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French Forces of the Interior (Formerly the Resistance) actively fight Germans during Liberation of Paris in WWII
The city of Paris, France during liberation from German occupation during World War II. Road signs read 'Cherbourg S. Germain' and 'ZUR Normandie FRONT'. A man appears in a window of a building and sets up the French flag. French people look at a poster informing them that the Parisian Committe of Liberation, formerly the Committee of National Resistance, proclaims the formation of a Provisional Government of the Republic of France. The Hotel de Ville. Resistance fighters (now French Forces of the Interior--FFI) position a piece of field artillery on the sidewalk. FFI fighters occupy buildings and fire rifles from the windows. Notre Dame de Paris in the background. Medical personnel carry a wounded fighter on a stretcher. One woman on the team carrys a red cross flag. Onlookers watch a burning German beute FT17 tank on the street. FFI men fire guns. Medical Red Cross team runs to shelter. Several dead German soldiers and civilians on the street. Red Cross team comes to the aid of wounded men. German prisoners being led along the street.
Scenes of American cities and workers in early 1900s and early motion picture film stars in America in the early 20th century
50th Anniversary of cinema, in 1944, recalls historic footage and movies from the early 1900s. Thomas Edison with Henry Ford together using a motion picture movie camera to create a movie. Mrs Edison displays Kinetoscope. Close-up view of Kinetoscope machine operating. View of vintage film images of lower Broadway in New York City in 1896 with busy traffic on streets of pedestrians, horses, and horse-drawn streetcar. Next scene shows Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" (1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) in parade in New York City on return from Cuba after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Next is seen the inauguration parade for President Theodore Roosevelt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1905. Next series of scenes shows American women early in the 20th century. Women workers punching time clock at a factory. Women in dresses emerging from a building perhaps after a work shift circa 1900. An early beauty pageant circa 1910. Famous star actress and singer Lillian Russell in a movie scene. Actor William S Hart appearing in an early movie. Two well dressed women sitting in an early automobile as a man starts it up and drives away. Busy scenes of car and pedestrian traffic, and horse-drawn streetcars on Market street in San Francisco, California circa 1910. Silent movie stars Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew together in a movie scene. Famous movie star actress Pearl White in a daring stunt scene, and Ruth Roland performing a stunt leaping from a moving railroad train onto a rope ladder suspended from an airplane, and then riding on a railroad car careening out of control down a mountain side in an early Hollywood movie.
The USS San Francisco and several other U.S. warships in convoy underway in heavy seas during World War II
Opening scene shows glimpse from deck of the Heavy Cruiser, USS San Francisco (CA-38) underway in World War 2, with waves rolling over her bow from rough waters, then the scene shifts to view from the bridge. overlooking her pair of forward triple 8-inch guns. Her smaller gun emplacements at the bow are inundated by the waters as she plunges in and out of the waves. A Casablanca class Escort Aircraft Carrier (CVE) is seen to starboard. View of Curtiss SOC Seagull wing and pontoon on the San Francisco. A battleship seen in distance. More views from bridge of the San Francisco. A South Dakota class battleship is seen underway and a fighter plane above her in flight. Still more views from the San Francisco's bridge and then from her main port deck.
German civilian Matthias Gierens is hung until death for murdering a downed American flier in Germany in World War 2.
German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.
The Soviet Army begins an attack on Kerch and German and Romanian prisoners are held in Kerch during World War II.
The Russians recapture Kerch in the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during World War II. A map showing the location of Kerch. Smoke rising from explosions in Kerch. The Red Army soldiers advance through rubble in the city. The soldiers in a freight yard. Abandoned equipment at the yard. Dead Germans on the ground. Damaged buildings in view. The soldiers under cover of the ruins of buildings firing at German positions. Views of dead German soldiers. A Soviet soldier climbs atop a entrance gate structure on which German Swastika symbol is displayed at top center. He bends the large swastika symbol downward to destroy it, and then receives a Soviet flag from another soldier to post atop the gate. Aerial view of the city with ruins of buildings and smoke rising from shelled areas. Damaged buildings along a road. Russian troops on tanks moving along. German and Romanian prisoners marched in columns along a path. Russian troops holding guns beside artillery. A Romanian prisoner is interrogated by few Russian officers. The officers standing beside the artillery. Russian troops on tanks moving on a path. A few buildings in view. A map showing different German positions in Ukraine.
United States Navy sailors watch a movie about naval warfare in the United States; some scenes from World War 2 Pacific battles
A dramatized film about the training of U.S. Navy recruits at various naval training centers in the United States. The training and life of United States Navy recruits at U.S. Navy training center in Bainbridge, Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and Naval Base San Diego in California. The sailors watch a movie which depicts historic navy sailors on old masted sailing ships as they fire naval guns at another ship. The reenactment is of a 18th century or 19th century naval battle. The ship being hit by the enemy begins to sink. Sailors from the two ships in combat aboard a ship. Men jump into the sea and try their best not to give up the ship. A tall masted ship sinking. The naval gun canons aboard a ship being fired on another ship. Scene shifts to a mix of both authentic footage and several dramatized World War 2 combat footage scenes in the Pacific, circa 1943, 1944, or 1945, with U.S. Navy sailors on board ships firing at incoming Japanese aircraft. The enemy aircraft being shot down and they fall into the sea. A sailor clicks a picture of Japanese girls against a statue of Buddha. Narrator speaks about Navy recruitment. Sailors lined up on an open field during a ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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