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Seamen take launch to board their ship in Suez Canal.

Merchant Marine officers who need to join their ship, leave dock on a Egyptian launch that takes them out to their ship, in Port Said, Egypt. (The launch flies an Egyptian flag design in use from 1922 through 1953.) When the officers arrive at their ship, deckhands lower a rope ladder and the officers climb aboard. View of steamship, SS Aeolia, underway. (This ship, launched as the Stuyvesant 1918, was acquired in 1950 and named, Aeolia, by Cia Naviera del Atlantica of Panama. It was managed for them by the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus.) Back of a sailor as boat he is on passes a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal.. Views waters around Port Said with palm trees along shore and commercial shipping traffic in the waters.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056032
German forces defending against Allied advances toward Germany during WW2.

Map highlighting France, Belgium, and low countries, and German border city of Aachen during World War II. Soldiers riding on German Panther tanks camouflaged with foliage. They pass infantry walking along the side of the road. A Panzer IV with side track protectors. Commander of the German 5th Panzer Army, General Hasso von Manteuffel, conversing with officers of the 116th Panzer Division, September 1944. German tanks and infantry moving across a field. German soldier firing from prone position in a field. Knocked out American M3 halftracks. Captured American jeep and M3 halftrack. A very young German boy soldier escorting two ambulatory wounded American soldier prisoners of war. A small group of American prisoners of war. German field artillery firing and smoke rising from their shells exploding in distance. German troops entering town of Moncel-Les-Luneville, in Northeast France. Fire burning in the town. The Moncel-les-Luneville building after bombing in Luneville, France, at 15 Rue des Tuiliers, 54300 Moncel-lès-Lunéville, France. A Panzer tank enters Luneville. A huge smoke column rising in background.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675056350
British soldiers fight German occupying forces and enter city of Hertogenbosch under cover of gun fire in Holland, during World War II.

British soldiers fight the German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation, during World War II. British soldiers carry an assault boat under the cover of fire from a Bren gun (with upper handle removed). They paddle across the canal and take shelter behind the berm on the opposite side. After pausing, they continue to advance over the berm. Closeup of Bren gun firing. Structures are seen in the background. A Sherman tank parked among trees is seen firing a machine gun from its bow mount. Smoke rising behind the canal berm. British troops run past heavy smoke rising in a part of the city. They run across a park toward a bridge. Buildings burning near the canal in the city. View of British infantry across a canal. Dense smoke from fires burning nearby, obscures buildings in background. British infantry sheltering near edge of building in the city. View of several British soldiers in a Bren, or universal tracked carrier, loaded down with all kinds of gear, including a jerry can and other supplies. View of sniper (presumably German sniper) firing from upper window of De Gouden Leeuw restaurant or shop in 's-Hertogenbosch.

Date: 1944, October 22
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056356
First meeting of the Allied Control Council in the Allied Council Authority Building in Berlin, Germany.

The Allied Control Council meets in Berlin. The Allied Council Authority Building. Council members seated around a meeting table in a hall talk to each other. Colonel Marcel Rotivel, Colonel C. Vialet, Louis Koeltz, Pierre Koenig, Ambassador J de St-Hardouin, Cousel Jeasn Baudier Mr. Calvy and Captain Henry Joos represent the French delegation in the meeting. The members talk to each other and smile. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, December 17
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056386
Inauguration of John F Kennedy as 35th President of United States in Washington DC and his later visits to various European nations.

Swearing in of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as 35th President of United States and his subsequent tour to various European nations, United States. Kennedy swearing in as President during a ceremony and a large crowd gathers. Crowd applauds as he takes oath. Other dignitaries stand near him. Kennedy shakes hands with the former Prime Minister Dwight D Eisenhower. Kennedy during his visit to France meets with President Charles de Gaulle. Kennedy during meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. President Kennedy disembarks from Air Force One plane in Britain greeted and escorted by British Chiefs of Military Staff.

Date: 1961, January 20
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056466
Peace pact signed between Secret Army Organization (OAS) and Moslim rebels leads to peace in the cities of Algeria.

Peace pact signed between Secret Army Organization (OAS) and Moslim rebels leads to peace in the cities of Algeria. Tanks and French soldiers on alert in the streets of Algiers as a peace pact is signed. Few civilians on streets on day. French President Charles de Gaulle cheered by large crowd, raises his hands in victory after the signing of the peace pact.

Date: 1962, June 18
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056483