Pictures taken by military and news cameramen during World War II. The Battle of Midway, June 1942: A fleet of U.S. warships underway off the Midway Island. U.S. aircraft bomb the Island. A Japanese ship is hit. The ship on fire. Black smoke rises from the wreckage. U.S. soldiers fire deck guns at Japanese aircraft. Pacific Theater: U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas in flight over the battlefield. Allied parachute troops and supplies dropped from the aircraft in New Guinea. Parachute troops descend towards the ground. Allied aircraft carriers underway. U.S. aircraft on a carrier deck. Airmen prepare the aircraft for take off. The aircraft taxi and take off. U.S. B-24 Liberators drop bombs. Explosions as deck guns are fired. Explosions near a ship in the water. A U.S. carrier under kamikaze attack by a Japanese aircraft. The hit aircraft descends towards the ship and into the water.
Naval warfare in the Mediterranean during World War II. An Italian submarine surfaces off the Barbary Coast. A crew member sights a small United States freighter underway. He goes down below into the submarine and informs the crew. The alarm is sounded. Italian sailors man their respective posts. The Captain looks through the periscope. The sailors take aim and shell the freighter. A sailor surveys the damage using binoculars. The hit ship sinks.
German propaganda newsreel depicting German perspective defending against Allied Invasion of northern France on D-Day (June 6, 1944). German citizens at newsstand reading newspaper headlines announcing the Allied invasion of France. A map of northern France. Scenes from June 6, 1944 as Allied bombers attack the French coast during D-Day operations. German sailors on ships monitoring incoming Allied invasion. German Navy sailors and German soldier radio operators communicate, listening with headphones and operating morse code transmitters and radios as the Germans sound the alarm. German soldiers take their positions at coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. They pile up shells and use search lights. German coastal guns and submarines fire at the Allied fleet in the English Channel. Night fighting. Artillery and ship guns fired. Explosions as Allied crafts are hit. Soldiers fire machine guns as the enemy approaches the coast. German officers and soldiers in German pillboxes. German submarine fires torpedo and an Allied ship explodes far in the distance. A German officer looks through binoculars to survey the damage.
German invasion of France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German attack on Rouen and Le Havre in northern France. War ruins in Amiens and its vicinity. Bomb damaged buildings and structures. The Amiens Cathedral (30 Place Notre Dame, 80000 Amiens, France) amidst the ruined city. Military vehicles leave the building. German convoy including soldiers and artillery advances. Close up views of German soldiers as they walk through streets of bombed town and past actively burning buildings. German soldiers in military vehicles. Soldiers march along the ruins and through the rubble, cross railway tracks. Burning structures. Liquid pours through holes shot in water or oil drums, discharging contents onto the ground. Cattle being herded in a town. German Soldiers milk cows. A calf feeds on the mother's milk. German soldiers feed a calf.
War ruins in Rouen, the capital city of Normandy in France, during World War II. A German General survey the city. Smoke from burning buildings. German soldiers fire guns and battle the enemy across the canal. Soldiers take cover behind sandbag barricades. Pillars of a damaged bridge. Soldiers use binoculars to survey the area. They load and fire artillery. Smoke from explosions on either side of a canal. Smoke from burning buildings. Jets of water put out fire in damaged Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen (Pl. de la Cathédrale, 76000 Rouen, France). Ruins and rubble on the streets. Soldiers clear debris from the streets. They use water hoses to put out the cathedral fire. The damaged structure of the cathedral. Bomb damaged buildings. French prisoners marched on the streets. Military vehicles enter a gate. A sign for Paris beside the gate. The smoke shrouded skyline.
Scenes in Utrecht, Netherlands, during its occupation by German forces in World War Two. The Dom-tower ( clock tower known as: de Dom). Dutch pedestrians and vehicular traffic on the roads. Pedestrians by a canal. Dutch civilians on bicycles. A busy market street. Scenes of Brussels, Belgium in Second World War. Trams make their way up and down a street. Pedestrians and cars on roads. Belgian civilians seated at street side cafes. Civilians and German soldiers outside a monument. Pedestrians and cyclists on the streets. Soldiers and civilians at a vegetable market.
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