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General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Admiral Bertram Ramsey on board a ship in region of Normandy, France, D-Day plus 3.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Admiral Bertram Ramsey on bridge of the British Royal Navy Leander-class light cruiser HMS Apollo as it moves across the ocean in Normandy, France. General Eisenhower and Admiral Ramsey sail on the HMS Apollo for the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2. Soldiers lined up and salute the officers. British Field Marshal General Bernard Montgomery comes aboard the HMS Apollo. Soldiers salute to welcome Marshal Montgomery. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038167
Allied soldiers rescued from invasion boats sunk on D-Day are brought to England during World War II

The HMS Nightingale, a British Mining Tender, flying the Royal Naval Ensign, approaches a pier in Plymouth England. Several Royal Navy officers and sailors are aboard along with a number of Allied soldiers who were rescued after their ships were sunk during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Most of the rescued soldiers appear relatively unhurt. However, some are ambulatory wounded and others, more seriously injured, are carried off the boat on stretchers, by British sailors. All proceed up a gangway to a processing center. (Note:The soldier seen at 2 minute mark, fiddling with his gloves, is Private 1st class Paul Knor of E company, U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion, whose boat was sunk while headed for Pointe Du Hoc. He rejoined his Battalion, soon afterwards.)

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038187
FJ-3 aircraft airmed with Sidewinder missile on USS Bon Homme Richard

United States Navy FJ-3 aircraft of U.S. Navy Squadron VF-211 (Red Checkertails) being towed by a yellow tractor up the deck of the carrier, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) in waters off coast of California. The aircraft displays "G" tail code of Carrier Group 21. In background is a McDonnell F2H-2P Banshee aircraft with tail code "PP" from composite squadron VC-61. FJ-3 plane armed with sidewinder missiles on underside of folded wings. Plane being towed to port catapult and parked on the deck.

Date: 1956, June 21
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038507
Major General Gavin aboard USS Boxer in Korean War. Lt. Cummins of VF-63 prepares to take off during Korean War

Major General Gavin of United States 82nd Airborne Division and Captain Cameroon Briggs,Commanding Officer on the deck of United States Navy aircraft carrier Boxer (CV-21). Flight Deck chief signals and Lieutenant Scott Cummins climbs into cockpit of his F-4U-4 Corsair. Lt. Cummins has Navy Fighter Squadron VF-63 Fighting Redcocks patch on his right shoulder. VF-63 is part of Carrier Air Group 2 (CVG-2). (Korean War)

Date: 1950, September 15
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038522
Soviet forces engage invading German forces during World War II

Opening scene shows Soviet troops gathered in a forest during World War 2. Artillery fire is heard in background. Next Soviet artillerymen are firing a 122 mm howitzer M1910/30 at a front line position during World War 2. . A Soviet Polikarpov I-16 aircraft is seen briefly, in flight overhead. Soviet infantry advancing across a field behind a T-34 tank. Heavy smoke clouds nearby in the background. Soviet infantry moving through forest as machine gun fire is heard. One soldier places a slit shield in front of himself and fires through it with his rifle, while standing in a trench. View of him firing alongside a comrade in the trench. Soviet troops jumping from an army truck to take up positions in the field. Soviet Marshal Semyon Timoshenko is seen at the battle front accompanied by another officer. . A string of dropped bombs explode in the distance. Soviet soldiers in a trench looking for enemy aircraft with binoculars. Infantry passing through barbed wire. One carries a mine detector. Soviet machine gunners duck as a shell explodes near them. Infantry charging through the woods.Soviet Polikarpov.I-16 aircraft attack German tanks that maneuver in attempt to escape them. Bombs explode among the tanks. A Soviet Polikarpov I-16 aircraft climbs rapidly overhead. View from Russian aircraft of German tanks racing across a field, that appear to be emitting smoke screens. Soviet tanks moving past a blazing wooden structure. Wrecked German army motorcycle and side car displaying the Totenkopf (death head) symbol. Closeup of the symbol. Dead German soldiers in the grass and lying next to a motorcycle. Remains of a downed German airplane, in flames. Dead German flyer entangled in remains of parachute. Soviet soldier examines a knocked out German Panzer I tank. Partial views of other destroyed German tanks. Smoke drifts across a quiet battlefield. Soviet infantry moving forward. Several views of German prisoners of war being marched in various locations. Closeup of Totenkopf and number 13 on the side of a German armored vehicle. A Soviet soldier begins to scrub it off the vehicle. Camera pans closely over some of the prisoners. A German soldier, who wants to stop fighting, presents a pass to a Soviet soldier as he surrenders. Closeup of the pass, one of many that had been scattered among the German forces, by the Soviets. It invites a bearer, who is fed up with killing, to come to the Soviets. The document states boldly, "Geht mit diesem ausweis durch die front." (Go with these identification papers through the front.) Soviet soldiers escort the German soldier away. Soviet soldiers help a wounded comrade from a tank camouflaged under hay. Soviet medical corps women and a male doctor tend to the wounds of a soldier. A Soviet non-commissioned officer speaks at a battlefront funeral in woods. Afterwards, all attending stand and remove their hats in respect. View of the grave marker and flowers covering the grave.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038621
Soviet army, civilian guerillas, and Home Guard, defend against German forces invading the USSR in World War II

Soviet Russian civilians meeting with Soviet soldiers, to receive weapons instruction and training in guerrilla warfare,during World War 2. A soldier holds up a RGD-33 hand grenade and explains its operation. Some small arms and grenades are distributed to the guerillas. One guerilla with several grenades hanging from his belt. Another holds a sub-machine gun. The members of the group all stand together and read an oath to fight until the last fascist in their territory is destroyed. The members , including several women, take their weapons and march off. Scene changes to a Soviet airfield, where aircrews head to their bombers. Closeup of gunner closing the hatch of his compartment on a bomber. Aerial view of a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber in flight above a German supply depot. View of bombardier inside the aircraft sighting for a bomb drop. View from the aircraft of bombs falling away. Black flak clouds seen slightly below the aircraft. Closeups of pilot in the cockpit. More bombs seen dropping from aircraft and exploding on the ground. A man rings an air raid alarm as German aircraft are seen approaching his village. The villagers run for cover to the surrounding woods. Boys mount work horses to bring them into the shelter of the trees. Farmers drive their cows toward the woods for shelter. Local Home Guard militia grab weapons and ride off to circle the village in the woods. Some take up positions covered by boughs of trees as camouflage. Anti-aircraft guns raise their barrels in several places near a lake. Gunners fire a multi-barrel machine gun. A variety of anti-aircraft guns firing. A German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft maneuvers overhead, ostensibly, after being struck by anti-aircraft fire. A plene crashes and smoke rises. Soviet gunner records the event in his log book. Villagers gather around a crashed German Dornier Do 17 bomber in a field. Some men are atop the airplane and others surround the cockpit. Scene shifts to Soviet pilots at their airfield, and then back again, to the crashed Do 17 bomber in the field

Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038622