U.S. Army 106th Engineers in the Port de Commerce (commercial harbour) of Brest, France during World War 1. This site is adjacent to L'arsenal de Brest (Arsenal of Brest) military and naval installations on the river Penfeld. U.S. Army 106th Engineers are constructing a warehouse in the area of Basin 5. View of Engineers raising a completed section of trusswork for the warehouse, by means of cables. Engineer using power drill on sections of new trusswork being assembled on the ground. German prisoners of war using two-man saw and hammers as they cut and install wooden joists in the construction. The working prisoners are monitored by U.S Army officer. German prisoners excavating at entrance of the building. Wider view of construction site, showing rail cars nearby and construction material everywhere. A barge plying waters of River Penfeld in background, and a variety of vessels tied up in the harbor. A bridge in the backgound. Engineers tending a large steam-driven machine sheltered in a shed.
A Nazi German propaganda film shows deplorable living conditions under Communist rule in the Soviet Union during World War II. Half starving Russian men and women in crude huts. Exteriors of a building. Interiors of the building shows barefoot and ragged Russian children smoking cigarettes. A church being converted into an electric powerhouse. A cobbler and a baker at work. Russian prisoners of war march and victorious German troops advance.
Invasion of Italy by the United States during World War II. U.S. Army Private Patrick MacDonald at home in the United States speaks about his experience of being in Italy during the war. Italian houses and buildings on a hillside. Italian men work in a spaghetti pasta factory. U.S. soldiers relaxing in Italy. U.S. ships off the coast of Italy. U.S. LSTs (Landing Ships, Tank) at a Sicilian beach. A large number of U.S. ships off the coast of Sicily. U.S. Naval ships attacking targets on a beach during Operation Husky (Invasion of Sicily). U.S. antiaircraft guns open fire against German aircraft. U.S. troops aboard ships. Wounded men are treated aboard USS Savannah (CL-42). U.S. troops aboard landing crafts underway heading for a beach. The troops disembark from the landing crafts and advance inland.
view of a building in Annecy, France, during World War 2. Flags of Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and Poland displayed together. A busy street with many bicyclists. A truck driving on a road carrying a group of American flyers who have escaped internment in Switzerland. The flyers, in civilian clothes, smile and wave at the camera from the back of the truck. Change of scene to front view of the truck arriving at Annecy airfield. some flyers are riding on the fenders and running boards of the truck. view of German prisoners of war clearing stones from a field near the airfield runway. A C-47 transport aircraft landing on the field, in background. The German POWs pose for the camera. Cyclists on a dirt road near the airfield, pause to watch a C-47 taking off. Children on bicycles wave to the camera. View again, of German prisoners clearing stones from the field. Local children looking to the sky for airplanes.
Senate's investigation of the 40 million war time airplane contracts in Washington, United States. Several officials seated at a desk discuss. Industrialist Henry John Kaiser talks about the early period of World War II when the Axis destroyed Allied ships and airplanes and they were defeated. An airplane parked on an airfield. American aviator and industrialist, Howard Robard Hughes speaks into a microphone. He talks about investigation of a case and his two airplane project. United States Senator from Maine Ralph Owen Brewster speaks against Hughes and asks about the 40 million dollars.
U.S. Senate investigation of 40 million dollars in war time airplane contracts to Howard Hughes' firm. Officials seated around tables during Investigation of National Defense Program. John W. Meyer speaks into a microphone while testifying to senate committee. Senator Ferguson asks him questions. United States Army Air Force officer and son of late U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, testifies on his role. John Meyer, Hughes publicity agent, speaks about his side of lavish war time party expenditures.
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