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President Franklin D Roosevelt declares National Emergency during a speech in White House, Washington DC, United States (WW2)

President Franklin D Roosevelt during his speech at White House in Washington DC, United States declares America's decision to actively resist Adolf Hitler's expansion and to provide Britain full assistance to check Nazi German expansion. Excerpts from his "We choose human freedom" radio address as America nears direct involvement in World War 2. Roosevelt refuses to accept Adolf Hitler dominated world and promises to use armed forces to repel any attack on American republics. He upholds the freedom of all kind as their objective. President Roosevelt declares National Emergency and emphasizes on the need to strengthen their defense and asks all the Americans to cooperate towards the cause. Audiences clap in appreciation after the speech ends.

Date: 1941, May 27
Duration: 8 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048969
Heavy traffic on a street in London, England on Victory in Europe Day.

U.S. Army Captain in uniform holds slate. Victory in Europe Day celebrations, World War II in London, England. Traffic on street in London. A car and a double decker bus on the street. Pedestrians. Two London policemen (Bobbies) talk to each other with a bus in the background.

Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048982
Battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) in rough seas of Pacific Ocean and rescue at sea, during World War II

World War2, the Pacific Theater. United States battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) in rough seas. Heavy sea breaks over the bow of the ship. Ship submerges in sea up to the deck at bow. Seamen in a small boat Raft in rough seas as men rescued in whaleboat. Whaleboat picks up men in rough sea. Two rubber life rafts in water. Men rescued in life rafts. Whaleboat in rough seas. Six life rafts come alongside a ship. U.S. sailors and Marines being rescued. Navy TBM airborne in flight and drops smoke flare. Men in rubber life rafts. Three life rafts with men in them in open seas.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049007
Guns aboard United States ship Minneapolis (CA-36) firing during the Battle of Wake Island in World War II.

Battle of Wake Island and Santa Cruz Island in Pacific Theater during World War 2. United States sailors on board the USS Minneapolis (CA-36). One of the sailors drinks from a glass and another one scans the sky during shelling of Wake island. 5 inch-25 caliber multipurpose guns trained skyward. Curtiss Scout observation plane (SOC Sea gull) warms up on catapult. Gun crew with helmets and masks, man their guns. Explosions occur from shelling of Wake Island. A ship strafed by aircraft. Smoke rises as shells drop in the sea. Turrets of guns trained to starboard as officer stands on a bridge. Wake Island being shelled and antiaircraft flak seen in sky. U.S. heavy cruiser fires. Main battery, 8 inch 55 caliber guns, firing from turrets aboard the USS Minneapolis as officers stand in the foreground. Antiaircraft guns firing.

Date: 1942, October
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049022
Dead bodies piled up at Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.

Concentration camps in Germany. Male survivors at Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany. Red Cross trucks from Switzerland arrive at the camp. Male survivors leave the camp. Bodies of dead inmates lay on ground with nationality and prison number tattooed on their stomachs. Male survivors from various European countries. Starved and feeble bodies of the victims. Dead bodies piled up outside the crematory. Pile of dead onto a truck. One of the weapons used by the SS guards upon the prisoners. A number of ovens at the crematory. The name of the firm on the oven door. A heap of bone ash. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 16
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049036
Charles Lindbergh places wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, United States.

Famous aviator Charles A. Lindbergh walks, with officials and military officers, across a plaza from, Arlington House, toward the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (1 Wilson Ave, Fort Myer, VA 22211, United States) in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. An honor guard of U.S. Army soldiers stands at attention as an officer hand a memorial wreath to Lindbergh, who lays it on the tomb, pausing a few seconds out of respect. View from behind the honor guard, as he steps away from the tomb. Lindbergh walks back toward Arlington House and mingles with various officials and others in attendance. He then enters an open car where his mother (Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh) is seated. He converses with a uniformed woman park ranger, standing next to the car. The car with the Lindberghs drives away very slowly as officials walk alongside. View from the rear, of the Lindbergh car, and others following as they leave the site.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049062