A damaged French town in 1944 during World War II. Aerial view of bombs falling over the French town. Smoke billows up from explosions. Rubble on the streets and damaged buildings. French civilians clear debris. Frenchmen ride bicycles. Civilians near a pond. A damaged railroad station.
A damaged French town in 1944 during World War II. French civilians stand near a bombed out building. Rubble on a street. Trucks loaded with men drives past the bombed out building.
A damaged French town in 1944during World War II. Smoke rises from a burning building in the far background. The burning French building. French civilians remove their belongings. Wounded and injured people are evacuated. A damaged railroad station with wrecked locomotives.
French Marshal Philippe Petain in a French town in 1944 during World War II. Philippe Petain in a car flanked by motorcycle police drives on the streets as a crowd cheers. Damaged buildings alongside a street. Petain shakes hands with civilians. Petain speaks into a microphone and addresses the crowd.
Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan during World War II in the United States. Officials of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desks and Major General Walter C. Short, U.S. Army (retired), addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. He states that he appeared for the hearing of Pearl Harbor attack in August 1944. No indication was made by the war department about the attack. No information was furnished by them. If they had furnished the information, some decisions or actions could have been taken. He talked to officials of the war time division, but no conclusions were made.
Activities of Filipino women in the Philippines shortly before World War II, from a 1944 film showing pre-war scenes. Filipino women in homes and offices. A Physical Education teacher watch a group of female Filipino students jogging in two straight lines. Faces of young Filipino women smiling. Pairs of dancers perform Filipino folk dance Cariñosa with handkerchiefs. Two women talk amongst themselves while shopping in a crockery shop. A woman stitches clothes using a sewing machine. Some of the women work in their houses. A woman practices archery. Women wearing various traditional Filipino dresses such as the Maria Clara dress of the Tagalogs and Batawi for Muslim Tausug women. Tagalog women wearing Terno dresses made of Piña or Pineapple cloth. A woman shows her Terno’s ‘Butterfly sleeves’. Filipino women working as soda fountain waitresses and Blues singers. Women doctors and nurses in a hospital. Young Filipino women and men dance the Jitterbug.
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