United States soldiers walk with smiling Dutch women in the Zaan district, North Holland, Netherlands during World War II. Dutch civilians welcome the arrival of United States soldiers in Zaan. Women and children in the crowd cheering. Soldiers shake hands with civilians.
View of the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan with Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The international suspension bridge as seen from the American border side of the Detroit River. People walking outside the Detroit Institute of Arts museum (5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States) located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. The main building of the Detroit Public Library (5201 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States).
German Panzer tanks and light armored vehicles moving forward in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. German 10.5cm self-propelled tank destroyer is seen covered with foliage moving in a field. A German soldier on top of a Panzer tank. White smoke rising across the entire background of the battlefield. German tank destroyer advancing in a town in the Ardennes region. German troops advancing into town as heavy smoke rises from bombed areas. German infantry crouching in a field near a house. Soldiers crawling on hands and knees as they engage in house-to-house fighting. German soldiers standing on top of an open turret shooting with their guns. German soldiers lying low in a field with a burning tank behind them. A German soldier fires a Panzerfaust anti-tank rocket launcher. German troops moving up town. A huge explosion next to a barn. Tank destroyers and camouflaged half-track armored personnel carrier moving forward as they are followed by infantry; a burning United States truck is seen. German forces advance in bombed out town; one of the soldiers is holding a Panzerfaust. They jump through a destroyed brick wall. U.S. Army soldiers upon capture by German forces. Captured Allied soldier prisoners of war coming out of a house with their hands in the air. Some of the soldiers surrender with a white flag. Captured Allied troops gathered in town square. Burned and destroyed Allied tanks. An upturned tank. A knocked out American tank with "America First" stenciled on its side. Two German soldiers inspect the hole on the side of the tank. Soldiers surround a captured Jeep. A soldier with a bloodied face uses the field phone to make a call. SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, the 4 Star Commander of the German 6th Panzer Army arrives in the scene. Dietrich steps out from his staff car. Dietrich watch German troops marching past him. German infantry troops moving along with military trucks and vehicles. Some of the troops bring bicycles. A German soldier looks up as a V-1 flying bomb passes overhead. A rifle stuck on the ground with its butt facing up near a Browning M1917 machine gun. Dead United States soldiers lying amidst destroyed weapons and equipment. Smoke rises from a burned U.S. tank. Captured M3 Stuart tanks and a M3 half-track lined up in a field.
United States President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, visits the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth II welcomes them at Windsor Castle (Windsor SL4 1NJ, United Kingdom). President Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II and their spouses Nancy Reagan and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, watch the Queen’s Guards marching. President Reagan and Queen Elizabeth ride horses early the next morning. View of the Palace of Westminster (London SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom) as seen from across the Thames River. President Reagan gives a speech to both houses of parliament in London, the first American to ever do so. In his speech, he promotes ideas of freedom and democracy, and challenges the Soviet Union to allow him to address them in a television broadcast in exchange for the same in America.
Admiral Byrd prepares for South Polar expedition Operation Highjump in Antarctica. Ships at the East Coast Port. A United States plane on the ship. Sailor covers the plane and takes out the wing. Sailors with Husky snow dogs. Admiral Byrd and other officers look at a map. Scenes from former Polar expeditions: Ship sails in water with large amounts of ice in water. People disembark the ship. Tents on the ice. Snow dogs in the polar region. A dog huddling in a doghouse, but largely covered with snow. A man with a dog. Men pull sleds with equipment. Scenes again from Operation High Jump preparing to depart. People stand on ship's deck. A young woman waves to the people. Ship leaves the East Coast Port for south polar expedition.
View of green fields and Hawaii hills. Two U.S. Navy cruisers steaming out at sea. United States cruisers fire on convoy of Japanese ships during Operation Road's End, destroying the naval forces of Japan following the war. Smoke and fire rises from the Japanese cargo ship which is hit. Scene shifts to a huge fire with thick black smoke rising from a dock at Pearl Harbor. A massive ammunition explosion triggered by the fire is seen.
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