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British women work in various war time jobs, British prepare for war, and people greet Winston Churchill

Contribution of British working women to the war effort in England during World War 2. British women prepare for German aerial warfare Battle of Britain. British women stand and talk. A woman reads from a paper. British women put up barrage balloons and man the antiaircraft guns. British women working jobs that are traditionally handled by men. They work on a train. Another woman cleans a wheel. Women fly and taxi planes. Women in war time drive ambulances and buses. They cook food and serve it to men. British men and women work overtime in a various factories, including war production factories on airplane production and operating various industrial equipment. A British woman welding with a mask. Workers yawn. Two British soldiers with guns walk. The Germans begin their bombing campaign in the Battle of Britain. A British soldier leaves a house. Soldiers walk with rifles on their shoulders. People greet British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He waves to the people. British people listen to excerpt from Churchill speech on radio with his famous lines "We shall fight on beaches..." and "We shall never surrender." British Soldiers move up a hill. View of barbed wire defenses with Big Ben clock tower in distance behind. British civilian man covering a newly built Anderson Shelter (air raid shelter) with dirt. British civilians walking. Soldiers march and work. A man on a horse cart. An air raid by German aircraft begins and an alarm sounds. British boy and girl children look up in the sky and then run for shelter. Blitz Air attack on London by Nazi German Luftwaffe aircraft during Battle of Britain. A warden blows his whistle and runs, guiding citizens into an underground shelter. Parents are seen trying to fit gas masks onto young British children and an infant, as the children squirm and protest.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031681
End of World War 2 in Germany, the Four-power occupation of Germany after World War II, and the Berlin Airlift

Allied tank and tank destroyer firing and Allied infantry in Germany during World War 2. British, American, and Soviet troops escorting German Prisoners of war at the end of the War. Animated map shows line where U.S. and Russian troops met and zones of occupation in Germany and Berlin. It depicts routs of access into the Soviet zone of Berlin View from a vehicle driving through utterly destroyed part of Germany in 1945 with rubble and ruin of many buildings seen. Desperate German citizens facing shortages of food and necessities after the war, cooking on outdoor fire in a city street, and trying to clear some debris of destroyed buildings by hand and using buckets in a "bucket brigade." Bus service being restored and German citizens boarding. Vehicle traffic moving with a German police officer directing. Doctors perform physical examination of a German boy as a group of German boys wait in queue for examination. Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, with U.S. President, Harry Truman, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, at the Potsdam Conference. Children receiving soup at a school in Berlin. Animated map shows routes through the Soviet occupation zone, used by Western Allies, to supply essential food and supplies through the Soviet zone of occupation to sustain West Berlin residents. It then depicts Soviet action blockading the road and rail routes to isolate West Berlin. Views of empty roads, rails, and canals. A DC-3 (US Air Force C-47) transport aircraft taking off. Men loading supplies on aircraft for delivery to West Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. A British Short S.25 Sunderland flying boat carrying cargo in the Berlin Airlift. Troops carrying supplies for airlift. A British Avro York transport aircraft taking off. A warehouse filled with barrels for Berlin. View from overflying airplane. Trucks resuming travel to Berlin after the Soviets finally lift the 9-month blockade. Normal supplies of food seen again, in West Berlin shops. Vehicle stopped at a checkpoint. Sign warning that: "You are leaving the American Sector." and similar ones at the French and British sector borders. Old road sign pointing to Potsdam, beside another sign warning of entering the Russian zone. Traffic moving between East and West Berlin.

Date: 1949
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034239
American civilians realize their war obligations and contribute to the war effort (WW2)

