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The Shallow Minesweepers carry out the minesweeper operations and destroy mines in World War 2.

Characteristics and capabilities of Shallow Minesweepers (MSL) ships. These ships are equipped for detecting, destroying, removing or neutralizing explosive marine mines. A ship underway at a sea. Men work on the MSL. Magnetic and acoustic mines sweep gear. Sufficient cable for sweeping is stored on the LSM (Landing Ship Mechanized). Floats are used with cable. Gasoline engine at the back of the Minesweepers. Float and cable is launched. Crew members on the MSL. The cable is connected to the generator. The LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized ) releases the cable. MSL proceeds in the area to be swept. Magnetic cable is towed behind the minesweeper. The cables are passed to the LCM. The gear can be mounted on the mother ship. The cable is passed when minesweeper operations are conducted.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054322
Montage of scenes reflecting worldwide civil unrest at end of World War I following armistice.

Russian Cossacks on horseback. Mounted Soviet cavalry officers ride past marching troops. More Cossacks on horseback. Scene changes to a protest gathering and parade in Britain. Crowd involved in civil unrest demonstrating in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and demonstration somewhere in China during the May Fourth movement, with a mass of Chinese people in the streets. Soldiers in an armored personnel carrier putting down unrest in streets. Germans raising Imperial German flag at park on Unter Den Linden in Berlin, Germany. More scenes of unrest in European streets.

Location: Europe
Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054353
Churchill addresses the crew of HMS Prince of Wales at the end of the Atlantic Conference in the Atlantic Ocean in World War 2.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks to the crew of HMS Prince of Wales crew at the end of a voyage in the Atlantic Ocean. The crew of the ship on the deck. Winston Churchill addresses the crew. He says that the voyage will be memorable and fruitful. It was a pleasure for him to travel on the ship. He says that he is happy to have been able to share, for a short time, some of the hazards that are the daily routine of the Royal Navy. He says that HMS Prince of Wales is one of the strongest ships and that they had good weather too. He thanks everybody who made the voyage comfortable. Other dignitaries and senior personnel are present on the occasion.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1941, August
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054696
Free French Generals Charles De Gaulle and Catroux, meet with British Marshals in Cairo during World War 2.

A British Airways Short S23 C flying boat, arriving from Khartoum,comes in for water landing in Cairo. British Commander-in-Chief, in the Middle East, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell and French General Georges Catroux conversing on a boat, among a group of people. British Airways launch brings Officers (passengers) from the flying boat. General Charles De Gaulle seen with Marshal Wavell and British Chief Air Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore together with French General Catroux. General de Gaulle walks gangway off the boat and stands with the British Marshals, on shore. . Brief view of British Marshals in downtown, Cairo.

Location: Cairo Egypt
Date: 1941, April 3
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054759
PBY Catalina transfers U.S. soldiers from Morotai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War 2

A U.S. Navy PBY transfers soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines. Soldiers get into a truck. Few American soldiers seated in a truck. The soldier's belongings being transferred to the truck. Two men carry boxes. Few soldiers outside a tent. PBY Catalina (Patrol Bomber Consolidated Aircraft), an American flying boat of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron on an airstrip. Other aircraft in view. Two trucks parked beside the flying boat. Men transport material from the trucks onto the aircraft. Soldiers board the aircraft with their belongings.

Location: New Guinea
Date: 1944, October 20
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054891
British members of Parliament (MPs) view horrors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its liberation in World War 2

British Conservative member of Parliament (MP) Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, arm of accompanying MP, as they walk through recently liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. She is obviously distressed, and sniffs some smelling salts from her purse. She and others look at a jumbled pile of human bodies on the ground, victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces. A flat body truck is piled with corpses, covered with pine boughs.Viewing members of the British Parliament delegation make notes in pads. Various views of the corpses and members of parliament and accompanying British and American officers. Member of Parliament being shown ovens in which corpses were incinerated. Members of the group look at pile of ashes from ovens and pick up human bones that did not burn. They examine a tall wooden gallows-like rack with hooks from which prisoners were suspended and tortured or hanged . An MP holds on to a rope or wire extending from one hook. Camp fence and guard tower in background.

Location: Buchenwald Germany
Date: 1945, April 21
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055081
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