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French General Phillipe Petain at Unit decoration ceremony, bestows traditional kisses on cheeks of officer, lady and child.

General Phillipe Petain fastens a decoration, to French Army unit's flag, during a ceremony in World War I. He bestows traditional kiss on cheeks of unit commander. French troops lined up in the background. Marshal Petain also gives traditional kisses on cheeks of a lady and a child holding bouquet of flowers, in the field. Troops marching away, seen through deep grass.

Date: 1915
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040066
Japanese capture Canton (Guangzhou), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Imperial Japanese Army troops marching through the city of Sha-He during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Map showing the town of Sha-He, China. Japanese soldiers in Army trucks enter Sha-He. Destruction and rubble in Sha-He after Japanese bombardment. A Nationalist Kuomintang monument in China. Soldiers find the KMT monument. IJA vehicles entering a Chinese city. A poster of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the chairman and leader of Republic of China. A man sits on top of a pile of boxes. Japanese army truck pass under a nationalist poster. Chinese refugees sitting in front of a closed storefront. Japanese troops enter a municipal hall. An anti-Western cartoon graffiti on the wall. The western characters are depicted wearing Japanese geta sandals. Captured Western women and children. A European or American man using a video camera. French Navy personnel walking away. Japanese soldiers capture Canton, China (Guangzhou, China). Boats sailing in the Pearl River. Fire engulfs a building. Heavy smoke covers the street. Japanese troops search captured Chinese Nationalist prisoners of war. They confiscate items and weapons. Prisoners of war talking to each other. Japanese soldiers march into Canton and capture Western prisoners of war.1938.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025105
Women wearing hats and men in suits come out of the front door of the Claremont Theater in the United States.

The film titled 'Claremont Theater' depicts a crowd coming out of a theater in the United States. People come out of the Claremont Theater's front door. Women carry muffs and wear hats. Men are in suits. Posters placed on either side of the theater's front door. People keep coming out. It seems they will never stop. A woman pushes a pram. A crowd gathered in front of the theater. A flag flutters atop a restaurant building. A man drives a horse drawn cart through streets.The theater was showing Edison Company films.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073470
British air force and navy raid targets of Japanese in Pacific Theater and Germans on European Front, during World War II.

Allied air force and navy raid Japanese targets in the Pacific Theater and German positions on the European Front, during World War II. British aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean. Airmen and sailors aboard attach bombs and prepare planes for a raid on Japan. Planes take off from the strip of carrier one after the other. Navigator makes plans for returning the planes. The planes land on the strip after completing the mission. Large guns on the ships. British 8th Air Force raids Nazi supply lines on the European Front. Immense smoke rises by the bombs dropped on Nazi positions. A German fighter plane shot in air by Allied warplane.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056372
U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps prepare mortars, fire anti aircraft guns, and provide supplies during World War II.

Clip opens with brief World War I scene, circa 1917, of new American army recruits receiving army uniforms being issued by a U.S. Army Quartermaster. Clip then covers U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps' combat operations in various Theaters of Operations during World War II. Quartermaster Corps soldiers with rifles under the cover of a military truck during battle. Troops in trucks. An aircraft in low flight over a field. A U.S. Army truck. A Quartermaster fires an anti aircraft gun. Explosions occur and smoke rises. A British tank in a field. Soldiers beside a truck. Cans and barrels stacked on the ground. An enemy German tank in a field. Soldiers take cover. Quartermasters with guns in a trench. They come up the trench in prone positions. Dramatized battle scene with several Quartermaster corps casualties beside a wire fence. Soldiers prepare a mortar gun. An anti aircraft gun on an army truck. A soldier takes aim and fires a rifle during training. The Quartermaster flag hoisted on a pole. Actual footage shows aerial view of Bataan, and then ground views of groups of remaining U.S. Army soldiers around time of surrender of Bataan in April 1942. American soldier seen with their hands up and under guard of Japanese soldiers during Bataan surrender. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in North Africa. Supplies being offloaded at various battle fronts of World War 2. Soldiers and supplies off-loaded on the beach. Quartermasters seated on supplies boxes. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in the South West Pacific. Troops move across the beach. Troops disembark from landing crafts and move across a beach in Sicily, Italy. The Quartermasters unload boxes of supplies during various beach landings. They unload supplies and fire artillery on a beach head in Italy. Troops in trucks. A convoy of trucks loaded with supplies. Ammunition, ration and personnel in trucks move from Algeria to the Tunisian Front. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Trucks advance through smoke at night and in difficult conditions. Quartermaster General Major General E. B. Gregory speaks about the Quartermaster Corps. He says that the Quartermasters distribute goods to the army during training and combat. The movement of the Corps should be so regulated so as to deliver the goods at the right time in the right quantity.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070052
British 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron on the Western Front in World War I

Montage of scenes involving Cavalry of the British 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron, serving with the 36th (Ulster) Division on the Western Front in World War 1. The Squadron demonstrates a charge for the camera. Change of scene shows the Squadron on horseback, in a snowy landsccape, and then, dismounted, moving acoss a battlefield, and taking up defensive positions. The next sequence shows troops assembling simple rafts with poles and canvas bag floats. The next sequence shows glimpse of a muddy campsite, followed by scene of dismounted Dragoons pointing rifles from established open fortificatons. Next, two soldiers are seen preparing a fire in front of their makeshift shelter. Three others hunker down in their shelter. Soldiers reading mail behind heavy timber fortifcation as another watches out for enemy. Troops relaxing behind well-established fortifications. A 6th Inniskilling Dragoon walks up close to the camera. His cap insignia, an image of Enniskillen Castle (a.k.a. Inniskilling Castle) is clearly seen.

Date: 1915
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029971