Dramatization of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War. The United States Declaration of Independence. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial (16 E Basin Dr SW, Washington, DC 20242, United States) in Washington DC. Bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson. The statue of United States President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002). President Woodrow Wilson meets European leaders in France after World War I. Artistic depiction of United States soldiers fighting in the Spanish-American War. Map showing the Philippines, one of the two territories acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War. Filipino students attend a class. They listen to the teacher standing in front of them. Behind the teacher are two blackboards. Two American consultants working with a Filipino man at the Manila City Planning. A scale model of Manila. Men constructing a house in the Philippines. Filipino men carry an entire native Kubo nipa house as a form of “Bayanihan”. A parade in Manila in 1946. The United States grants independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946. Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner to the Philippines, reads a proclamation at the ceremony held at the Independence Grandstand in front of the Rizal Monument. Filipino women wearing traditional Filipiniana dresses attend the ceremony. The United States flag is lowered as the Philippine flag is raised.
The Filthy Thirteen (inspiration for The Dirty Dozen, officially known as the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division) of the United States Army prepare for Invasion of France night drop (D-Day) during World War II. The paratroopers help each other put their equipment on. The men, sporting Mohawk haircuts, apply Native American Indian war paint on each other’s faces. The men, now wearing their helmets, board the aircraft. Some of the men adjust the supply chutes underneath the aircraft. A Filthy Thirteen paratrooper smiles as he puts on his backpack. One of the paratroopers help his comrade adjust his backpack.
Troops, equipment, and vehicles on board a landing craft heading to Normandy, France during D-Day landings in World War II. Soldiers on ship’s gun turret. A landing craft sailing. Military trucks crammed on deck of ship. Soldiers board an LCM (Landing craft mechanized) and head to the beach. LCM boats crammed with soldiers. Convoy vessels sailing towards Normandy with faint barrage balloons overhead.
United States Army paratroopers with camouflaged faces carrying full packs as they march on a field in Normandy, France during World War II. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes taxi and park on airstrip in England. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane takes off. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton is seen on airfield.
Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division and the 502nd Infantry Regiment (502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment) arrive at an airfield for troop carriers in World War II. The troops happily wave with their helmets at the camera as they carry supplies. Some of the paratroopers’ faces are darkened. The paratroopers crowd to hear orders of the day. Some of the paratroopers’ helmets are seen with the distinctive heart shaped symbol of the 502nd Infantry Regiment. Paratroopers put on their life vests (Mae West) and chutes. The jump master gives out last minute instructions. Three paratroopers with blackened faces discuss plans. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton bids good luck to a paratrooper chaplain and a medical corps officer before the paratroopers board their Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Paratroopers climb aboard the transport plane. General Brereton presents a paratrooper with a rabbit’s foot as a good luck charm Nose of Douglas C-47 Skytrain “That's All, Brother” (N88874) before taking off for Normandy, France on D-Day.
Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, Commander of the British Third Division, inspects landing craft preparations on the Solent strait at Gosport, England. Soldiers, vehicles, and supplies crowd on landing craft deck. A tank parks on landing craft deck. LCTs, destroyers, and other vessels anchored a day before D-Day. Barrage balloons flying above the ships. A crewman signals using flag semaphore above the deck. Camera moves to deck where soldiers are seen resting, playing card games, smoking, sleeping, beside vehicles as they wait for departure. A soldier reads a France guidebook. British soldiers reading books and eating and drinking. Some British troops sleep and chat under trucks.
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