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African American soldiers engaged on all fronts in World War 2

Film opens with map of the world showing the various theaters of operation in World War II. Narrator refers to Allies liberating town after town, as they advance. View of American troops being welcomed in a European town during an advance (probably Italy in 1944). Next, African American troops are seen boarding troop transport ships. A huge convoy of ships is seen from the air. Huge piles of war materiel on a dock. Ammunition being delivered by landing craft from the transport ship USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) to American troops at a beachhead in the Pacific. An African American sailors directs the lowering of a piece of artillery from a ship into a landing craft. Construction equipment being used to clear the way for a new landing field. Docks, roads, and bridges being built as the Allies advance. American troops in the swamps of the South Pacific. American Army engineers clearing trees to build the Alaska Highway (ALCAN Highway) in 1942. Corps of Engineers building the Ledo Road (from India to China) during the war. African American soldiers building a bridge across a river in Europe. A U.S. Army truck under fire, driving along a dirt road in Europe as shells burst all around it. U.S. troops firing various kinds of field artillery and tank guns. U.S. infantryman using a flame thrower. Closeup of African American soldier using a bayonet and others firing small arms. A tank being blown up by artillery fire. A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero aircraft maneuvers overhead in the Pacific theater. An African American soldier runs to man his Browning .50-caliber, water-cooled antiaircraft machine gun, and begins firing as the Zero fighter plane strafes his position. Closeup of Japanese pilot in his cockpit and his machine guns firing from leading edges of his plane. His rounds strike all around the U.S. gunner, who turns and follows him with more fire. His tracers show behind the plane. Closeup of the African American gunner as he continues firing. View of the Japanese airplane rolling over and diving. Next the Japanese plane, aflame, crashes on a tropical island and explodes. (Note: It is apparent that some of these combat scenes have been made up of clips from other sources, edited into this film.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077359
Adolf Hitler talks to officials on the terrace of Berghof in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at Berghof in Berchtesgaden, Germany during World War II. Hitler on Berghof terrace with SA-Obergruppenfuhrer (3 Star General) Wilhelm Brückner. Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) honor guard. Hitler does a little dance. LSSAH honor guard at the steps of Berghof. German photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, Foreign Minister of Italy Graf (Count) Galeazzo Ciano and others arrive at the Berghof .

Date: 1940
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077744
Corsican women outside a dispensary at Alto Air base during the Allied invasion of southern France in World War II.

Allied invasion of southern France during World War II. Corsican women and soldiers outside a dispensary at Alto Air Base in Corsica, France. A young girl wearing a hat outside the dispensary. U.S. Army trucks and jeeps on a road towards Bologne, Italy.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078093
Toscanini conducts the NBC symphony orchestra accompanied by Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir after Mussolini's downfall.

A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini in the United States. A radio broadcast room. An emergency news item comes in. News being broadcast about the removal of Benito Mussolini as the Prime Minister of Italy. Toscanini plays a piano. He works on musical notes of Forza del Destino. At NBC broadcasting station preparations being made to put the music of Forza del Destino on the air in radio broadcast. Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir at a recording studio. NBC Symphony Orchestra at NBC Studio in New York. Toscanini conducts the orchestra. Westminster Choir sings as Toscanini conducts the music. Jan Peerce sings.

Date: 1944
Duration: 8 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078156
Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940

From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028517
Delegates gather and greet one another in hotels during the 7th Assembly for the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Delegates of the 7th Assembly of the League of Nations converse inside a hotel in Geneva, Switzerland. Press, media, and public wait outside to get a glimpse of the delegates. The delegates exit the hotel after the meeting. Shows several dignitaries including French statesman Aristide Briand; Signor Vittorio Scialoja, representative of Italy; Dr. Gustav Stresemann and German Delegation; the Japanese representative Mineichirō Adachi; Giuseppe Motta representing the Swiss Confederation; Count Sándor Apponyi of Hungary; Czechoslovakian Minister for Foreign Affairs Edvard Beneš with his staff.

Date: 1926, September
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029342