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Evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in World War 2; French children being evacuated; Italy readies for war
Highway sign reads M 16, Dunkerque. German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers fly low and drop bombs. Offshore, a flotilla of warships and civilian ships and boats approaches. British spitfire fighters engage German warplanes. Gun camera footage of dogfights. Allied troops boarding boats while being bombed. Rescued French and British soldiers on decks of ships. View of destruction at the Dunkirk shore. Rescued troops disembarking in England. Prime Minister Winston Churchill reviews group of ordinary British citizens who participated in the evacuation and shakes hands with naval officers. Generals of the French High Command expressing dismay. Map shows battlefront. Parisians getting newspapers and French parents and families evacuate French children South for safety. Women are seen kissing their children goodbye as they load onto buses to be evacuated to safety. Anguished women wave as their children depart. Change of scene to sandbagged French defensive positions in Paris. American intelligence officer, using animated map,describes German sweep of France. Benito Mussolini with son-in-law, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Italian motorcycle troops and infantry enter France. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt condemning the Italian action. Mussolini accompanied by Italian officers, struts along a street as Italian troops watch from sidewalk. He reviews a contingent of youth in uniforms that look like Alpini.
France surrenders to Germany during World War 2
French Marshal Petain, now Premier, following Battle of France, walks to a car and seen later at conference table with Pierre Laval and other national leaders. View of Adolf Hitler, with close associates, expressing delight after signing of the second armistice at Compiegne,ending resistance by France, on June 22, 1940. German honor guard marching near Marshal Foch's railroad car where the 1918 armistice was signed. Monument of Marshal Foch. Hitler, Hermann Goering, and Admiral Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine, review the honor guard. German stand at steps of the rail car. Raeder, and Goering, both carrying Marshal's batons, flank Hitler. French Army General Charles Huntziger, accompanied by General Jean Bergeret,Air Minister, Vice Admiral Le Luc, Commander of Maritime Forces, and Ambassador Leon Noel, are escorted by two German officers. They enter the railroad carriage. View inside, as Hitler, Goering and German representatives stand when they enter. Newspaper headline describes tax on France for German occupation. French prisoners of war in an outdoor yard and being moved to Germany. French prisoners in bucket brigade and carrying construction materials. French workers engaged in labor to support German war effort. Unhappy French children. Public funerals for persons executed by the Germans. German flag draped over the Foch statue. Hitler's touring motorcade passes Arc de Triomphe in Paris in early morning when streets are empty. Parisians gather on streets to hear German orders broadcast. Many express distress. In Southern France, Military units carry their colors as they depart for North Africa. General Charles de Gaulle is among the marchers. De Gaulle seen reviewing contingents of French military. Free French soldiers parading in London, England. Military officers salute as the ship carrying Regimental colors departs. French colors carried beside unit with American flag. General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Giraud at 1943 Casablanca Conference (Roosevelt and Churchill seated).
B-17 flying fortresses of the U.S. 8th Air Force return from bombing mission with wounded and battle damage
A Red Cross ambulance pulls up to United States B-17 bomber and wounded airmen being taken off the plane in England during World War II. Wounded being placed onto stretchers and being put in the ambulance. An officer gives blood plasma and a cigarette to an injured. B-17s landing, one with number 1 engine feathered, another with with number one feathered. One B-17 named "Southern Comfort" (tail number 41-24617) with large piece of rudder shot away. Another with rudder missing entirely and a large chunk shot out of its vertical stabilizer. B-17 named "Dame Satan" with large hole in its fuselage. More views of battle damage including crippled landing gear, numerous holes in wings, large sections of wings and fuselages shot away, and destroyed canopies. Crew members pose in front of their battle-damaged aircraft. Battle damage to B-17 named "Old Bill."
