Construction of roads in Holland during World War 2, by U.S. Army engineers. Swampy mud blocks the traffic. Soldiers shoveling mud. Trucks and equipment stuck in mud, with wheels spinning. United States soldiers move the mud with rolling equipment. Soldier in a jeep crosses the muddy area. U.S. army engineers work with rolling equipment. They stand on the rolling equipment to push the mud out of the way. Soldiers try to pull a jeep out of the mud. Engineers cut down trees and fit wood logs to make corduroy road. Vehicles pass over the bridge. Traffic restored and trucks and armor including tanks continue their advance toward Germany. Close-up view of U.S. Army soldiers smoking cigarettes, cooking their K-rations over a wood fire, and then eating. One soldier takes a bite of food and shakes his head conveying that it does not taste good.
A national television report on the burial of late U.S. President John F Kennedy in the United States. State Department correspondent Elie Abel reports on President Lyndon Johnson's reception on the occasion of John F Kennedy's burial in Washington DC. Dignitaries gathered in a room. Chancellor of West Germany Ludwig Erhard with French President Charles De Gaulle. Officers and dignitaries stand around them. Erhard and De Gaulle use interpreters to communicate. De Gaulle shakes hands with dignitaries and meets leaders of various countries. Foreign Minister of France Maurice Couve De Murville stands at a distance from De Gaulle. French Ambassador in Washington DC steers President De Gaulle across the room through the crowd.
The first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. Animated maps illustrate the East Prussian Corridor. Nazi swastika flags on a building in Germany. German railroads transport war material. Newspaper headlines proclaim war. Animated maps of Norway depict German aggression during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940. German naval units cruise off Norway. German sailors and troops aboard the ships and submarines German paratroopers land in Norway. German aircraft fly over Norwegian mountains. German troops in the fields during invasion. Soldiers look through binoculars. German guards outside the Reichstag in Berlin. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler emerges onto a balcony and salutes the Berlin crowds.
The first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. The main part of the Battle of France campaign beginning 10 May 1940. Massive columns of German soldiers lined up in Berlin. Hundreds of young soldiers in uniform. Close-ups of some German soldier faces. An animated map depicts the movement of the English and French Armies across the French city of Lille towards the Ruhr Area in Germany. Allied vehicles move to meet the German advance. British Expeditionary Force troops, French, Belgian, Dutch, and colonial troops move to the front in railroad train cars, trucks, and on foot. Allied soldiers on motorbikes on a street. Soldiers stand guard at a check post. Tanks, military trucks and motorbikes cross the check post. The convoy moves along. Troops in a train. Tanks on the streets. Soldiers on tanks. Hundreds of Allied French and British soldiers march ahead in France. Soldiers man artillery and guns. Soldiers use detonators to set off explosions.
The German assault on France during the Battle of France in World War II. An animated map depicts the German attacks on the Maginot Line and city of Paris. An animated map depicts the positioning and movement of the English and French Armies on one side and the Germans on the other side of the Maginot Line (defensive line) on the French border towards Germany. Germans forces fight through a city as they close in on Dunkirk. German troops load and fire artillery. Black smoke arises due to explosions in the battlefield. A gun barrel as the gun is fired. A German officer gives orders to fire. Soldiers cover their ears with their hands as the guns are fired. French soldiers seen firing artillery at night, in defense. Blazing ruins of city at night, consumed in fire and flames. German tanks advance. Soldiers fight at night. Officers give orders to load and fire artillery. Smoke due to the explosions. Machine guns fired. Burning buildings and wrecked vehicles. German soldiers search French POWs (Prisoners of War). The prisoners seated behind a barbed wire fence at the prison camp. Captured French General Henri Giraud exits a German aircraft. He is met by German officers.
'50 Years of Cinematography' depicts the role of military and news cameramen during World War II. Germany starts the War. Invasion of Poland in 1939: German Nazi Luftwaffe bombers in flight over Warsaw. Explosions due to the bombardment. Burning and damaged buildings in the war torn city. Civilians amidst rubble and ruins. Soldiers and civilians look at corpses on a sidewalk. A woman with her child cries. A man walks on a street. Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940: Allied troops evacuated from the Dunkirk coast. Allied troops on ships. Smoke rises from a ship under German attack. Soldiers wade through the water towards waiting ships. Burning ships. The Second Armistice at Compiegne after the German victory in the Battle of France, 1940: German troops stand at attention. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, President of the Reichstag Hermann Goering, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other German officers arrive at the venue. The leaders and officers walk past the soldiers at attention. Hitler gives the Nazi salute. The Blitz, London in 1940-1941: Bomb damaged buildings. Cars and pedestrians amidst ruins and rubble on the streets. A train over a collapsed wall. Civilians in a horse cart. A wrecked bus in a damaged building. Rescue workers among the rubble. Clouds over the city.
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