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General Erwin Rommel during World War II in Africa.

German General Erwin Rommel inspects German bunkers and fortifications in North Africa. The General talks to a soldier and walks away. The German Army soldiers stand with their military tanks near their bunkers. General Rommel in a tank, having conversation with another officer. (Scenes are from 1941, but narrator is noting that Rommel has died, indicating that this is news form 1944, but is showing scenes from several years prior.)

Location: Africa
Date: 1941
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675030670
Jewish exit railroad cars at concentration camps; Hans Albin Rauter trial for Nazi war crimes.

Dutch war court in the Hague, Netherlands in 1948. Hanns Albin Rauter, Nazi police leader on trial for his crimes in German occupied Netherlands during World War II. Dignitaries and people in courtroom stand up as the judges arrive and take their seats. Session of trial begins. Views of prosecution desk and tribunal seen in turns. Hans Albin Rauter is being questioned by judges. 1942, 1943, or 1944 flashback scenes of Jewish, Dutch civilians being rounded up and deported on railroad trains to forced labor camps and concentration camps, while in background audio the prosecutor reads the charges. The round up footage first shows Jewish families with women and children being directed onto trains at a train station. A subsequent shot shows Jews exiting cramped railroad train cars and being lined up under Nazi guard at concentration camp. Documents about crimes committed by the accused are shown. Another man enters the courtroom, takes the oath and is questioned by the tribunal. The man is a supervisor of slave labor prisoners working for the Germans, and at the time of the trial was detained at a Rotterdam Penitentiary.

Location: The Hague Netherlands
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Dutch
Clip: 65675030785
1st American Volunteer Group attacks and shoots down Japanese planes in Kunming, China.

United States Army Air Force operations against the Japanese in China in 1944. United States Army Air Force 1st American volunteer Group pilots look at a map. A pilot in a cockpit with a sign on the plane as it reads 'Pilot R.T. Smith' Soldiers are briefed and a man puts an insignia on the collar of a soldier. An animated map shows the transportation of supplies across the Himalayas to China. Chinese troops. Planes in flight. Aircraft take off and fly in formation. American Fighters in flight. Japanese plane burns and descends. Another plane explodes in mid air and falls. Men look at wreckage of crashed aircraft. Allied Officers confer. Animation shows location of Chinese towns. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft take off for attacking the Japanese positions. (World War II period).

Location: Kunming China
Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042287
A WAC checks papers against a reference book and marks information on a sheet in Kandy, Ceylon (WW2)

WAC (Women's Army Corps) activities in Kandy, Ceylon during World War II. A U.S. soldier writes while seated at a table. A WAC personnel approaches a shelf with books. She removes a reference book and goes through it. She checks papers against the reference book and marks information on a sheet. She then returns the book to the shelf. Labeled books in shelf. A label reads 'WAR DIARY, July 1944 - 26th to 31st'.

Location: Kandy Ceylon
Date: 1945, January 3
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043704
The freighter SS Yorkmar aground, awaits re-floating, on a beach near Grays Harbor, Washington State, United States

The freighter SS Yorkmar, owned by the Bethlehem Steel Company, and operated by the Calmar Line, is aground on an open beach north of Grays Harbor, Washington State, United States. A ship's officer and some members of the crew are seen briefly,on the shore. A Coast Guard helicopter hovers over her stern while carrying a line out to the ship from the shore. Crew members are seen standing in the water near the Yorkmar,and pulling on a line from the ship to the shore. Others climb a rope ladder up the side of the Yorkmar. The crew remains with the ship awaiting tide to refloat her. (Note: The SS Yorkmar, seen here, should not be confused with a ship of the same name that was torpedoed in 1943. This ship was originally a Liberty Ship, launched in 1944, and named the "Walter Kidde." After the war, she was operated by Calmar SS Corporation of New York and renamed the "Yorkmar," in 1947.)

Location: Grays Harbor Washington USA
Date: 1952, December 11
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045422
Men remove dead bodies of American prisoners massacred by the Japanese in Palawan, Philippines (WW2)

Bodies of dead American prisoners in Palawan, Philippines, victims of the Palawan Massacre of American POW by Japanese forces in December 1944 (World War II). A sign board reads: 'This area off limits to all personnel'. 'Remains of American prisoners of war'. Men exhume corpses in the area. They dig the graves. Exterior of a building. Recovered dead bodies of soldiers lying on the ground. Men sit nearby. A man searches the dead bodies.

Location: Palawan Philippines
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045828
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