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General Eisenhower as a World War II officer and as the U.S. President.

Scenes from life and career of Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th President of United States. U.S. Air Force plane lands and the President disembarks the plane in India, in 1959. He is greeted by the Indian President Dr Rajendra Prasad and other dignitaries. Emblem of 'Panama'. Sign of 'welcome Ike Crusader'. Large crowd welcomes Eisenhower. Motorcade goes through the city's street. Milestones in General Eisenhower's life and the international esteem with which he is held. Lt Col Eisenhower concerned about U.S. isolationism in 1940 as World War 2 is underway. Explosions in Europe due to bombing by German aircraft. Eisenhower and other officers in the General Staff study a map. Eisenhower plans the strategy as the commander of Operation Torch (he is shown talking to General George C. Marshall and Winston Churchill). President Eisenhower visits 4 continents and meets several leaders. Large crowds welcome him. General Eisenhower prepares for D-Day Invasion of France during World War 2. June 5, 1944: The Allied forces including troops, artillery, equipment, ammunition, aircraft and ships prepared. June 6, 1944: The Allies invade Normandy. Troops wade through the water during D-Day Normandy beach landings, while under enemy fire. German soldiers surrender. May 7, 1945: Nazi General Alfred Jodl signs the unconditional surrender of his government. General Eisenhower returns to the U.S. He receives a hero's welcome in New York during a parade. He visits his hometown in Kansas. Pictures of his family, childhood and college days. Eisenhower on his visits to various countries as President.

Date: 1959
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024703
Allied leaders meet in Quebec, Canada and the Germans launch an attack in Bulge, Belgium during World War II.

Allied campaign against the Axis in 1944 during World War II. Exteriors of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. Representatives of the United Nations at a meeting inside the mansion. A railroad train arrives and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gets off the train in Quebec, Canada for the Quebec Conference. Churchill confers with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt about Allied plans during the war. French FFI or Maquis groups in France. President Roosevelt, seated in front of a large celebrating crowd of people in the U.S., acknowledges them after being reelected President for a third term. People celebrate his victory and hold election victory signs as they cheer. American Civilians (mostly women war production workers) work in war production factories to produce aircraft, tanks and other equipment in the United States. Rows of aircraft engines, cockpits, and gun turrets being produced. On December 16, 1944, German forces launch a major-counter attack through the Ardennes forests, resulting in the "Battle of the Bulge" in Belgium. View of German soldiers and a German Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer rolling by. German soldiers advance past destroyed Allied tanks and trucks.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065886
French Forces of the Interior (FFI) clear the way for Allied troops in Paris.

August 1944: French patriots clear the way for Allied troops approaching to liberate Paris. A map shows entry of Allied troops into France. French patriots draw and distribute hidden arms. French men march towards Paris. Demolition fires set by the retreating Germans occupiers throughout the city. Quiet streets and areas of the city before the August uprising. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) Headquarters. FFI men in hideouts. A FFI command post in the city. The members map strategy and prepare arms and ammunition. A woman with a sleeve band with the letters FFI and the Free French Cross of Lorraine insignia. FFI men and women erect barricades throughout the city. Men load rifles. German tanks advance. FFI men in a street fight. A wounded African French man is helped to safety. French patriots behind barricades. A burning vehicle on the road. Smoke from explosions. A man near a wounded on the street. French man and woman disarm a German soldier. German Panther tanks flee. The French take German soldiers prisoners. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020658
Scenes from 1929 Geneva Convention; surrender of 20,000 Germans to U.S. General Macon by German Major General Elster near Loire

A U.S. Army Signal Corps training film on Rules for controlling German prisoners of war in World War 2. International conference 1929 in Geneva, Switzerland. Various officers and dignitaries in the conference where the Geneva Convention was agreed-upon by many nations. Image of Field Manual 27-10 states the Rules of Land Warfare based on the Geneva Conventions and describes standard procedures for handling Prisoners of War. Scene of 20,000 Prisoners of War who surrender under Nazi Major General Eric Elster at Loire, France September 16, 1944 to the United States 3rd Army, 83rd Division, under General Macon. General Elster salutes General Macon, then approaches the microphones in the middle of a roadway and delivers a surrender speech. General Macon then replies accepting the surrender on behalf of General Simpson. General Macon states that the men will be treated according to the rules made during the conference in Geneva.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021183
Saga of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II, with emphasis on role of African American soldiers

