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B-24 Liberator bombers raid Romania's Ploiesti oil fields and synthetic oil plants in Central Germany during World War II.

United States bombers bomb German-held oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania during World War II (Operation Tidal Wave). Allied military leaders including United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower confer prior to the Normandy Invasion. Cartoon depiction of buildings, tanks, and equipment in Romanian oil refineries. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers raid Romania's Ploesti oil refineries. A group of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs over Ploesti. Explosions throwing billows of smoke up in air. Aerial view of Ploesti being bombarded by bombing and clouds of smoke from explosion. A map of Germany shows synthetic oil plant positions through Central Germany. Bombers drop bombs over synthetic oil plants in Germany. Firefighters rush to put out fire in oil plant during a bombing attack. Firefighters spraying water on burning oil tanks. Thick, dark clouds of smoke cover the burning oil plant. A German synthetic oil plant reduced to rubble. German workers clear the rubble from bombed plants. Ruins of German oil plants after repeated air raid attacks. “The enemy has succeeded in increasing our losses of aviation gasoline up to ninety percent” a voiceover narrates the words of Nazi German Reichsminister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer. German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt speaks to an audience.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047530
Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox visit Ibura field in Brazil

Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox in a jeep arrives at Ibura field, Brazil. Knox, Admiral J H Ingram and Cinclantflt move past the Ibura field. A Navy band lined up on road side plays. Knox, Ingram and other officers on board United States Navy ship Omaha. Knox addresses the marines. Knox in a jeep reviews the marines. He speaks to the marines from the jeep. Knox and two Brazilian officers salute while rendered honors. Knox surrounded by officers and civilians as he speaks to them. Knox boards a R5D plane as a band plays.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048152
Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox addresses marines on board a ship in Brazil

Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox addresses American marines on board United States Navy ship Omaha in Brazil. Marines outside a building with 'Atlanta' written on it. Knox at a desk in an office. He speaks to the marines from a jeep at Ibura field with a plane in the background. Knox meets some civilians. Navy band lines up as Knox speaks to the officers and civilians. He boards R5D plane.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048153
Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox meets naval officers on board a ship in Brazil

Former Secretary of Navy William Franklin Knox arrives at Camp Ingram in Brazil. He along with other naval officers embarks onto United States ship Omaha as marines salute him. He meets naval officers on board the ship.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048154
U.S. Marines prepare for invading Tarawa on board a ship in Pacific Theater (WW2)

United States Marines dressed in invasion uniform on board an invasion ship heading to Tarawa, Kiribati during World War II. Marine reads orders to a group. Marines chock 50 cal. Water cooled machine guns on board the ship. Marines set up tripods for machine guns two men in the background set up machine guns. Men break down equipment and walk off with it.

Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048159
American marines clean mortar on board a ship in Pacific Theater

Equipment on deck of APA (transport ship) United States marine walk between small craft on the deck of a ship while on their way to invade Tarawa in Pacific Theater. APA ship sends blinker message as the sky is overcast. Several transport ships underway in the sea. United States Navy Arthur Middleton, a transport ship. Marines clean mortar on board a transport ship using ramrods.

Date: 1943, November 20
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048161