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A partially reconstructed building and amusement advertisements on circular billboards in Germany
Reconstruction of Berlin, Germany following World War 2. A shop and bombed buildings in the background. Civilians walk on the streets. Amusement advertisements on circular billboards. A partially reconstructed building. A sign reads 'Berliner Construct Program'. A man walks past the building. A poster on a wall. The Russian War Memorial. Old Reichstag building. Flags in front of the building. Traffic on the streets.
World War II Damage to French Cathedral in Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany
German civilians seen walking, from time to time, in Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, during summer of 1945, after end of World War 2, in Europe. Behind them is the bombed out remains of the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral). The walls have collapsed in places and Statuary in niches have been severely damaged, including one seen headless. Camera pans up the side of the cathedral, to the base of the dome, and then to an iron fence with a makeshift sign (in beautiful script) reading "Französischer Dom." A man walks past the camera, wearing a back pack. Camera shows fallen brick and other rubble at steps, below the iron fence and sign. Glimpse of American military cameraman holding makeshift slate, with Camera equipment behind him.
World War II Damage to Reich Air Ministry building, Berlin, Germany
Early post-World War 2 views of damage to the German Air Ministry building (Detlev-Rohwedder Haus), Located on Wilhelmstrasse at the intersection with Leipziger Strasse, in Berlin, Germany. Opening scene shows large statue of eagle surmounting an enwreathed swastika. Scene shifts to Wilhelmstrasse, near gate to courtyard at center of the building. Gate is flanked by two eagle statues on pillars. There are pedestrians on the street and some cyclists, but no motor vehicles. Rubble lines the street, and one gaping hole is shown in the side of the building. All the windows have been blown out, and one wing is missing from an eagle statue. Closer view of the courtyard and eagle-flanked gate. Another heavily damaged area of the building showing section of exterior walls collaped revealing structural damage inside. Building entrance with "Heil Hitler" in an embossed relief stone decoration over the door.
Berliners work together to clean up streets and sidewalks of their city at the end of World War II in Europe
In Berlin, at the end of World War 2, in Europe, a large group of ordinary people gather at a hill of debris where a building once stood. Men and Women use shovels to dig dirt from sidewalk and place it in buckets, that others pass up the hill, in a bucket brigade. Closeup of people filling the buckets at the base of the pile of debris. The bucket brigade consists mostly of women. They transfer the filled buckets up the hill and empty ones down via a separate group of volunteers. The buckets are emptied at the top of the heap. Some women transfer large fragments of concrete to one another. The entire project seems intended to clear more space in the sidewalks and streets. View from a high point reveals skeletons of tall buildings and other groups doing similar work to clear rubble from the city walks and roads.
Citizens of Berlin (mostly women) form bucket brigades to clean up streets and sidewalks of their city at the end of World War II in Europe
At the end of World War 2, in Europe, citizens of Berlin (mostly women) cooperate in a bucket brigade to clear rubble from their walks and streets. Lacking any machinery, they use shovels to fill buckets and pass them up the hill of debris at the base of bombed out buildings. A train passes below damaged roadway where camera is located. Camera pans to the cleanup site, where dozens of people are occupied. Closup of a man using a mason's hammer to break concrete slabs so they can be moved by hand. Women inside the walls of a demolished building, where they empty the buckets and throw the concrete slabs.
U.S. Marines launch amphibious assault against Japanese forces at Betio, Tarawa Atoll, in the Pacific during World War II
Scene is dawn viewed from deck of a troop transport ship off the coast of Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, on D-day (November 20, 1943) for the amphibious assault by U.S. marines against the Japanese- held atoll, in World War 2. Marines loaded into a Higgins boat at the side of the transport ship. Several such landing craft maneuvering off the ship's bow. Benson-class destroyer bombarding the coast. Closer view of the destroyer with landing craft nearby. Glimpse of Japanese Aichi D3A (Val) dive bomber above. Two bombs exploding in water near the camera ship. U.S. Navy F4F aircraft flying low bombing and strafing. Glimpse of Navy warships bombarding after Navy planes depart. Then many landing craft are seen, some from the USS Sheridan (APA-51). Mixture of quick views showing naval gunfire, Marines in landing craft (including closeup of two marines looking out from inside one). U.S. Naval aircraft bombing inland, close to the shoreline. A derelict Japanese ship, displaying battle damage is seen in the surf. (Narrator notes that Japanese machine guns were set up and fired at landing craft from this hulk.) Closeup of radio operator on deck of invasion vessel. Views of amphibious landing vehicles tracked (LVT) moving toward shore. All American Higgins boats and LVTs subject to heavy Japanese machine gun and mortar fire, as well as bombing by Japanese Aichi D3A dive bombers. Burning landing craft in the surf. Landing craft arriving at the beach under heavy fire. One is marked, "KA 20-11" indicating it is from the USS Virgo (AKA-20). Long shot of Marines strung out on section of beach. Closeup of marines wading ashore from wrecked LVT. Several marines move along a concrete pier. Many marines are hunkered down behind it. Various views of marines pinned down on the beach. Some sheltered behind an LVT.
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