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Wendell Willkie salutes and people carry hot air balloons of various shapes during a parade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A parade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S. soldiers march. The Republican Party nominee of the 1940 Presidential elections Wendell Lewis Willkie salutes. People on bicycles and cars in the parade. People dressed in different costumes. They carry hot air balloons shaped as different animals. A hot air balloon shaped in the form of a train. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, March 30
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067072
Nurses help injured soldiers in a medical train and the soldiers provide medical aid to people in Italy.

U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.

Date: 1944, March 30
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067073
The USS LST-349, carrying German prisoners of war from Anzio to Naples, is driven against rocks off Ponza , Italy during a storm, and sinks.

View from rocks above as the USS LST -349, is seen being pounded by wind and wave against rocks off Ponza, Italy during World War 2. German prisoners of war are huddled together on her deck as American crew members work to rescue them. Prisoners are seen being assisted as they climb up the steep rocks from the ship. Some are ferried off in inflated rafts. Narrator says: “The ship begins to break in two, with some crew and 20 prisoners still aboard.” View of ship going down as those on the rocks struggle and rescue efforts continue. Narrator states: “The waves swept two Americans and six German prisoners off the cliffs to their deaths. In all, 14 died, 4 Americans, one British officer, and 9 German prisoners.” In the final scene, the ship has sunk out of sight and all survivors (unseen) have moved inland.

Date: 1944, February 26
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067074
Women pick daffodils in a large outdoor garden and a military couple exchanges rings during a wedding in Orting, Washington.

A military wedding in Orting, Washington, United States. Women in costumes pick daffodils in a large daffodil flower field. Soldiers and officers gathered during the spring time wedding. Staff Sergeant William Melnick and Private Clara Owens, from Fort Lewis, exchange rings. Soldiers hold guns as they stand near. The newly married couple kisses. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, March 30
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067075
Riders on horses and bulls during the 32nd Olympics at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, California.

Rodeo events during the 32nd Olympics in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037, United States), California. Riders come out from the bucking chute. A rider on the horse during the saddle bronc. The horse bucks off the rider. Spectators cheer in the stadium. A rider rides the Brahma bull during the bull riding competition.

Date: 1944, March 30
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067076
U.S. soldiers work in underground headquarters while the injured soldiers treated in medical train and ships in Anzio, Italy.

The medical aid being provide to the U.S. soldiers in Anzio, Italy. The U.S. officers walk through a passage down the stairs. The U.S. soldiers work at the underground headquarters on telephones,typewriters and many more to keep in touch with the soldiers. A soldier works at the typewriter. The posters of a girl on the wall. The injured U.S. soldiers in the medical train. The nurses move in the train. The soldiers eat. Nurses treat the soldiers. The rest at the base hospital. A soldier being carried on a stretcher into the hospital ship. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067077