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People celebrate Armistice Day ending World War I in the streets of Paris. Veteran in wheel chair.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris, marking the end of World War 1. Two women raised on shoulders of American soldiers, wave American flags. Other people wave United States flags. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles, on Avenue des Champs Elysees in the background. French soldier plays concertina. American soldier salutes a French woman, in a fur coat, who presents him a large bouquet of flowers. War veterans parade carrying flags of various Allied Nations.One veteran is in a wheel chair and plays a bugle.. An African American French Colonial soldier stands next to the French veteran in the wheel chair and plays his bugle.Passersby give the wheelchair veteran sprigs of flowers which he places in a bunch on his uniform pocket. Parade on the streets. Several French soldiers carry an American soldier on their shoulders. He waves an American flag. Soldiers stand with a French woman, who cheers and places a bunch of flowers on the uniform of one of the soldiers.
German forces defending against Allies during invasion of Sicily in Operation Husky of World War II
Axis defensive operations against Allied forces during the Italian campaign of World War 2. German Air Force Junkers Ju-52 transport planes take off from their base in Messina, Sicily, carrying members of their 1st Parachute Division to bolster defenses against the Allies who have begun amphibious landings in the South, during Operation Husky. A Closeup aerial view in a formation of Ju-52s flying low over water. Glimpse of German paratroopers inside one of the planes. View from below of paratroopers jumping from their planes, and their chutes descending over hilly terrain. But they are seen landing in fields, as the formation of transport planes flies away overhead. View from the ground of German Heinkel He 111 H-20/R1 aircraft dropping paratroopers, whose chutes are seen descending and landing in hilly terrain. Military equipment being dropped by parachute. The German paratroops gathering up their gear and heading to join their comrades. One is seen sipping fresh water from a mountain stream. View from the German positions of British and American positions being shelled by German artillery. German parachute infantry moving through sandy areas and underbrush. View from inside a German bunker. German artilleryman directing fire from a heavy field gun. German artillery putting up strong defense near Mt. Etna. British soldiers taken prisoners of war. German gunners, some stripped to the waist, firing heavy guns against British and American troops.
German troops retreat from Orel in Russia and make a counter attack during World War II
Animated map of Eastern front locates Orel, Kursk, Belgorod and Kharkov in Russia. German military vehicles, including Marder III tank destroyers, successfully retreat from during World War 2.. People on street. Troops advance on a field. A soldier observes through binoculars. Germans attack Russian positions on front with dive bombers ("Ju87-Sturzkampfbomber"), rockets ("Nebelwerfer") and Tiger-I tank of s.Pz.Abt.503. Artillery fired. Germans advance through burning Russian village. Damaged Russian T34 and Lend-Lease Stuart tanks on field. Russian prisoners stand in lines. (World War II period).
Allies advance following the invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II
Film opens showing map of Normandy, France. Next, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is seen seated in a jeep, conversing with an officer, standing nearby, who makes notes in a pad. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley sits in the back of the jeep, and a Major General stands beside the jeep. Other officers stand around in the background. Eisenhower converses with the Major General. Scene shifts to closeup of Lieutenant General George Patton. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers fly overhead, part of a two thousand plane bombarding the Saint-Lô area on July 25, 1944. Closeup of a B-24 dropping bombs and views of bombs exploding on the ground. American M4 Sherman tanks and infantrymen advancing after the bombardment. U.S. troops riding atop an M8 Greyhound armored cars and M4 tanks. Animated map shows the extent of U.S. advance from Saint-Lô encompassing the entire Breton Peninsula. Then, it shows American forces swinging North and around to the West, trapping German forces at Falaise. A German Tiger tank, camouflaged in shrubbery, moving along a road, followed by motorcycle, and trucks full of German soldiers retreating from the trap at Falaise. Brief closeups of German soldiers in some of the vehicles. A German FW-190 fighter-bomber seen flying very fast and low toward the camera. An explosion. View of British and Canadian soldiers coordinating in the field, further South of Caen, working to keep German armor surrounded in the area. A battery of British heavy artillery guns firing from camouflaged positions. An American 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (called M7 Priest by the British) firing from a wooded area. Shells exploding in the distance. German soldiers sheltering from the shelling. Fires burning. Allied jeep driving past knocked out German tanks. A field ambulance leads a long column of German prisoners of war. They march four abreast with hands clasped over their heads. A convoy of Allied heavy duty trucks bringing supplies from beachheads to the front lines. (World War 2; WW II; WW2)
People cultivate fruits and vegetables in victory gardens in Chicago, Illinois during World War 2
'City Harvest': activities of victory gardeners in Chicago, Illinois. Men and women in farms work on farms or victory gardens a they produce fruits and vegetables during World War II to meet the demands of the Allied forces. Men with their children as they work in their victory gardens. A woman works at an office, a meat packing company, a paper boy, rail road switchman all grow vegetables to meet the increasing demand. People contribute to the war efforts in their own way. A woman works on a tank, men pack meals, woman distribute supply orders, men operate transports. Men work at a steel plant. Victory farmers gather farm produce. Boys carry the produce in crates. Men and women display their produce at victory garden festival.
British books preserved in World War 2 by copying them to microfilm and storing them in United States Library of Congress.
British books being preserved from destruction during World War 2. Images from May 13, 1933 when twenty five thousand books were burned by Nazis in Germany on orders from Hitler. The book-burning included many classics of literature. Aerial view of London buildings burning at night from Nazi blitz raid during Battle of Britain. Books and important records being preserved by British as they transfer them to film, with one page of each book recorded to one frame of film, so that an entire book can be captured on a small roll of film. View of books copied onto motion picture film one page at a time by a British man. View of U.S. military personnel reviewing motion picture film used to image letters sent to troops via V-mail during the war. Narrator states that the filming process followed by the British is similar to the American mail filming process.The films being looked at by a man. Men pack the films in boxes for shipment to the United States. Wooden boxes being lifted by ship crane for transport. Exterior street view of United States Library of Congress building where the films are being kept. Librarian checking and stamping each film on arrival. Film being viewed on a large microfilm viewer. The description of each film on cards placed in the library card catalog. View of the original preservation films being filed and stored in shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress.
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