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Adolf Hitler visits German General Erich von Manstein in Zaporozhye, Ukraine during World War II.

During World War 2, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor aircraft taxis into Zaporozhye (Zaporizhzhia) airfield. German leader Adolf Hitler, wearing ear plugs, gets off the plane, passing by his personal pilot Hans Baur performing the Nazi salute. Hitler meets Eastern Front General Commander Erich von Manstein and the two look at a map on a table with other army officials. Hitler points to the map as they discuss. A Mercedes-Benz 770 automobile drives onto the airfield to waiting Wehrmacht soldiers. A soldier opens the door. Hitler and some officials get out of the car. Hitler shakes hands with Manstein and they salute each other good-bye. View from behind Hitler, seated inside the plane and wearing ear plugs, as he waves through the window as the plane takes off. The plane’s left wing is seen as it flies in the sky.

Date: 1943, March 10
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078957
Soviet slave laborers building bunkers for German occupying forces near Leningrad during World War II.

A map showing Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and the Ladoga lake in Russia during World War 2. In a forest, workers working on wood beside a truck. Workers cutting wood with a saw machine for lumber. The workers appear to include Soviet soldier prisoners of war (POW) and Soviet civilian slave laborers, including young boy child laborers. The workers are leveling slurry for road construction. Forced laborers using axes as mallets to put end grain lumber into the road construction. A woman uses a machine to spray the road. A steam roller is used to compact gravel and flatten the road. Two donkeys pull a carriage with soldiers while a soldier passes by in a motorcycle. A German Wehrmacht soldier smiles as he supervises. A sign displaying “Strassenwetterdienst” (Street Weather Service” in German) with Russian towns spelled in German writing. A Horch 901 military service car pulls over beside blooming trees as a soldier approaches the vehicle. The German soldier, wearing a Feldgendarmerie gorget, inspects some papers from the car. Trucks drive on a narrow, dilapidated road. A truck drives by construction site. Workers installing rebar for building construction supervised by soldiers. Building site with concrete forms. Finished concrete bunkers. A worker transfers mixed concrete from a wheelbarrow to a form using a spade. Workers arrange forms as a man pours concrete with a spade. Workers tamping concrete into forms. Men walk on a bridge made from ropes and wood. Men carrying wooden boxes on their backs follow a soldier. The soldier and the workers crouch as they walk past a sign “Achtung Feindeinsicht” (“Warning Enemy Observation” in German). Soldier carrying bricks to add to the wall his comrades are building. Soldier arranges bricks while building wall. Soldier picks up some excess bricks from the wall. Soldiers working on a brick structure. New gun turrets lined up behind concrete barricade as a soldier covers a gun with a black cloth. Soldiers working on a subterranean masonry structure in a field. Soldier on top of gun turret getting ready to aim.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078959
German Luftwaffe reconnaissance mission and aerial attack in Soviet Union during World War II.

A map of the Eastern Front (Present-day Ukraine) is being displayed during World War 2. German Field Marshal and Flying Ace Robert Ritter von Greim, wearing glasses, is in a meeting with Luftwaffe officials. A sign in front of bushes saying “Gruppen- Befehlsstelle” ("Group command post" in German). Nazi soldiers smiling and laughing as they play card games in a field. The soldier wearing an Iron Cross medal turns his head on his left. Airplanes in the sky. A soldier, wearing an Iron Cross medal, climbs on a jet-fighter written “13”. The pilot of the jet-fighter (Messerschmitt Me 262 with the Nazi swastika on the empennage) facing the camera as he prepares for take-off. Plane takes off. A group of fighters with explosion in the sky. German soldiers survey the field with binoculars. Fighters firing at one another in the sky. Anti-aircraft guns fire towards the sky, towards the fighters. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 zooms in the sky. Soldiers, sitting in the field, are looking up in the sky. A Soviet plane is on fire up in the sky, heading downwards. The soldiers, with binoculars, are observing the falling plane. The Soviet plane falls and crashes into the other side of the field. The plane explodes. A plane zooms in the sky. A Luftwaffe pilot smiles as he climbs down the plane. The pilot shakes hands with a comrade. The Luftwaffe reconnaissance flew back. German soldiers in the field looks up to the sky. A pilot jumps down from the aircraft parked in the field. Soldiers put out aircraft fire with flame retardant foam. Operator views large format film emulsion images obtained through aerial reconnaissance. Luftwaffe officials in a meeting. Grille of a Wehrmacht truck.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078960
United States Army Air Force 339th Fighter Squadron Pilots prepare for take-off in the South Pacific During WW2.

During World War II, Major John W. Mitchell (339th Fighter Squadron) is seated in the cockpit, the cockpit canopy opened. Smiling briefly, Mitchell puts on and adjusts his helmet with goggles. Mitchell closes the cockpit canopy. Another United States Army Air Force pilot of the 339th Fighter Squadron is seated and gives a thumbs-up at the camera. The pilot smiles and adjusts his helmet before closing the cockpit canopy. Another pilot adjusts his helmet as he smiles to the camera and closes the cockpit canopy. Pilots smiling at the camera before adjusting their helmets and closing their cockpit canopies. These are the 339th Fighter Squadron Pilots who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. View of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078983
United States Air Force 339th Fighter Squadron Pilots briefing in front of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning before take-off during WW2

A group of United States Army Air Force pilots belonging to the 339th Fighter Squadron, who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, walk together beside a Lockheed P-38 Lightning during World War 2. They sit together near the aircraft and discuss with a map. The commander, Major John Mitchell, holding the map points straight to his comrades before pointing something on the map. On his right are Lieutenants Besby Holmes and Rex Barber. To the left of Major Mitchell is Captain Tom Lanphier. The pilots are standing again near the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, discussing together. Major John W. Mitchell, wearing helmet and goggles, poses and smiles while holding a propeller’s blade.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078984
United States Air Force delivers rations to United States and Australian forces, Papuan locals, meal preparation with ration during Salamaua-Lae campaign in WWII

Title card reads, "Aussies and Yanks." Military aircraft fly over a field near Salamaua, near Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea during the Salamaua-Lae campaign in World War 2. United States Mitchell B-25 bombers fly toward Salamaua to deliver supplies to Allied forces and attack Japanese supply lines, flying over wrecked ship at sea. United States B-25 aircraft flying over mountains near Salamaua. Australian soldiers wade through muddy jungle near Salamaua, Papua New Guinea. Australian soldiers explore through tall grass. A United States Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain drops supplies for Allied ground troops over Salamaua, Papua New Guinea. Papuan locals pick up supplies and rations that fell from Douglas C-47 Skytrain. United States and Australian soldiers prepare a meal using pocket stove. Australian soldier drinks from oval shaped container.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078498