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Christy Mathewson, Captain, U.S. Army Chemical Service, during World War I

Christopher "Christy" Mathewson, famous baseball pitcher for New York Giants and the Cincinnati Reds, who later managed the Cincinnati Reds. He voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1918, as a Captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Service, during World War 1. This brief scene shows Matthewson in uniform, as a Captain in the U.S. Army.

Date: 1918
Duration: 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035174
French town suffers artillery shelling by Germans during World War I

Aftermath of German artillery attack on a French town in World War 1. Rubble litters town street. Spectators watch as firefighters spray water on smoldering fire at site of a destroyed building. Men with bicycle talking, women looking at the ruins of houses. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035886
British troops landing at Sword Beach on D-Day. And U.S. troops landing at Omaha Beach.

During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. British troops disembark from landing crafts at Sword Beach and move in lines towards the beachhead. Military trucks and tanks are seen on the shore as smoke emerges from a hill on the beach. Various wrecked building on shore. British troops carrying equipment and a bicycle ashore. In last 15 seconds scene shifts to landing of U.S. 1st Infantry troops at Omaha beach. View of waters edge from higher up beach. Gear and bodies floating in water. U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore as several are struck by German machine gun fire and drop to the ground. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038172
Germany's heaviest guns of World War II

Views of heavy and heaviest German railway siege guns of World War 2. A Krupp K5E 283 mm Leopold railroad gun moving along a railroad track. It hooks up with supporting rail cars. Soldiers ride in an open car carrying shells for the gun. Soldiers moving powder bags for the gun. Glimpse of German troops carrying shells from a trench (probably for a 12.8 cm FlaK 40 anti-aircraft gun). Next,German soldiers are seen pushing a shell for a 38 cm Siegfried K (E) (K - Kanone, on a rail dolly, and them moving it by means of a mechanical arm, up to the breech of the gun where gunners load it. Several views of shells being loaded into German railway guns, including the 80cm Dora, or Schwerer Gustav. Views of heavy German gun barrels being raised, including 406mm (16 inch) SK C34 Coastal Defense guns. The Thor 60cm mortar being raised for firing. More railway guns.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038200
Damaged Allied British and Canadian military equipment and dead Allied soldiers after Dieppe Raid (WW2)

Views of wrecked city, damaged equipment, and debris after the Battle of Dieppe during World War II. Dead bodies of British and Canadian soldiers on the beach, up near a sea wall, and near German fortifications. Wrecked British landing crafts and other vehicles strewn around. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, August
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675032713
Views of Dieppe after the Battle of Dieppe; British and Canadian POWs rounded up.

A soldier on a vessel drinking, gives it to other soldier on another vessel. Views of wrecked city, damaged equipment and debris after the Battle of Dieppe. Dead bodies of soldiers. Soldiers taking wounded soldiers on stretchers. Germans round up British and Canadian prisoners and march the POWs through Dieppe to the prison compound. Many of the POWs are wounded. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, August
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032714