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Destruction in Ploesti, and Brasov, Romania, from U.S. Army Air Forces bombing during World War II

Destroyed rail yards in Ploesti (Ploiesti) Romania, from attack by U.S. 15th Air Force bombers, during World War 2. Destroyed rail cars and damaged switch yard. Fires burning in distant background. Passenger trains with slight damage to their cars. One is labeled in Hungarian: "NEMZETKOZI JALOKOCSI ES EUROPAI"(International sleeping cars and Europe).Twisted rails and ties beneath a bridge and all along the rail lines in and out of the marshaling yards. Destroyed stations and steel frameworks of trains. Repair crew pulling a rail car along some useable track. A church in the background (possibly St Pantelimon Church). Bombed-out industrial buildings and railroad sidings. Locomotives steaming as trains sit on some remaining useable track. Work crews looking over the wreckage. Lumber strewn all over an area. At timecode 2:11, Scene shifts to Brasov, Romania, in May, 1944, with a truck driving toward the camera on a street parallel to the Railroad Station Square. The camera pans left, past destroyed buildings to the Station Square where a bus and some passengers are seen. Camera pans right showing more destroyed buildings, and then a locomotive steaming at head of a train on some undamaged rails. Views of bombed out freight cars. At timecode 2:54, Men are seen sitting and standing on useable rails as they look at some destroyed rail cars. The station is seen in distance at the right. View is along the railroad leading in the direction of Bucharest. Remaining views show the damage to building at Station Square, and the bus parked there.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054530
United States aircraft from USS Cowpens attack the Japanese Sendai class light cruiser Naka during World War II

17 February 1944, during World War 2, off the coast of Truk Island in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. aircraft from the USS Cowpens (CVL-25) attack the Japanese Sendai class light cruiser Naka. Scenes of the bombing attack on the Japanese cruiser. Explosions on and around the Naka, which turns to starboard in an evasive maneuver.

Date: 1944, February 17
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055351
U.S. gun camera footage of American fighter firing at German bomber and fighter during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War 2. Gun camera footage from P-47 (or possibly a P-51) flown by Maj. Crossen from 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group. He attacks German Junkers JU 88 bomber and a Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft. (Note: The 355th Fighter Group transitioned into P-51s from P-47s during Spring of 1944)

Date: 1944, March 27
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055415
The funeral of German General Günther Korten, Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe

A contingent of German soldiers stand at attention in the Tannenberg Memorial, as an honor guard, during the funeral of General Günther Korten, Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe, who died from injuries suffered in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, July 1944. Six soldiers stand near his flag-draped coffin. Two hold black displays on which the General's medals are pinned. Closeup of one soldier. Closeup of General Korten's medals. View from above and behind the coffin, as Marshal Hermann Goering stands, in front of it, and salutes with his baton. Goering expressing his condolences to the widow and relatives of General Korten. Goering at a podium delivering a eulogy. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, and other senior military officers are seen at the funeral. Views of the courtyard of the Tannenberg memorial with members of the family and assembled participants listening to Goering. Eulogy finished, Goering now stands, saluting with his baton, and lays a large wreath by the casket. Helmet and dagger are seen atop the casket. The attending officers all salute, as pallbearers carry the coffin at shoulder height, and proceed to carry it into a tomb. View from inside the tomb as the casket is carried in. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675056335
Hitler visits German officers, hospitalized for injuries from bomb plot against him. He also meets Nazi officials, in World War II

Adolf Hitler visits German military officers, at a military hispital in Rastenburg, during World War 2. They were injured in the July 20th assassination attempt against Hitler. He visitis and speaks with: Major General Walter Scherff; Navy Captain Heinz Assmann; Rear Admiral Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer; and General Walther Buhle. As he leaves the building, women nurses outside, give Nazi salutes, and cheer him. Change of scene shows Hitler, at the Wolf's Lair compound, near Rastenburg, East Prussia (now Poland). Among those he greets are: Walther Funk, Reich Minister for Economic Affairs; Reich Minister Albert Speer; and Reich Minister Hans Heinrich Lammers, President of the Reich Cabinet. Next scene shows Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi Gestapo, speaking with General (Generaloberst) Ferdinand Schörner. Hitler strolls with Hermann Goering, and is then seen, from behind, as he greets Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels and General (Generaloberst) Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, Chief of Staff of the Army. The Nazi top leaders stand and converse. Goebbels speaks with Martin Bormann and General Alfred Jodl,who was also injured during the July 20, 1944 bomb plot against Hitler. (Jodl's head is bandaged.)

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675056336
Army Major Otto Remer, Commander of the Berlin Guard Regiment, who thwarted attempt to overthrow Hitler in World War II

Major Otto Remer,Commander of the Berlin Guard Regiment, who prevented plotters from succeeding in bid to overthrow Hitler in World War 2. (Following the 20th July, 1944 bomb Plot, Hitler personally telephoned and ordered him to take charge of all troops in Berlin and apprehend conspirators.) Major Remer inspects his regiment, drawn up in formation, and then addresses them, emphasizing the Unity of the Nazi party and the German Army. His Regiment then parades past, as he reviews them.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675056337