United States M-24 Light Tank of the U.S. 9th Army fires at a target. Soldiers aboard tank. Narrator describes the M-24 to help distinguish it in appearance from German tanks, during World War 2. The torsion bar suspension of M-24 Light Tank and its 16 inch wide tracks. The 75 mm gun barrel of the tank. Side by side shot of M5A1 and the M-24 replacing it. Comparing ammunition placed on ground. Recognition features of M-24.
Hurricane scenes and damage in the Florida Keys from the strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States, making landfall in the Florida Keys on September 2, 1935. It had a pressure reading of 892 millibars. Massive winds blowing and bending palm trees. Vehicles damaged. Derailed train on railway track.
German Tank Panzer Division advances with artillery in Paris, France, during Battle of France and occupation of France in World War 2. Oil tanks and surrounding building on fire. Black smoke rises from the oil tanks. German soldiers enter city with tanks and artillery. German tanks and soldiers on grounds of Palace of Versailles. Nazi German flag hoisted at Versailles. 'Tories Les Gloires Dela France' written on a building. Small German aircraft parked on streets of Paris. German soldier climbs Eiffel Tower and hoists Nazi German flag atop Eiffel Tower.
Hitler Youth work on Polish annexed fields a year after the German invasion of Poland during World War 2. Houses with German flag in front. Young German boys ride horse carts on dirt road. They work on field digging with spades. Two tractors plow fields. Two young boys on the wheel of the second tractor, a Lanz Bulldog.
Hitler Youth playing games after a day's work on annexed Polish farm land. They run towards water at a beach. World War 2 era Hitler Youth enjoy splashing water at each other. They play various games on beach including tossing one another along a line of interlinked arms, another game where a standing boy is spun around in a circle by seated boys, and a human wheelbarrow race across the sand toward three apples lying on the sand.
United States civilian war production workers at gun cotton factory (making flammable guncotton, or Nitrocellulose or Pyrocellulose) in United States during World War 2. Men and women enter the building. Board at the entrance reads 'Absence'. Women are searched to be sure they are bringing nothing in to the factory that can spark or start a fire. Women wear badges and special shoes. A number of women wearing uniforms work inside the gun cotton factory. Men and women workers manufacture gun cotton at the plant. They demonstrate emergency slides for exiting the factory quickly in the event of a fire or emergency.
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