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P-47s of USAAF 318th Fighter Group encounter heavy antiaircraft fire while strafing Japanese targets on Tinian in World War II

Battle of the Pacific during World War 2, fought on the island of Tinian, Mariana Islands. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, of the 318th Fighter Group, drop the Napalm on the island. Smoke billowing up from Napalm incendiary bomb explosions on island. P-47 dive bombing enemy positions on island. Tracers being fired to and from P-47s. Smoke rising from explosions in jungle. P-47 strafing buildings near the shoreline. Heavy antiaircraft and ground fire from forces of Japan at the planes as they dive. P-47, number 42-75304 of the 333rd Fighter Squadron, is seen closeup.

Location: Tinian Island Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July 24
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047551
U.S. troops land on a beachhead in France.

August 1944: U.S. soldiers get off a Landing Craft on the French coast. Soldiers on U.S. battleships. U.S. officers discuss among themselves. Soldiers move across the beach. Soldiers sit outside an abandoned unfinished German pillbox. They examine German artillery. A camouflaged German gun IMPLACEMENT. A U.S. Landing Craft hit by a German radio controlled flying bomb. The charred and destroyed craft on the beach. Soldiers unload heavy equipment and vehicles including jeeps and tanks from Landing Crafts. U.S. battleships in the background. Blimps in the sky. Soldiers move across a street. Soldiers in trucks. Engineers construct an airstrip through a vineyard. Heavy machinery and equipment used to remove the rubble and bushes, as well as to level the ground. Military trucks and vehicles on the road. (World War II period).

Location: France
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020660
Radios confiscated by Nazi German forces are returned to the civilians of Bayeux, Normandy.

August 1944: Civilians outside the Civil Affairs Committee building in Bayeux, Normandy. A large crowd waits outside the building. Men and women lined up. Radios confiscated by the Nazi German forces are returned to the civilians. Men and women walk out the building with their radio sets in boxes. Men and children on the street as military vehicles pass by.

Location: Bayeux Normandy France
Date: 1945
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020661
Liberation ceremony by the Mayor of Rennes in France.

August 1944: Liberation ceremony by the Mayor of Rennes in France. The Mayor, Allied officers and other city officials on a balcony. The U.S. and French flag hung from the balcony. People of the city gathered below to celebrate the liberation. French patriots round up collaborationists. Collaborationist men and women with torn clothes and painted faces paraded through the streets. An elderly man and woman with the French flag. (World War II period).

Location: Rennes France
Date: 1945
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020664
U.S. troops advance through Mayenne and Laval in France (WW2)

6 August 1944: A U.S. armored column on the outskirts of Mayenne on their way to Paris, France in World War II. Soldiers in trucks, jeeps and half tracks. Soldiers prepare to fight, push artillery across a field. Troops march into Mayenne. Civilians welcome and greet the soldiers. U.S. troops and a van on the road. The troops and tanks enter Laval. Civilians greet the soldiers. Civilians on bicycles wave to soldiers in a truck. Soldiers and civilians at a bombed bridge. Soldiers fire at Nazis across the river from behind a wall. Civilians with French flags on the streets. A woman collaborationist surrounded by French men, holds pictures and has a Swastika on her dress front. A woman holds a broken picture of German leader Adolf Hitler. People with US, British, and French flags in a building window.

Location: France
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020667
German civilian Pusch testifies in trial of Franz Strasser for shooting of American aviator prisoners; scenes from tribunal in Dachau (WW2)

Excerpts from 24 August, 1945 (World War II) military commission tribunal in Dachau. Swearing in of translator and charges read against Franz Strasser for: "Violation of the Laws and Usages of War. In that on or about 9 December 1944, FRANZ STRASSER, Kreisleiter of Kreis Kaplitz, an Austrian National, did at or near Kaplitz, Czechoslovakia, wrongfully and unlawfully kill an American airman, whose name, rank and serial number are unknown, [by shooting him with a machine pistol]. Strasser replies with a plea of not guilty. Next scene shows entry of German civilian truck driver, Josef Pusch, who is sworn in and provides testimony about the incident. Pusch describes the events of the shooting of the American prisoners by Strasser. United States flag and judges on raised platform. U.S. officials, defendants and civilians in the court room. Shows hearing as it begins. The Nazi commandant seated with other officials. The German civilian is questioned by an interpreter. German civilian Pusch identifies Strasser. Pusch gives his account to the tribunal about the shooting of the American flyers.

Location: Dachau Germany
Date: 1945, August 24
Duration: 8 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021221
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