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Doolittle Raid - SBD Dauntless and F4F Wildcat aircraft take off from flight deck of USS Enterprise in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Doolittle Raid of World War II. The flight deck of USS Enterprise. A 500 pound bomb being loaded beneath a U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless aircraft. U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat aircraft and SBDs parked on the flight deck of the ship. The aircraft take off from the flight deck. Insignia of the U.S. Army Air Forces on the airplanes. The aircraft in flight over task force 18

Date: 1942, April
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065475
Soviet fighter pilot, Aleksandr Pokryshkin, lands at an Air Base, where he is greeted with a piano concert, during World War II

A concert pianist (Emil Gilels) in civilian clothes sits at a grand piano set up on a stage outdoors on the flight line of a Soviet Air Base during World War 2. Soviet airmen dressed in flight gear, listen attentively to the concert, as several sit in their cockpits or on the wings of their Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG 3) fighter aircraft. Many others are assembled around the stage.(Several lend-lease C-47 aircraft are seen in the background.) A Mig-3 flies low over the the assembly.Lieutenant Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin,a renowned Soviet fighter pilot, is seen in cockpit of the plane, after landing, as he shuts the engine down. He climbs down, wearing a seat-pack parachute, and walks across the ramp toward two decorated Soviet airmen. They exchange salutes. Pokryshkin then joins them,leaning against the wing of a MIG-3. The camera focuses upon Pokryshkin. The concert pianist finishes playing and the airmen applaud. Scene shifts to airmen loading boxes of supplies aboard a C-47 transport airplane. A C-47 in flight overhead.

Date: 1942, June 13
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065979
Soviet officers confer at a map in the Soviet Union during World War II.

Soviet soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War II. Exteriors of a building. An artillery emplacement. A trail moves past the emplacement. Soviet officers confer at a map. A camouflaged soldier amidst trees. The soldier runs across a field and fires.

Date: 1942, June 13
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065980
The German siege of Leningrad in World War II

Views about 10 months into the German siege of Leningrad in World War 2. Isaakievskiy (St. Isaac's) cathedral and other buildings on Vorovsky Square (Isaak Square) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as viewed from Mariinsky Palace. (They appear relatively unscathed.) The Monument to Nicholas I is in the center. Boats and ships are docked along the Neva River. Two youths stand atop a building and look at smoke rising across the river from buildings being shelled by German forces. Closeup of buildings being destroyed by German shelling. A small boy helps pick up rubble from the streets. A woman is helped to her feet by a Soviet soldier. Scenes of destruction everywhere. Broken windows, stones falling from buildings, an abandoned doll on a window sill. A dead child lying on stairs. A woman weeping. A young boy holding his hat in his hands and looking sadly in mourning. A mother with a baby. People standing about in sorrow and shock. 14-inch Soviet coastal guns firing, from under camouflage netting, at German positions.

Date: 1942, June 13
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065981
Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee inspects the WAVES in the United States.

U.S. Navy WAVES being inspected in the United States during World War II. WAVES lined up as their Director Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee and an officer inspect them. An insignia on the collar of a WAVE. The WAVES lined up.

Date: 1942
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065995
U.S. WACs take an oath and receive certificates during a ceremony at Fort Des Monies in Iowa, United States.

U.S. WACs (Women's Army Corps) at Fort Des Monies in Iowa, United States. Women soldiers seated in chairs during a ceremony. They take an oath. An officer administers the oath. Women soldiers receive certificates at the ceremony. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065996