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            220327          07:32:14 - 07:41:12            1937; 1944   b/w     Sd        China   Film Communique No 10  R2 of 2
Battle of Hill 700 - Japanese take Nanking - Pacific War
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07:34:05  Spring 1944, Japanese 6th Division in Bougainville captured Hill 700.  Forest burning. US troops w/ tank, dragging ? out of water on landing on Empress Augusta Bay beachhead.  Troops in columns, on road, in jungle, thru mud & swamps.  Moving up carrying rocket tubes (?); moving up hill in trucks & vehicle. Crawling thru jungle.  Stealth advance, fall to ground in ditch to avoid gunfire.  Fighter firing rifle; US soldier throws grenade.  Pushing forward behind tanks.  On phone at back of vehicle (GOOD)  Shooting guns, grenade. 07:36:47 


            220751          14:42:00 - 14:51:10            1939 - 1944 B/W    SD        France  USA
Canada
Iran     The French Campaign 1944 - Reel 2
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14:46:22 Paris - Eiffel Tower - Free French battle for Paris - street fighting - man throws grenade from window into truck loaded with German troops. General Leclerc and French 2nd Armoured division moving up towards Paris.  Troops welcomed by Parisians as they enter city.  Battle scenes.  German prisoners of war. 14:49:20

 

            221325-12   05:45:19 - 05:47:53            194?   B/W    SD        USSR   [WWII Battle of Stalingrad Fighting]
Bombed apartment or factory complex, people passing on street.  Russian soldiers firing rifles from rubble during Battle of Stalingrad.  Civilians fighting alongside soldiers.  Explosions.  Soldiers running thru, one shot on camera.  Sniper kills German on camera.  Troops run thru courtyard, smoke.  Thru buildings & throwing grenades.  Soldier dies on camera.
05:47:40  Prisoners lead out of building w/ hands in air.  The End. 05:45:19
Horrors of War; WWII Eastern Front; Death; Dying; Troops;

            221325-20   06:12:40 - 06:16:00            194?   B/W    SD        USSR; Russia; Ukraine?         [WWII - German View Of Winter Fighting On Eastern Front]
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06:14:05  slug. Aerial over snowy field; large artillery firing & explosion near log house & buildings.  Blowing snow, soldiers wipe ice off faces.  Infantry to snow drifting around cabin & firing from inside, throwing grenades.  Dead bodies in building, exploded tank, large explosions & firing on various targets.  Destroyed tanks, bodies frozen on ground in snow.06:16:00

 

            221726-10   11:44:52 - 11:57:13            194?   B/W    SD       

            Introduction.
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11:49:30  Title:  First Pictures - Liberation of Manila.  Troops & tanks along road advancing.  LS of smoke; troops beside tanks firing beside road; advancing.  Thru jungle & across fields.  Firing bazooka, placing & exploding grenades, thru villages & burning houses.  Crossing bridge. 11:51:07 

 

            220757          22:04:52 - 22:12:04            1940   B/W    SD        France [France Invaded] - German Film 1940
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22:09:29  Amiens: LS city burning.  German infantry enters town. - houses on fire and barricades on fire.  German infantry advancing through roads cluttered with horse drawn vehicles and automobiles - searching houses.  German soldier going into house with hand grenade in hand ready to blast - opens shutters and waves to others to join him.  German soldier stands in front of dead soldier inside house.  Barricade of burnt cars.  Muzzle of machine gun firing through window.  Infantry crossing river in rubber boats. 22:12:04

            221108-07   17:06:58 - 17:15:18            1940 - 1945 c          B/W    SD        China   [Anti-Japanese War In China]
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Chinese titles & narration.
17:10:19  Four high ranking Chinese officers.  Pan across several high ranking Chinese army officers on battlefield; one looking through binoculars.  LS large number of Chinese infantry soldiers advancing thru grassy field.  Mass Chinese troop movement.  Camouflaged infantry  Two old Chinese tanks in action.  Many Chinese soldiers in trenches; some throwing hand grenades.  Battle sounds & war cries heard.  Chinese artillery.  Chinese soldiers moving into residential area.  Heavy bombardment. 17:13:40 

 

            221531          11:07:58 - 11:17:13            1940 ca          B/W    SIL       France [WWII - France Scenes After German Attack, Forbach & Sarreguemines, ca 1940]
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street.  Ohers at base of sandbagged walls & barriers of timber & cobblestones.  Officer talking to men.  View from inside machine gun position.  CU man taking grenades out of box.  Men w/ machine gun moving.  Soldiers running along front of house w/ rifles, up embankment.  Lying on ground w/ rifles.  View across valley & large town. 11:10:59 

 

            221661          07:08:50 - 07:21:44            1940; 1941   B/W    SIL       England            [WWII - England:  Churchill Reviewing Various Units; British Troops Training Amidst London Damage]
Winston Churchill & wife, Clementine, walking along street w/ military.

