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Allied victories over Nazis in European Theater in 1944 and 1945 during World War 2

Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058350
Roosevelt wins 1944 United States Presidential Election during WWII

Newspaper boy peddling newspapers with headline "Nip and Tuck Race." View of Times Square in New York City during WW2. Shops in Times Square with barricades to prevent vandalism by crowds. View of Times Building. An Asian man and a White man standing together while checking for election updates from Times Building. Election officials and staff open a machine processing election returns from the small towns from the Eastern United States. Election official opens a Perfection ballot box. Radio announcer with CBS microphone, possibly Bob Trout, broadcasts updates as votes are tabulated. Volunteers tabulate results. Woman's hand seen turning on radio. United States soldiers based in Italy and France listen to radio to hear that current United States President and Democratic party candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading race. Two United States soldiers smiling as they hear the news. WEAF Radio announcer broadcasts election returns from the west coast. An American family listening to the radio in their living room. An American family, with a picture of a serviceman on top of radio, listens to the news that Roosevelt won. Zipper marquee on Times building announcing election returns. Crowds gathering in Times Square New York. Americans celebrated the victory in New York. View of the Times Square at night. American civilians and soldiers celebrate the victory of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fourth term in office.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079035
United States Coast Guard preparing for the Allied invasion of Normandy (WW2)

June 9, 1944. Sand flats seen at low tide in Normandy, France. Allied forces fighting their way inland during the Normandy invasion (Three days after D-Day) in World War II. Landing craft and destroyed buildings on the beaches of Normandy. German steel beach obstacles have been stacked out of the way. A United States Sherman DD tank sunk in sand. Badly damaged LCT-25 on the beach at Normandy, with her cargo of half-tracks still aboard and remains of the first one off, sitting at her ramp where it was hit by a German shell. Higgins Boat riddled with bullet holes. Scene shifts to January 1944 when United States Army troops descend from a troop transport ship into LCT-504 for practice maneuvers in the Chesapeake Bay. A soldier operates a Higgins Boat. Another soldier directs a Higgins Boat to the shore. Troops hit the beach in Higgins Boats driven by U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the Attack Transport ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). United States troops carry equipment or belongings as they board ships to England in February 1944. Views of live aboard transport ships in convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guardsmen near weapons at duty stations. Some troops are seen wearing life vests on board. Troops sleep or lie in hammocks in their quarters. Soldiers pass the time by playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing letters, and mending clothes on deck. Troops line the deck of the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33), as the ship approaches port in England. Landing craft from the Bayfield, carrying troops, are seen in assault training exercises in England. Troops wading ashore during training. Coast Guard officers and sailors are seen aboard larger landing ships in exercises. Coast Guard officer smoking a cigar, as landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase speeds away after landing troops ashore. Trucks drive ashore from landing craft. Scene shifts to May 1944 and a formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft dropping bombs on enemy targets in Normandy. Aerial view shows bombs falling.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065477
American soldiers of the 314th Infantry regiment, 79th Infantry Division, entering town as people cheer in Mamers, France; German prisoners in Argentan, France

U.S. Army soldiers of the 314th Infantry regiment, 79th Infantry Division, entering town as people cheer in Mamers, France on August 12, 1944 during liberation of France in World War 2. Next scene shifts to Argentan France on August 13, 1944, and shows German prisoners of war marching through the streets and assembling in courtyard at a monastery in Argentan. View of some Mongolians in a courtyard who were Russians pressed into service by the Germans. General George S Patton talking to Major General Lunceford E Oliver, CG of the 5th Armored Division. General Patton leaves in a jeep.

Date: 1944, August 12
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034887
Allied soldiers prepare for D-Day invasion, and then land in France (WW2)

Allied campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 during World War II. Tanks, artillery and supplies piled up in England for invasion of Europe. Allied soldiers from various Allied nations like Britain, America, New Zealand and South Africa gathered at docks. The soldiers loaded onto transport ships. Soldiers get into landing crafts. Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower at a map in Headquarters as he plans the invasion of France. The Allied invasion fleet underway in the English Channel to invade France. A map shows the location of Caen, France. Allied aircraft in flight and view at aircraft door as line of paratroopers jump. Massive group of parachutes in the sky as paratroopers descend. Explosions occur at a coast. Landing crafts beached and soldiers come ashore amidst heavy firing. Rockets and artillery being fired. Vehicles on the beach. A truck burns. A map depicts the area under Nazi German occupation before World War II and the recapture of those areas by Allied armies in 1944.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065884
Bomb damaged Place de la Concorde and unscathed Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame in Paris after WWII.

Results of selective strategic bombing by the British Royal and United States Eighth Air Forces in German-occupied Paris and surrounding areas during World War II. September 1944: Pont de Grenelle bridge over the Seine river. Eiffel Tower (Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France) in the background. The Statue of Liberty replica on the Ile aux Cygnes Island (Pont de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France). Shell blast damaged buildings and the Obelisk at Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). Cyclists and motorists at the Place. Military cars pass the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) at Champs Elysees. Civilians around the Eiffel Tower. The French flag atop the undamaged tower. Unscathed Notre Dame de Paris (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France). United States military vehicles in the square before the cathedral. GIs and Parisians crowding in front of the Cathedral. An FFI (French Forces of the Interior) flag at Notre Dame.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021871