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Allied soldiers in North Africa celebrate Christmas in 1942, during World War II.

Allied Forces in North Africa during Christmas, 1942, in World War 2. Map of Tunisia. Ancient Roman ruins,including the Amphitheater of El Jem. A native plows a field. Children ride mules. Christian Cathedrals in various places. Interiors of a cathedral. At various places Allied soldiers hold Christmas Services outdoors. Camel Corps troops astride their camels. A Christmas service in front of a Curtiss P-40 aircraft displaying an American flag on its right wing and a Christian flag on its left. Scenes of children celebrating Christmas in different parts of the world, including boys throwing snowballs at each other outside a school building in the United States (Lettering above doorway of school reads "Durham Public School", possibly in Durham, NC. Graves of dead soldiers. Religious services held for the allied soldiers. British General Montgomery attends a religious service. Bells ring in churches across the world Sign reads 'A Happy Christmas'. Soldiers carry sacks. Letters brought for soldiers on a jeep. Soldiers run to get their letters. A soldier reads his letter. A soldier wakes up to find a filled stocking hung on his tent. Another soldier opens a parcel. 'Pine Grove USA' and 'Birney Cave Mincoka' written on two signs. Soldiers open parcels. Empty boxes, cups and bottles on a table. Preparation for the Christmas feast. Feathers are plucked from a turkey. Many bottles of rum in a row. Chickens are removed from an airplane. Soldiers in a chow line. A pudding on a plate is put on the table. A bowl of oranges on a table with some WAC service members. A sign in the background reads 'A Merry Xmas' Soldiers feed their pets. A puppy is fed. A donkey and a pig are fed. A pet monkey grooms a soldier's head. Candy is thrown to the native children. The Red Cross dispenses milk given by soldiers to native children. Soldiers go sightseeing in Egypt and observe an Egyptian magician. The Great Sphinx of Giza with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background as Allied soldiers fall off a camel they are trying to ride. Egyptian women pass in veils. British Soldiers play Cricket. American soldiers play baseball. Soldiers polish uniform brass and shine shoes to prepare for assembly. Others take baths in tubs outdoors. With all troops assembled, President Roosevelt visits riding in a jeep. He is accompanied by Lieutenant General Mark Clark and Major General Lloyd Fredendall, riding in the back of the jeep. Later the President is seen sitting sideways in the jeep, holding his hat over his heart as he passes troops lined along the roadside. Secret Service agents ride behind carrying machine guns. The generals in his jeep salute as they pass the colors. Next, British Prime Minister Churchill is seen greeted by an honor guard of four British soldiers as he arrives in Tunis in August, 1942 to visit British troops, en route to Moscow for his first meeting with Stalin.

Date: 1942, December 25
Duration: 7 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033510
Kuwait Harbor on Persian Gulf, in 1942

Peaceful scene of harbor at Kuwait on Persian Gulf, under British administration, in 1942. Several small sailboats are in the water near a wharf. The sun is shining and weather is apparently pleasant, judging by the way people are dressed (all in western garb). A cabin cruiser is docked and several men stand near it conversing. A man, woman, and child stroll along the wharf. Scene shifts to the Brazilian Freighter, SS Ozorio (aka OSORIO) entering the harbor. Camera focuses on the Ozorio, underway. (Note: On June 8, 1941, The SS Ozorio, picked up survivors from the Robin Moor, first U.S. ship to go down in World War II. Later, the Ozorio, herself, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, on September 27, 1942.)

Date: 1942
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022191
Japanese film of high-ranking Allied military officers taken prisoner in World War II and held in various places including Japanese-occupied China

Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037311
Launch and destruction of Atlas-Able 5A and 5B at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

View of ground data collections at Cape Canaveral, Manchester, England, Singapore and Hawaii. Atlas D Missile on dolly. C-133B with its cargo doors open parked in the background. Atlas-Able 5A on launch pad. Aero jet General technicians work on the launch of second stage of Atlas-Able launch. Technicians manning consoles at missile block house. Atlas-Able 5A ignition and lift-off. Tracking station radar screen. Atlas-Able 5B on launch pad at prior dawn hour. Missile being launched with its lift off and climb. Atlas-Able 5B second stage explosion in air. Personnel in a meeting. Recovered missile parts.

Date: 1960, September 25
Duration: 6 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023339
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hickam and Wheeler Air Force bases in Hawaii

Mix of actual footage and period dramatized scenes. Japanese fleet at sea on its way to attack Pearl Harbor in World War 2. Japanese fleet commander aboard carrier ship asks all personnel to face Tokyo and worship. Pilots take off. Pilots seen in cockpit. Japanese bomber planes in flight. (Dramatized) bombing on Pearl Harbor battleships and fuel storage tanks. Hickam and Wheeler Air Force fields are hit. Interior views of cockpit of Japanese aircraft. Japanese aircraft spot the British ship Prince of Wales and Repulse on their way to Singapore. A Japanese flier radios sinking of the British ship Prince of Wales. (World War II period).

Date: 1941, December 7
Duration: 10 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675041051
U.S. marines process Japanese prisoners on Betio, Tarawa, during World War II. Seabees begin restoring the airfield

U.S. 2nd Division Marines process about 10 Japanese soldiers taken prisoner on Betio, Tarawa atoll, during the battle there in World War 2. They cut away the prisoners' clothing to assure they don't carry weapons or explosives. (Narrator states they were later given replacement clothing from captured supplies.) Marines tend to a wounded Japanese prisoner. Japanese prisoners carrying their own wounded to a pier for evacuation. Marines cleaning up using water from captured Japanese steel barrels. Marines stand on fortifcations containing British Vickers BL 15 inch Mark I coastal defense guns captured by the Japanese in Singapore. These were knocked out by U.S. naval gunfire during the pre-assault bombardment. Closeup of one breech of a gun. A knocked out Japanese light tank at the South side of Japanese Rear Admiral Shibasaki's headquarters on Betio. (Shibasaki, commander of the Japanese forces there, was reportedly killed by U.S. Naval gunfire early in the assault.) Panning view of the remains of the reinforced concrete Japanese headquarters structure. U.S. Seabees using power shovel, dump trucks, graders, and heavy rollers, to restore the airfield for U.S. operations.

Date: 1943, November 24
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069064