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New Year religious festival in Tibet (WW2)
United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) diplomatic and military mission to Tibet led by Major Ilia Tolstoy and Captain Brooke Dolan. Tibetan monks come out from monasteries to attend a New Year religious festival. Monks with long poles try to control other monks. Women of a family wear new dresses for the festival. Natives walk down the steps after paying homage to Dalai Lama in Potala Palace. Re-enactment of legendary battle at the opening ceremony for New Year festival. Native Tibetans in the courtyard of Potala Palace (35 Beijing Middle Rd, Lhasa, Tibet, China, 850000). Dancing ritual for religious ceremony. Pole sitting act. Priest at religious ceremony. Monks at oracle. Men ride horses. Men shoot arrows. Officials and men pay homage to representatives of the region. The last part of New Year ceremony is annual cavalry show with armed riders. The cavalry marches. Rider fire targets while riding horses. (World War II period).
Pilgrims perform Holy Walk to Potala Palace
United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) diplomatic and military mission to Tibet led by Major Ilia Tolstoy and Captain Brooke Dolan. A pilgrim performs Holy Walk to the Potala Palace. Paintings on rock walls. A monk turns prayer-wheel. Pilgrims perform Holy Walk. View of the Potala Palace (35 Beijing Middle Rd, Lhasa, Tibet, China, 850000). Current Dalai Lama, a young 7-year-old child, seated (Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama).
Allied airplanes strafe German targets and down German fighters over Europe (WW2)
Map of Europe highlights Foggia, Italy and London, United Kingdom from where Allied bombers take off to attack German targets in World War II. British officer in United Kingdom briefs young pilots from the Allied forces. United States Army Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters take off. Consolidated B-24 Liberator and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers take off. Aerial view showing Allied aircraft strafe and bomb German factories, shipyards, submarine bases, airfields, and oil refineries. Smoke rises from aerial bomb sites. British aircraft attack German war production centers at night. Airplane strafes a moving train. Explosions on German airfield. A fighter pilot wearing oxygen mask behind the cockpit. A gunner firing with machine gun on board a bomber. Dogfight scenes as German fighter aircraft attack bombers. German planes in flames. Allied planes down German fighters over Europe.
A Luftwaffe aircraft seen in flight and later exploding
'GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) Combat Film'. A Luftwaffe aircraft seen in flight and later exploding due to attack during World War II.
The Allied invasion of Sicily during Operation Husky in World War II
British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery are seen looking skyward. They stand on a field in front of a large formation of troops. Scene shifts to a seaport in North Africa, with Allied troop ships preparing to depart. A barrage balloon flies over the port. (Narrator notes that the armada includes ships of Britain, The United States, the Netherlands, Poland, Greece, the Indian navies, A warship sits in the water beside a large troop ship. A tugboat tows a large troop transport ship in the harbor. Cargo ships and a three stacker transport ship are seen. Two British battleships. Sailor using signal light to send a message. Two American destroyers in trail formation. U.S. Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, Commander of the 8th Fleet, presents Lieutenant General George S. Patton, commander of U.S. forces, with a new battle flag. Views of ships in the invasion fleet. Transport ships anchor off the coast as they shuttle troops to the beaches in their landing ships. A landing ship flying the American flag. Naval guns fire barrages at the shore. As landing craft reach the beach, troops wade ashore through the surf. An army truck drives from a landing craft through the surf. Army truck and a jeep drive ashore from a large landing craft. Brief glimpse of Wading tanks leaving a tank carrier and driving ashore through the surf. Troops landing with dry feet from a beached landing craft. View of the city of Gela. Lieutenant George S. Patton climbs over the side of a ship and descends on a rope ladder to enter a Higgins boat that takes him to assume command of the invasion operations. Closeup of Lieutenant General Patton in the boat entering the harbor at Gela. He jumps from the boat as it reaches the beach. Local civilians view activities from the beach. DUKWs (amphibious trucks) drive ashore. Artillery pieces being towed ashore. American infantry entering the town of Gela. Military vehicles enter through rubble strewn streets. An M4 Sherman tank speeds along a road. Remains of an Italian armored train destroyed by Allied gunfire. American soldiers walk through areas destroyed by German bombing. American troops search buildings. Local Italian people mingling with American troops. Surrendered Italian troops march under guard along a street. Allied forces head toward Messina. A tracked gun carrier filled with troops in the back, moves along a street. U.S. infantry marching along a roadside. Army engineers clearing mine fields in advance of troops. Closeup of a buried mine being revealed. Major General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., Commander of the U.S 3rd Infantry Division, inspects Axis planes and hangars captured by American forces. Many undamaged aircraft are seen in revetments and simply parked on the airfield. Fuel arrives for Allied aircraft. British Fairey Firefly aircraft taking off. Dead Axis soldiers lying on the ground. Destroyed Axis military vehicles. A knocked out German Tiger tank. A DUKW drives past a damaged Axis armored vehicle. UN forces firing mortars from a field. A knocked out Axis armored vehicle. UN motorized gun carrier fires its gun. Allied infantry advancing.
American bomber aircraft smash Axis Oil Fields in Ploiesti Romania during Operation Tidal Wave
United States General Lewis Brereton speaking with crews of bombers of U.S. Ninth Air Force during World War 2. Soldiers plan and prepare for the destruction of the Ploiești oil refineries (or Ploesti) located in Romania. A map shows the plan of "Operation Tidal Wave." The B-24 Liberator aircraft based in Libya are readied and seen taking off and in formation on the way to the daylight attack of the Axis oil fields in Romania. Aerial views of U.S. Army Air Force B-24 aircraft in flight. View of Ploesti Oil Fields as bombers approach target. The refineries and the storage tanks are destroyed by U.S. bombing. Aerial view from bomber looking out over machine gun position during attack. Explosions on ground below. Aerial view of other B-24 aircraft in the sky during the attack, and on their way returning home.