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United States officers briefing air crewmen at Berca Airfield, Benghazi, Libya (WW2)

United States Army Air Force briefing crewmen for a mission (to Wiener Neustadt, Austria) in Berca Airfield, Benghazi, Libya during World War II. Crewmen gather and sit on the ground during briefing. Crewmen listening to briefing. A crewman smokes a pipe during the briefing. The officers conduct briefing under a large tent. Officer points to a map.

Location: Berca Airfield Benghazi Libya
Date: 1943, August 8
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080141
The discovery of the 1940 Katyn massacre mass grave; workers exhume bodies of victims (WW2)

The Dnipro River in Smolensk, Soviet Union during World War II. Several buildings and facilities seen from the Dnipro River. A secluded Soviet government facility near a forest trail leading to Katyn Forest. Nazi German officials in Katyn Forest after the discovery of the Katyn massacre mass grave. Men exhume thousands of corpses in Katyn Forest near Smolensk. Corpses of Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war in mass grave. Partially exhumed corpses are seen stacked on top of each other.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1943, April
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080536
Family members of Polish victims arrive to identify remains exhumed at Katyn Forest mass grave (WW2)

Farmers in the cornfields of a small Ukrainian town. A pit of the 1940 Katyn massacre mass grave found in World War II. Katyn Commission officials arrive to investigate the Katyn massacre. The Greek Orthodox Bishop of Kos inspects the remains of Katyn massacre victims. Exhumed Katyn massacre victims on the ground. Family members of Katyn massacre victims arrive to identify victims onsite. A body is pulled out from the pit. Women searching for the remains of their loved ones. Religious Christian artifacts and personal effects belonging to Katyn massacre victims found on the mass grave.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080539
American comedian Bob Hope and troupe arrives at the Mullinex field

American comedian Bob Hope arrives at the Bonriki airfield, also known as Mullinex field, during World War 2. A PBY-5A Catalina lands and taxis. Bob Hope and his USO entertainment troupe exit the plane. They are greeted by officers and men. The troupe enters jeeps. PBY-5A Catalina warms up. Stage and Navy sailor and soldier spectators for the Bob Hope show. Bob Hope and troupe in plane.

Location: Bonriki Island Pacific Theater
Date: 1944, July 29
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041126
Worldwide operations of United States Coast Guard in World War 2

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War II. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry,LCI(L) 617,part of LCI Flotilla 22 in World War 2. She is seen underway in rough waters of the Pacific ocean during 1945.Coast Guardsman ordered to Battle stations. A Coast Guardsman observes approaching enemy aircraft through binoculars. Coast guard gunner fires Antiaircraft guns using foot trigger. Enemy plane crashes in ocean. A Coast Guardsman signals using semaphore flags. Beachhead supply operations. Coast Guard Picket Boat, CG-42022, seen patrolling around U.S. transport ships in a Persian port, while they carry lend lease supplies to the Soviet Union.Coast Guard combat patrol in jungle using canines. The Cactus (A) Class 180 foot buoy tender, USCGC Tupelo placing a buoy at sea. Releasing a weather balloon. A Coast Guard wooden 83 foot cutter ("83 footer"). Loading a Coast Guard B-24 aircraft on Guam. The plane takes off. Invasion task force of U.S. warships underway. Coast Guard crews at various duty stations aboard their ships during the war.. The former luxury liner, SS Manhattan,underway, her decks crowded with troops, following her conversion into the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Wakefield (AP-21). U.S. Navy attack transport,USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at sea in the Pacific. Coast Guard operating transport ships unloading cargo for Allied invasion forces and running inter-island shipping service in the Pacific, during World War II.Landing Ship Tank (LST-788) arriving at the beach next to Landing Ship Medium, LSM-242, on Iwo Jima. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) being driven off LST-760. USS LCI(L)-87, Flagship of LCI Flotilla 10. Her Captain, M. E. Imlay, USCG, is seen on her bridge, before departing from England for the Normandy invasion. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L)-668 at beach and troops wading ashore.

Location: Atlantic and Pacific theaters
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041741
U.S. Navy ships bombard beach at Kerama Retto, Okinawa, during World War II

U.S. Navy bombardment of beach at Kerama Retto, Okinawa, during World War 2 invasion of Okinawa. LSMs (Landing Ship, Medium), destroyers and battle ships underway. Rocket barrage fired. Rocky shoreline of the island in the background. Details seen include: Time 00:25 is the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40 firing main and secondary batteries. Time 00:41 is a detailed closeup bow-on view of the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40. (Note: As seen, the USS New Mexico did retain its casemated 5-inch/51 caliber guns for the Okinawa invasion, contrary to some historic references.)

Location: Okinawa Pacific Theater Kerama Retto
Date: 1945, March 27
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053460
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