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P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft attack enemy targets under Operation Strangle.

Map of Italy shows narrowest part of peninsula where U.S. and British armies are stationed. Map highlights Anzio and Cassino. A building on top of mountain. On island of Corsica, Lt Gen Ira C Eaker, commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Forces, Maj Gen John K Cannon, leader of the Twelfth Air Force, and Brig Gen Gordon Seville of the Twelfth Tactical Air Command, plan Operation Strangle. By animation the operation is explained where pilots of Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group is required to bomb behind enemy lines and cut off the transport of enemy supplies using the P-47 Thunderbolt. Shows destroyed bridges. P-47s taxi at airfield. P-47s parked in flight line. Crew chiefs in canopy of the plane and inspect other sections of plane. Pilots board planes. Planes take off from runway. P-47s in flight over sea, mountains and a castle. P-47s in flight behind squadron leader. P-47s in flight over clouds. P-47s peel off above the bridge. An incendiary bomb is dropped on a bridge. More bridges are bombed. Explosions on bridges. P-47 in flight over fields and railroad tracks. One train spotted. P-47 strafing moving trains. Trains explode. P-47 in flight over coastline and pilot in cockpit. P-47 strafing installations and ground targets. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 17 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051967
Soldiers drop supplies from C-47 Skytrains over Salamaua in Papua New Guinea.

March 1943: Soldiers in Douglas C-47 Skytrains prepare to drop supplies for American and Australian troops over Salamaua in Papua New Guinea. Aerial view of drop point in Salamaua with parachutes from previous drops visible on the ground. Supplies with and without parachutes descend to the ground. Planes fly low over the drop area. Parachutes with medical, food and ammunition supplies. C-47s fly low over the drop area. Planes fly over the peninsula. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020565
Robot bomb launching sites and wide gaze tracks for bringing bombs in Cherbourg, France (WWII)

Ninth Airforce North American P-51 Mustang fighters shoot down V1 and V2 rockets in Southern England during World War II. Crowds inspect damage caused by V1 and V2 rockets, also known as “robot bombs”. A crater formed by German robot bombs. A soldier collects fragments while inspecting the crater. Soldiers inspect remains and debris of robot bombs. Civilians watch the soldiers assess the bomb crater and collect rocket fragments for further testing. Aerial view of an unfinished V1 and V2 rocket launch site on the Cherbourg Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, France. The main rocket ramp is seen on the launch site. A crane at the unfinished launch site. A concrete strip under construction. An unfinished section at the Cherbourg rocket launch site. The rich concrete mixture used in the construction of the massive installation is reinforced by lattice-type steel rods (half inch thick woven in squares). Unfinished and destroyed platforms from 29 rocket launch installations made by German forces at Cherbourg before the Normandy landings. Large solid underground structures intended as showrooms for shells and equipment. Unfinished or damaged narrow-gauge railroad used for supplies and construction. Carts are seen on the railroad. Netting laced with metal leaves to prevent fading is used for camouflage. A soldier arranges green coverings outside a bunker. A man stands on a crater. Wide gauge tracks to bring bombs to the platform. Some parts of the installation are bombed by Allied bombers.

Date: 1944, June 24
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044559
A Soviet submarine underway at sea as a German freighter explodes during World War II.

A Soviet submarine underway in the Black Sea during World War II. Animated map depicts the advance of Russian forces in the Crimean Peninsula and surrounding Sevastopol. A soviet submarine moving on the surface of the Black Sea. Sailor on deck signalling with semaphore flags, and the Captain looking through binoculars. The Captain signals for all on deck to go below. Inside the submarine, the signal to dive is sounded. Brief view from conning tower as the sub begins to submerge. View of the Captain at his periscope. A torpedo is fired and ship is seen exploding in distance.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675065831
United States soldiers capture a German railroad gun in Cherbourg (WW2)

United States troops capture a 20.3 cm Kanone (E) (Eisenbahnlafette-railroad mount) German railway gun in the Cherbourg peninsula during World War 2. United States soldiers inspect the railway gun. Soldiers walking near boulders. A soldier pointing at debris near railway gun. Soldiers inspect the gun's circular rail track beside some scattered equipment and debris. Soldiers climb up the base of the captured German railway gun.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079305
German infantry soldiers in action in Pripyat Marshes, Ukraine, during World War 2.

A german soldier beside a 12.8 cm Pak 44 anti tank gun set up to command a road on the Eastern front in World War 2. German troops moving through Pripyat (Pripet) marshes in Ukraine. They slog through trenches containing several inches of water. They move into a wooded area.The ground is snow-covered. They carry rifles and hand grenades. One is seen carrying a StG-44 assault rifle.They all hit the ground and look alert. An officer looks ahead through binoculars. Soldiers in a trench fire a mortar. Its shells are seen striking target nearby. A large formation of German bombers, heading toward Soviet targets, is seen in flight overhead. A flight of German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers arrives to provide close air support, attacking Soviet positions nearby.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675038829