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American soldiers greeted by celebrating civilians in Lyon, France, and Rome, Italy, during World War II

American soldiers in jeeps are part of a traffic jam in Lyon, France, following its liberation by French forces in September, 1944. An air of celebration permeates the scene, Several French women ride with U.S. soldiers in American jeeps. A Blue vehicle displaying "FFI Police" (Free French of the Interior) and the Cross of Lorraine, is caught in the jam. A small black sedan displays "FFI" in white letters.Local civilians crowd the streets and ride on every possible spot on the various vehicles. Crowds of pedestrian spectators are restrained behind rough wooden fences. Camera views from vehicle crossing the Rhone River, show the destroyed Wilson bridge, and parts of city in background. Complete change of sequence to Rome, Italy. The Flag of Italy flying on an official building. Italian women surround American soldiers, Sergeant Lester Koenig and another NCO as they sit in a jeep. They all laugh and talk. Several Italian soldiers (one a medic) and women pose for the camera.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060621
U.S. soldiers being hit by shell fragments and their recovery after surgery in Naples during World War II.

A film titled 'Soft Tissue Wounds' shows U.S. soldiers being hit by shell fragments and their recovery after surgery in Naples during World War II. Bombs stacked on a field. U.S. sailors work around. A battleship's gun firing salvo. Fragments are removed by surgery from battle casualties. Reports of four cases handled in the Italian campaign of January 1944. The first case shows a soldier hit by a shell fragment. U.S. troops carry the soldier hit by the shell fragment in Italy. A truck moves ahead on a road. Wounded being carried into an evacuation hospital tent. A wound just below the buttock of a soldier. Primary infusion is given to the patient. The bleeding is controlled. The wound is dusted. Dressing completes an operation. The healing of the wound after a few weeks of the operation. The patient walks after healing. A U.S. soldier shows a scar under scapula. A U.S. LST (Landing Ship Tank) fires towards Anzio Harbor. [Note: script refers to British Hospital Carrier Leinster (#37) although footage appears to be of (British) Hospital Ship St. David (#27), later sunk by the Germans at Anzio in January, 1944]. A wounded soldier is carried on a stretcher aboard the hospital ship. Surgery is performed on the wounded soldier. The soldier on a bed after the operation. A ship underway at sea. A Red Cross ambulance and a truck transport the wounded soldiers to a hospital in Naples. The wound after one week of injury. The wound margins are refreshed. The wound edges are stitched. Removal of stitches after eight days. The soldier smokes a cigarette after recovering.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060296
U.S. aircraft bomb German positions and military installations in the European Theater during World War II.

A film titled: 'Operation Titanic' on U.S. shuttle bombing operations over Germany from bases in Great Britain, Italy and Russia during World War II. United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight. Several aircraft flying in formation leaving behind smoke trails. German military installations are bombed on June 2, 1944. Aerial view of a target area. Smoke rising up from bombardment. An aircraft crashes. Railroad and marshaling yards are also bombed. United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator flying in formation on June 21, 1944. German factories are bombed. The airplanes fly in formation and bomb targets in Berlin. Railroad stations and other targets are also bombed. Several German airplanes are shot down. The B-17s and B-24s bombing the targets. Synthetic oil plants and refineries are bombed at Ruhland Germany, east of Leipzig. Planning for the operation was done on December 7, 1943. A document about the operation is typed. Animated map shows Nazi positions and strategies followed during the operation.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077126
Japanese 1931 aggression in Manchuria condemned by the League of Nations. Continued Japanese aggression in the Pacific, through World War II

