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Shows the importance and application of camouflage techniques during combat in World War 2.

A film 'Camouflage in Combat' underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows U.S. soldiers going into a theater in the United States and watching a movie 'Camouflage'. The movie shows a soldier in a forest. He is shot down. A soldier approaches him. He looks skywards. He applies mud on his face to camouflage himself. Soldiers paint each other's faces with GI paint. On 5th June 1944, fully camouflaged Airborne and pathfinder U.S. paratroopers preparing for D-Day invasion jump over Normandy, France. Soldiers with camouflaged helmets. A soldier camouflages his helmet with grass and twigs. A soldier on an island with his helmet camouflaged with grass and twigs found in the area which gives him a perfect blend. U.S. soldiers with camouflaged helmets in France. A camouflaged tank rolls. An officer inspects soldiers standing in a line. Their helmets are camouflaged. A U.S. soldier hiding in shadows in Casino, Italy fires his gun. His ring sparkles. A soldier in a prone position fires. A New Zealand soldier fires while in shadows.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050679
Flexible pipelines to supply gasoline being laid out under the water in the English Channel during World War II.

' Operation Pluto ' about the British operation to lay down under the sea pipe lines to supply gasoline in the European theater during World War II. A map of France. Flexible pipelines to transport gasoline between France and England are tarred and wrapped in Britain. Pipelines being manufactured and piled up in a yard. Ships and boats underway in the English Channel as the pipes are being laid.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042622
Eisenhower as the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and as the President of the Columbia University

Highlights the military career of U.S. General Dwight D Eisenhower from 1945 to 1952. Depicts notable World War II scenes and events starting on D-Day as Allied Forces invade France. Allied planes drop bombs on the enemy positions. Allied troops land on the shores of France. U.S. tanks move forward. Allied soldiers advance towards Saint Lo. Battle in St Lo area. General Patton Forces move forward. French troops and the soldiers of the U.S. 5th Corps march through Paris. The civilians cheer. Allied soldiers move towards the German border fighting on their way. Battle of the Bulge - when the Germans turned counter offensive. The bridge at Remagen on the river Rhine. Allied troops cross the bridge. Allied troops on the offensive, west of the Rhine. The enemy surrenders. Rubble on the streets. General Eisenhower with the troops. Military officers sign documents of German surrender on May 7 1945 in Reims at SHAEF headquarters. Eisenhower makes a speech at the end of the war. Eisenhower, in Paris, waves at the people from an open carriage. People welcome him in his homeland with a ticker tape parade in New York City. Eisenhower waves at the people gathered at the side of the streets from an open car of a motorcade. Eisenhower swears in as the 1st post war Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. He visited troops in various parts of the world. He salutes and moves towards a car with his wife as he leaves active military life. Pictures of Eisenhower as he becomes the president of the Columbia University. He reviews the troops as he becomes the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Eisenhower on European soil. He enters a car. He assumes supreme command of the land, the sea and the air force. Against the threat from the USSR he prepares the European Armies. Soldiers enter into a train. He reviews troops. General Eisenhower and General Matthew Ridgway salute. He enters into a plane with his wife. Painting of Eisenhower being sworn in as President of the United States. Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, two boys leaving the Library.

Date: 1945
Duration: 10 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033593
U.S. 36th Infantry Division in Central France during World War II.

Soldiers of the 36th Infantry Division, their shoulder badges clearly visible, in central France during World War 2. The soldiers at the front. They sit behind knolls and in foxholes. A soldier watches through binoculars. Others holding rifles are seated. Signalmen fix telephone wires. Smoke rises from bursting of shells from behind the lines. A road behind the front. A Sherman tanks moves past. The tank is driven up and a GI gets aboard. The soldiers watch as the tank moves past. Trees in the area. Soldiers standing around and sitting on roadside watch as tanks move past. Smoke rises from busting of shells in the field below. The soldiers look at the smoke. GI relaxes next to road sign for Baudoncourt 2km.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070340
General Charles De Gaulle awards medals to officers at the Paris Victory Parade in Paris,France after World War II.

General Charles De Gaulle at the Paris Victory Parade in Paris, France after World War II. The French troops lined on the path. Buildings in view. Huge crowd on the sides of the road. Army band and the guards on one side. General Charles De Gaulle arrives at the ceremony with other officers. The General walks along the road with other American and French officers. A man sets a camera on a tripod stand. The General awards medals to officers. Another man takes pictures with a camera held in a hand. Officers look on. Troops in rows on the other side of the road. Few officers stand at the back and watch the event. Few buildings in view.

Date: 1945, June 20
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054768
German prisoners of war, Major General Vatterrodt, Major McIntire and Capt. R. H. Huret in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.

German prisoners of war in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France after World War II. A vehicle outside a building on a street in Strasbourg. American and German officers coming out of the building and boarding the vehicle. The officers holding baggages in their hands. The officers getting down from the vehicle. German Commander of Strasbourg Major General Vatterrodt talking to Major McIntire and Captain R. H. Huret. A building in the background. Several German prisoners of war along the side of the road in front of a building. German officers beside a U.S. Army truck. The German prisoners of war getting into the U.S. Army truck. More German prisoners of war lined up to get into trucks to be taken to prisoner of war camps.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055131