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Scenes of destruction in Leningrad as German forces attack the city during World War 2

The Siege of Leningrad, Soviet Union, during World War 2. German Army bombs Russian city of Leningrad. German artillery fired. Fire and explosion. Smoke rises up in the sky. Streets burn in Leningrad. The native people of Leningrad, Russia. Women remove rubble from streets. Animated maps show Leningrad blockade.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041526
Aftermath of battle of Hoengsong, involving elements of U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Division, during Korean War

On Feb. 12 and 13, 1951, elements of the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Division, including 38th Infantry Regiment, suffered severe losses in combat with superior Chinese forces, near Hoengsong,during the Korean War. Photos shot three weeks later show the carnage on a frozen battleground. Remnants of a destroyed U.S. field piece are surrounded by dead U.S. Army soldiers frozen on snow-covered ground. A severely damaged U.S. halftrack sits in the dirt. An unidentified jumble of burned out war machinery. Damaged 20mm dual mount anti-aircraft guns. U.S. Marines, of the 7th Regiment, in full field gear, entering the area for the first time since the February battle. They march over a snow-covered road, past remnants of the U.S. Army convoy that was fighting its way out of the area besieged by Chinese forces on all sides. A destroyed U.S. Army truck. Sign next to wreckage reads:"38th I.FL Co CP." A dead American soldier frozen in a rice paddy. Smoke rising from Korean village buildings burning in background, above terraced landscape. More views of wrecked equipment and fallen soldiers. A mountain pass in the background. A destroyed truck. Suddenly black smoke starts rising in the background. A U.S. Marine standing near an M46 Patton tank. More debris and destroyed trucks.

Date: 1951, March 7
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041573
Worldwide operations of United States Coast Guard in World War 2

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War II. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) 617, part of LCI Flotilla 22 in World War 2. She is seen underway in rough waters of the Pacific ocean during 1945. Coast Guardsman ordered to Battle stations. A Coast Guardsman observes approaching enemy aircraft through binoculars. Coast guard gunner fires Antiaircraft guns using foot trigger. Enemy aircraft crashes in ocean. A Coast Guardsman signals using semaphore flags. Beachhead supply operations. Coast Guard Picket Boat, CG-42022, seen patrolling around U.S. transport ships in a Persian port, while they carry lend lease supplies to the Soviet Union. Coast Guard combat patrol in jungle using canines (dogs). The Cactus (A) Class 180 foot buoy tender, USCGC Tupelo placing a buoy at sea. Releasing a weather balloon. A Coast Guard wooden 83 foot cutter ("83 footer"). Loading a Coast Guard B-24 aircraft on Guam. The plane takes off. Invasion task force of U.S. warships underway. Coast Guard crews at various duty stations aboard their ships during the war. The former luxury ocean liner, SS Manhattan underway, her decks crowded with troops, following her conversion into the U.S.Coast Guard-manned USS Wakefield (AP-21). U.S. Navy attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at sea in the Pacific. Coast Guard operating transport ships unloading cargo for Allied invasion forces and running inter-island shipping service in the Pacific, during World War II.Landing Ship Tank (LST-788) arriving at the beach next to Landing Ship Medium, LSM-242, on Iwo Jima. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) being driven off LST-760. USS LCI(L)-87, Flagship of LCI Flotilla 10. Her Captain, M. E. Imlay, USCG, is seen on her bridge, before departing from England for the Normandy invasion. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L)-668 at beach and troops wading ashore.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041741
Planning and execution of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France (WW2)

View of a port in England, filled with Allied ships and boats to carry war materiel for Allied forces preparing to invade Europe during World War II. A barrage balloon aloft overhead. Yards full of military rolling stock. Scene shifts to wide street view in London including Whitehall Government buildings around the Cenotaph War Memorial (Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET, United Kingdom) in London, England. Inside the British military headquarters the Allied High Command is gathered to plan the invasion of Europe. Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower is pointing at a wall map, as senior Allied commanders, including British Marshal Bernard Montgomery, look on. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in D-Day paint stripes take off from an air base. Officers watch takeoffs from control tower porch. Views from Allied aircraft gun cameras show strafing from low altitudes destroying German ground targets, including railroads and airfields. A formation of Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft in flight overhead. Lines of communication such as road junctions being destroyed by bombing. Glimpse of copilot at controls in a bomber. Scene shifts to June 6, 1944 and the D-Day Allied invasion fleet underway across the English Channel. Allied warships bombarding the shores of Normandy, France. Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) firing salvos of rockets. Animated map shows the invasion forces striking the defenses of the German Atlantic Wall. View of British and American soldiers wading ashore from landing craft, and some falling to German gunfire at the shoreline beaches of Normandy. View of German defenders firing from inside a German fortifications. German soldiers firing machine guns from protected places overlooking the beaches of Normandy. Trapped American soldiers firing upwards toward the German positions in cliffs overlooking the beach. Later views of Allied troops in combat further inland. Animated map shows area of allied penetration after 19 days of bitter fighting. Allied Armor, trucks, and supplies moving inland from the beachhead. Barrage balloon above the improvised ports. Allied troops heading toward the port of Cherbourg and guns firing in that battle. American M8 Greyhound armored personnel carriers proceeding into the town of Cherbourg, Normandy, France. closeup of American soldiers firing small arms. Soldiers firing a howitzer point blank. The last of the German garrison troops surrender under a flag of truce, on June 27, 1944. Large group of German prisoners of war with hands clasped over their heads, being escorted under Allied guard from Cherbourg. Docks and facilities needing repair to make the port serviceable. U.S. Army engineers welding port facilities. Closeup of a locomotive operated by French railroad men, moving in the restored port.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041992
U.S. Navy S2F aircraft land on flight deck of USS Lake Champlain, United States.

Anti-submarine warfare exercises in United States. Aircraft in flight. USS Abbott (DD-629) leads the column of Destroyer ships. USS Lake Champlain (CVS -39) underway. U.S. Navy S2F Anti-submarine warfare aircraft land on flight deck.

Date: 1961, March 3
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041996
The Guided Missile Cruiser USS Canberra (CAG 2) launches a terrier missile to down a drone airplane target

The Guided Missile Cruiser USS Canberra (CAG 2) is seen from another ship as she is underway. A terrier missile is launched from her stern area, showing a brilliant white flame as it heads toward a drone target aircraft somewhere in the skies above. Black smoke trails as it goes out of sight. Scene shifts to a tracking camers showing the missile and a clock. Suddenly the camera records the missile striking the drone plane which then is seen burning and falling from the sky in pieces.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042348