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U.S. Army 91st Reconnaissance Squadron near Leghorn (Livorno) Italy during World War II.

U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War 2. M8 and T27 armored cars, of the U.S. 91st Reconnaissance Squadron, cross narrow pontoon bridge over a river in Leghorn (Livorno) Italy. A destroyed steel bridge and bombed out buildings in background.

Date: 1944, July 23
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077016
George Edward Pendray launches The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fueled rocket from Staten Island in New York, United States.

The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )

Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077065
French General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts from London calling on the French to continue fighting the Germans

View of the French Legion Headquarters in London, with flag at half-mast following the capitulation of France to Germany in World War II. Several French officers, including French Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, who support General Charles de Gaulle and his free French forces, walking on the sidewalk. General de Gaulle enters his Headquarters at St. Stephens House (Present day Norman Shaw Building South, 1 Victoria Embankment, London WC2N 5AQ, United Kingdom) in London, and broadcasts, via the BBC, to the French nation, exhorting them to continue fighting, with their Allies, against the Germans.

Date: 1940, June 18
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077068
RAF ground crew refuelling and loading bombs on a 211 Squadron Blenheim in Egypt, during World War II

The Royal Air Force (RAF) in World War 2, in the Middle East. A British flag flying atop a flag pole. A British Bristol Blenheim I aircraft parked on a Western Desert airfield near El Daba. RAF ground crewmen standing nearby. Can by can, they refuel the aircraft, of 211 Squadron. Four-gallon petrol cans lying on the airfield. 250lb bombs loaded on a trailer. The bombs are loaded in the aircraft. British aircrews pose, ready to depart on a mission. Blenheim bombers taking off on the sand airfield. Avro Anson Bristol Bombay transport aircraft taking off.

Date: 1940
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077069
College boys board crew boats and row them to begin spring training in Washington state, United States.

College boys practice crew rowing in Washington, United States. Students including National Champions from University of Washington Husky team seen at a dock carrying oars. They board crew boats. The boys row the boats during their first training session of the new spring season, despite World War 2.

Date: 1943
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077072
Royals at Westminster Abbey, British workers at ordnance factories, recruits in military training in England early in World War II.

Wounded British soldiers being unloaded from ships in the United Kingdom early during World War 2. Wounded soldier being loaded onto a passenger train at a train station platform. Winston Churchill with Prime Minister Chamberlain leave Westminster Abbey. Crowd of citizens awaits out front and and the Queen Mother with King George VI leave Westminster Abbey. British men disassembling iron fences in a British park and piling them up, presumably to be melted down and transformed into armament for the war effort. People working in factories in England during World War II. Artillery barrels or ship guns being manufactured . Newly completed rilfes lined up in a factory. War production workers in an ammunition factory producing bullets and more arms and weapons for British war effort. New British soldier recruits at a training camp begin training for military servcie. British men and a woman seen receiving rifle training in prone position, practicing how to fire rifles at targets. A man hits a golf ball aloft and then he and others standing nearby quickly grab rifles and attempt to fire at the ball, as practice training for firing at German paratroopers in the sky in the event of invasion.

Date: 1940, June 10
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077088