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U.S. soldiers fire machine guns and German children stand near a tank as machine guns mounted on it are fired in Herne, Germany.

U.S. 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry Regiment attacks Germany during World War II. Guns are fired from M4 Sherman tanks. A soldier in a dug in position firing a machine gun. An African American soldier fires a machine gun from an M4 tank as another African American soldier sits beside him on the tank and plays a guitar. Young German children stand and watch near the tank and they cover their ears as the gun is fired at enemy German positions.

Location: Herne Germany
Date: 1945, April 9
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057859
U.S. troops of the 79th Infantry Division engage German forces in the Alsace Front during World War II

Opening shows animated map of Alsace front at junction of Belgium, Germany, and France, in World War 2. Allied forces are schematically shown sweeping toward Wissembourg, Haguenau, and Strasbourg. Next, several U.S. Army M4A3(75) medium tanks are seen driving toward the camera on a rural road, during a pull back by the 7th Army in the first week of January, 1944, from advanced positions at the front. Some are filled with infantry riding atop them. The last of them is seen crossing a bridge 13 miles Northeast of Haguenau. The engineers of the 79th Division place demolition charges to destroy the bridge. Closeup of them placing and then remotely igniting the charge. A huge explosion ensues that completely destroys the bridge. Scene shifts to several U.S. soldiers of an engineer combat battalion preparing 100 pound of TNT in a captured blockhouse at Lauterbach, Alsace. Closeup of engineer carrying the explosives into the blockhouse and preparing the remote detonation device. The engineers string wire in the snow and setup their remote detonation device. One depresses a plunger to ignite the charge and blow up the blockhouse, which explodes in a huge cloud of black smoke. Next, elements of the 79th Infantry Division supported by tanks, are seen moving forward to counter German gains Southeast of Haguenau. (On January 5th the German forces had established a bridgehead across the Rhein (Rhine) river near Gansheim, Germany.) Scene shifts to Drusenheim, Germany where U.S. forces are engaging a Battalion of occupying German forces. Machine gun fire is heard constantly, as American infantry battle the hidden German defenders and tanks drive them from defensive positions near a bridge at the far end of town. Infantry move from behind tanks toward the bridge and are seen crossing it. An M4A3(75) medium tank risks crossing the narrow bridge and is immediately followed by many 79th Infantry troops. The battle continues on the other side of the bridge.

Location: Alsace France
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057869
A bomb damaged German occupied oil refinery in Merkwiller, France during World War II.

Bomb damage in Merkwiller, France during World War II. Photographs of aerial view of a bombed German occupied oil refinery. Wrecked buildings of the refinery. A soldier walks on a wrecked railroad. Damaged machines and equipment of the refinery. Damaged railroad and tank cars. Oil left after the bombings. Wrecked oil storage tanks and pipes. Aerial view of the bombed out refinery and damaged buildings in the countryside.

Location: Merkwiller France
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057870
A 35th Division gun crew loads shells and fires a camouflaged field gun in Europe during World War II.

U.S. 35th Infantry Division fires the last shell in Europe during World War II. A 35th Division gun crew loads shells into a camouflaged field gun. A soldier talks over a field telephone. The gun is fired. The shell reads 'The 35th Div Last round'. Troops scramble for the empty shell case.

Location: Europe
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057871
A customer looks over some aluminum kettles and pedestrians alongside a road in Tokyo, Japan.

A market place in Tokyo, Japan. A peddler sells his wares on a sidewalk along Jinga Way in Tokyo. A prospective customer looks over some aluminum kettles. People walk on the sidewalk. Assorted type of Japanese, male, female as well as children, pedestrians. In Shinjuku area, Beppu : small shops and pedestrians alongside a street. A small store sells wicker baskets.

Location: Tokyo Japan
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057889
Children pick up pieces of tile in ruins of a bath house and people scrape up corn kernels off a road in Japan.

After World War 2, Japanese people in post-war, poverty stricken Japan scavenge for resources and food amidst shortages and rationing. In Tokyo: Japanese children work in ruins of a bath house near a group of miner's houses in the Higashi Misome Mine area. Children working to pick up pieces of tile which they have loosened with a hammer and an iron bar. Two children's hands seen working with a hammer and a tile. Two boys in a wrecked bath tub chiseling a tile. Two boys and girls search the debris of the bath house. In Osaka : Japanese women, men and children scrape up corn kernels off a road, which have been spilled there from a passing truck.

Location: Japan
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057890
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