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Army mules ferried across Mogaung River and timber trees fallen by 779th Engineers.

Soldiers ride army mules in Burma. The mules ferried across Mogaung River in Burma. Supplies brought from India loaded on mules and then on train. Timber trees fallen by 779th Engineers. They place lumber on truck and stock for transportation. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, October 31
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023528
Japanese planes bomb United States Navy ships in Philippines.

Heavy road rollers working to level a new captured airstrip on Leyte Island during World War 2. U.S. soldiers work laying down Marston Matting. General MacArthur and General G C Kenny visit base near Tacloban on Leyte, Philippine Island and inspect the Marston mat effort. Good views of low flying P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight just above the airfield. Japanese bomber aircraft is fired upon by forces at the airbase. View of aftermath of bombing on Air Base, with destruction seen. Japanese planes attack a supply depot and destroyer ships. Views of several Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft flying toward U.S. Navy ships in Leyte Gulf and being shot off course. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes into a landing craft infantry (LCI).

Date: 1944, October 31
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023529
Testing of German one-man torpedo-carrying craft in World War II

View of German Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. Complete change of scene shows a torpedo being loaded on a German Neger torpedo-carrying craft for a demonstration at Flender-Werke in Lübeck, Germany,during World War 2. Designed by Richard Mohr (whose surname means blackamoor),this craft cannot submerge but runs low, awash in the water. It is seen moving that way in the water and firing its torpedo. Back at the base, the operator, wearing an iron cross, climbs out of the craft. (Note: Not surprisingly, this little torpedo-carrier was sometimes called a human torpedo.)

Date: 1944, March
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675023573
Faces of war. Closeups of German soldiers during lull in conflict with British forces during World War II

View of an industrial site in Europe. German soldiers seen during a pause in fighting against British forces during World War 2. A German soldier with net over his steel helmet look intently from a protected position next to a building. Two other German soldiers are seen in a protected enclosure, manning a machine gun. A third soldier, also on the lookout holds a rifle. Another, looking weary and needing a shave, sits in a bunkered spot. Successive closeups of several clean-shaven soldiers, followed by one of an obviously battle-weary veteran soldier.

Date: 1944
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675023576
Battle between U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers at Bougainville Island, Pacific Theatre, World War 2

U.S. Marines climb up a hill between trees and throw grenades at a enemy Japanese position on Bougainville during World War 2. Wounded or dead American soldier lying on ground. Soldiers looking at fire on the hill. Helmet covered with camouflage netting lying on ground. U.S. Marine operating a flamethrower directing flame at Japanese position. Japanese equipment scattered around dead Japanese soldier. A U.S. soldier talks over telex phone. Remains of Japanese men and artillery captured in dug out. Japanese on hilltop, soldier view pill box, another soldier discovers a mine and removes it. Shells lying on ground. Soldiers walk down the road.

Date: 1944, November 12
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023689
Wounded soldiers at Bougainville carried on litters to C-47 aircraft via an ambulance during WWII.

U.S. soldiers crawling through underbrush during Bougainville campaign in World War 2 against the Japanese. American soldiers carry injured soldiers. Wounded US soldier or Marine lying on litter, using helmet for pillow. Soldiers squatting in forest. Loading wounded on litters into ambulance backed up to a plane. Soldier walks towards jeep with "Operations Officer - Acorn l3". Ambulance on field. Ambulance backed up to open door of C-47 loading wounded on plane. Two soldiers rest in the shade of a C-47 wing. Wounded soldiers lie inside medical evacuation aircraft.

Date: 1944, November 12
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023690