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United States troops give aid to Russian prisoners after their escape from German prison camps during World War II.

A captured Wehrmacht Major General gets into a jeep after German defeat from the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. A German Volkssturm militia man with an armband. Armband reads “Deusches Volkssturm Wehrmacht”. Volkssturm militia carry discarded Schmeisser guns to defend a town in the Ruhr Valley. A Volkssturm militia man surrenders to an American soldier. Surrendered Volkssturm men shows a place to an American soldier, where arms have been hidden. American soldier being led to a riverbank of the Rhine River where the German Volkssturm men show him flame throwers. The mass escape of prisoners from a German concentration camp. Polish, Czech, Yugoslavian, and Soviet prisoners of war find United States soldiers in the forest after their escape from a German prison camp. An Asian man, likely Soviet, after escaping a German concentration camp. Food and medical aid being provided to them by the Americans. Women being released from a camp by the Americans. Russian prisoners appear happy after being released from German prisons.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058757
Allied aircraft bomb the city of Caen in France as Germans prepare to engage invading Allied forces.

German forces defend against invading Allies, in France, during World War II. German antiaircraft batteries swing into action. A German soldier looks through binoculars at high altitude formations of Allied aircraft in flight over the city of Caen, France. Anti aircraft guns being fired at the airplanes. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 aircraft seen in formation dropping bombs at lower altitude. Smoke rises from bomb bursts. German gunners fire FLAK vierling 38 antiaircraft gun from an open railway car. German soldiers look at the B-26 bombers as they fly overhead in several flights of 6 aircraft each. Several German FW-190 fighter aircraft pass overhead and engage the U.S. bombers at high altitude, leaving myriad contrails visible in the sky. American Air Forces aircraft attack over a bay of the Seine River. German antiaircraft fire continues. An FW-190 aircraft passes low overhead. Burning wreckage of an airplane in the forest. In the city of Caen, a tall monument can be seen, still standing, topped by a winged figure holding aloft a laurel wreath in each hand. Residents leaving the city of Caen carrying all their belongings. Damaged buildings in the city. German troops move about the city in trucks and on motorcycles. German Pz.IV's of Panzer Lehr Division advance with intent to surround the invading Allied forces. German troops firing heavy field artillery. Allied paratroopers being taken prisoner in a field of flowers. Wrecked Allied Sherman Firefly tank on a field. Sweat shirt displayed with "Canadian Armoured Corps" written on it.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059373
A gun fired at Alta's Rustler Mountain leads triggers intentional avalanche to protect ski areas of Alta, Utah.

A documentary about the dangers posed by avalanches and the methods to control them in the mountainous regions of the United States. The Utah National Guard gun crew and forest rangers work on an artillery gun. A gun is fired, a high explosive shell hits at Rustler Mountain of Alta resort. Snow avalanche is triggered and drifts down the slope. The controlled avalanche reduces the chances of an uncontrolled avalanche in the near future. A snow ranger looks through binoculars as he keeps a vigil to check for any avalanches. Men ski along the snow covered slopes.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059573
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks to 120 thousand people at a Nazi rally in Erfurt, Germany

Slate at start of sequence says the people came from all parts of Thuringer and the Thuringian Forest, to number 120 thousand in Erfurt . Scene shows massive crowd assembled in open stadium in Erfurt, Germany. Erfurt, where they attend a Nazi rally and hear Adolf Hitler speak. Hitler speaks into a microphone suspended above him. Many Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers line the stadium and stand in formations. The stands are filled with spectators. Hitler exhorts farmers to combine intelligence and hard work to ensure a bright future for Germany.

Date: 1933, June
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675061184
U.S. Army Lady Marines watch the demonstration of a flamethrower and ride in an amphibious vehicle in the United States.

U.S. Army Lady Marines train in the United States during World War II. The lady marines watch the demonstration of a flame thrower. They ride to a beach through a forest in an LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked). Three LVTs loaded with lady marines are driven into water. Two lady marines in a parachute tower chair fitted to the top of a tower. The chair is released for a fall. It jerks to a halt.

Date: 1942
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061479
Lieutenant General James Van Fleet, assumes command of the Eighth Army in Korea, after General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of command by President Harry Truman

Opening scene shows a sign identifying the 38th Parallel separating North from South Korea. Refugees with their few belongings walk from North Korea to South Korea. A U.S. Patton tank is seen next, followed by another. Closeup of treads on a Patton tank, raising dust as it passes. Another Patton heading toward the camera, with a crewman waving. A Cessna L-19 Bird Dog, aircraft, marked with three stars, arrives, carrying the new Commander of the Eight Army, Lieutenant General James Van Fleet. He climbs out of the airplane and shakes hands with a Brigadier General. Standing behind him is Air Force Lieutenant General Earle E. Partridge, commander of the 5th Air Force. A jeep carrying General Van Fleet turns in from a dirt road. A sign reads "56th Regiment, Message Center." Lieutenant General Van Fleet, climbs out of the front right seat of the jeep. He is wearing a pair of pearl handled side arms. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Partridge is seated in the back seat of the jeep and jumps out behind Van Fleet. View of explosion in distant hills, part of the initial barrage in advance of the next United Nations offensive. Sounds of aircraft and artillery are heard. American infantry are seen moving forward. Narrator notes that numerous Chinese troops were in the hills around the Chosin reservoir and they were committed in vast numbers against the UN forces. UN infantry in Korean War moving through forests and mist. Large numbers of Chinese prisoners of war are seen walking along a dirt road.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061708