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U.S. Engineers work to construct supply routes throughout the world during World War II.

PBY Catalina aircraft seen inflight above an Allied convoy of ships at sea. Closeup of British flag displayed at stern of one ship. A destroyer escort in the convoy. U.S. Army engineers creating a road in an area of wilderness. A steam shovel empties its bucket into a truck. A surveyor taking readings with a transit. Two graders moving side-by side as they level a new road A tractor pulling a drum compactor. A vehicle drives on a mountainside road built by Army engineers. Snow covered mountains seen in background. Animated map showing far flung places where military supplies had to be delivered during World War 2. An open Army truck carrying American troops on Guadalcanal in the Pacific. U.S. soldiers walking on a pier at Attu in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. American soldiers arriving at a pier in Accra, Gold Coast. Soldiers hold the American flag on a hilltop in Casablanca, French Morocco. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang, in Chungking. American troops in foul weather gear neat tents in Kiska, the Aleutians. Troops offloading from a troop transport ship in Cairo, Egypt. Troops in Algiers, and in Sicily. Troops hitting the beach in an amphibious assault.

Date: 1944
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075784
Modernization of Japan in 20th Century leading to World War 2

Opening scene shows cartoon depiction of a samurai and a Meiji-era soldier. A cartoon depicts the Bakufu opening Japan to the Western world. A Japanese communications worker is seen climbing a pole to install communications lines. A steam locomotive moves along railroad tracks being installed in the country. Glimpse of European style Japanese calendar (October 1856) being adopted. A Japanese photographer using flash powder and hooded camera. Men walking on a sidewalk in European style fashions. Cartoon showing Japanese inviting outsiders to help them build up their military power. View of three Japanese officials posing for camera. View of a British sailing vessel displaying the British Red Navy Ensign. Japanese troops on maneuvers with realistic smoke and battlefield conditions, supervised by French military advisors. Reenactment of French fighting Prussians in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war. Impressed by the German victory, the Japanese solicited German advisors for their army. View of German troops goosestepping and then of Japanese troops also goosestepping. National Diet building in Chiyoda City (1-7-1 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). View of Japanese legislators and then of the entire legislature (Diet) in session. Views of Japanese military leaders, including General Hideki Tojo, who also served as Prime Minister of Japan. Views of several such military leaders in uniform, exiting automobiles. Japanese soldiers marching through Torii gates.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040804
A French aircraft attacks a German aircraft and downs it over France during World War I.

Aircraft in the European Theater during World War I. Aerial views as seen from a French aircraft in flight over German trenches. The aircraft in flight above the clouds at a height of 10,000 feet above the ground. A German aircraft in flight. The French aircraft attacks the German aircraft and signals for aid. An anti aircraft gun is fired. The German aircraft is downed. Wreckage of the German aircraft.

Date: 1916
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051127
Allied victories over Nazis in European Theater in 1944 and 1945 during World War 2

Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058350
Royal Air Force bombers drop bombs over Nazi positions in European Theater

Newsreel entitled "Day and night RAF makes Nazis take it". Royal Air Force 20 planes in flight over water. Bombs dropped over an occupied French town under German control during World War 2. Ports and buildings bombed. Pilots get ready for a flight. Carrier pigeons in the cages. A man carrying pigeons hands over one of the cage to a pilot. Pilots board Halifax bomber and take off after the sunset. P-40 escort planes in flight. Bombs dropped over Nazi positions as flares seen at night.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058491
John Joseph Pershing meets Ludendorff-Hindenburg in European Theater during World War I

Events during World War I. Officers in the foreground with troops lined up in the background. John Joseph Pershing meets German Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff. Pershing with French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, troops lined up in the background at Versailles. Pershing talks to Ludendorff.

Date: 1918
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048813