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German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini discuss strategies for war in the European Theater.

Officials confer during World War II. Allied war material stacked on a port in England, including U.S. tanks, trailers, razor wire, fencing, and trucks in preparation for invasion of Europe in 1944. American and British soldiers work and load the supplies for their shipment to the war front. U.S. soldiers unload at a beach site. British Army soldiers roll a covered artillery piece . It has a chalk handwritten label on the gun barrel that says, "Slim's Deadly Poison" and an image of skull and cross bones. Laborers building a German fortification in coastal France. German General viewing English Channel from coastal fortification along the Atlantic Wall. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini confer in a meeting. The officials discuss strategies for the war over a large map. Newspapers with English headlines speculating about the coming Allied invasion. George Marshall and other Allied officers of the War Council of the united nations assembled at a large conference table and in discussion for the Invasion of Europe (D-Day invasion of France).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075788
Troops board trains with war equipment and other supplies en route to ports of embarkation from the United States during World War II.

Plans underway in the United States in 1944 for participation in the invasion of France during World War 2 by Allied forces. A U.S. Army sentry of the Army Service Forces (ASF) patrols a rail line, where military men and equpment are being transported abroad., during World War 2. ASF soldiers drive DUKWs (amphibious vehicles) up a ramp for loading into railroad box cars. A long line of DUKWs being driven for loading. Many men load 55 gallon drums of petroleum products into rail cars. An M3 Stuart light tank being driven on an open rail car. Soldiers loading motorcycles on a train. An Army M3 Half-track Amored Personnel Carrier (APC) driving onto a railroad train. (Narrator notes that it requires 75 trains to transport a single Armored Division by rail.) Men loading a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (Called Priest, by the British) onto a flat rail car and securing it in place with wooden supports. Army personnel that would participate in an invasion are shown. Paratroopers with their packs. Women's Army Corps (WACs) fill their duffel bags with clothing and other items, and are then seen climbing aboard an open stake truck. An Army band plays and marches giving troops a sendoff at a train station. U.S. soldiers board passenger railroad trains, carrying their field packs and weapons. A steam locomotive pulling a troop train. A train load of Sherman M4 medium tanks and other equipment, including a caterpillar tractor, is seen underway. Unidentified tanks being fastened to rail flat car. Many Army trucks and heavy equipment on train passing a town train station. Military equipment moving on trains over bridges. Two ladies under hair dryers at a salon, discussing boys in service going overseas. United States Army troops bound for the war front are seen boarding railroad trains and also changing trains, monitored by Army military police (MPs) at night. Soldiers inside a moving train car occupy themselves by playing cards; shooting craps; An African American porter watches a game. An Army chaplain talking with some of the soldiers. A soldier reading a magazine. His seat partner keeps falling asleep against him. American civilians at a newsstand. Newspaper headline reads: "London expects invasion of Europe at any hour."

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075792
War materiel is loaded on ships to support the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II

A ship being loaded at a U.S. port of embarkation with war materiel to support the Allied invasion of Europe in World War 2. A group of Army dock workers enters the port building. A sign on the front office reads: "U.S. Army Transport Service." Steel structural items and large steel boiler are loaded aboard the ship. Men steady supplies lowered on deck in nets. Men place boxes in the ship's hold. A 2x4 Army truck being lowered into the ship.Tanks and artillery pieces, covered with canvas on the ship deck. A 155mm long tom gun being loaded on the ship More views of equipment and supplies being loaded aboard ship. The covered fuselage of a P-38 Lightning fighter plane being lowered onto the deck. Two civilian men in a wash room talk about upcoming invasion. Troops in full field gear coming aboard the transport ship. Men looking out the port holes of the ship. An invasion convoy getting underway. Soldier on deck, silhouetted against the sky. View of the Pentagon Building in Virginia. Army Service Forces officers meeting in Pentagon. Officers walking in the Pentagon halls. One exchanges salutes with a guard as he leaves the building.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075793
Signal Corps linemen stringing wires to poles and other soldiers standing on street in Julich, Germany during World War II.

U.S. soldiers in Julich, Germany during World War II. Soldiers standing on the street. Signal Corps linemen string wires to poles. Jeeps and trucks parked on the street. Soldiers aboard trucks passing on the street. Leafless trees along road sides. View from low camera position near ground of U.S. Army M4 Sherman tanks approaching and passing by, with close views of tank treads.

Date: 1945, February 26
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075838
The meeting of the Allied officers and German nurses and medics treating the wounded soldiers in Werben, Germany.

The allied officers in Werben, Germany during World War II. Russian officers with U.S. Army Brigadier General Alexander R Bolling crossing the Elbe river. They talk amongst themselves on the bank of the river. Vehicles parked on the field. German nurses and medics unloading wounded German soldiers and civilians from barges on the U.S. side of the river. The medics carry the wounded on stretchers and treat them. Jeeps parked on the ground. Flags flying atop flag poles. Wounded on stretchers lying on the ground.

Date: 1945, May 3
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075888
Medics carrying wounded soldiers to jeeps for evacuation outside Wegscheid Germany in World War 2.

U.S. Army tanks seen on fire in woods just outside the town of Wegscheid, in Bavaria, Germany, during World War II. M-4 tanks stopped on the road. A tank explodes. Fire and smoke rising up from the tank. Trees along the roadside and town of Wegscheid in distance. Several badly wounded American soldiers are removed from and around the burning tank by medics and other soldiers. The wounded U.S. soldiers are carried to nearby jeeps for evacuation.

Date: 1945, May 4
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075892