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Montage of scenes from the air war between U.S. and German warplanes during World war 2

Montage of scenes from air war in Europe, covering period from about 1943 through 1945 during World War Two. U.S. P-47 and P-38 fighter aircraft being unloaded from a ship at a port in Europe during the Second World War. A line of P-47s on an airfield. German aircraft taking off and inflight, including: Me-109; He-111 bombers; Me-110 fighters; and Fw-190 fighters. U.S. P-51s firing at and destroying German aircraft. Multiple aerial dogfight scenes with gun camera footage showing dramatic mid air explosions of various enemy German aircraft. U.S. B-17s flying to Berlin and back again, with P-51 fighter escorts. P-38 aircraft flying in formation and returning from escort duty, seeking targets of opportunity, strafe German airfields, and fire on German aerodromes and parked aircraft, destroying many airplanes.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047531
Activities of Eleanor Roosevelt in post-World War II period

December, 1945, former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, now appointed by President Truman, as a delegate to the United Nations, is seen with other members of the U.S. Delegation. She is seen speaking while serving as chairman of the UN Committee Three, dealing with human rights. She recognizes the delegate from the Soviet Union, as the committee addresses issues of refugees. (The USSR insists that displaced persons be returned to their original homelands.) As chairman, Mrs. Roosevelt, rules a USSR proposal out of order, causing the USSR representatives to leave the room. A glimpse of Eleanor Roosevelt at a microphone during debate over the issue with the USSR, before the full General Assembly, where she successfully argues to allow refugees to make their own decisions about repratriation. She is seen sitting next to delegate,Senator Arthur Vandenburg, at the forum. Eleanor Roosevelt being greeted by U.S. Army officers as she steps from an airplane in Europe. She is seen mingling with persons in Europe, displaced by World War II. Back in the UN forum, she extols the International Declaration of Human Rights as an "International Magna Carta of men everywhere," and goes on to compare it with similar charters of history. She is seen at a Pan American World Airways terminal, preparing to board a flying boat (unseen). Several scenes show Eleanor Roosevelt visiting with people in various parts of the world, with particular attention to children. She speaks of her candid nature in a broadcast.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 5 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069299
Chaplain conducts V-E (Victory in Europe) Day thanksgiving services in Okinawa, Japan during World War II.

Group of U.S. servicemen gather in clearing near tents, on Okinawa, on May 8, 1945, (V-E Day) to give thanks for the end of World War 2 in Europe. One sits at improvised organ. Officers and a Chaplain enter the clearing. The Chaplain distributes song sheets and conducts the group in singing, accompanied by organist. At conclusion, all turn and face the American flag flying nearby.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034707
Several Italian Fascist officials and soldiers apprehended by Partisans in Ivrea Italy, as World War II ends in Europe.

Armed Italian Partisans escort several Italian Fascist officials, who walk with their hands raised along a street in Ivrea, Northern Italy, during final days of World War 2, in Europe. Local citizens walk along beside and behind them, including some on bicycles. Another scene shows Italian Partisans escorting several soldiers, of the Italian National Republican Army, with their hands on their heads. This group is also followed by a large number of local citizens. Scene shifts to an American jeep carrying an officer and two U.S. soldiers. It is followed by an automobile, seen, later parked with another near a sidewalk, where several Italian Republican Army officers are conversing cordially with American soldiers of the U.S. 92nd Infantry Division.(By May 5, 1945, all Nazi German forces in Italy, had capitulated.) Italian women and children seen in a small open bus.

Location: Ivrea Italy
Date: 1945, May 5
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036692
Aircraft strafing industrial targets in Germany near end of World War II in Europe

Aircraft strafing a factory. Dark view of strafing railroad. Aircraft industrial targets in Germany in 1945, near the end of World War Two in Europe.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051921
The flight line at Denain Airfield (A-83) in France at end of WW II in Europe. B-26s of 323rd Bomb Group.

View of the flight line at Denain Airfield (A-83) in France in April 1945, just prior to the end of world War Two in Europe. Martin B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group taxiing. Airmen standing, around Army Ambulance number 728234, in the foreground. A derrick in the foreground. One of the taxiing B-26s has tail number 43-34138. All the aircraft have broad white stripe on top of their vertical stabilizers. (The aircraft of the 323rd are called the White Tails.) B-26s in flight overhead. Crew chief covers turret guns on a B-26.

Location: France
Date: 1945, April 8
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051953
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