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Italians greet Allied forces after liberation of Rome (WW2)

Allied forces enter Rome after liberation from Nazi Germany during World War II. Roman men and women welcome United States soldiers on moving tanks. Allied soldiers enter Rome through the Porta Maggiore, also known as the Porta Prenestina (Piazza di Porta Maggiore, 00182 Roma RM, Italy). Aerial view of United States tank and soldiers entering Rome. Italian men and women cheer and welcome Allied soldiers outside the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Soldiers marching on the Via di S. Giovanni in Laterano towards the Colosseum. A regiment of the British Army plays bagpipes outside the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria), also known as the Victor Emmanuel II National Monument (Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy), near the Capitoline Hill. Adoring Italian women reach out to soldiers on a jeep. Crowds gathered to watch Allied military vehicles drive on Via dei Fori Imperiali towards Piazza Venezia. Italians watch the entrance of Allied trucks into the Saint Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City) of the Vatican City.

Date: 1944, June 4
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079435
A U.S. C-54 Skymaster transport plane in flight during 437th Troop Carrier Wing airlift operations in Korea.

U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. Interior of a C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft shows pilot of 437th Troop Carrier Wing, Lieutenant Colonel Howard T. Markey, talking to the co-pilot, Captain Vernon J. Mouton. The Lt. Col. and the Captain sitting at the controls of the plane in flight check over the instrument panel and talk about the same. The C-54 in flight. It approaches Kimpo Airfield for landing.

Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060002
Artillery shells are unloaded from a C-54 Skymaster plane and combat troops board it during airlift operations in Korea.

U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. Interior of a C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft shows the crew getting on the aircraft prior to take off from Kimpo Airfield near Seoul. The radio operator of Command Post 1, Norman Bass ; Lieutenant Ernest Amerine and crew-chief technical sergeant Thomas G. Cooper. The interior of the plane shows T/Sergeant checking the cargo. The crew walks down a ladder. A truck backs up towards the C-54. Korean native laborers get off the truck and unload artillery shell cases from the plane into the truck. Several views of airmen and Koreans unloading the artillery shells. Combat troops walk up a step ladder into the door of the C-54. All the men are carrying carbines.

Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060003
Robert Kronfeld Austria's glider pilot crosses the English Channel in round trip glide.

Robert Kronfeld Austria's glider pilot crosses the English Channel in round trip glide. He is congratulated at by the people at St. Inglevert airfield near Calais, France, after winning the Annual Glider Meet. He handled a motor less aircraft from France to England and back again the same day. A French aircraft crashes while landing during the competition. 20 June 1931.

Date: 1931, June 20
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023612
U.S. personnel digging foxholes, reading letters, erecting shelters on Saipan Island during the Pacific Campaign.

U.S. personnel during the Pacific Campaign on the Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands in World War II. Men digging temporary shelters and fox holes along the Aslito airfield, Saipan Island. Mail clerk serving mail. One of the men reading letter. Man erecting a shelter. One of the men looking at a large painting of a girl on trailer.

Date: 1944
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047541
USAAF 318th Fighter Group arms its P-47s with napalm bombs for Tinian campaign against Japanese in World War II

Napalm bombs, improvised from wing fuel tanks, installed under wing of a P-47 from U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) 318th Fighter Group, on Aslito airfield (Isley field) during the Tinian campaign of World War II in the Pacific. Airman fastening improvised napalm bomb under wing of the P-47 aircraft. Ground crews drop off 55 gallon drums of fuel beside a P-47 and fasten a fueling hose to them. They pump napalm and gasoline into the 165gallon suspended wing tanks (bombs), creating gel gas mixture. Soldier holds a sample of the rubbery gel incendiary gel in his hand and manipulates it showing its texture. After fueling the incendiary bombs, the crewmen fasten detonators into the napalm bombs.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047545