During World War 2, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor aircraft taxis into Zaporozhye (Zaporizhzhia) airfield. German leader Adolf Hitler, wearing ear plugs, gets off the plane, passing by his personal pilot Hans Baur performing the Nazi salute. Hitler meets Eastern Front General Commander Erich von Manstein and the two look at a map on a table with other army officials. Hitler points to the map as they discuss. A Mercedes-Benz 770 automobile drives onto the airfield to waiting Wehrmacht soldiers. A soldier opens the door. Hitler and some officials get out of the car. Hitler shakes hands with Manstein and they salute each other good-bye. View from behind Hitler, seated inside the plane and wearing ear plugs, as he waves through the window as the plane takes off. The plane’s left wing is seen as it flies in the sky.
A German battleship sails in strong waves in the Norwegian Sea at start of Operation Zitronella during World War 2. German Kriegsmarine Navy lookouts survey the surroundings with binoculars, camera pans to show the waves. A destroyer sailing. Men in life-jackets on deck. A Kriegsmarine smokes his pipe on deck. Navy sailor in sunglasses smokes cigarette. View of the Norwegian sea with German destroyers and Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on deck. A dinghy boat hanging above the waters. Captain on the battleship Tirpitz, Vice-Admiral Friedrich Karl Topp, surveys Spitsbergen through binoculars. Battleship Tirpitz and other destroyers sail near Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on the gun turret of the Tirpitz are ready to fire (38 cm SK C/34 naval guns). Rounds fired towards Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine men deploys a dinghy to the waters. Guns again fired on Spitsbergen. A dinghy with Kriegsmarine men deploys to the sea. Another round of fire towards the island again. A picket boat from a battleship prepares to sail. Another dinghy is deployed from a battleship. A German soldier gets into the dinghy. German soldiers climb down a steel ladder to get on a picket boat. A dinghy full of soldiers sails towards the island. More boats filled with soldiers deploy from the battleships towards the island. A dinghy sails away from a battleship. Spitsbergen island covered in smoke. Smoke coming from the sailing battleship firing more ammunition. German soldier in a life-jacket smiling and sticking his tongue out as his group sails towards the island. Boats approach Spitsbergen island. Soldiers get off their boats after landing on the island. the island. Soldiers tie three explosives on a post. German soldiers patrolling nearby as an explosion occurs. Boats filled with soldiers sail back to the battleships after they successfully seized the installations on the island. Soldiers in life-vests climb back to the battleships. Two German soldiers helped a comrade climb up to the battleship. A victorious German soldier smiles. German soldiers congratulates each other for the successful takeover of Spitsbergen. Battleships successfully sail with Spitsbergen in the background.
A map showing Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and the Ladoga lake in Russia during World War 2. In a forest, workers working on wood beside a truck. Workers cutting wood with a saw machine for lumber. The workers appear to include Soviet soldier prisoners of war (POW) and Soviet civilian slave laborers, including young boy child laborers. The workers are leveling slurry for road construction. Forced laborers using axes as mallets to put end grain lumber into the road construction. A woman uses a machine to spray the road. A steam roller is used to compact gravel and flatten the road. Two donkeys pull a carriage with soldiers while a soldier passes by in a motorcycle. A German Wehrmacht soldier smiles as he supervises. A sign displaying “Strassenwetterdienst” (Street Weather Service” in German) with Russian towns spelled in German writing. A Horch 901 military service car pulls over beside blooming trees as a soldier approaches the vehicle. The German soldier, wearing a Feldgendarmerie gorget, inspects some papers from the car. Trucks drive on a narrow, dilapidated road. A truck drives by construction site. Workers installing rebar for building construction supervised by soldiers. Building site with concrete forms. Finished concrete bunkers. A worker transfers mixed concrete from a wheelbarrow to a form using a spade. Workers arrange forms as a man pours concrete with a spade. Workers tamping concrete into forms. Men walk on a bridge made from ropes and wood. Men carrying wooden boxes on their backs follow a soldier. The soldier and the workers crouch as they walk past a sign “Achtung Feindeinsicht” (“Warning Enemy Observation” in German). Soldier carrying bricks to add to the wall his comrades are building. Soldier arranges bricks while building wall. Soldier picks up some excess bricks from the wall. Soldiers working on a brick structure. New gun turrets lined up behind concrete barricade as a soldier covers a gun with a black cloth. Soldiers working on a subterranean masonry structure in a field. Soldier on top of gun turret getting ready to aim.
