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Indian soldiers, freed from Japanese prison camp, are ferried out of Senai airfield, New Guinea, by L-4 airplanes, during World War II

Pilot sits in cockpit of a Piper L-4 airplane of the U.S. Army Air Corps 25th Liaison Squadron, parked on a grass field at Senai, New Guinea, during World War 2. An Indian Punjab soldier, recently freed from a Japanese prison camp, sits in the back seat of the airplane. Several soldiers watch as the airplane takes off. A local tribesman sits near an Australian officer and an American pilot, who have a map spread out in front of them. A local native approaches followed by another liberated Indian soldier, walking with help of a stick. The American pilot walks out to greet the Indian who shakes his hand and bows. Another Indian also walks out to greet him, salutes, and shakes his hand. Three Indian soldiers pose for the camera, with the U.S. pilot standing nearby. The one with the walking stick salutes. Then two of them shake hands. Several Australian soldiers pose for the camera. Closeup of a Piper L-4 airplane with "Guinea Short Lines," and image of kangaroo, painted on its fuselage.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072749
Officers learn operating tools,bridge building,demolition work at Fort Belvoir Engineers School in Virginia,United States.

Officers training at Fort Belvoir Engineers School in Virginia,United States. View of the Headquarters Engineers School. Officers receive a complete training using steel models. They practice mechanical skills. They learn to operate precession tools,to reproduce maps, to interpret aerial photographs and survey terrains. They learn to operate heavy construction equipment to level hills and build roads. They learn to build and maintain bridge. They learn to handle explosions and demolitions work. They learn to blast heavy fortifications for combat function and front line infantry support. Officers practice amphibious landing

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072754
Ordinary life resuming in Stuttgart, Germany at the end of World War II in Europe.

Normal life of resuming for residents in Stuttgart,Germany at the end of World War 2. in Europe. People enter trolley cars (aka trams or street cars) powered by overhead electric cables, in front of the Stuttgart Königsbau (which later became a pedestrian district). View from inside a moving tram as it traverses a route in the city., first towards the train station and then left past the Gloria passage where you can see bomb-damaged buildings and heaps of debris at sides of the roadway. A large group of people step out from where they had been waiting, and walk beside rubble in a narrow part of one street, to board a waiting street car.

Date: 1945, June 3
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072770
Red Cross nurses prepare gift parcels and airmen carve children's toys during Christmas preparation in Germany.

Christmas preparation in Germany in 1943 during World War 2. German Red Cross volunteers prepare gift parcels for German troops, away at war. They pack them in boxes with Merry Christmas messages written on them. One box is destined to soldiers on the Eastern Front. German Airmen make toys from wood for distribution to German children. Display of the prepared toys.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675072799
Tanks and troops of U.S. First Army enter Cologne, Germany,during World War II.

U.S. First Army troops advance in Cologne, Germany during World War II. View of Cologne Cathedral still standing. Sherman tanks tow away street cars used to block roads. M-26 Pershing tanks roll through streets of Cologne. City almost destroyed by bombing. U.S. Soldiers walk through streets and fire machine guns from behind piles of rubble. Heaps of debris on streets. A German car is struck by a collapsing building. U.S. troops shoot at German soldier walking across street. Sherman tank firing from a park square. Close range view of a German Panzer tank, filmed by combat cameraman Jim Bates, as it is is hit by fire from an US Army M-26 Pershing tank (gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer) and the German crew jumps out. The tank goes up in flames. Wounded German soldier lying on ground. Two American officers shake hands, standing on an abandoned German Panther (Panzer) tank, in front of the Great Dome Cathedral, which was deliberately spared by U.S. bombers. Many German prisoners of war. Hohenzollern Bridge, destroyed by retreating German forces. A road sign reads: "Welcome to Koln, courtesy of the Spearhead Division." German residents stream back into the wrecked city. An older German civilian man sits on his luggage next to a damaged train track. Damaged street car on rubble-filled street. Views of the Cologne Cathedral, standing in the midst of destroyed city.

Date: 1945, March 6
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072902
Women and men standing outside Ground Observer shack look into sky during Operation Skywatch in the United States.

Operation Skywatch in the United States. Man looks out through window of building at 'Ground Observer Post'. Old man looks up at sky. Woman looks into sky. Farmer outside barn feeds pigs. Woman watches sky. Women in Ground Observer tower look into sky. Young boy looks into sky with binoculars. Two women standing outside Ground observer shack. Two girls standing on porch outside Ground observer shack. Aircraft in flight. One girl writing on clipboard enters building. Girl hands report on clipboard to man at desk. Man picks up phone and reads report. Two women stand by door of Ground observer corps shack. Two men scan sky from post in Ground observer corps shack. Poster reads ' Plotting time delay'. Woman moves aircraft models on plotting board. Man scans sky. Aircraft in flight. Man holds clipboard. He stands in front of house and talks to boy. Boy talks on telephone at window. Man and woman seated at recording center. They wear head phones. People at controls. Man talks on phone. Men seated at chair get up and run outside as the siren rings. They get in the aircraft parked at airfield. Signal man directs the take off. Aircraft takes off. United States Air Force General Nathan Farragut Twining seated at desk. He speaks.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072914