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U.S. Destroyer operating in support of Operation Shingle, during World War II

Views from a U.S. Destroyer, one of the warships supporting Operation Shingle (invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. View from bridge as Destroyer fires her guns. Heavy black smoke rising from two Allied ships bombed by enemy aircraft. Another view of the Destroyer's guns firing. A bomb bursting in distance. A formation of enemy aircraft seen momentarily overhead. Dense black smoke rising from bombed ship nearby. Two burning convoy ships in distance.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051465
German Patrol boats are attacked by Allied aircraft as they operate in Atlantic waters during World War II

At beginning, several German armed patrol boats (Vorpostenboot) are seen underway in a river or canal headed toward Atlantic waters. A light signal flashes from one. A sailor seated in front of two double 3.7 cm Flak 18 antiaircraft guns, speaks into a radio. Navy gun crew at battle station. They fire at several low-flying Allied war planes passing by. The Flak 18 guns fire at the passing aircraft. Tracer bullets are seen against cloudy background. German sailor looks through binoculars, from a gun position. barrels of two large guns are seen next to him. Camera shows flak clouds in the sky overhead and tracer bullets fired across the water at a lower level. Glimpse of swirling water. Sailor wearing flotation vest stands near depth charge launcher. Six patrol boats viewed underway behind the camera vessel. Paintings of Allied aircraft and boats, for quick identification, are seen on the side of a German Patrol boat. View of bow as patrol boat plunges through rough water. Side view of it from another boat. Waves inundating a patrol boat in stormy waters. A barrage balloon being launched and seen above. Two German twin engine Heinkel He 115 torpedo bombers take off from a bay. View of pilot in cockpit of one. View from cockpit window of right wing and engine on one, as it flies over a convoy of ships below. Crew member in nose canopy of a Heinkel 115. Views of the other He 115 off right wing of camera plane. Another glimpse of crew member in aircraft nose. Views from cockpit of a Heinkel 115 seaplane flying only several feet above the water and rushing past boats underway. Crew member in the airplane using a signal lamp to communicate with a German Patrol boat. An Officer on a patrol boat, observing the signals from the airplane, calls crew to battle stations. Various antiaircraft gun crews, on the boat, prepare and commence firing. More views inside a Heinkel seaplane. View of engine room in a Patrol boat as it is hit by an Allied bomb. Crew responds to the emergency wearing their life preservers. A mascot dog runs up stairs along with the crew members. Below, crew members work to stem floods of water entering the engine room as a result of the bomb strike. Brief view of bomb damage in the hull of the boat. Sailor on deck using a direction finder. More views of shipboard antiaircraft guns firing, at Allied aircraft all around the boat. An Allied airplane crashes into the water. Large pieces of floating wreckage is recovered and placed on the boat deck. Film ends showing formation of Patrol boats plunging through the water at high speed.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053353
German Molch and Biber miniature submarines used in maritime sabotage operations against Allied ships.

Methods and machines used by Germans and Italians in maritime sabotage operations. One method in sneak craft is the use of midget submarines. Footage shows transport and use of a German Molch midget submarine. Trucks on road carry it. The submarine is launched in water and recovered from it. Gas engine is added to a larger, faster version of submarines called the Biber. Biber submarines in view. A crew member seated in the submarine. Submarine underway during World War 2.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053512
USS Squalus bow seen during recovery attempts.

United States Navy's Salvage Operation of U.S. Submarine Squalus. A reeving wire seen stretched over water towards a small craft. A man on board pontoon on which 'YSP-31' is seen. Heaving line is thrown from pontoon. Four men aboard pontoon. Hoses and cable clamp or 'flower pots' being attached to pontoons. Pontoons are vented. Men aboard Falcon. Flower pot hoisted up and windlass raises pontoon. Blow dried pontoon lies along side Falcon. Submarine being lifted by stern, pontoons surfacing and bow of submarine in mud is shown by animated drawing

Date: 1939
Duration: 9 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040702
Submarine USS Squalus recovery attempted with aid of pontoons.

United States Navy's Salvage Operation of U.S. Submarine Squalus. USS Wandank with a cable attached to stern and USS Sculpin helps to furnish air. Disturbance in surface of water as first pontoon is blown dry. Stern pontoons seen bobbing on surface. Men seen working on top of pontoons. Bow of Squalus seen. Bow turns over onside and sinks back in water. Animated drawing shows stern of Squalus being lifted from bottom, bow is lifted, stern drops down and sinks back to bottom.

Date: 1939
Duration: 11 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040703
A film titled 'Dramatic Rescues from "Sub" Trapped on Bottom of Sea'

A film titled 'Dramatic Rescues from "Sub" Trapped on Bottom of Sea'. United States Ship Falcon seen. Buoy indicating the spot where the rescue chamber is over the sunken submarine. Diving bell (the rescue chamber) is lowered in water. Rescue chamber comes out of water. Survivors are brought aboard Falcon from the chamber.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040707