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Abandoned Allied military equipment and dead solders bodies scattered around Dunkirk after the end of the Battle of Dunkirk during WW2

A ship burns furiously while docked in the Dunkirk Harbor. Partially sunken ships devastated after the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. A soldier lying face down and motionless next to a truck. German soldiers carrying military equipment in Dunkirk beach, abandoned military equipment and dead Allied soldiers scattered all over. Gun turrets and scattered military equipment in Dunkirk Beach, materiel abandoned by the British Army when they evacuated days earlier. Sign on booth reads, "Patinoire" On Dunkirk Beach, military vehicles formed as a bridge used by the British to cross the water to reach their evacuation ships. A rubber dinghy on the beach, left behind by the British Army. A British Brodie helmet partially buried in the sand in Dunkirk Beach. Artillery guns in the Dunkirk docks. Unexploded bombs in pile, left behind by the retreated Allied forces. A French Army M26 Adrian helmet over a casket-like military equipment. The camera pans down to show “3” and a design showing a dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (likely Bashful the dwarf) riding a bomb in the sky and holding a pennant.

Date: 1940, June 5
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078989
Captured Allied Soldiers transported out of Dunkirk, France after the end of Battle of Dunkirk during WW2

Allied prisoners, mostly British and French, are marching out of Dunkirk following the end of the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. Military trucks drive beside the prisoners-of war on the road. Rear view of prisoners-of-war marching on the French road.

Date: 1940, June 6
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078990
456 British War Brides travel with their children on the SS Argentina to reunite with US Servicemen husbands in New York, United States after the end of WW2

Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.

Date: 1946, February 4
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078991
Interview of British bride after reuniting with her American serviceman husband after the end of WW2

An American serviceman and his British wife look at their crying daughter on the right reuniting after World War II. Husbands and wives with their babies posing happily together. A British woman, part of the War Brides who arrived on the SS Argentina to reunite with their American servicemen husbands, is in a podium with her American serviceman husband, who is holding their baby. The British woman speaks about some societal disapproval of foreign marriages like hers and said, “Love is love, all over the world”. Reflecting the postwar ethos, the American serviceman adds, “This is a beginning of a new life for me”.

Date: 1946, February 4
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078992
United States-trained Nationalist Chinese soldiers are deloused with DDT insecticide before departure from Shanghai for Manchuria after the end of WW2.

Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.

Date: 1946, January
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078993
700 World War II Canadian Veterans take over 535 rooms of Hotel Vancouver due to housing shortage after the end of WW2

Opening Slate “Houseless vets take over hotel”. View of Hotel Vancouver (The Pacific Centre and TD Tower Vancouver stands on the site today. 700 and 701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) after the end of World War II. Banner says “ACTION AT LAST VETERANS! ROOMS FOR YOU! Come and Get Them”. A Canadian serviceman, sitting in the information desk, points to his right to a veteran. Men and women line up to register. A white sign says “Please! Register Here”. A Canadian veteran speaks to a woman holding a baby. Canadian veterans lining up. Canadian veteran speaks to a hotel personnel behind the front desk. Veterans, neatly dressed in coats and neckties, pose together. Veterans and their wives have breakfast together. A veteran and his wife read a “Month” magazine together as they sit in a mattress on the floor. Veteran reads a book and smiles as he lies on his side in bed.

Date: 1946, January 5
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078994