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Role of the Jeep in U.S. military operations during World War II.

A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Waco CG-4A-WO glider is seen descending and landing in a grass field. Upon touchdown, its front pops open and and an army jeep drives out. USAAF C-47 aircraft are seen next, offloading jeeps pulling small artillery pieces, and infantry who move rapidly from the parked aircraft. Jeeps traversing a high hump in a dirt road. A jeep towing an M-3 Antitank Gun 37mm, and others driving through underbrush and bouncing over rough road while towing 37mm guns and trailers. Soldiers stepping from jeeps to set up machine guns. American soldiers playing a game of horse and rider, during a break in duties. Soldiers setting up mortars. Jeeps driving through bodies of water. Two M4A1 (76)W Sherman tanks, with cast steel hulls, drive into a stream. Troops setting up several 37mm guns on a river bank. Two soldiers in a communications jeep. Army officers perusing a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. U.S. field artillerymen using periscopic binoculars on tripods, to spot and direct gunfire. Military vehicles, including jeeps, moving across desert terrain. Artillery crews firing M59 (M2 Long Tom) 155mm guns. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft flying overhead. Jeeps in various roles, bouncing along in the desert and laying smoke screens. Jeeps equipped with M3 anti-aircraft guns and others with stretchers for wounded affixed to their sides. U.S. Army Ford GPA "Seep" amphibious jeeps plunging into water and continuing on as boats. A jeep production and assembly line in a U.S. factory showing stages of assembly and finished jeeps driving out of the plant into yards containing hundreds of them. A convoy of jeeps driving over a bridge, and others carrying a U.S. military brass band in a parade in England. A Hollywood actress (Gloria Swanson?) being lifted into a jeep by several men. Glimpse of an unidentified actress with an American soldier, in a jeep. Hollywood stars, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy clowning in the front seat of a jeep with Desi Arnaz and two women riding in the back. Several jeeps carrying these and other Hollywood personalities during a war bond parade in Washington DC. The Capitol looming in the background as the jeeps move away from it toward the camera. Jeeps being prepared for transport to overseas destinations. Jeeps being partially disassembled and loaded into wooden crates and placed on rail cars for transport. Jeeps being hauled by cranes and placed aboard ships. Landing crafts mechanized (LCMs) transporting infantry and vehicles, including jeeps. An M4A1 Sherman tank driving out of a landing craft into surf. A jeep being driven onto beach at Adak,in the Aleutians,from a landing craft of the USS J.Franklin Bell (AP-34), in 1942. In 1943, this transport ship was reclassified as APA-16.) American troops with jeep on a South Pacific island in World War 2. A soldier on motorcycle, skids in mud on road in North Africa, and jeeps drive past him. American soldiers ride camels and some drive in a jeep near the Great pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt. Jeeps seen in China, with Generals Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault. One parked next to a Flying Tiger P-40 airplane. Soldiers in a jeep in Alaska, next to a tent and sign pointing to "Tokyo." Local tribesmen literally carrying a jeep, on long poles, across a river in Timor. General Douglas MacArthur, accompanied by staff officers, being driven in a jeep along a jungle road in New Guinea, past a line of local tribesmen. Wendell Wilkie, serving as Ambassador-at-large, during the war, speaks to U.S. officers in a jeep. Britain's King George VI in a jeep followed by another carrying Queen Elizabeth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt riding in a jeep to review troops. He removes his hat as they pass the American flag. Sign on a building in North Africa reads "Bizerte." General George S. Patton, standing in a jeep during a victory parade in North Africa. Soldiers at an outdoor religious service during the war with the hood of a jeep serving as a make shift altar.Various views of jeeps driving with soldiers in them.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042283
U.S. Army 710th Tank Battalion supporting U.S. Marines in Battle of Peleliu, during World War II in Pacific

