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Retired General Pershing supports destroyers for bases deal; Charles Lindbergh supports U.S.neutrality in World War 2.

Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.

Date: 1940, August
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068720
Celebrities attend a party celebrating the return of Constance Bennett to Hollywood

Celebrities welcome American actress Constance Bennett back to Hollywood. A party takes place on the set of ‘Madame X’. Cameraman filming the party. Constance Bennett smokes a cigarette. Hollywood actress Lana Turner is accompanied by her husband, Robert P. Eaton. An American actress Sandra Dee with her husband Bobby Darin. Mexican actor Ricardo Montalbán talks to an actress. Hollywood film producer Ross Hunter and his friend Mervyn LeRoy at the party. LeRoy greets Bennett with a kiss. Universal President Milton Rackmill meets Sandra Dee. A Japanese American actress Miiko Taka with actor James Shigeta. A Dutch actor John van Dreelen and an American actor John Forsythe stand together and talks to each other.

Date: 1965, March 15
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069348
Hideki Tojo in hospital after attempting suicide; war damaged Tokyo, Japanese people reads news bulletins after defeat

Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo attempts suicide in Japan. People walk outside a hospital. A sign board reads' U.S. 98th Evacuation Hospital'. Sergeant John Archinal donates blood to save Hideki Tojo. The doctors perform blood transfusion. A close view of Sergeant John Archinal. The gun from which Tojo shot himself. The troops look out from a window. The doctors treat Tojo in the hospital. A close up view of Tojo. Tojo on a bed in the 98th Field Evacuation Hospital. 1st Lt. Rebecca Schmidt, Hideki Tojo’s nurse, stands by his bedside. A view of the damaged buildings. U.S. Army troops in Tokyo look at the damaged Imperial Diet building 1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Flashback scene shows Japanese Emperor Hirohito visiting the damaged city before the surrender in World War II. The emperor looks at a chart on a table. Subordinates and Japanese officials stand in the background. U.S. soldiers read a sign which reads "No Trespassing - The Emperors palace" outside the Imperial Palace. Japanese boys bowing in front of the Imperial Palace. Dismayed Japanese people read news bulletins. A woman distributes a one page newspaper on the street in Tokyo. People crowd outside a movie theater. Japanese people buy movie tickets from a box office booth. A Japanese elderly man walking. Japanese people wait for a tram or trolley or streetcar. They get in the tram. American troops riding inside the tram or streetcar. Admiral William “Bull” Halsey rides a white horse. Admiral Halsey stands beside the horse and smokes. He sits on horseback and rides the horse, having promised that he would ride a horse through the streets of Tokyo after the Japanese defeat in World War 2.

Date: 1945, September 27
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069764
Newton Diehl Baker and General James Guthrie Harbord inspect German prisoners in Tours, France.

U.S. Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker and U.S. Army General John Joseph Pershing arrive at SOS Headquarters in Tours, France during World War I. People crowd in streets. Newton Diehl Baker and John Joseph Pershing get off from a car. Baker and Pershing are escorted by officers. They talk to the officers in front of a building. Jeeps being parked in the background. Baker, Pershing stand with other officers on the steps of the building and pose. German prisoners stand in formation. Baker and U.S. Army General James Guthrie Harbord inspect German prisoners. Buildings in the background. Harbord and Baker leave after the inspection. The soldiers stand in a group. An officer in a jeep reads from a paper. A close up of a dignitary. The officers stand in a group. Two officers pose.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069843
Workmen prepare a site which was bombed for an army exhibition and Piccadilly Circus in London, England.

General views of London, England. View of Oxford Street showing the site of John Lewis's store which was bombed during World War II. This site is being cleared and is now being used for an army exhibition. A sign: 'John Lewis'. Workmen prepare the site for army exhibition. A 16 year old boy paints signs for the exhibition. Traffic on a road. View of Piccadilly Circus with Statue of Eros. Piccadilly Circus with 'County of London Plan' posters on boarded up Eros Statue. American soldiers cross a street. Entrance to an underground, Piccadilly Circus. Entrances are now protected from blast by a wall.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070896
Group of US, Czech, Russian, Yugoslavian prisoners cheering, waving and laughing at liberation of OFLAG XIII-B Camp Hammelburg (WW2)

Freed Allied prisoners of war at OFLAG XIII-B, known as Camp Hammelburg, outside of Gemünden, Germany during World War II. A group of United States, Czech, Russian, Yugoslav prisoners of war standing together along with the liberating 14th U.S. Armored Division soldiers. Two prisoners talk to each other. The prisoners cheering, waving and laughing. Two prisoners walk down the road smiling; one waving a copy of Yank Magazine, the other a chunk of bread. U.S. Amry M-4 tank crashes through barbed wire fence of Camp Hammelburg. A group of freed prisoners gathers. Several prisoners stand and pose. Mass gathering of elated former prisoners. Freed prisoners of war dash toward U.S. soldiers and embrace them. (Note: This was the conclusion of the originally failed "Operation Hammelburg", initially attempted by "Task Force Baum," under Captain Abraham Baum, ten days prior. Inmates at the camp included the recently injured and captured Captain Baum, and Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters, son in law of U.S. Army General George Patton. LTC John Waters was injured during the initial rescue attempt 10 days prior and was hospitalized and not seen in this film.)

Date: 1945, April 6
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071587