World War II film shows workers surrounding a completed B-29 bomber parked on ramp of what appears to be the Boeing plant on Sea Island, Canada. Film clip reads: "Canada Builds B-29s for U.S." (Note: Boeing of Canada, headquartered at Vancouver, B.C., built a huge manufacturing factory on Sea Island to build aircraft for the war effort. In 1944 Boeing began to manufacture the mid-sections of B-29 fuselages there, including bomb bays for the bomber. These sections were then trucked to Renton, Washington where they were incorporated into final assembled aircraft. However, this clip shows a fully assembled B-29 that may have been flown here for something like worker morale purposes.)
War damaged buildings in Venice, Italy after World War II. Aerial view of a harbor in Venice. A sunken ship off the harbor of Venice. Damaged buildings and ruins. A man near wreckage. Men in boats. A man rows a boat under a bridge. Containers carried on a boat. American soldiers aboard a gondola. The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (Dorsoduro, 1, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy) is seen nearby. Allied soldiers on leave ride a motorboat around Venice. The United States flag hangs in front of a building. Gondoliers are rowing gondolas with United States troops and boats carrying barrels. St. Mark's Campanile at St. Mark's Basilica on Piazza San Marco (P.za San Marco, 30100 Venezia VE, Italy). View of the Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale, P.za San Marco, 1, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy). People including two soldiers feed pigeons.
Scenes of destruction in Germany at end of World War II, including Destroyed dwellings and rubble and rubbish-filled bomb craters. A U.S. soldier medic steps across a destroyed structure. German citizens line up to obtain water from a small tank trailer. A bucket being filled. A German civilian work crew laying new water pipes. A large trash heap displaying a sign in German reading: Drinking strictly forbidden. Danger from Typhus!(Trinken Strengstens verboten. Typhusgefahr!). Germans wearing gas masks as they lead horses drawing corpse-laden carts, along a road. Allied military spraying German civilians with DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) at a delousing station. They give each treated person a certificate certifying their treatment. The treated include men, women, and many mothers with their children. A nurse holds a small child as the mother is treated.
A World War II film about contribution of the U.S. Navy personnel for better life of Americans in the United States. United States Secretary of the Navy James Vincent Forrestal speaks in honor of men who served in Navy. He states that Navy men will adjust in civilian life as they were in World War II. He welcomes the Navy men on behalf of all civilians.
A post-war film shows U.S. Army soldiers studying in barracks and in foreign universities immediately after World War II. Students at a campus in France as they walk on a pathway. Courses being offered to the soldiers. Several posters with the subject names in the background. The officers seated at a desk. A soldier takes books. Soldiers attend an animal husbandry class and examine livestock in a yard area. Students in an engineering class as they draw different drawings on paper at drafting tables. A chemistry lab. The students perform experiments and are seen working with test tubes and graduated cylinders. A woman works with clay and a U.S. soldier fashions sculpture of a dog out of clay. An officer seated on a desk and the students stand in front of him and make notes during journalism and correspondence classes. U.S. Army students in art classes. A woman holds a ball and poses. The students draw her form. The Geology class. Soldiers walk in trenches and a few stand as they make notes after observing a geologic sample. Group of U.S. Army soldiers play tennis. An officer seated in a chair. They play basketball. Soldiers seated on the field. Soldiers being awarded with diploma certificates after 4 or 8 week courses. They are gathered at a graduation ceremony receiving diplomas that they can use in applying for college credit. Students seated in a class. A French woman teaches them. Two soldiers walk among the buildings of a French campus.
During D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. troops land on a beach. They carry a wounded on a litter. The soldiers of 3rd Battalion land on a very small parallel beach. They are trapped against a chalk embankment on which were Nazi German machines and guns. The soldiers dig foxholes on the open beach. The soldiers are seated in a group on the beach. Landing crafts near the shore. U.S. soldiers in a landing craft. A group of soldiers advance across the beachhead. Two of them are hit by enemy fire and fall. A U.S. medic gives first aid to the wounded.
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