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Planning sessions of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and allied action on multiple fronts in World War 2

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and English Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet in Casablanca, Morocco. German troops and German POWs being driven out of North Africa by the Allies. President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in chairs on the lawn of the White House at a planning session. Various war scenes from many theaters of battle action in World War II: Allied vessels and planes in the Pacific. Higgins boat (LCVP) in water and American troops invading Sicily and coming ashore on its beaches. Soviet infantry and artillery advance on the eastern front, firing at German enemy positions.

Location: Casablanca Morocco
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058344
President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives for the Quebec conference

Royal North West mountain band plays and marches in Quebec, Canada. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives for the conference. He along with Churchill, combined chiefs of staff poses for a photo. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden also joins them.

Location: Quebec Canada
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058348
American Undersecretary of War speaks to difficulties facing Allies in confronting Germany and Japan in World War II

Undersecretary of War, Robert Porter Patterson, Sr. speaks about a report from the General staff outlining the needs for combating Germany and Japan in World War 2. He cites Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, as an example of what will be needed. He continues to narrate in the background as an animated map appears showing the buildup of supplies and Allied forces in North Africa; Allied air forces flying 60 thousand sorties over Sicily and, the direct amphibious assault using 3,200 vessels. Map also depicts opposing forces of 12 (“unwilling”) Italian Divisions and 3-1/2 German Divisions. View of Allied troops carrying some of their 31 thousand casualties on stretchers from field ambulances. Allied medics attending to the wounded. Some are seen lying on stretchers in a row on the ground near a wall. Interior of a field hospital where surgeons and other medical personnel treat the wounded. Animated map shifts to Europe with Germany at its center, showing , in contrast to Sicily that was only an “outpost,”, the heavily fortified perimeter of Axis controlled areas; the axis industrial might; and the disposition of 300 German Divisions (mostly on the Eastern front) defending the region. Next, the map illustrates Japan’s defended regions in the Pacific Image returns to Undersecretary Patterson i n his office, speaking of the Allied offensives planned for next year (1944), and emphasizing their challenge and difficulty. Scene shifts to General Jonathan Wainwright and his garrison at Corregidor, in the Philippines, surrendering to Japanese forces in 1941. Japanese military camera pans over the Americans being taken prisoner. Other Americans and Filipinos are seen being marched together under guard. Scene shifts to classic views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. View of Japanese soldiers executing two Chinese civilians in 1937. Dangling bodies of persons hung by Nazis during Operation Barbarossa in Russia, in 1941 A Russian soldier comforts a little girl as he escorts her across a snowy landscape. Time bomb left by German forces retreating from Naples, Italy, in 1943, blows up a Post office building . Views of damage to building and bodies of victims. American Military Police assisting a victim. American soldiers carrying an injured civilian on a litter. Scene shifts to British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, and U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, entering a hall in the Spiridonovka Palace, during the 1943 Moscow Conference in Russia. Close-up of the American, Soviet, and British flags on a table. View of many delegates seated around the table. Close-up of Molotov, Eden, and Hull signing conference document.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058395
King George VI of Britain reviews United States 5th Army in Africa during World War 2

King George VI reviews American troops in Africa. King George VI of Britain and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark ride in scout car as the King reviews the United States 5th Army troops in North Africa. King George along with his Minister of War, and American officers Lieutenant General Clark and Lieutenant General George Patton, have lunch in a park. King reviews a parade of 5th Army troops.

Location: Africa
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058478
Admiral Thomas Kinkaid's headquarters in Aleutian Island, Alaska

Admiral Thomas KinKaid and aide Lieutenant Commander Robert Taylor leave Admiral's office in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Rear Admiral Francis Warren Rockwell, Commodore Pat Buchanan, Major General Holland M. Smith, Commander Robert L. Dennison walk out of North Pacific Fleet Headquarter building. They get down from a car and enter the building. Office of Commander Amphibious Force Pacific Fleet. Warships anchored in Kuluk Bay.

Location: Aleutian Islands Alaska USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058501
Steve Ave wins the second annual snow mobile world championship in Montreal, Canada

Nearly twenty eight ski mobile (snowmobile) participants from all over North America participate at a Second Annual Players World Championship in Montreal, Canada. Players ride their bikes on snow covered area. American Steve Ave wins the title and presented a trophy.

Location: Montreal Quebec Canada
Date: 1967, March 10
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058598
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