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German Generalleutnant Dittmar formally surrenders to U.S. soldiers in Magdeburg, Germany during World War II.

German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)

Location: Magdeburg Germany
Date: 1945, April 25
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066638
Morrison and Knudsen construction company building dams in Afghanistan

Opening scene shows view from vehicle traveling from the Pakistan border over the Spinbaldak-Kandahar highway. View from above of a yellow truck on that road and arriving at the Morrison and Knudsen (MK) construction company headquarters near Kandahar. Views of the buildings to house and otherwise provide for MK employees. View of several camels walking away from the camera in a desert area. An MK crane lifts a drag line bucket in process of laying out a canal. An old man and a young boy watch the process. View of the MK-built dam across the Helmand River that will supply canals with water for irrigation. The King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, arrives with aides to inspect the project. (Narrator notes the King was present at the gate-opening of the dam in 1949.) An MK engineer converses with the King. View of water flowing for the first time into a new canal. (The water approaches a man walking in the dry canal.) Engineers converse while standing above a canal construction site. Below, teams of Afghan workers work on the canal sides. An Afghan surveyor, using a transit, to lay out the center line for a canal, waves his arms to an assistant in the distance. Closeup of man driving a stake and another holding the line that will mark the center line. Earth moving equipment being used to prepare the canal bed. Closeup of machine wheels turning. Glimpse of freshly-dug long canal

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066743
SS Robert Rowan burns after being bombed by a German aircraft in Sicily, Italy during World War II.

Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. A barrage balloon in flight over a convoy of Allied ship off the coast of Gela. The barrage balloon is shot down and it falls into water. Liberty ship SS Robert Rowan is hit with an incendiary bomb dropped by a German aircraft. The ship on fire. Smoke rises. Explosives on the ship blow up. A huge column of smoke rises from the ship. Other ships in the background and landing barges in the foreground. A long trail of smoke left by the burning ship.

Location: Sicily Italy
Date: 1943, July 11
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066933
Smoke rises from SS Robert Rowan after it is bombed by a German aircraft in Sicily, Italy during World War II.

Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Ships underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Liberty ship SS Robert Rowan after being hit with an incendiary bomb dropped by a German aircraft. Explosives on the ship blow up. A huge column of black smoke rises from the ship. Other ships in the background and landing barges in the foreground. A long trail of smoke left by the burning ship.

Location: Sicily Italy
Date: 1943, July 11
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066934
Donald H Lilienthal and a copilot along with a crew in a P-3C Orion aircraft in flight from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

A United States Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft in flight from Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan during a long range navigational test. A runway seen from the aircraft as the aircraft taxis for a take off. The pilot Commander Donald H. Lilienthal and the copilot look at the controls. A navigator at work. He looks down the passageway of the Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft. Another man approaches him. Two men in the background and a gear in the foreground. The navigator works on a chart. The back view of Commander Donald H. Lilienthal in silhouette at the controls. A member of crew in the aircraft. A member of the crew in deep silhouette. Half moon as seen from the aircraft.

Location: Kanagawa Prefecture Japan
Date: 1971, January 14
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067015
U.S. 111th Infantry units rest and 119th Field Artillery fire guns in France during World War I

The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEC) 111th Infantry contingent bivouacked on side of a hill in Crezeney, France. Their horses graze in field below. Closeup of soldiers drinking directly from a small pond, and filling containers with water from it. Battle-damaged buildings in the background. Scene shifts to U.S. 119th Field Artillery, near Mount Saint Martin in Lorraine. A gun crew is seen behind an entrenched French heavy gun (Canon de 155mm Long Mle 1917 GPF). Views of the gun breech and open split tail carriage. Closeup of Gunner cranking a control wheel to elevate the gun barrel. He then makes some fine aiming adjustments. Camera focuses on a soldier standing near a large tree trunk and then pans over to the gunner adjusting aim of the 155mm gun. Scene shifts to another gun crew in some shrubbery, firing a French 75 field piece.

Location: France
Date: 1918, July
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067060
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