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M4 Sherman tanks move up Sugar Loaf Hill, United States Marines throw grenade during Battle of Okinawa in WW2

United States Marines of the 1st Marine Division in battle of Sugar Loaf Hill in Okinawa, Japan during World War 2. Tanks move up Sugar Loaf Hill. United States Marines advance on Sugar Loaf Hill. A United States Marine throws a grenade. Grenade explodes at a distance after being thrown by Marine. A line of Marines advances on Sugar Loaf Hill. View of Sugar Loaf Hill and smoke during battle.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078487
United States Marines fire with machine gun at Sugar Loaf Hill during Battle of Okinawa in WW2

United States Marines fire at Japanese using a Browning M1917 machine gun during battle of Sugar Loaf Hill in Okinawa in World War 2. Another Marine holds the ammunition belt for the Marine firing with machine gun. United States Marines fire with machine gun at hilltop.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078488
United States Marines evacuate casualties, fire machine gun at Japanese during Battle of Okinawa in WW2

United States Marines evacuate casualties during Battle of Okinawa in World War 2. United States Marines fire at Japanese soldiers while wounded are evacuated. United States Marines carry wounded in a stretcher. Two United States Marines fire with machine gun. Belt of ammunition moving into machine gun. United States Marine fires with rifle. United States Marines evacuate casualty.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078490
United States Marine fire machine gun from tank during Battle of Okinawa in WW2

Tank on hilltop during Battle of Okinawa in World War 2. A United States Marine in turret of tank fires mounted machine gun.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078491
French General Charles de Gaulle is feted in Chicago during his visit to the United States in 1945

Film opens showing people in an American city (possibly Chicago) celebrating the Allied victory over Japan on VJ Day, August 15th, 1945. Scene shifts abruptly to Chicago, Illinois, where French General Charles de Gaulle is seen saluting in a reviewing stand at Victory Plaza near Lasalle Street entrance to City Hall. (On August 24th, he had accepted an invitation from Mayor Edward Kelly to stop in Chicago on August 27-28, 1945, during his visit to the U.S. and Canada.) Next, general de Gaulle and Mayor Kelly are seen in an open car in a motorcade amidst crowds of well-wishers. Enthusiastic spectators run along side their car. Glimpse of a dense crowd of people, including a contingent of sailors in dress whites. Final scene shows General de Gaulle speaking with reporters and photographers near a sign reading "W-G-N." (A Chicago radio station). (World War II period).

Date: 1945, August 28
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022066
Allied aircraft bomb the City of Dresden in Germany on February 13, 1945 (British) and again on February 15 (American)

Aerial views of British Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber aircraft heading toward Dresden. View of the Lancaster bombers as they drop bombs over German targets in Dresden during night of February 13-14, 1945, during World War 2. Bombs impact and view of explosions and smoke. Two views of German scarecrow bombs exploding, designed to look like the explosion of an Allied bomber aircraft in order to intimidate the enemy. Next scene is two days later, with aerial views of United States Army Air Force B-17 bombers in flight toward Dresden. They attack the city again on February 15-16, 1945, focusing on railroad marshaling yards. Narrator notes that the population of Dresden before the war was 625,000 people, and that the combined bombing by the American and British forces is estimated to have destroyed virtually the entire city.

Date: 1945, February 14
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037776