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07:16:23  Soldiers w/ rifles dug into pile of paving stones & rubble; climb over w/ grenades ??.  Small tracked personnel carrier vehicle down narrow street.  Men building blockade in street.  Troops in rubble w/ rifles.
07:17:17  Soldiers by front of destroyed building pointing rifles, smoke behind.  Pretending to fire while kneeling behind stacks of brick in bombed site.
07:17:31  Troops across rubble thru heavy smoke.  Running down street along side tracked vehicle which climbs over barricade.  Posing in street w/ bombed ruins behind; some walls standing.  CBC Red Cross truck parked, soldiers around, standing & smoking.
07:18:36  Remaining tall buildings standing w/ people on roof, destroyed buildings around.
07:18:42  Men in rubble stacking bricks; partially camouflaged man w/ rifle ready.  Men running forward, pretending to throw grenades.  Soldier runs into ruins of Midland Bank building.  Soldiers at window of upper story.  Men in tracked vehicle throw smoke grenade while passing Ballito Hosiery (?).  Firing guns & posing in vehicle.
07:20:06  Men work to clear blocked street.
07:20:29  Man under poncho talking on field telephone beside brick wall.  Man chalk marks X on back of soldier.  Troops walk down street; throw ??.  Climb over rubble & move thru wrecked buildings.  In block of rubble w/ smoke grenade.  Run up street thru smoke w/ vehicle over barricade, past camera. 07:21:44 VERY GOOD.

            220433          10:55:50 - 11:02:50            1940s B/W    Sd        Pacific The LVT (Landing Vehicle Tractor  amphibian tractor or Amtrak)
LVT, drawing of LVT. Soldiers driving in motion, up hill in ditch, mud, used as a bridge and driving jeep over. On sea carried by wave to beach, wave crashing on vehicle. 
Night shots landing on Pacific beach, LVTs through sea. firing, smoke. Marines on beach running and firing, plane overhead.  Soldiers by side of LVT pull wounded.  Firing guns, grenades.  LVT moving.  Flame thrower into hole in ground.  Wounded carried, into LVT, hoisted into ship.  US flag on shore.  LVT on beach.  Unloading supplies,convoy of LVTs into jungle.  Firing large gun.  Flame thrower used on LVT.  Soldiers at rest. repairing vehicle. LVT off ship into sea, landing on beach. 11:02:50

            220441          09:04:03 - 09:06:01            1940s B/W    sd         USA      Build Model Town For Interned Japs
Convoy of Japanese owned trucks & cars move inland with belongings guarded by Army.  Wyoming. Constructing buildings on desert.  Pan over barracks.  Japanese exercising; volunteers for Japanese-American unit; training for grenade throwing; buying war bonds. 09:06:01

 

            220921          06:04:54  - 06:10:33           1940s B/W    Sd/Sil  Russia / USSR Russian Newsreel (WWII Stalingrad fighting); Russian Revolution
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Battle scenes w/ soldiers around large destroyed concrete buildings firing machine guns.  Snipers seen in rubble & bullets hitting building.  Explosions, soldier runs thru street.  Sniper POV w/ scope.  Soldier hit & falls.  Others out of building, run thru smoke in street & buildings; several hit.  Man falls in doorway.  Soldiers take gun from dead.
06:07:16  Crawl into street w/ artillery & firing.  Machine guns firing (summer & winter?)  Tommy guns fired.  Grenades thrown at tanks & burning tank. 06:08:15 

Title: NOTE:  Good WWII Stalingrad Battle footage

 

            220974          11:09:09 - 11:18:41            1940s B/W    SD        OSS Training Group
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11:10:47:  Recruits in classroom, teacher behind desk.  VS recruit shown how to throw hand grenade in field; target hit by grenade.  VS teacher shows line of recruits how to deliver various fatal blows to opponent; teachers show how to escape clinches by grabbing opponents testicles [in slo-mo], chin and eye jab etc. 11:16:03: 

 

            220974          11:18:51 - 11:28:37            1940s B/W    SD        ?          OSS Training Group
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11:27:54:  Montage: recruit throws grenade through cabin window; cabin explodes; recruits run down bank past men firing machine guns; cabins explode; CU hands turn detonators.  Good.      
Oddities.  Guerrillas / saboteurs.  Special agents.  Martial arts / self defence. 11:28:37

