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British designed Gloster Meteor jets being refueled at an airfield in Holland.

British designed Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Holland. The British designed Gloster Meteor jets at a factory in Netherlands. A Gloster jet pulled out of a hangar. The jets parked in a line on an airfield. Men refueling the jets with a tanker truck. Men put a hose in the fuel section. The truck moves after refueling.

Date: 1951, December 18
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069468
Dutch Sint-Nicolaas enters the city signaling the starting of a national feast day and people cheer in Amsterdam, Holland.

Feast of Sinterklaas starts in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dutch Sint-Niklaas (Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus) enters the city signaling the starting of a feast day. Sint-Niklaas drinks bisschopswijn (mulled wine) on horseback. People crowd on either side of the street. Dutch people cheer for Sint-Niklaas. Sint-Niklaas rides on horseback while being flanked by men dressed in blackface as Zwarte Piet. Crowds watching the arrival of Sint-Niklaas along the Damrak avenue. Mascots resembling Disney characters Donald Duck and Goofy waving at crowds from a float. A float with a giant bear. Children look at the floats. A man takes pictures. The Saint on horseback waves to the onlookers on the street.

Date: 1956, December 6
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069747
Allied military leaders meet at headquarters of Ninth Army's XVI Corps headquarters during World War II

A U.S. Army staff car displaying a bumper plate with three stars, arrives at a building in Nieuwkerk, Netherlands, being used as headquarters of the U.S. Ninth Army's XVI Corps. Military policemen guard the entrance. Occupants step from the car. Next, Ninth Army Commander, Lieutenant General William H. Simpson, is seen standing in front of the building, with XVI Corps Commander, Major General John B. Anderson (momentarily hatless). In next scene both generals pose (Anderson now wearing his steel helmet). As the two converse, a British staff car drives up. The two American generals salute, as British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery steps from the car. Next, Montgomery stands in the street, removing his overcoat (with a little difficulty), as he chats with the two U.S. generals. A military photographer, in the background, takes pictures. The three leaders continue their conversations on the sidewalk in front of the building. Closeup of Marshal Montgomery speaking as two army photographers are seen, along with some town dwellings, in the background.

Date: 1945, March 15
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069870
NATO officers observe firepower demonstrations by U.S. P-80 shooting star aircraft

Two U.S. Air Force F-80 shooting star jets fly overhead and then demonstrate bombing on a field in the Netherlands. NATO observers watch from a hillside next to a large windmill. Explosions are set off in the field, creating moderate-sized billowing mushroom clouds. NATO Infantrymen jump up from camouflaged positions and charge. General Alfred Greunther, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, walks with a NATO officer. He boards a helicopter and departs.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074239
German troops construct and cross a pontoon bridge over Juliana Canal near the Dutch border (WW2)

German engineers constructing pontoon bridge over the Juliana Canal in Limburg, Netherlands during World War II. German workers unload steel from truck on foggy morning weather. Some soldiers carrying construction supplies to the bridge. Trucks are seen waiting on the bridge for the last span of bridge to be completed by soldiers. German tanks and armored cars crossing the Juliana Canal with newly built pontoon bridge. Customs sign reads “Douane Zoll” at the Dutch border. Tanks, trucks, and other German vehicles passing through a village. German soldiers and a civilian post a notice. Notice overriding gun ownership in occupied territories written in German and Dutch. German half-track towing artillery piece, passing down street of village. Dutch villagers waving at occupying German forces. Armored vehicles driving on highway. Tank barriers on highway. German troops watch a tank break down a tank barrier.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080333
Standard Oil Plant and Wifo Gasoline Depot at Gennevilliers in Paris bombed by the U.S. Eighth Air Force on June 22, 1944 in World War 2.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in and around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The adjoining Standard Oil Plant and German Wifo Gasoline Depot at Gennevilliers bombed by the U.S. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers on June 22, 1944. The destroyed manufacturing facilities, buildings, storage tanks, loading platforms, railroad tank cars. Damaged steel structures and collapsed roofs. Aerial view of the plant and the depot.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021872