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Bob Hope and his USO Troupe visit a U.S. Navy base on Mios Woendi island, Schouten Islands, Papua New Guinea, during World War II.

Bob Hope and members of his USO troupe ride on a PT boat during visit to entertain U.S. Navy personnel during World War 2. In opening scene, Bob Hope doffs his pith helmet as he strolls past the camera to climb aboard a PT boat (PT-331) of U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21, where several naval officers greet him. Members of Hope's USO troupe, Patty Thomas, and Francis Langford, step from jeeps to board the PT boat. Next, the two are seen in the cockpit of the boat next to its captain, Lieutenant Kermit W. Montz, USNR, as the boat speeds along in the water. Among sailors occasionally glimpsed behind them is Radioman 1st Class bill Thielen. In change of scene, Bob Hope climbs out a hatch, holding onto his pith helmet to keep it from blowing off. The boat's number, 331 is clearly displayed on superstructure behind him. Various Navy sailors on deck. (Note: Squadron 21 received a Presidential Unit Citation for outstanding performance during the Huon Peninsula Campaign against Japanese forces from October 1943 to March 1944.)

Location: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944, August 11
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057656
Civilians in Ireland mourn the death of nine Irish soldiers during Congo ambush.

Funeral procession of Irish soldiers in Ireland. Dead bodies of nine Irish soldiers loaded onto trucks which drive past a large crowd on either side of a street. Caskets draped in United Nations flags carry the bodies of those who lost their lives during Congo ambush. A band plays as the trucks move past. The trucks arrive at a cemetery. Soldiers fire rifles in salute. Civilians mourn the death of Irish soldiers.

Location: Ireland
Date: 1960, November 28
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057788
A U.S. Soldier demonstrates the use of a carbine equipped with a sniper scope in Burma during World War II.

Allied soldiers train with new equipment during the Burma Campaign in World War II. The U.S. Mars Task Force 475th Infantry Division and Burmese troops train in the use of the new Sniper Scope. A U.S. Solldier demonstrates the parts and use of the sniper scope. He inspects a carbine equipped with the sniper scope for accurate firing in the dark. He explains the functioning of the scope and how the infra-red spotlight operates in conjunction with a telescope sight. He looks through the telescope sight. He demonstrates the use of the third unit comprised of batteries and an electrical focusing attachment. The Burmese soldiers take the carbine and look through the telescope sight.

Location: Burma
Date: 1945, February
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057827
German commando operations in the Kuban Lakes region, Northwest Caucasus, World War Two

German commando troops attack Russian positions in the Kuban Lakes area near Russian Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk, Northwest Caucasus, during World War II. Map depicts the area of operations. German commando units in motor launches raid Russian positions. View of a bay from mountain. The commandos load in motor boats and move through marshes and lakes . The troops wade through water and move on land to attack Russian targets. They fire machine guns. Commandos returning to their base, where several are seen at a pier with their boat, as other boats arrive.

Location: Kuban Russia
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675057918
German troops and equipment are transported and German bombers bomb a British supply dump in Africa during World War II.

The German Army attacks British positions in Africa during World War II. Japanese officers deplane at a German strip in Sicily, Italy. Officers greet each other. Troops and equipment loaded into German Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft. The transport aircraft fly troops reinforcements to Axis forces in North Africa. Troops in the aircraft. Aerial view of a field as the aircraft approach for landing. A soldier looks out of an aircraft. The aircraft stationed on the field. Luftwaffe General Albert Kesselring inspects German air units. German bombers including Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers escorted by Italian fighters take off. The aircraft in flight. They bomb a British supply dump. Junkers Ju 87s dive and bomb the target at Tobruk.

Location: Africa
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675057946
Movies are transported for soldiers who watch a film on Bougainville Island during World War II.

Work of the United Service Organizations (USO) on Bougainville Island during World War II. Soldiers enter a theater. They watch a movie. Soldiers set up a projector system in a camp. Tents in the background. The soldiers dance. An aircraft takes off. Crates of movies unloaded from the aircraft. A soldier sits on a truck. Soldiers come out of a foxhole. A board outside a tent reads 'Bougainville Roxy Theater, tonights feature'. The soldiers enter the tent. Soldiers carrying tables and chairs walk. A soldier gets seated.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058024
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