German and Romanian troops fight against Soviets during the battle of Caucasus in World War 2
German film about the Battle for the Caucasus. Opens showing a map of the region, centered on Pyatigorsk. German troops are seen descending from wooded hills above the Kuban river. They launch a rubber raft and start crossing the river in it, as Soviet artillery shells splash in the water near them. Closeup of soldiers paddling the raft. Views from inside one of two rafts being paddled across the river, under artillery fire. German and Romanian soldiers participate in the crossings and make their way through heavy brush on the other side. They throw hand grenades. One Romanian soldier fires a vz.26 light machine gun. Others hunt Soviet snipers hidden in trees. They encounter one and shoot him down with their rifles. View from shore of a raft of Romanian soldiers being pulled by a cable toward the camera. Some are seen crossing the river in a power boat. Closeup of boatman at the tiller of the boat. Views of Romanian soldiers moving along the river bank near houses and roads. They move an artillery field piece along the shoreline. Movements of trucks raise much obscuring dust at the foot of the Caucasus mountains. Romanian troops hunkered down beside a road as a tank moves raising lots of dust in the background. Closeup of a Romanian T-4 tank (or German Panzer IV) advancing toward the camera. German forces with armor, artillery, and vehicles enter the town of Pyatigorsk. German forces setting up positions on a plain, and firing artillery at zero elevation and anti aircraft guns at Soviet positions. Armored vehicles and crews taking a break. German infantry marching in loose formation deeper into the Caucasus. Horses pulling artillery pieces and supplies through the water. A German SdKfz 7 half track proceeding through the water, towing an s.F.H. 18, 15cm field howitzer. A soldier hitches a ride on the hood of a staff car being towed through the water. View of Maikop, an Oil city on North Slope of Caucuses. Local Commissars taken prisoner, being escorted. Soldiers display a captured Bolshevik flag containing image of Joseph Stalin. Captured prisoners being marched, guarded by armed German soldiers on horseback. Scene shifts to German artillerymen setting up in a cornfield for a battle for the oil fields South of Maikop. Artillery firing, with operations continuing into the night. Fires raging at night from Soviet artillery strikes. German infantry advancing in the daylight. SdKfz 7 half tracks towing s.F.H. 18, 15cm field howitzers, past burning buildings. Closeup of infantry and armor advancing through dust and heat.
United States confirms presence of Russian Beagle bombers and missiles in Cuba, capable of nuclear attack on the US
United States Army Air Defense battalion radar trucks on Southern Atlantic coast during Cold War. SAM (surface to air) missiles on transporters. Barbed wire erected by United States soldiers on beaches. Marines disembarking from transport plane at Guantanamo. Women and children evacuated from Guantanamo and they board ocean liner ship. United States troops wave goodbye. American college football game between Northwestern and Ohio State. Seattle fair closes with view of ferris wheel. A San Francisco shop selling elephants and a girl walks beside a young baby elephant that is wearing a white bow on its neck. President John F. Kennedy boarding plane. President talks with Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Soviet Union. Low altitude reconnaissance photos in which Russian Beagle bombers and missiles are shown in Cuba during Cuban Missile Crisis.
Press Conference at White House where President Dwight Eisenhower answers questions regarding segregation disputes.
During Civil Rights movement in America. Press corp taking notes. A reporter asks President Eisenhower to comment on aspects of State-Federal responsibility in the segregation disputes relating to incident just a day before in Texarkana when the town did not allow two African American students into the school where they had registered. The reporter asks if the President thinks that is a case where the federal government would become involved. President says that Federal District Court can call in Justice Department to bring evidence, review the case, and determine if a party is in contempt of a federal circuit court order regarding integration. The President also decries the violence that occurred in Texarkana in the case. He implores the states to ensure the laws are followed and to follow rulings of the courts. He praises the integration work by school Superintendent Omer Carmichael in Louisville, Kentucky, over two years. Close up view of hand of a reporter writing notes in a notebook during press conference. A reporter from National African American Press asks question to President regarding segregation and regarding the President's statement that changing of traditions and the hearts of men will unfortunately take a long time, is not the solution of the present disorder in many parts of the south over desegregation, that citizens must be restrained from expressing their prejudices in public actions when such public actions are in violation of the law. President Eisenhower says that the local court must determine if someone is in contempt of that court.