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Royal Air Force planes bombing German armor and troop concentrations in El Alamein, Egypt.

Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942, during World War 2. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel discuss plan with two other officers. Map depicts movement of German Division from South. Royal Air Force pilots boarding planes. Planes take off from airfield. Formation of American planes over enemy. Antiaircraft guns fired. Aircraft overhead bombs German armor and troop concentrations. Infantry advances under artillery cover as tanks continue the drive. Heavy explosions in the battlefield. Explosions throw billows of smoke. Light tanks advance. Dead soldiers in battlefield. British Field Marshal General Bernard Montgomery watches advancing tanks. Marshal Erwin Rommel with his officers. Artillery fire continues with advancing tanks. British Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft bombs German armor positions.

Date: 1942
Duration: 9 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052601
Axis forces of Rommel's Afrika Corps in full retreat after facing heavy Allied attacks in El Alamein, Egypt.

Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt, North Africa, between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942, during World War 2. View of Big Ben clock tower in London, England, United Kingdom. In a UK war material production facility, British women war production workers stop work to listen to BBC announcement over public address speaker that Axis forces of the Afrika Corps (Africa Corps) under German commander Rommel are in full retreat in El Alamein, Egypt. Scenes in North African of British tanks advancing past many pieces of destroyed German armor, tanks, and artillery. Views of captured German planes, artillery, tanks and prisoners. Some artillery and tanks destroyed or still smoldering from recent attack on the retreating German forces, including smoldering Panzer tanks (Pz IV). Destroyed and bombed out German Luftwaffe aircraft parked on the ground. Five divisions of Italian soldiers in the South, abandoned by Rommel are swept up by Allied forces as prisoners of war. Italian prisoners kneel at a ditch and drink water from it. German prisoners march under British guard. German General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, captured near the hill of Tel el Mampsra, marches on sand under British guard. Aerial views of British Royal Air Force planes bombing retreating German positions on ground. Bombs away views from aircraft, and explosions and clack smoke arises from ground. View of British RAF pilot in cockpit flying De Havilland DH 98 Mosquito aircraft and strafing German trucks and armor as they retreat across open desert. Low level views of British Mosquito aircraft as it strafes German positions, as seen from cockpit of Mosquito aircraft.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052602
Austrian Peace Treaty frees Prisoners of War from Red slavery and prisoners welcomed at railroad station by their families.

The signing of the Austrian Peace Treaty brings about the withdrawal of Soviet troops in Austria and the return of POW's from many years in Soviet prison camps, ten years after the end of World War 2. Shows repatriation of German Prisoners of War to Austria as the freed prisoners return in a railroad train. Families of prisoners wait for prisoners' arrival. Women hold hands of prisoners from train windows. A prisoner kisses his wife. A father hugs his son as the boy cries.

Date: 1955
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052622
U.S. submarine rescues Japanese crew from boat damaged by their gunfire during World War II

Two surviving Japanese crew rescued from their boat damaged by gunfire from a U.S. submarine in the Pacific, during World War 2. View from submarine deck as Japanese sailor wearing personal life vest and a ring life preserver, swims alongside. He grabs rope ladder on side of submarine and pulls himself aboard.Next he is seen on deck with a U.S. sailor. He bows as he sees the cameraman. View of ring life preserver floating beside the submarine. The Japanese sailor removes his personal flotation vest which a U.S. sailor displays for the camera. Two U.S. crewmen pose with the ring life preserver, which they fetched from the water. Another Japanese sailor swims to the Submarine and is helped aboard by the first. U.S. crew give him some dry clothes.The U.S. submarine approaches the battered Japanese vessel. A crewman on the bow throws something at the Japanese boat and starts a fire. Soon flames burst out on the boat's wooden deck.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052639
U.S. submarine fires deck guns at Japanese vessels and installations in a Japanese bay, during World War II

U.S. submarine on surface of a bay in Japanese waters, during World War 2. It fires at boats and installations in the head of the bay. View of gun crew on the submarine as they load and fire a deck gun. sunset view as the submarine cruises across the bay firing two 5 inch deck guns.Crew members throwing empty shell casings overboard. Officers on conning tower looking through binoculars. Crew continues to fire the guns rapidly, as sunlight fades. Some striking views of clouds at sunset.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052641
USS Tirante (SS-420) fires at a Japanese Junk in the nighttime, during World war II

Machine gun and cannon tracer rounds being fired by the United States submarine USS Tirante (SS-420) at a Japanese Junk boat (Wasen) during nighttime in World War 2. Neither submarine nor Junk boat is visible. A burning wooden Junk boat with flames that gradually fades away in the distance. Suddenly a closeup of the flaming Junk boat is seen and it again fades away. Some brief gunfire is seen.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052642