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Role of the Jeep in U.S. military operations during World War II.

A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Waco CG-4A-WO glider is seen descending and landing in a grass field. Upon touchdown, its front pops open and and an army jeep drives out. USAAF C-47 aircraft are seen next, offloading jeeps pulling small artillery pieces, and infantry who move rapidly from the parked aircraft. Jeeps traversing a high hump in a dirt road. A jeep towing an M-3 Antitank Gun 37mm, and others driving through underbrush and bouncing over rough road while towing 37mm guns and trailers. Soldiers stepping from jeeps to set up machine guns. American soldiers playing a game of horse and rider, during a break in duties. Soldiers setting up mortars. Jeeps driving through bodies of water. Two M4A1 (76)W Sherman tanks, with cast steel hulls, drive into a stream. Troops setting up several 37mm guns on a river bank. Two soldiers in a communications jeep. Army officers perusing a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. U.S. field artillerymen using periscopic binoculars on tripods, to spot and direct gunfire. Military vehicles, including jeeps, moving across desert terrain. Artillery crews firing M59 (M2 Long Tom) 155mm guns. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft flying overhead. Jeeps in various roles, bouncing along in the desert and laying smoke screens. Jeeps equipped with M3 anti-aircraft guns and others with stretchers for wounded affixed to their sides. U.S. Army Ford GPA "Seep" amphibious jeeps plunging into water and continuing on as boats. A jeep production and assembly line in a U.S. factory showing stages of assembly and finished jeeps driving out of the plant into yards containing hundreds of them. A convoy of jeeps driving over a bridge, and others carrying a U.S. military brass band in a parade in England. A Hollywood actress (Gloria Swanson?) being lifted into a jeep by several men. Glimpse of an unidentified actress with an American soldier, in a jeep. Hollywood stars, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy clowning in the front seat of a jeep with Desi Arnaz and two women riding in the back. Several jeeps carrying these and other Hollywood personalities during a war bond parade in Washington DC. The Capitol looming in the background as the jeeps move away from it toward the camera. Jeeps being prepared for transport to overseas destinations. Some being enclosed in wooden crates and placed on rail cars. Jeeps being hauled by cranes and placed aboard ships. Landing crafts mechanized (LCMs) transporting infantry and vehicles, including jeeps. An M4A1 Sherman tank driving out of a landing craft into surf. A jeep being driven onto beach at Adak,in the Aleutians,from a landing craft of the USS J.Franklin Bell (AP-34), in 1942. In 1943, this transport ship was reclassified as APA-16.) American troops with jeep on a South Pacific island in World War 2. A soldier on motorcycle, skids in mud on road in North Africa, and jeeps drive past him. American soldiers ride camels and some drive in a jeep near the Great pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt. Jeeps seen in China, with Generals Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault. One parked next to a Flying Tiger P-40 airplane. Soldiers in a jeep in Alaska, next to a tent and sign pointing to "Tokyo." Local tribesmen literally carrying a jeep, on long poles, across a river in Timor. General Douglas MacArthur, accompanied by staff officers, being driven in a jeep along a jungle road in New Guinea, past a line of local tribesmen. Wendell Wilkie, serving as Ambassador-at-large, during the war, speaks to U.S. officers in a jeep. Britain's King George VI in a jeep followed by another carrying Queen Elizabeth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt riding in a jeep to review troops. He removes his hat as they pass the American flag. Sign on a building in North Africa reads "Bizerte." General George S. Patton, standing in a jeep during a victory parade in North Africa. Soldiers at an outdoor religious service during the war with the hood of a jeep serving as a make shift altar.Various views of jeeps driving with soldiers in them.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042283
British Prime minister Churchill inspects artillery and takes lunch with airmen in Egypt during World War II.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits British troops in Egypt during World War II. Prime Minister Churchill arrives and is surrounded by soldiers. He raises his hat. Churchill inspects British artillery. Artillery being fired. Churchill takes lunch with British airmen at a headquarters. He drinks from a glass. Churchill with South African Prime Minister General Jan Smuts and another man and woman with their baby in a pram. Prime minister Churchill plays with the child seated in a pram. The baby is wearing a hat with a "V" for victory pin on it. Churchill holds the child. Clip closes with public service announcement (PSA) with message encouraging viewers to "Help your country! Buy war bonds and stamps at this theatre" superimposed on an image of bomber aircraft and the Statue of Liberty.

Date: 1942
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065999
Supplies and reinforcements arrive for British Eighth Army fighting against Germans in El Alamein, Egypt.

Supply and reinforcements arrive for British Eighth Army fighting against Germans in El Alamein. Troops from South Africa, India and Thailand disembark from ships in harbor. Tanks unloaded from ships. Sherman M4 tanks delivered from U.S. Military vehicles and train loaded with supplies heading for battle front guarded by planes overhead. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel with his men. Italian tanks unloaded from ship. Planes attack German ships underway at sea bringing supplies. Royal Navy men inside submarines target German ships. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052594
Village life in an oasis in Iran.

Life in oasis village. A man cuts meat while another keeps flies away by waving a flag-like fan. Women and children watch. People gather to fill water containers at community pump. Some carry filled containers home on their heads. A man showers from a bucket at the pump.

Date: 1944
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041200
German troops and equipment aboard ship and advancing in North Africa during World War II.

German soldiers lounging on the deck of an ocean liner being used as a troop ship, bound for Tobruk, Libya, during World War II. Views of war materiel on board, including motor cycles. Aerial views of the Port at Tobruk, with troop and supply vessels moored. Italian troops disembarking from troop ship. Stacked arms and military gear of Italian and German troops. Truck convoys carrying troops,supplies and Italian tanks, on coastal road towards El Alamein, Egypt. Medium German Pz.IV tanks on that road. View from aircraft of the troops and supplies being moved. Aerial views of prepared defensive positions along the coastal corridor. British prisoners of war, behind barbed wire fence. Trucks and Italian light tanks of Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps moving on the road.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675049880
Sharifian Army march with Arab nationalist flag, men riding camels in Arabian desert during WW1

Military uprising of Arab tribes against the Ottoman Empire during World War 1. The Sharifian Army march in the desert toward an oasis. Military leader rides a camel in front of Sharifian Army soldiers. Sharifian Army carry the Flag of the Arab Revolt (also known as the flag of Hejaz), the Arab nationalist flag. A busy scene in an oasis. Men mounting and riding camels. Sharifian Army soldiers direct camels with men to sit down. Two Arab men carry a patient on a stretcher, other patients treated by medics. Sharifian Army soldiers stand up and begin to move.

Date: 1916, June
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078835