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Patriotic ceremony and parade for Home Guards in Braunschweig, Germany, during World War II

Older men and youth, formed by the Nazis into a Home Guard (Volkssturm),late in World War 2, parade with regular army and SS units in Braunsweig, Germany. Young school children walk along a cobblestone steet and sidewalk in the historic district of the city, ahead of the marchers. Medieval style structures line the street. (This is shortly before the devastating bombing of the city, by the RAF, in October, 1944.) Nazi Gauleiter (who is also SS Gruppenführer) Hartmann Lauterbacher, reviews the marchers. Citizens line the sidewalks and render the Nazi salute. Some of the home guard march shouldering axes. Guards flank a banner with swastika in the center and the words: "Germany Awake." The banner pole is topped by a swastika, in a metal wreath and a plaque bearing the word,"Harz." Camera pans upward to Gauleiter Lauterbacher speaking to the assemblage from behind a wall overlooking the scene. Closeup of old men with white armbands reading:"Country Awake." Views of helmeted soldiers.

Location: Braunschweig Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675049860
Senator Harry Truman being congratulated upon his nomination as candidate for Vice-President

U.S. Senator Harry S. Truman is standing by a table, surrounded by members of his staff and friends, who congratulate him on his selection as Vice Presidential candidate, by the Democratic National Convention in 1944. Among those seen are Mildred Lee Dryden,his personal Secretary, and U.S. Postmaster General Frank C. Walker. After shaking hands with all present, he sits down at the table, refers to some papers, and makes some remarks. Scene shifts to Truman seated at the table along with Postmaster Walker. Staff and friends are standing around them. They shake hands and Truman rises to start shaking hands all around. This is immediately repeated in another take, in which Postmaster Walker is laughing. After repeating the handshakes, Truman and Walker sit down again at the table.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050172
Senator Harry S Truman shares, with his wife and daughter, messages congratulating him as Vice Presidential candidate

U.S. Senator Harry S. Truman seated with his wife, Bess and daughter Margaret, opening congratulatory messages following his selection as Vice Presidential candidate on the Democratic national ticket in 1944. They open and share the messages and comment about them. Senator Truman puts his arms around his wife and daughter, as they chat.

Location: Independence Missouri USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050173
German Fw190 is destroyed during a dogfight in Germany.

American 8th Air Force fighter operations in Germany on Christmas Day, 1944, during World War II. Gun camera footage from a P-51 of the 359th Fighter Squadron, 456th Fighter Group, flown by Lieutenant Troge shows a German Fw 190 being shot down. German pilot bails out of the Fw 190. View of the parachute descending.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944, December 25
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050377
USS HANCOCK (CV-19) and USS CABOT (CVL-28) attacked by Japanese Kamikaze airplanes in World War II

On November 25, 1944, a fast flying Japanese aircraft is spotted in the sky. Next, from a considerable distance, an explosion and smoke rising is seen on the American aircraft carrier, USS Hancock (CV-19). In the next scene, an unidentified U.S. warship is seen underway as black flak clouds dot sky above. Then the light aircraft carrier, USS Cabot is seen with black flak bursts overhead. A huge explosion raises a towering smoke cloud from her. She maneuvers, changing the angle at which she is seen. The smoke dissipates.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, November 25
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051362
United States Coast Guard crews and Army troops during debarkation practice prior to D-Day in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

United States Coast Guard pre invasion activities in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States during World War II. A United States Army jeep being hoisted aboard a ship. American Coast Guardsmen on board the ship underway in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States in January , 1944. A Landing Craft Tank along side a ship as Army troops get onto it. LCT pulls away. Various United States Coast Guard transports underway in the Bay. A man at a steering wheel. Various landing craft underway,practicing in the bay. A soldier on the beach directs as landing craft approach the beach. Ramps of landing crafts being lowered and troops move off the craft as they practice debarkation of troops prior to an invasion. Various boats seen in this film include: Higgins boats from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) and USS Chilton (APA-38); and Landing Crafts Large, USS LCI(L)-505 and 523. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1944, January
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051446
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