Japanese international activities during 1931-1945. Opening scene shows Japanese troops embarking on ships bound for an invasion of Manchuria, in 1931. Officers walking on the dock, amongst the departing troops. Scenes of explosions and destruction. Views of Shanghai during Japanese attacks in 1937. Destroyed buildings. Civilian dead lying in the streets. Japanese soldiers racing along a street in a three wheeled motorcycle vehicle. Change of scene shows Japanese diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka addressing a League of Nations meeting in 1933, after that body adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. He objects to that action and then leads his delegation in walking out of the meeting. View of Japanese delegates in top hats and bowler hats exiting the building. Scene shifts to Japanese forces firing artillery and machine guns in Manchuria.They wave large Japanese flag victoriously after a battle. The next scene shows Italian forces occupying Ethiopia and raising the flag of the Kingdom of Italy, as Italian troops salute, presenting arms of rifles with fixed bayonets. Axis leaders celebrate the 1940 Tripartite Pact between German, Italy and Japan. The festivities take place in a hall displaying the three nation's flags on the walls. A large number of persons attend including Japan's Prime Minister, General Hideki Tojo, seen with two celebrants. Scene reverts to China with Chinese civilian people trying to escape from invading Japanese forces. The refugees carry their belongings as they flee. Occasional shell burst is seen among advancing Japanese troops as Chinese soldiers put up resistance. Chinese soldiers firing artillery. In the U.S., Japanese envoys Kichisaburō Nomura and Saburō Kurusu are seen walking together into a building and entering a room inside. Next, are views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with huge plumes of smoke obscuring the bombed U.S. battleships in the harbor. U.S. battleships in line formation in the Pacific during World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. warships moving in parallel. British ships augmenting the U.S. warships. Naval guns firing. U.S. amphibious assaults on Japanese held islands in the Pacific. Prisoners of the Japanese who suffered in the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur mingling with former prisoners and internees upon his return to Manila in 1944. Aerial views of Iwo Jima. Naval bombardment and amphibious assault of Iwo Jima. Numerous fallen Japanese soldiers. The iconic American flag raising by U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima. View of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. during the campaign on Okinawa, where he was killed in action. A Soldier being carried on a stretcher. Another throwing a hand grenade. U.S. soldier firing at a Japanese defender who falls out of his bunker. Large numbers of Japanese prisoners of war assembled in a field. Japanese Kamikaze attacking U.S. warships off Okinawa. The sky filled with antiaircraft flak clouds. View of 40mm Bofors antiaircraft cannon firing and a Japanese plane falling and exploding on impact in the ocean.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051624
Damaged buildings and displaced civilians in Italy during World War II.

A film titled 'Thunderbolt' about the aftermath of Allied air attacks in Italy during World War 2 . A U.S. Army Air Force pilot seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. Cameras fixed up in different parts of the aircraft. The cameras attached to wings, a wheel well and the instrument panel. Actor James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), seated in a chair, reads a telegram by Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Forces Major General Carl Spaatz. Damaged buildings in Italy after Allied air attacks during World War II. Men guide a pack of mules down a road. Damaged buildings as a horse drawn cart moves past them. Displaced Italians on a road. An Italian civilian woman with a crying child. Two young Italian children children walk past damaged buildings and step cautiously avoiding a decomposed dead body amidst debris. Aerial views of mountains in Italian Alps and rugged terrain in Italy. Bomb craters on the ground leaving some areas of Italy as only rubble. A waterfall tumbling down a rocky hillside. Aerial views of buildings and a river in a town. Scenes of demolished railroad marshaling yards from Allied bombing campaigns.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066630
U.S. ground forces enter Italy after bombing behind enemy lines and cutting off the transport of enemy supplies.

The Map of Italy shows blockage of railway line in Italy as a part of Operation Strangle. Aircraft P-47 in flight over Italian farm countries strafes railroad, trains and trucks on road. Explosions on the ground. P-47 fires rockets on ground targets. Pilot in P-47. Group of P-47 in flight overhead. Smoke rises from burning P-47 in fields. Men watch while it burns. Dead pilot taken on stretcher. P-47s in flight over Italy. P-47 strafing vehicles on road. The Map of Italy shows the United States armies stationed at Anzio and Cassino. The U.S. troops, tanks and other vehicles arrive in Rome. Civilians in streets and buildings. Destroyed and wrecked enemy equipment and vehicles in town. U.S. soldiers move ahead on road in jeep. Wrecked German trains. U.S. troops advance and pass by wrecked bridges. Ruins of bridges after attack by P-47s under Operation Strangle. Wrecked German vehicles and dead men. P-47s in flight. Man on look out post at Alto Air Base. Men drink and sing at clubhouse in Alto Air Base. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051970