia (including a Cossack), gathered in front of a Russian Orthodox Church (presumably somewhere in Russia) prior to World War 1. Anachronistic view of middle-aged Winston Churchill giving an address, before numerous microphones. U.S. Marines hurrying along a waterfront pier, past a variety of boats docked in a city marina. American soldiers looking at a U.S. Connecticut-class battleship docked at a pier, displaying a large American flag, during World War 1. Camera pans across the pier. Crew members seen on Japanese battleship, Settsu. Japanese troops disembarking from a transport ship covered with ice.
USAAF fighter planes shooting down German airplanes and strafe lines of communication in World War II
Gun camera footage from U.S. Army Air Forces fighter planes shows numerous German aircraft being shot down during World War 2. Also shown are German aircraft being destroyed on the ground and all manner of conveyances being destroyed by strafing along lines of communication.
