The role of women in the United States Army. A tent in snow. WAC maneuvers in arctic conditions.A woman soldier brings plates outside the tent. Women wash the plates. Women wear arctic protective gear. A woman wears skis. Women learn skiing. Women learn to wear ski shoes. A woman loads pack on the back of another woman. Women march on snow. Woman cook. Tokyo: Women site seeing. Woman in a hand rickshaw. Woman bargains with the shopkeeper. Paris: women walk in pairs. View of the Eiffel tower. Women view the statue of Venus de Milo. Women skiing. Women watch ice hockey. Germany: Women stationed near Garmisch-Partenkirchen ride in a mountain cable car and arriving at a mountain top station (this appears to be the wooden cable car from BadReichenhall to Predigstuhl Mountain, sometimes called the Grand Dame of the Alps). Women work in office. Women treat soldiers in dispensary. Nurse teaches soldier to walk. Woman take x ray of a soldier.
European Advisory Commission meeting to sign the protocol between the Allies on the occupation zones in Germany at Lancaster House London. Chairman Feodor Tarasovich Gousev of Russia, Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the government of Great Britain; John Gilbart Winant, American ambassador to Great Britain and Sir William Strang, UK representative on European Advisory Commission enter and have a discussion. View of Advisory Commission with Mons. Gousev at head of table and other military advisors with Sir Strang at top left. Diplomats can be seen talking to each other. 12 September 1944. (World War II period).
Front of American Consulate building in Bordeaux France. Plaque above the door marked with - CONSULATE of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. Interior of the Consulate where American consul, Mr Waterman is at his desk. American refugees waiting in the consulate for passports as they prepare to depart France shortly before the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany in World War II. Red Cross workers assisting consul. June 1940.
A dramatized documentary film titled 'Mission to Giessen'. Troops viewing a site through binoculars. A map showing 1st and 3rd allied army. Officials can be seen discussing. An OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent is sent to Giessen, Germany to obtain tactical intelligence needed for the juncture of the 1st and 3rd allied armies in Giessen during World War II. Trained agent is briefed and sent to German held territory via parachute.
U.S. Army staff sergeant in a sand-bagged bunker, uses binoculars to observe Germany areas targeted by American heavy during the Italian campaign of World War 2. A 155mm long tom gun and other heavy guns, under camouflage netting, begin elevating for a so-called "Bingo" barrage to blanket a German-held area by shelling. Artillerymen with phones and headsets coordinate the start of the barrage. Scenes of steady firing from numerous guns of various types and sizes.
Views of a London morning after the German air raid during World War II. Wrecked city and destroyed buildings are seen. Workers rake up debris and extinguish fires as citizens go to work as usual. Men and women emerging from underground tube and taking to streets to go to work amidst rubble. Man in suit going to work with briefcase observes the damage and devastation and workers clean up streets. Train passes overhead spanning a partially destroyed overpass trestle. Workers sit on the back of a motorized open air cart that helps shuttle them to work through the debris of the bombing. Views of a crowded London street. A woman goes shopping and steps directly into a formerly glass-enclosed display window at a clothing store to hand the proprietor an article of clothing that she wishes to buy or to assist him in cleaning up his wares. Brief view of royalty (King George VI) and Queen visiting ruins. A clean-up brigade wearing hard helmets digs through rubble with pick axes. Double-decker bus and cars and pedestrians passing by on street near bombed out building. Views of rubble among prominent London landmarks. Street view of citizens walking to work, and St. Paul's Cathedral dome in distance. Fire fighting crews train hoses on a fire from the bombing; view of exhausted and dirty fire fighters at work. Citizens with children gather at a civic center to load children into buses and evacuate them out of the city for their protection. A man with a megaphone addresses the crowd of parents and children to be evacuated to give them instructions. Men, women, and children are seen among the crowd. Line of double-decker buses departing from a queue, carrying children to safety, as parents look on and wave goodbye. Royal Air Force (RAF) crew loads a bomb into the underside of a British aircraft bound for Berlin. Views of three British airplanes in flight bound for bombing run over Germany. More scenes of rubble in British streets, and dirtied workers cleaning up after the bombing raids of the blitz. A man passes a rescued cat to another red cross rescue worker, amidst the rubble of a building. Worker gets cigarette lit.
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