Activities of the Seabees in Scotland in 1941 and in Algeria in 1943, during World War II. News headlines in 1943 read : ' Italy is out of war' and '17 more Italian towns taken'. An animated map. The Clyde valley in Scotland showing a base built by the U.S. Navy Seabees, in 1941. Numerous quonset huts and vehicles are seen. View of the River Clyde, where 2400 feet of oceangoing dock are being assembled. A ship anchored at a harbor displaying U.S. flag. Allied troops board a landing ship with their belongings. An animated map tracing travel of Allied invasion forces from Scotland to Oran, Algeria, where Seabees are seen testing a floating causway that would be used for invasion of Sicily. Scuttled axis ships and other obstacles and damage that Seabees must repair in occupied ports. Allied ships and troops proceeding for invasion of Sicily. Allied warships bombarding Sicilian coast.
Germans in Europe during World War II. Recruits from Dutch workers and ceremony of handing over shovel: Dutch worker, service recruits stand in a line and receive patriotically, symbolic shovels. They parade along with shovels. A Greek priest celebrates mass and natives perform a dance during Serbian festival. Sailboats race off Malaga, Spain. Czechoslovakia soldiers ski in the Carpathians. German torpedo boats, equipped with twin anti-aircraft guns. A French fishing boat at sea. Crewman watch through binoculars. French fleet at sea in distance. Drive off an enemy plane. German techniques being used. Newly organized Italian army units celebrate Mass in Trieste, Italy and take an oath to the Italian flag.
Arrival of dignitaries at Quai D'Orsay (37, Quai d'Orsay - 75007 Paris), the French ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, for the Paris Peace Conference. The dignitaries include Vittorio Emanuele Orlando- prime minister of Italy, Italian Foreign Minister Baron Sidney Sonnino, British prime minister David Lloyd George, United States advisor of the supreme war council General Tasker Bliss, Secretary of State Robert Lansing, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, French Prime Minister Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, French President Raymond Poincare, French statesman Stephen Pichon, British politician and statesman Lord Arthur James Balfour.
French ambassador and diplomat Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand with former ambassador to Italy and France, Henry White seen talking to each other. They are leaving for the Paris Peace Conference. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Arrival of United States President Woodrow Wilson and Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Physician to President Wilson. They arrive at Quai d' Orsay (37, Quai d'Orsay - 75007 Paris) - French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to attend a preliminary conference. President Woodrow Wilson bows his hat to greet the dignitaries. Other dignitaries arriving include Prime Minister of Italy Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Italian Foreign Minister Baron Sonnino, Secretary of United States Robert Lansing, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British statesman Lord Arthur J. Balfour, American advisor of the supreme war council General Tasker H. Bliss, Prime Minister of France Georges B. Clemenceau, French Minister of Construction M. Loucher. View of Salle d' Horloge- the interior of the Quai d'Orsay where the conference was arranged. Cameramen with their camera mounted on stands seen standing. Reporters and guards can be seen. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Events during the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. The Big Four- Prime Minister of United Kingdom David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Italy Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, President of United States Woodrow Wilson, and Prime Minister of France Georges Benjamin Clemenceau are seen. They were the dominant diplomatic figures in the Paris Peace Conference and played a major role in designing The Treaty of Versailles.