A World War II-era film shows Americans realize their war time obligations after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Fall of Corregidor in the Philippines. Crowds watch a marching band and newly enlisted soldiers in parade. A smiling woman waves at the marching soldiers. Women in car watch the parade. Tents in camp. Soldiers perform mass calisthenics and train with outdated tanks. Enlisted men learn how to fire machine guns and mortars. United State Army soldiers board a ship for their deployment. A ship departs for the Philippines. Soldiers arrive in the Philippines, a United States commonwealth in Asia. Japanese bombers drop bombs over Pearl Harbor. Civilians running on the streets during a Japanese aerial bombardment. United States Navy sailors firing machine guns and howitzers from ships. A ship explodes from Japanese bombing. A little girl runs to her father washing the car to tell the news about Pearl Harbor. The little girl runs across the street to tell her neighbor about Pearl Harbor. A woman writes a letter. A woman bakes a cake. People leave a church after service. An American soldier is shot by Japanese soldiers in the Philippines. A man reads a telegram. The man drives to a farm house, accompanied by a church minister. The man and minister tell the elderly couple living in the farm that their son was killed in action. Women selling war bonds on the street. A man silences his alarm clock and goes back to sleep. Cars racing on the street. Soldiers and civilians evacuating Manila. Japanese bombardment of Manila. A girl turns on the radio before Christmas dinner. Men and women congratulates a woman outside a law office. More civilians receive telegrams. Dead soldiers in the battlefield. A woman opens the Bible and writes the names of the dead. United States soldiers retreat in the Fall of Bataan. A woman shakes her head in disbelief after being told of a rumor her son was killed in action. A man hangs the United States flag on his porch. A bomb explodes near a makeshift tent hospital. Woman fixes bed. A woman eating on the dinner table alone. A soldier swats a mosquito from his neck in the Philippines. Forlorn men and women. Soldiers fighting in Corregidor. Soldiers surrender to the Japanese forces at Corregidor. A captured American soldier harasses a Japanese soldier while frisking him. He was apprehended by Japanese soldiers on guard. Despondent American civilians struggling after the Fall of Corregidor. A man despondently smokes from his bed. A depressed woman struggles to cut vegetables. A doctor treats civilians for shock and depression. A baseball game. A horse race. Boys playing on the beach. United States and Filipino soldiers march with United States and Philippine flags. People line up for blood donations. Civilians donate old rubber and hats. Men line up to punch their time in at work. Boys helping on the farms. Male teachers volunteer to fix civilians’ appliances and cars after school. A welder working at the shipyard. Civilians walking instead of using cars. An Allied plane landing. A woman sewing. A man opens a package of binoculars. People line up to buy war bonds. A majorette leading a marching band. Newly enlisted men with suitcases marching in parade.

Date: 1942
Duration: 14 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038778
U.S. war effort is concentrated against Japan after the fall of Nazi Germany in World War II

