Camera's eye overview of Bordeaux, France during World War 1. Buildings, Houses, and churches are seen. Spires of the Cathedral of St. Andre. Large ocean-going sailing vessels with sails furled, in the harbor. Small steam powered ferry boat. Rooftop view of port, with cranes at dock. Crates are loaded into cargo slings and hoisted ashore to supply American Army Base Section Number 2. Railroad cars are loaded on the docks. A railroad train moves slowly along the dock. Warehouses buildings in the background.
View from porthole of a ship, of dock facilities and freighters in Bordeaux, France. Freighters and cranes at dock receiving supplies for American Army base section number 2 during World War I. Some ships are painted in camouflage patterns. Broad view from deck of American ship where United States flag flutters in wind from ship mast. Tugboat in harbor.
Mass of ship building derricks and structures, at waters edge, viewed from boat entering channel. Members of the U.S. Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation preparing to implement orders to commandeer all U.S. shipyards and hulls, under construction therein, for the U.S. war effort. Shipping Board Chairman, Edward N. Hurley, is at corner leaning toward the man at head of table (Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps, General Manager of Emergency Fleet Corporation ?), U.S. Shipping Board flag is raised at a shipyard building, where it flutters in wind. A number of Army soldiers present in uniform. Official addresses gathering of shipyard workers and explains the takeover and has them pledge, with hands raised, to work for the success of the war effort. Other officials speak, as well. The shipyard workers wave their hats in sign of approval. Everyone leaves to get back to building ships.
Outpost of Royal Laotian Army, in Thakhet, Laos. Laotian soldier, holding rifle, guards a Viet Minh prisoner. Prisoner sits under a tree. Laotian soldiers bring him something to eat. Laotian soldiers stand around looking at the prisoner.
Allied attack in Germany during World War II. Tracer bullets travel toward and hit railroad trains moving on tracks. Smoke column mushrooms up. Heavy foliage in the background. Tracer bullets travel toward and hit a German Messerschmitt ME-109 fighter aircraft in flight over grasslands. A United States Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft flashes by. Tracer bullets travel toward a German ME-109 aircraft in low flight over the ground.
East Germans cross the Berlin Wall (also known as the “Wall of Shame”) in Berlin, Germany in the year 1962. View of the Wall of Shame or Berlin Wall. Reflective mirror light from atop a tower intended to block western observation of activity in East Berlin. Officer looks through binoculars at the East German guards across the wall. Communist East German guards carrying away body of Bernd Luenser who was shot trying to escape to West Berlin. Russian guards loaded in buses move through streets. Freedom bell in the Rathaus Schöneberg rings. General of the United States Army Lucius D. Clay salutes as the Allied soldiers march past in the streets of West Berlin along with United States tanks.
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