The city of Shanghai in China. A large number of men and women gathered at the Shanghai Race Club track. A Shanghai Municipal Police officer and a man and a woman posing. Spectators at the race track. A few of them seated and a few of them standing. Horses racing on the track. Men and women standing at the base of a flight of steps to a building. Jockeys mounted on horses escorted by their owners through the crowd. View of two women. A Sikh policeman and a Chinese Sergeant, both armed, at the entrance gate to the Shanghai Race Club complex. Several people beside the gate. Several persons sitting in rickshaws outside the race track.
Telephone facility construction in the United States. A picture showing a man digging a hole for a telephone pole in 1894. A picture shows several men raising a telephone pole in 1895. Men using a tractor to pull telephone lines in the later years. A tractor with auger drilling holes for the telephone posts. A derrick (out of sight) placing a post in the hole. A man standing beside the post guiding it into the hole. In 19th Century, crews of men are seen manually digging trenches on the sides of the road in a city street for laying telephone lines. In contrast , a man operates a powered trenching machine along a street, while helpers watch, Houses in view along the side of the road.
Telephone and telecommunication equipment at a telecommunication center in the United States. The telephone equipment beside a man hole on a city street. A worker beside the equipment. A worker lowers gear into the man hole. Men on the road and buildings in the background. View of electrical equipment inside a telecommunication center building controlling the telephone system. Employees checking specific gravity and temperature at the equipment. Another equipment in view at the center.
A pictorial map showing cities in the Eastern Front of World War II. German soldiers countering Soviet soldiers are seen struggling through mud in Russia's Lake Ilmen area, as snow melts. Water gushing on the ground. Water flowing between areas of snow. A man standing on a slab and water flowing from under the slab. A car driving on a path covered with water. Snow on both sides of the path. German troops drag a motorcycle through mud .
German soldiers in France during the Battle of Villers-Bocage of World War 2. A pictorial map showing cities along French coastline. A German soldier looking through binoculars. Allied ships at sea. German soldiers prepare artillery and fire. Smoke rising from explosions. German soldiers beside artillery. Smoke rising from Allied vessels at sea. Explosions on land and smoke rising. Two German soldiers talking. A wrecked landing craft at a beach. Debris of wreckage spread on the beach. A bomb wrecked U.S. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) on the beach and armored vehicles aboard the ship. Vehicles moving along a road. recked British Cromwell tanks and M3 Halftracks along the side of a road. A German soldier beside a damaged tank. Wide shot of a Stuart light tank. A damaged signboard which reads 'Villers Bocage'. Damaged buildings on the street of Villers-Bocage and a wrecked Tiger tank beside the buildings. Debris strewn on the ground and a damaged tank among the debris. A damaged tank with its front part into a building. A British helmet in the debris on a Cromwell tank. (Note: During this battle, On June 13th, 1944, German tank commander, Michael Wittmann, in a single Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank reportedly destroyed up to 14 tanks and 15 personnel carriers along with 2 anti-tank guns. Many were of the British 22nd Armored Brigade of the 7th Armored Division, AKA the 'Desert Rats'.)
German soldiers in France during World War II. A few German soldiers beside artillery aimed at aircraft in the sky. Views of large numbers of American bomber aircraft flying overhead on the way to a daylight bombing raid. Damaged buildings in France. Several U.S. aircraft in flight. Bomb damage in the city. Men walking among the debris. Debris strewn on the ground. American prisoners moving in columns. The prisoners seated in an area. German Waffen-SS General Sepp Dietrich talking with other officers. Waffen-SS troops in tree forest terrain during a counterattack. The German soldiers fire artillery and smoke rises from explosions. View of several German tanks. German infantry advancing through Bayeux and artillery fired at enemy positions. Explosions and smoke rising from the areas. German troops moving on tanks.
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