Overlaid on scenes of fervently patriotic Japanese people waving flags and cheering, is slate reading: "Japan is firmly determined to fight a hundred years war to crush the United States." A huge explosion. Glimpse of U.S. Marine Flame Thrower Tank M67 directing flame on a Japanese bunker. U.S. marines charging in an amphibious assault on a Japanese held Pacific Island during World War 2. U.S. troops wading through surf from their landing craft, during amphibious assault. Marines fighting Japanese in Pacific Island jungle. Landing craft at beach in background. American flag being raised on a palm tree. Soldier saluting the American flag. General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore in the Philippines followed by staff officers and soldiers, including Filipinos. U.S. aircraft bombing Japanese held Corregidor in the Philippines. U.S. Navy ships bombarding the Philippine coast. American paratroopers of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, jumping at low altitude, from C-47 aircraft onto a critical hill known as "Topside" on Corregidor. Views from ground of paratroopers descending. and landing at the hilltop. U.S. troops in an amphibious assault, under fire. The American flag being formally raised as General MacArthur and other officers salute the flag. Marines in amphibious assault on Iwo Jima. A U.S. battleship firing at the coast. Explosions along the coast from Naval bombardment. Marines charging across the black sands of Iwo Jima. Marines firing a 75mm Pack Howitzer M1. Shells exploding at the base of Mount Suribachi. The famous flag raising by Marines on Iwo Jima. American forces attacking the Japanese Island of Okinawa. A Landing Ship Medium (R) firing rockets at Okinawa. Numerous explosions ashore. The USS LSM(R)-198 firing rockets. U.S. troops using a flame thrower to attack Japanese troops in a bunker. A Japanese defender is shot and tumbles down a hill from a fortification. American flag raising on Okinawa. Army officers salute the colors. A U.S. Navy destroyer firing its stern 8-inch guns. A Japanese warship struck by a bomb or shell, with flash of fire and explosion. More views of U.S. Navy warships bombarding Okinawa. A torpedo seen below the water as it is launched A Japanese ship exploding with fireball and huge cloud of smoke. Glimpse of helmsmen inside U.S. submarine. A formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber aircraft peels off, and dives. A Japanese ship being strafed and bombed. It explodes. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber aircraft taking off from captured islands to attack Japan. A formation of B-29s in flight. B-29s flying over Japan. Mount Fuji is visible. B-29 raining bombs on Japan. View from aircraft as bombs strike, exploding on ground. Closeup of falling bomb. Huge clouds of smoke rising from struck targets. More views of B-29 aircraft in flight. Some leaving contrails at high altitude. View from bridge of U.S. battleship bow plunging into heavy seas that cover deck. (Ship's forward triple gun turrets are visible.) Aerial view of landing craft speeding toward a beach, leaving white wake in water. Glimpse of U.S. battleship, in camouflage paint, bombarding a shore. Closeup of twin 40mm Bofors anti aircraft guns being fired from U.S. Navy ship. A Japanese Kamikaze airplane on fire, falling through flak clouds. A Japanese Mitsubishi G4M bomber aircraft flying low past a U.S. Aircraft Carrier. U.S. Navy sailors on a ship's deck firing a twin 40mm bofors gun. A Japanese Kamikaze airplane hit and in flames as it falls. A squadron of U.S. aircraft in formation. Gun camera film of Japanese airplane bursting into flames while being shot at by U.S. aircraft. Flaming aircraft falling straight down towards the water and splashing on contact. U.S. troops wade through surf as they leave Landing Ship Infantry Large USS LCI(L)-337. Troops rush past a beached Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) on sand beach. Troops in tracked landing vehicles approaching the shore from a cove. White smoke in the area. A banner erected at shore reading: "CIC." Explosions nearby. Soldiers using a flame thrower. Scene shifts to U.S. Secretary of War, Henry Lewis Stimson, speaking from his office in Washington, DC. He speaks of destroying Japan's armed forces and war fighting capability. A soldier shouting with a beached LVT behind him. American soldiers firing small arms from sheltered positions. An artillery soldier closing the breech of a heavy gun after loading it. Montage of scenes similar to all seen already. A liberty bell and "V" for victory is shown.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040811
Citizens campaign in Mexico City for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War II

Thousands of citizens march in Mexico City demonstrating for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War 2. They converge on the main plaza (Zócalo) where President Manuel Ávila Camacho stands on the balcony of the Presidential Palace, with his wife, Doña Soledad Orozco García de Ávila Camacho, and members of his staff. View from a high point overlooking the plaza, showing thousands massed with the Mexico City Cathedral in the background. Narrator states that citizens protest against axis sinking of unarmed mexican ships. Flags of the United States, and allied flags are displayed. Flags are waved in salute for their dead comrades, by Survors of the SS Potrero del Llano, a Mexican ship torpedoed by the German submarine, U-564, on May 13, 1942. Camera pans over the square filled with people and banners. Next, President Camacho is seen asking the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for a declaration of war. People on the streets (some sitting on street lamps) listen to the broadcast over loudspeakers. Mexican Army soldiers seen in helmets. Uniformed troops line a sidewalk. Deputies applaud after unanimously approving the declaration of war.

Date: 1942, May 22
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040847
Russian war strategy against German invasion in World War II

Citizens in the Soviet Union mobilize for war effort against Germany in World War 2. Joseph Stalin gives a speech on June 22, 1941. Newspaper printing press running and newspapers being printed and distributed to spread news about mobilization. Russian men from every village come forward to fight against Germany. Russian men on horseback ride to mobilize. Groups of men and women mobilizing in recruitment drives for soldier activities and war production work in factories and mines. Young teenage boys work in a coal mine so older men can fight in the war. Russians of all ages mobilized. Russian women and young boys with rifles. Russians guard their fields and cattle and watch the skies for German invasion aircraft. Russian old men keep vigil in fields.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041524