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Broadcasters announce Japanese Naval victories

Japanese Naval officers and civilian broadcasters announce Japanese Naval victories off the Netherlands East Indies and off Malaya. Japanese planes bomb British naval battleships Repulse and Prince of Wales off Malaya. Flashback shows Vessels.1942. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025224
Allied and Japanese representatives in Yokohama, Japan on United States Missouri for signing of peace after surrender of Japan.

United States Missouri, destroyer warship Buchanan. Allied representatives French General Jacques Leclerc, United States Lieutenant General Robert C Richardson, Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey, United States lieutenant General Jonathan M Wainwright, United States lieutenant General Robert L Eichelberger, Netherlands Admiral C E L Helfrich, Canadian Colonel L Moore Cosgrove, United States Lieutenant General James H Doolittle, General Douglas McArthur, Richard K Sutherland. Japanese representatives foreign minster Shigemitsu, and General Umezu. Bow of warship Buchanan. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, September 2
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025837
Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, and Aletta Jacobs in Berlin, during World War I

Three influential women in the early 20th century women's movements and suffrage are seen walking in front of the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, during World War 1. On the left is American, Jane Addams, co-founder of Hull House, in Chicago, and President of the newly formed Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In the middle is Alice Hamilton. She was a close associate of Addams in the Hull House project, and, in 1919, became the first woman professor at Harvard University. The third woman is Dutch pacifist, feminist and suffragist Aletta Jacobs, who was also involved with founding of the WILPF. Jacobs was also the first female University graduate in the Netherlands. (Medicine in 1877 and 1878). (Note: Film shot by photographer William H. Durborough.)

Date: 1915, May
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026876
German forces plan and attack at Liege, Belgium in World War 2

Sand table animation shows plan of attack on Liege. Point of application for initial thrusts is Fort Eben Emael on border of Belgium and Netherlands. Map illustrates bombardment fron the air by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). River Meuse and the Albert canal in the city. Bridge on the river. First line-the Ijssel position, second line-the Grebbe position, third line-the the Meuse position, fourth line- the Peel position. Fifth line-the Willem canal fortification and sixth line-the Albert canal fortification. Soldiers move in trucks on the street. German assault and shock troops use rubber boats with ladders to cross river Meuse under fire. Mechanized German infantry and bicycle contingents cross river Meuse over bridges not destroyed. Houses and buildings alongside the street. Soldiers fire guns in field. Smoke arises due to the firing. Soldiers at a boat in the waterway. Destruction of Werk 4 bunker fortification at Fort Eben-Emael. Wreckage from bombardment. Heavy smoke arises from firing and bombardment. Captured Dutch and Belgian Prisoner of War soldiers walk on the street under guard of German soldiers during German occupation. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028011
Delegates of the League of Nations leave the Assembly Hall in Geneva, Switzerland.

Public and press eagerly wait outside the League of Nations headquarters (Palace of Nations, Av. de la Paix 14, 1202 Genève, Switzerland) in Geneva to get a glimpse of the delegates leaving the Assembly Hall. Among the delegates leaving the hall include Emile Vanderwelde and Louis de Brouckere of Belgium, Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, Guiseppe Motta of Switzerland, Maharajah of Kapurthala India, Louis Loucheur of France, Aristide Briand, Sir Austen Chamberlain of Great Britain, Victoria Scialoja of Italy, Nintchitch of the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood in Great Britain, Loudon of Netherlands, Jean Paul-Boncour of France, Joseph Beck of Luxembourg, Prince Arfa of Persia, Guetatcheou of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Mr. Karl von Schubert of Germany.

Date: 1926, September
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029363
Meeting of Preparatory Commission for Disarmament Conference at the League of Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland.

Scenes during the meeting of Preparatory Commission for Disarmament Conference at the League of Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates assemble in the assembly hall. Mr. Loudon of Netherlands presides over the conference.

Date: 1926, May 28
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029370