Arrival of German prisoners-of-war in Britain after their capture during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. German officers with downcast expressions leave their train in Britain. German prisoners-of-war are herded out of the train station by Allied soldiers. Captured German soldiers rounded up, entering their prison camp. A British soldier counts how many German prisoners arrive in the camp. German soldiers enter their camp in groups.
Three Imperial Japanese Army light bombers (likely Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia Type 99 Assault Planes) drop bombs over Rangoon (present-day Yangon, Myanmar) during World War 2. Explosion from dropped bombs. Burmese child runs away. A child rides on the back of his mother running away from bombing. Japanese bombers drop more bombs over buildings in Rangoon, destroying them. Buildings on fire due to Japanese bombings. Huge fire in roof of building. Burmese refugees sit on roof of moving train cars as railroad train moves down track. Farmland on fire. Rangoon’s destroyed buildings after Japanese bombings. Buddhist statues surrounded by debris.
Moon rock obtained from the NASA Apollo Program on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. A pair of forceps transfer a small piece of moon rock to a dish. A scientist stirs a beaker containing purple liquid. Mounted sample of moon rock . Sample put into electron microscope. Close up view of scientist looking into microscope. Extreme close up of microscope controls. Close up of the eye of a man. Running chart recorder next to a scientist and computer consoles in Houston A bank of helicorders recording seismograph measurements and other telemetry from the moon. A rotating centrifuge machine used for NASA astronaut high-G training. Point of view from inside moving centrifuge. Scientists watching pilot in centrifuge. Heart rate of astronaut on CRT display. Unconscious astronaut in centrifuge. Close up of woman scientist wearing glasses. A woman scientist working behind flasks. A craftsman welding metal. An astronaut on an exercise bike. A woman scientist operating machine in lab. A woman engineer examining astronaut’s thermal gloves. Two workers setting a column into place. An astronaut undergoes neutral buoyancy training. Microscopic view of crystals found on the moon.
The Imperial German Army (“Deutsches Heer” in German) leaves for Belgium and France after the German Empire declares war on Russia and France in World War 1. A steam locomotive train moves past a forest, moving slowly beside a crowd of Imperial German troops. German troops march out after the train has come to a full stop. German Army officials greet each other. German Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands with a high-ranking military official. German military officials inspect infantry. Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands firmly with a German military officer after raising his clenched fist in the air.
War materiel and construction items to be shipped to United States soldiers and Allied nations fighting during World War 2. Stacks of metal frames in port. Rolls of chain link. Men arrange stacks of rolled barbed wire. Light tanks on flatbed rail cars readied for transport. Men load fuel steel drums into train box cars. Men drive Ford GPA "amphibious jeeps" onto train platform. Jeeps, artillery and war materiel on docks. A field gun is lowered to a ship by a crane. Sign says “Iron SCRAP Steel”. A crane moves a box of scrap metal. Man shears scrap metal. A wrecking ball falls, breaking scrap metal. Men performing use cutting torches and chains inside a factory to break down scrap metal. An obsolete WWI tank is carried by a crane and lowered onto a pile of other WW1 scrapped military equipment. Man uses cutting torch to dismantle a very large artillery cannon. Junkyard magnet crane unloads two obsolete shells onto scrap metal pile.
United States soldiers clear obstructions in a mined area of Cherbourg to reach a wounded lieutenant during World War 2. A United States demolition soldier lights the fuse of a Bangalore torpedo alongside railroad tracks. Bangalore torpedo explosion next to train tracks. United States soldiers force captured German prisoners to cross through safety lane in mine field across train tracks. Troops and German POW reach an injured United States Lieutenant. Hotel Tourville seen in background.
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