Mine detonation activities in Cherbourg, France during World War II. American soldiers at the harbor along with the mine sweeping equipment. Men row boats in the English Channel.
Mine detonation activities in Cherbourg, France during World War II. United States officer points at mine control cables outside a building in Cherbourg, France. Men aboard the mine pelorus. Man pulls a cable. Flag on a paravane in water. An electrically controlled mine explodes in harbor. A wrecked L' Ouste fort with a tower on the top. Mines explode as a pillar of water and smoke rises up.
Mine detonation activities in Cherbourg, France during World War II. British mine sweeping fleet in operation. Anti torpedo net in the background. A flag on paravane as it moves across the English Channel to sweep mines. Mine sweepers underway with coat in the background. Men loaded in a boat as it moves across the channel.
German rocket launching platforms sweep in Cherbourg, France during World War II. A German rocket launching platform in Cherbourg, France. Wooden planks at an incomplete rocket launching platform. Men make bags move down a ramp. Men save unused iron and concrete at the rocket launching platform. American military truck and vehicles at the rocket launching platform.
Allied forces in Cherbourg, France. Cars enter and leave the gates of Naval Hospital. Two sailors enter the hospital. Wounded or sick, recuperating patients in cots inside the hospital. A patient smokes cigarette. Men unload supplies off a military truck and into the warehouse. United States sailors loaded onto a military truck.
Rebuilding operations in Stalingrad after the German attacks on the city in World War II. Russian refugees outside their tents. Children perform calisthenics. Rubble lay on ground. People engaged in reconstruction operations. Children students of technical school take on construction work to rebuild a school building. They clean and prepare old bricks from destroyed building and then lay bricks to reconstruct a building. Wreckage of Nazi German aircraft spread on the ground. German tanks transported on flat railroad cars. Radar indicates a German air attack. A man loads shells in an anti aircraft gun and fires at German planes.
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