M4 Sherman tanks of the U.S. Army 1st. Platoon, A Company, 710th Tank Battalion provide fire support to Marines of 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, at Horseshoe Valley in Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. View from Marine position overlooking the valley, as M4 tanks slowly move through the valley battleground. The tanks are accompanied by Marine infantry. Explosions and smoke rise from hillsides as shells fired by tanks (unseen) explode. View from behind Marines watching the explosions. Glimpse of an M4 Sherman tank with name, "Honey Rose" on its side. Camera pans over smoke rising from shelling. Brief closer view of tanks moving slowly in the valley and firing their guns. Infantry moving beside and behind a tank. Three tanks together firing their guns. More explosions and smoke in the hillsides. Closer view of tanks. Another view of the three tanks firing together. (Note: Reportedly, the tank named "Honey Rose" was driven by Sergeant James A. "Jack" dayton, Jr. of Wheeling, West Virginia, who named the tank after his wife, "Rose." It was later struck by a Japanese anti-tank round that killed their machine gunner.The rest of the crew left the crippled tank with minor injuries.)

Date: 1944, October 7
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063842
Free French 2nd Armored Division tanks fire during street fighting (WW2)

Free French 2nd Armored Division tanks firing guns while parked on a street in Antony, France during World War II. Smoke emanates in the horizon as tank shells hit. M4 Sherman tanks rolling on street. Side view of a Free French M4 Sherman tank (“Auerstedt”) firing its machine gun. Close side view of M4 Sherman tank firing main gun.

Date: 1944, August 25
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079400
General Hugh Drum and James M. Landis, Civil Defense Chief, announce Proclamation restricting movements of civilians in U.S.

World War II restrictions on movements of civilians in the Eastern United States, are referenced by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commander of the Eastern Defense Command, and Mr. James M. Landis, Director of the U.S. Office of Civil Defense. They look at a large map showing the U.S. Eastern states and coast, from Maine to Florida. General Drum discusses Public Proclamation number 4 issued by the War Department, and urges citizens to read it. (It is posted in U.S. Post Offices and describes restrictions on the movements of citizens near war plants and beaches.) General Drum speaks of a uniform system of controls needed for U.S. Civil Defense. James M. Landis, Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, adds his comments about the importance of Civil Defense measures.

Date: 1942, September
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044988
RAF glider towed by M29 Weasel and ground crew, view of farmland from air.

RAF glider, a Waco CG-4A, being towed by small tracked vehicle (M29 Weasel) and crew. Crew parks M29 and enters glider. Aerial view of farmland from the air.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078351
Allied Forces advance from France and Belgium to cross the Rhein River at Remagen during World War II

Film starts showing animated map of American forces driving East from France and British forces.including the 53rd Infantry Division, from Belgium toward the Rhein (Rhine) River in Germany. Allied infantry and armor gathering on a street in France. Closeups of some soldiers in berets mingling with American troops. Left shoulder of a soldier with Engineers patch. Another with white cross in white circle. American troops entering Bad Godesburg, where many white flags are displayed. An M4A3 Sherman tank moves along a street. "Adolf Schmitz" written on building in background U.S. infantry and armor moving through the town cautiously subject to lingering sniper fire. Views of signs identifying shops and commercial establishments in the town. U.S. soldiers silhouetted looking out of an upper story of a building where they are firing a machine gun towards a sniper's nest. German soldier surrendering and being searched briefly. A wounded person being carried on a litter by two civilian men, accompanied by a woman wearing a Red Cross armband. Scene shifts to road in countryside, clogged with long line of German prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard. Closeups of some of the prisoners and guards. Views of the Rhein river with many bridges destroyed by retreating German forces. Closeup of an American tank crew in their M4A3 Sherman tank. The Bridge at Remagen, with a sign on it reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy of the 9th ARMD Div." American soldiers guarding the bridge against air attack man an M33 twin mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun. Another gun crew firing an M45 quad mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun at attacking German aircraft attempting to destroy the Remagen bridge. Another antiaircraft gun defending the bridge. View from some distance of bomb bursting near the bridge, raising a geyser of water. Back at the bridge, itself, American infantry and vehicles continue to pour across it. Closeups of some and of soldiers in the vehicles. An M4A3 Sherman tank completing the crossing and moving on the German side of the river. Infantry walking along the roadside.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058758