Allied campaign against the Axis in 1944 during World War II. Exteriors of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. Representatives of the United Nations at a meeting inside the mansion. A railroad train arrives and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gets off the train in Quebec, Canada for the Quebec Conference. Churchill confers with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt about Allied plans during the war. French FFI or Maquis groups in France. President Roosevelt acknowledges a large crowd in the U.S. after being reelected President for a third term. People celebrate his victory and hold signs cheering. American Civilians (mostly women war production workers) work in war production plants to produce aircraft, tanks and other equipment in the United States. Rows of aircraft engines, cockpits, and gun turrets being produced. On December 16, 1944, German forces launch a major-counter attack through the Ardennes forests, resulting in the "Battle of the Bulge" in Belgium. View of German soldiers and a German Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer rolling by. German soldiers advance past destroyed Allied tanks and trucks.
A film about the city of New Orleans in Louisiana. Pictures pasted on a wall and a small trumpet on a wall in a room. A man and a woman look at musical instruments on display in a window. People listen to Jazz music at the Preservation Hall in the French Quarter. A sign reads 'Preservation Hall'. Old men play Jazz music as people listen. A band plays Jazz during a parade.
The World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates from various nations meet to discuss issues and means of disarmament. The delegates including French Prime Minister Joseph Paul Boncour, Chairman Of the United States Delegation Norman H. Davis and British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson confer at the meeting.
Allied prisoners in the European Theater during World War I. Prisoners at a Central Powers' prison camp. British and French prisoners relax and eat at the camp. A Russian prisoner smiles as another raises his hat. Two men talk and shake hands. Food being served to the prisoners. The prisoners dance for recreation as others look on. A group of Allied prisoners march in France.
A film on the liberation of the French villages by the American troops during World War II. View of regions in Cherboug, in France. American troops on tanks moving on a path in Cherbourg in France. American soldiers moving on a road. A few American soldiers in a dugout. Bombs being dropped on German positions on Cherbourg. A map depicts the regions struck in Cherbourg. Smoke rising from explosions. A tank moving on a path. The off-duty American soldiers relaxing in front of an inn. 'The Pop Inn' written on the board. Land attack combined with air attack. A U.S. bomber in flight. The aircraft dropping bombs on the German positions.
Bomb wreckage at El Aouina Airport in Tunis, Tunisia during World War II. Wrecked German and Italian aircraft on the airport. Destroyed fuel drums. The wreckage of German and Italian aircraft on the airfield. Swastika sign on the tail of the German aircraft. Parts of aircraft on the airfield. Damaged fuselage of an aircraft. A wrecked German aircraft against a retaining wall. Damaged parts of the retaining wall. A wrecked German fighter aircraft. Aircraft parts spread on the airfield. A wrecked French bomber Bloch MB.174 aircraft on the airfield. Name on the side of the Bloch 174 appears to be "Ltt LEFORT" (who was killed September 19, 1941 in Blida). The skeleton of a wrecked German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant ("Giant") transport aircraft. U.S. soldiers beside the wrecked aircraft. The wreckage of aircraft strewn on the airfield. A few soldiers inspecting the wreckage. A soldier seated on the wrecked Gigant transport. Soldiers walking among the aircraft wreckage.
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