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American home front life during World War II. Reminders of American historic involvement in earlier conflicts since the Revolution.

American revolutionary soldiers march in reenactment of post-revolutionary past. They are led by two drummers and a fife player. American soldiers charge from their trenches in France during World War I. A man removes an antique musket from a wall. Two men converse in a rural agricultural area, in America during World War 2. The men look up in the sky as some U.S. Army Air Forces fighter planes fly overhead. An exploding bomb is artificially superimposed upon a typical residential street in an American neighborhood. The exploding bombs are next seen in Europe during World War II. Buildings are destroyed. Fires rage and heavy smoke fills the air. Views of destroyed cities.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064132
Operation of an Air Raid Control Center by American civilians in Arkansas, United States in World War II.

American civilians prepare for an air raid drill in Arkansas, United States during World War 2. The radio stations ordered to go off line. A woman sings at a radio station. Message through the radios given to the civilians not to use the telephones. Closeup views of different kinds of portable and console radios. The Commander at the Information Center orders all aircraft to be grounded. Artillery fired at simulated enemy aircraft. Women marking on a large map at the Information Center. Civilian Airways officer takes information on the phone. A woman places symbols on the map. Animated map of United States with the Information Centers. Vehicles drive past a police station. Men pass the message from the District Control Center. Mills and, hospitals are requested for a blackout. Doctors and nurses in a surgery operating theater perform an operation in the hospital. The entire organization on alert after information reaches all the departments. Blackout in the city on the sound of an alarm and building lights go dim.

Location: Arkansas United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064135
Air Raid Warden Sam Rankin shows how to blackout houses during air raid drill in the USA in World War 2

American civilians prepare for an air raid drill in Arkansas, United States. Flashback to 1940 of British citizens gathered in London underground tube shelters during a blitz air raid by Germany over London. A woman distributes snacks to families. Some people at a microphone provide entertainment to the waiting crowd underground during the Battle of Britain. View of aircraft drop bombs over targets on ground. Explosions due to bombing. Back in the United States, Air Raid Warden in his uniform with civil defense armband shows families how to black out basement windows with blankets. Family makes room for basement shelter. Electric gas burners used. Adequate food supplies kept in the basement. One of the room windows sealed to avoid gas entering the room. The curtain dropped quickly over the window when the alarm is raised.

Location: Arkansas United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064138
French General Requin reviews troops and speaks with journalists at a village in France during World War II.

French General Requin speaks with journalists in France during World War II. French General Requin arrives in a staff car and reviews tank troops in a village in France. The officers standing in front of their tanks wait to receive badges. General Requin with French War Correspondents Joseph Kessel, Emmanuel Bourcier, Edouard Helsey, Maurice Noel, Jacques Boulanger, Academician Jerome Tharaud. A French soldier in a ditch demonstrates the use of double barreled antiaircraft machine gun. General Requin and the journalists look at the machine gun.

Location: France
Date: 1939, October
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064163
Naval transport ship (AP-23) leaves New York harbor carrying deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon

U.S. Navy West Point Class Troop Transport (AP-23) (Formerly the ocean liner, SS America ) backs out of Pier 61, in New York City, with help of tug boats. The ship carries deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon, including A.V.Yannelli, Italian General at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Several of Yanelli's friends, and reporters linger at the entrance to Pier 61. Several taxis and a truck loaded with baggage arrives. Men, women and children are seen with their baggage. The ship proceeds down the Hudson River, carrying 137 Italian citizens and 327 Germans from the closed consulates of those nations. The transport ship is underway at 2:55 PM on July 16th, bound for Lisbon Portugal

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1941, July 16
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064215
Tourists visit the United States Capitol building in Washington DC.

United States Capitol building in Washington DC. Railway tracks with dome of U.S. Capitol building in the background. Senators Connelly and Hatch crossing street. People walk up Senate stairs of United States Capitol building.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064249
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