A map of the Eastern Front (Present-day Ukraine) is being displayed during World War 2. German Field Marshal and Flying Ace Robert Ritter von Greim, wearing glasses, is in a meeting with Luftwaffe officials. A sign in front of bushes saying “Gruppen- Befehlsstelle” ("Group command post" in German). Nazi soldiers smiling and laughing as they play card games in a field. The soldier wearing an Iron Cross medal turns his head on his left. Airplanes in the sky. A soldier, wearing an Iron Cross medal, climbs on a jet-fighter written “13”. The pilot of the jet-fighter (Messerschmitt Me 262 with the Nazi swastika on the empennage) facing the camera as he prepares for take-off. Plane takes off. A group of fighters with explosion in the sky. German soldiers survey the field with binoculars. Fighters firing at one another in the sky. Anti-aircraft guns fire towards the sky, towards the fighters. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 zooms in the sky. Soldiers, sitting in the field, are looking up in the sky. A Soviet plane is on fire up in the sky, heading downwards. The soldiers, with binoculars, are observing the falling plane. The Soviet plane falls and crashes into the other side of the field. The plane explodes. A plane zooms in the sky. A Luftwaffe pilot smiles as he climbs down the plane. The pilot shakes hands with a comrade. The Luftwaffe reconnaissance flew back. German soldiers in the field looks up to the sky. A pilot jumps down from the aircraft parked in the field. Soldiers put out aircraft fire with flame retardant foam. Operator views large format film emulsion images obtained through aerial reconnaissance. Luftwaffe officials in a meeting. Grille of a Wehrmacht truck.
Aerial view of Abilene, Texas and a prominent building, The Enterprise, 500 Chestnut St, Abilene, TX 79602, United States. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about living in Abilene and Abilene’s relationship with the United States Air Force. Aerial view of Dyess Airforce Base, Texas. Front view of a vehicle slowing down to a checkpoint with a United States guard. A sign reads “Dyess AFB and Abilene Community welcome the B-1B in 2 Days”. Aerial view of Texas farmlands. Wheat bows gently from the wind in the foreground as combine harvests wheat. Close up of a Green John Deere Combine harvesting wheat. Trucks line up at concrete grain silos. Railroad hopper car pulling up to grain silos. Man crosses gap between two railroad grain hopper cars. Men walking on hopper cars open roof doors to receive grain and position grain shoot over hopper door. A man crouches as he harvests potatoes from a field. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the people of Abilene. Aerial view of Abilene’s outskirts and the Hardy Grissom Ranch east of Abilene. View of large corral with many head of cattle. Phil Guitar, owner operator of the Grissom Ranch, speaks about the community having a good relationship with Dyess Airforce Base. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the feelings of Abilene residents of the impending arrival of the B-1B, and notes that the community is anxious to get the B-1 bomber and associated combat crew training squadron.
View of dock with yacht in a New England coastal town. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on vacation from presidential campaign, waves at his supporters as he sits in the boat with his sons, probably James Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and Elliott Roosevelt. Nautical flag, likely means “2”, is hoisted up the yacht before it sails. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing white fisherman’s hat, smiles and waves at supporters before he sails. Franklin D. Roosevelt waves to supporters as his yacht sails away from the dock. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s yacht sails away for a refreshing summer cruise. Franklin Roosevelt in swimming pool with daughter, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted, and young granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (nee Dall). Franklin D. Roosevelt plays and cuddles with granddaughter, Eleanor, while in the swimming pool. Anna watches her father play with her daughter.
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