French troops moving large artillery pieces along a tree-lined road in France during World War 2. French soldier smoking a pipe as he rides on four-wheeled carriage transporting an M1917 155mm artillery piece. A French Char B1 Bis Tank driving away from the camera. Its turret and main gun are rotated to the rear. French soldiers ride atop the tank as it moves through a village. They are followed by an H-35 light tank with soldiers draped on its turret. A Somua tank with foliage on it. An H-35 light tank with foliage camouflaging. Assortment of vehicles including trucks and a motorcycle with side car, transporting French soldiers.
African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work in forges and machine shops making vital parts for the war effort in World War 2. They work on machines helping to meet war production worker manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.
Operation Desert Rock nuclear bomb test at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. A discarded walkie talkie lying on a sack on the ground. A dummy dressed like a man lying on the ground. Discarded vehicles, tanks and guns left around the area for testing the effects of nuclear blast. A mannequin in a foxhole. A dummy lying with two M1 rifles. A U.S. Marine walks into an underground trench. He prepares a dummy and then walks out again, all prior to test shot Dog during Operation Tumbler-Snapper of Desert Rock Exercises.
Operation Desert Rock at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. U.S. Marines in dungarees with field transport packs, rifles and other combat gear as they enter a tent. The marines in winter service " B" uniforms with packs, rifles and other equipment as they move through streets and are assigned tents. The marines walk after getting off buses. They carry rifles, BAR's ( Browning Automated Rifles) and carbines. Aeriel view of the camp area. M35 trucks with the marines in back as they pull water trailers. A sign reads ' Camp Desert Rock Sixth Army '. Men peel potato. The marines shave and wash their faces at an outdoor wash rack. An officer at a chart as he briefs the marines. Two marines at a table inside a tent. A marine comes out of the tent.
View from the USS New York (BB-34) of a seaplane taking off. Large group of sailors watching from the deck. American flag displayed on mast. view of antiaircraft gun crew in steel helmets, and of the ship's superstructure. The ship displays the maritime signal flag M, "MIKE",an orange cross of St Andrew on a white field, which is used to indicate "My vessel is stopped; making no way." Sailors standing on the aft deck with transport ship of Atlantic convoy visible behind them. A dirigible is seen aloft. 14-inch guns of the USS New York are visible behind a gun crew at a 3-inch antiaircraft gun. Complete shift in scene to a cold weather port (Scotland, or Iceland?) with ice visible on the ship's deck. A sailor makes half-hearted attempt to remove ice from the ship's OS2U Kingfisher float plane.The ships emergency life rafts are covered in ice.
United States 82nd Air Borne Division troops march during a victory parade in New York City United States. U.S. Army Major General James M. Gavin and the 82nd Airborne assembled at Washington Square. Gavin leads the parade and gives order to lead the march. The division marches along Fifth Avenue with the Washington Square Arch in the background. Crowds line the sidewalks. Thirteen thousand men of 82nd Division march down Fifth Avenue. People watch the parade from windows and roof tops of buildings.Some spectators lean out over balcony to get better view. New York City mounted police and foot patrolmen maintain crowd control. Sherman tanks pass the statue of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, at East 60th Street. A formation of C-47 aircraft, towing gliders, flies overhead. Troops pass a review stand in front of the New York Public Library, in which are seen New York Governor, Thomas E. Dewey and New York City Mayor, William O'Dwyer. Nearby, Former Mayor and Mrs. Fiorello LaGuardia review the parade with a group of Military General Officers The American flag flies from a building. The parade includes armored vehicles and 45 ton self propelled 8 inch howitzers. (One of them has "Georgie Patton" painted on its side.)fly overhead. Vehicles, troops and color guards pass in review.
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