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German and Japanese forces capture towns; Allied workers make ammunitions in factories (WW2)

German forces during remilitarization of the Rhineland: German Army supply wagons and German soldiers cross Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany, to reoccupy Cologne and the Rhineland on March 7, 1936. Change of scene to Japan in late 1930s. Emperor Hirohito of Japan inspects troops on his white horse, Shirayuki. Japanese soldiers bow in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japanese men holding banners. Japanese soldiers and cavalry advance. Japanese soldiers stand in formation and march on a street. Japanese Navy officers view a map or chart and discuss their plans and strategies for attack. Japanese soldiers fire artillery and other weapons in battle. Japanese war production worker in munitions plant making shells. Change of scene to American workers in war production factories in the United States making shells, bullets, and various munitions during World War 2. Elevated view of large American tank factory floor with many Army tanks being assembled. War production workers building Army trucks and new trucks being driven off of assembly line. Rows of U.S. Army tanks and artillery on the ground. U.S. Army soldiers board a troop transport ship. A submarine is spotted by a sailor. A hand presses a button to launch torpedoes to attack a ship. View through periscope as torpedo moves just below water surface toward target. View in open water of torpedo moving through water. Torpedo strikes a ship and explosion rocks ship. Formation of torpedo aircraft and dive bombers in flight over an area. Ships on fire with black clouds of smoke rising above. British navy sailors firing anti aircraft guns from a British ship. Sailors and officers aboard ships watch enemy airplanes through binoculars. U.S. Navy sailor manning a machine gun aboard ship watches the skies overhead.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062662
P-38 planes complete mission and land at base, including crash landing

P-38 planes over German targets. U.S. Pilots destroy enemy targets by firing aircraft machine guns. A P-38 plane pilot contacts U.S. Air Force Base for crash landing. P-38 plane hits the surface and burns. Other P-38 plane contacts for emergency landing. Ground officers observe the burned P-38 plane. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030618
United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers operating at RAF Hardwick, England, in World War II

Film opens showing several Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, of the USAAF 93rd Bombardment Group, taxiing on the airfield at RAF Station Hardwick, in England, during World War 2. Numerous views of United States B-24 Liberator aircraft taking off, landing, and flying in formation over the aerodrome. Various examples of nose art and airplane names are seen. Among these are: a B-24 named 'Shoot Luke'; and another named 'Ball of Fire Junior'. A third B-24 is named 'Heinie Hunter'.

Date: 1943, October
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046284
U.S. Air Corps Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. presents medals to crew members of the Memphis Belle

Officers and airmen, of the U.S. 91st Bomb Group, stationed at RAF Bassingbourn, England, stand in formation, in class A uniforms, in front of the B-17, Memphis Belle. Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. presents the Silver Star medal to two staff sergeants of the Memphis Belle crew. Pilot Robert K. Morgan of the B-17 Memphis Belle receives the distinguished Flying Cross, as does a technical sergeant, and another staff sergeant and an officer crew member. View of the medal recipients lined up together. A military band playing on the airfield. The British RAF flag flies over the airfield. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, October
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046293
U.S. AAF aircraft in flight. Rotating top gun turret. World War II in England

Scenes from filming of "Combat America," with U.S. Army Air Force personnel, during World War 2, in England. U.S. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight with sun streaming through clouds behind it. B-17 in flight over water and then climbing rapidly. Separate sequence of views, from inside an airplane, of engines and of upper gun turret rotating with gunner inside. (These may have been taken in a B-24H equipped with Martin A-3D top turret.) Two U.S. P-47 airplanes fly past the bomber as it cruises.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062862
Several views of P-47s and B-17s in flight during World War II in Europe

Two U.S. Army Air Force P-47s fly past overhead. Clouds in background. Aerial view, from below, of U.S. AAF B-17s in formation overhead. Brief glimpse of a B-17Flying Fortress in flight. Clouds behind it. Scenes filmed incident to making of "Combat America," during World War 2, in England.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062864