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Operation Crossroads Test Able. Several ships, including LST-133, LST-545,and LS-1113 seen anchored for Bikini atom bomb test

Operation Crossroads activity preparing for Test Able. Shows LCT- 1113, LSTs 133 and 545. Monitoring personnel are seen maneuvering in small boats at side of LST-133. LST-133 was the first tank landing ship to reach Omaha beach during the Normandy Invasion and also served in Okinawa. William I. Scheunemann was one of the many who served aboard LST-133 during World War II.

Date: 1946, July 7
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058531
The funeral for British Commanding Officer Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey (WW2)

A tribute to the passing of British Commanding Officer Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey. Funeral of Sir Bertram Ramsey in Saint-Germain-en-Laye New Communal Cemetery during World War II. Sir Ramsey deliberating plans to invade Sicily with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in North Africa. Sir Ramsey exits a building with United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower before the invasion of Normandy. Sir Ramsey and General Eisenhower talking. Military officials and troops attend the funeral and internment of Sir Bertram Ramsey in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The coffin of Sir Ramsey is draped with the Union Jack flag and is carried on a gun carriage on a snow covered road. General Eisenhower and other Allied generals attend the funeral march. British Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women stand at attention in the snow. A chaplain leads the funeral service. Troops fire the three-volley salute during the military funeral. Dwight Eisenhower and other generals salute and pay their respects.

Date: 1945, January 9
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080053
Germans in Paris after the Battle of France and FFI resistance fighters in France during World War II.

Pictures taken by military and news cameramen during World War II. France, June 1940: German troops march before the Arc de Triomphe on Champs Elysses after the Battle of France. A German Nazi flag. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) Maquis march in the woods of France. Newspapers run by the underground army. The Maquis members secretly attend a meeting of French collaborationists allied with occupying Germany, to attain information. French Collaborationists listen to the speaker during the meeting, seated beneath a large banner indicating support for the fight against Socialism or Bolshevism, "Le Europe unie contre le Bolchevisme." Nazi posters altered by the FFI to their advantage. FFI resistance fighters raise a flag in a forest encampment. Aerial of London England in an area with many neon lights and neon advertising : Women in elaborate clothes enter a theatre to watch war pictorial films about World War II.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021768
Vichy France militia and German soldiers round up FFI members and check French civilians in France.

German SS (Schutzstaffel) troops advance on the Eastern Front during World War II. A map of the Western Front. France: Vichy France militia round up FFI (French Forces of the Interior) members. They march FFI members out of a building. German soldiers search French civilians. They stop and check civilians on bicycles and in cars. A soldier with a revolver talks to a French civilian. Soldiers check an elderly civilian. A seized French Allied Military currency.

Date: 1944
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021775
Finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster passing lire and francs to U.S. soldiers in France during World War II.

Finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster in France during World War II. Interiors of office shows finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster passing lire and francs to U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1944, December 19
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060476
U.S. soldiers receive lire and francs from finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster in France during World War II.

Finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster in France during World War II. Interiors of office as U.S. soldiers arrive and receive lire and francs from finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster.

Date: 1944, December 19
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060477