Opening scene shows U.S. soldiers firing rifles as they advance in the hedge rows (Bocage) of Normandy after the D-Day invasion in World War 2. Lightning is seen as a storm begins. Various invasion ships and boats are seen being pummeled by wind and waves. Some ships are seen tilted against the shore and damage to beachhead installations is evident all across the shore the wake of the storm. Landing craft of various sizes are left where they had been driven by the storm onto the shore. Twisted steel and damaged boats are seen everywhere. Views of U.S. infantry advancing into the interior of Normandy, under fire. A Sherman tank camouflaged with foliage, moves past demolished building. Troops marching single file along the sides of a rural road. At TC: 00: 57, the film continues with enactments of German officers in conference. At TC: 01:06, the actual Normandy beachhead is seen again with troops and war materiel being delivered without port facilities. Amphibious 2 and a half ton trucks (DUKWs) are seen making their way from transport ships to the shore. View of cargoes being lowered from a transport ship to a DUKW. Views of crew on the ship's deck, including an African American operating the cargo hoist. Closeup of cargo net with supplies dropping into a DUKW. Closeup two soldiers (one an African American) riding in a DUKW. Trucks and cranes on the beach. A soldier operates a crane placing ammunition into a truck. Crew member on a transport ship passes Jerry cans of fuel to a soldier in a DUKW. An M36 tank destroyer (90 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36) filled with soldier, drives from ashore from an LST. Numerous trucks gathered on the beachhead. Closeups of two soldiers at the front. Closeup of M36 tank destroyer moving toward the camera. Aerial overview of a beachhead. Soldiers with shovels fill holes in a roadway as trucks pass. A destroyed railroad yard. A destroyed airfield. A destroyed harbor. Destroyed rail line and communications lines at Valognes, in Normandy, France. African American soldiers using special equipment to string communications lines onto telephone poles. Closeups of them in vehicles designed for that purpose. Closeups of wires being unspooled. American soldiers connecting wires atop a pole. A group of African American soldiers working on telephone lines. Others are seen using mine detectors. An African American soldier operating a mobile crane. African American soldiers installing pierced steel plank (Marsden matting) on an airfield. A team of African American soldiers placing rails in place for a railroad. Others working on pipeline. One uses an acetylene torch to weld a pipe. Fuel gushing from a hose refueling an armored vehicle. The destroyed port of Cherbourg occupied by American troops. View a week later of the harbor in full operation. Cranes unloading a locomotive at the port. View of port operations on July 4, 1944. A German aircraft overhead and bombs exploding. More views of work being done on the port. Stockpiles of supplies at the port. A Sherman tank moving with infantry. Troops moving along sides of a road. An M36 tank destroyer is welcomed by local civilians as it moves through their town. A 75 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 moves through a town 25 miles from Paris. American infantry marching through a town. Heavy army trucks carry supplies. Sign posted for the "Red Ball Express." Columns of trucks carrying supplies from the port of Cherbourg to the front. Mines exploding nearby as the trucks move at night. Closeup of an African American soldier driving one of the trucks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029667
Captain Don M. Beerbower, 353rd Fighter Squadron, and his P-51,

U.S. Army Air Forces 354th Fighter Group in Normandy. Ground crew run to pull camouflage from P-51 at advance air strip Criqueville (A-2) in Normandy during World War 2. The P-51 prop turns,engine starts, and it taxis forward. The name "Bonnie B II" is painted on the fuselage, and 17 swastikas are painted below the cockpit. A Mustang is painted on the tail. It's serial number is 43-12375. The aircraft stops. The name, Captain Don M. Beerbower,is painted below the cockpit. He stands up and climbs out of the airplane, wearing his oxygen mask and helmet. Scene shifts to a loudspeaker in a control facility.A soldier is seen talking on the radio in a plexiglassed enclosure. A flight of P-51s approaches the field. They break off and proceed to buzz the field. (Note concerning Captain Beerbower,of Hill City, Minnesota, seen in this clip. He served as acting Commander of the 353rd Fighter Squadron and was later promoted to Major. He was Commander of the 353rd Fighter Squadron when killed in action, by ground fire while flying his P-51, Bonnie B II, leading an attack on a German airfield near Reims, France, on August 9, 1944. His decorations included: the DSC, Silver Star,DFC (3), Air Medal (26), British DFC, Purple Heart, Distinguished Unit Citation and Campaign Medals.)

Date: 1944, July 22
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033413