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Toscanini conducts the NBC symphony orchestra accompanied by Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir after Mussolini's downfall.

A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini in the United States. A radio broadcast room. An emergency news item comes in. News being broadcast about the removal of Benito Mussolini as the Prime Minister of Italy. Toscanini plays a piano. He works on musical notes of Forza del Destino. At NBC broadcasting station preparations being made to put the music of Forza del Destino on the air in radio broadcast. Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir at a recording studio. NBC Symphony Orchestra at NBC Studio in New York. Toscanini conducts the orchestra. Westminster Choir sings as Toscanini conducts the music. Jan Peerce sings.

Date: 1944
Duration: 8 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078156
Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC symphony orchestra accompanied by Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir in New York.

A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini in the United States. Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir at a recording studio during the radio broadcast of Forza del Destino. NBC Symphony Orchestra at NBC Studio in New York. Toscanini conducts the orchestra. Westminster Choir sings as Toscanini conducts the music.

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078157
U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bombers bombard Japan and Japanese attack U.S. airfield in Saipan during World War II.

U.S. aircraft bombard Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft on an airstrip in Saipan. Pilots being briefed by Brigadier General Emmett O' Donell. Officers make final checks about the mission on a map. B-29 aircraft take off for the bombing mission. Aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped on Tokyo and smoke rises as bombs impact. Aircraft return to the air base after the mission. Smoke rises from the airfield as a result of Japanese attack. B-29 aircraft on fire and smoke rises. A Japanese bomber aircraft goes into a kamikaze suicide dive. Smoke rises from the airfield. Wreckage of B-29 aircraft.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078189
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sullivan receive five purple hearts for their deceased sons during World War 2

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa receive Purple Heart medals from Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward at Navy Headquarters in Washington, D.C. USA. They receive the Purple Hearts in memory of their five sons who all died together while serving aboard the USS Junea on November 13, 1942. Brief shot of woman rocking in a chair while holding a young boy in her arms. Close up of Purple Heart medal in case. The Sullivans holding all five Purple Hearts together.

Date: 1944, June 24
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078601
Views of USS South Dakota aka "Battleship X" during World War 2.

Slate reads, "Hero Battle Ship X revealed to be USS South Dakota" Aerial view of USS South Dakota at sea with airplane wing tip in foreground. Sailors assembled on the deck of the USS South Dakota. Overhead view of ship's guns. The ship had been dubbed "Battleship X' for reporting to the press around January 1943 when it was undergoing repairs. Guns firing on the USS South Dakota. An officer speaks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078602
Battle footage from unknown area of the Pacific during World War 2.

Allied soldiers wading up onto a beach in the Pacific during WWII. A soldier crouched on the beach and looking out to sea. A tank emerges from a landing craft and drives onto the beach. Troops run through the jungle. A soldier carries a wounded comrade on his back while another soldier follows. Soldiers hunker down to start setting up their machine guns. A dead allied soldier in a ditch. Planes dive bomb a distant beach area. Spray of sand and water on horizon as bombs hit beach.

Date: 1944
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078603