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British and Canadian troops attack German forces on Walcheren Island in Netherlands during World War II.

British Marine Commandos and Canadian First Army attack Nazi positions during World War II. Soldiers on a ship ready to attack Walcheren Islands through the Scheldt Estuary in Netherlands. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Smoke arises due to explosion. British soldier on ship fires at the Nazis. The ship sinks due to the attack. British Typhoons dive bomb German battery. Soldiers keep a watch. Explosions in water. German guns hit a boat. Canadian First Army landing craft make landings on beaches at Flushing on Walcheren under heavy fire from the Germans. Machine gun and artillery fired. Soldiers carry equipment across the beach. Allied flags sway with the breeze. Soldiers fire at the retreating Nazis. Soldiers capture Westkapelle. Destroyed buildings and rubble. Soldiers celebrate the victory which opens the route to Antwerp.

Date: 1944, November 13
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021116
The role of Signal Corps during the Philippines Campaign of World War II.

The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. A beach on the Philippine island of Mindanao. U.S. aircraft in flight over the coastline. Signal Officer Lieutenant Leon Tinnell works at the Signal Headquarters. He talks on the radio receiver. He radios a message to U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reporting on movement of Japanese troops. U.S. aircraft take off for a mission against the Japanese troops. They drop bombs on Japanese ships. Smoke from fire due to the explosions. A U.S. submarine near a battleship at sea. U.S. Navy sailors aboard the ship and the submarine. Wounded and sick officers and soldiers including Lt. Tinnell are transferred from the submarine onto the ship. Soldiers carry a comrade on a stretcher. Landing crafts approach an island in the Philippines. General MacArthur and Allied troops land at Leyte Island on October 20, 1944. They leave the crafts off shore and wade through the water towards the beach. Signal Corps officers record the event as General MacArthur and the others make their way inland.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021732
German troops advance and Allied troops evacuate during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II.

The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War 2. Allied soldiers with a white flag in a car. Soldiers on foot and in cars. Soldiers on streets and on bicycles. Two officers talk to each other on the steps of a building. They leave the venue in a car. Civilians talk to soldiers in trucks. A German soldier guards French and British Prisoners of War (POWs). Allied prisoners marched on the street. An animated map depicts the movement of German troops as they close in on Dunkirk. German soldiers near a barricade on the road. Explosions as buildings are demolished. British sailors and Allied soldiers aboard naval vessels during the Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo). The ships underway at sea. Sailors aboard the ships. German Junker Ju 87 (Stukas dive bomber aircraft) dive-bomb the ships. Point of view shot from beside pilot, inside Ju 87 aircraft, looking through aircraft front windscreen as it dive bombs a large ship. Ships set on fire. Sailors look through binoculars and fire from a ship. Bombs dropped, ships are hit. German aircraft bomb the docks, ships and harbor area. Smoke arises from hit ships off shore. Street fighting on a deserted street. Soldiers take cover from machine gun fire. Smoke due to explosions. Artillery fired under the supervision of senior officers. French and British POWs are marched by Germans. Soldiers talk to the prisoners. The wounded are carried. Bomb damaged buildings and artillery on the streets. Dead soldiers amidst rubble and wreckage in a field. Troops march and advance. Wrecked vehicles by the road. Horses amidst wrecked artillery. Vehicles and buildings on fire. Soldiers push artillery. Dead soldiers. Soldiers stand outside the Renault plant in Boulogne. Soldiers light cigarettes, rest on the streets. Camouflaged tanks and hundreds of British prisoner of war soldiers on the streets guarded by German soldiers. Damaged and wrecked ships off shore. Debris and wreckage strewn on the beach. Abandoned Allied war materiel. A Nazi flag on the beach. British corpses lying around.

Date: 1940
Duration: 6 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021748
German panzer division soldiers use flamethrowers during night fighting and attack Allied crafts on the coast of France.

German troops advance to target Allied landings in France during World War II. A damaged sign post reads 'Caution. Enemy in Sight!'. German Army panzer division troops advance under cover of artillery fire. Soldiers take cover. German stick grenaded or stick hand grenades (Stielhandgranate) on the ground near soldiers in a wooded area. Soldier readies a Panzerfaust weapon. Explosions on the battlefield. Wrecked Allied tanks and vehicles on the road. Soldiers load shells and fire artillery. Camouflaged artillery fired. Soldiers in the undergrowth. Soldiers greet each other and talk. German Panzer tanks advance. Black smoke due to explosions. Soldiers use small arms and flamethrowers during night fighting. Scene changes to coast, with view of Allied ships and craft seen off shore from German Atlantic Wall fortifications. German soldiers behind defense lines and fortifications on the beach. Smoke rising from ships off shore. A German officer inside a fortification bunker surveys the beach and ships at sea using binoculars.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021804
U.S. war correspondents at a in France shortly after the Allied invasion of France during World War 2

U.S. Army soldiers and U.S. war correspondents in France shortly after the Invasion of France by Allied forces. A war correspondent walks on a Normandy beach. Many triangular beach obstacles with mines attached to them placed there by German forces and slave laborers. A French family poses outside a house. A young girl poses and smiles. U.S. troops advancing to attack at the St. Lo line. Views of the city of Valognes. Military vehicles and U.S. Army soldiers pass by destroyed buildings in Valognes. A U.S. war correspondent walks on city streets. Correspondent seated at the edge of a fountain with Allied flags in the background. HE signs an autograph for a young boy.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022059
United States 1st Marine Division troops bomb Peleliu Island, Palau.

U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, during World War 2. U.S. F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, drop napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. Huge explosions seen. A C-47 transport airplane taxis on airfield. F4U Corsairs are seen parked and tents are pitched nearby.Several C-47s are parked on a ramp. Three F4Us taxi past them headed to the runway. F4Us take off and one is seen bombing Japanese positions on the ridge. Slate notes 1st Marine Division and D+24. Major General William Henry Rupertus,kneels on one knee, in sand, as another officer (shirtless) briefs him. They briefly discuss tactics and then walk away. Marine rifleman firing into burning wreckage of a Japanese position. Marine firing grenade from his rifle. Two Marines stand on beach with LVT (landing vehicle tracked) on the sand, nearby. They point at large ship offshore. Views of the Peleliu beachhead, with numerous ships and landing craft beached, including the second USS Seaward (LST 278) that collided with LST-129 and suffered considerable damage, On October 2, 1944. (LST-129 may be the LST seen next to LST-278.)

Date: 1944, October 9
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022856