 

 

            X221189        00:20:06 - 00:31:47           1940s B/W    SD        USSR   900 Unforgettable Days  (1964) Pt 3 of 5
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00:22:24  People go to work, enter building, sign.  Military training for civilians.  All factories work on army supplies, mines, shells, machine gun belts, grenades.  Women working. 00:23:15 

 

            221359          14:00:02 - 14:04:54            1940s B/W                Germany;        [WWII Montage of German vs Russians]
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14:00:29  German infantry troops moving forward; heavy black smoke on field.  Firing rifles, man falls in distance.  Men firing in village, throwing grenades at house.  Bodies, Germans hanging group of civilians. 14:01:19 

 

            221393          07:00:00 - 07:09:25            1940s B/W    Sd        Russia / USSR Battle of Kursk (Related)  R01 of 18
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07:03:58  Two women & man w/ grenades & rifles along muddy village road, walking past large towed artillery.  Greeted by village women.  Kisses & hand shakes.  Talk to villagers on porch. 07:04:58 

 

            221393          07:20:45 - 07:31:34            1940s B/W    Sd        Russia / USSR; Germany        Battle of Kursk (Related)  R03 of 18
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07:24:06  Pan across waiting Panzers on battlefield.  Waiting for the battle; soldier w/ crow on shoulder.  Men wash in ponds.  Good landscape.  Rifleman, smoking, German tanks lined, German officer on tank.  Germans in reeds w/ radio, men w/ headphones.  Riflemen, men fusing grenade, CUs of others waiting, man on field telephone.
07:25:33  Night artillery barrage fired.  Followed by artillery soldiers run, field & farm burning.  Explosions.  Germans run into ditches, explosions.  Pan over burning field & equipment.  Flame throwers & explosions.  CU German tanks left to right.
07:27:01  German nebelwerfer firing or launching rockets, explosions.  Germans run thru & out of trench, throw grenades. Montage German artillery load and fire.  German flamethrower shots.  Explosions & debris.  Germans in trench, fire nearby.  Then Germans run forward.  Infantry run behind German tank, then tanks left to right, firing, hit.  One interior.
07:28:16  Russian & German artillery.  Russian loading and firing, explosions.  Katyusha.
07:29:08  Russian machine gunners into position.  Germans run thru field, wild flowers.  Explosions.
07:29:43  Planes overhead, then POV bombing and flying; bombs explode, ground PoV.  Fighter planes &
dogfight, strafing.  Russian artillery firing from sunflower field.  German tanks burning. Soldiers throwing grenades & tanks hit.
07:31:00  Smoke & sunflowers; Russian infantry wait, heavy smoke past, machine guns firing.  Russian infantry firing rifles.  Tanks moving and burning. 07:31:34
WWII Largest Armored Engagement; July 1943; Operation Citadel; Kursk Campaign; Operation Kutuzov; Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev; Patience;
NOTE:  Eastern Front battles may be of mixed dates.

 

            220406          07:01:00 - 07:10:43            1940s             Col       Sd        Pacific USA     Advance Base  Pt. 1 of 3
Title:  Restricted:  To the men and women of Americas war plants who provide the mat...for victory
Title & credits.  Narrated by Quentin Reynolds.
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07:01:32  Island in the Pacific being bombarded by US ships, smoke rising, dead Japanese , US using flame thrower.  Soldier drops grenade into fox hole, explosion.  Dead Japanese with no head, various shots other bodies of Japanese.  Various shots destroyed Japanese defenses & military equipment, sunken ships on jungle islands. 07:02:58 (GOOD COLOR FOOTAGE)

 

            220406          07:10:44 - 07:20:17            1940s             Col       Sd        Pacific             Advance Base  Pt. 2 of 3
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Marines trudging thru water return to base.  Troops relaxing, shaving, reading.  Gasoline drums rolled off ship & unloaded onto beach.  Supplies delivered to lines.  Tanks & troops advance thru jungle - flamethrower - battle scenes - walking wounded.  Night shots as Japanese shell fuel dump - huge fire - firefighting.  US troops move military equipment, guns & artillery w/ difficulty to front lines.  US troops firing grenades & shells at enemy positions.  Molotov cocktails, shrapnel bombs & bazookas fired at enemy.  US plane drops fire bomb ( napalm ? ) Night shots guns firing.  Day shots artillery firing.  Pile of used shell cases. 07:14:18 (GOOD COLOR FOOTAGE)

            221135-05   16:38:18 - 16:47:28            1940s; 1943 B/W    SD                    Why We Fight:  The Battle of Britain  Reel 1 of 6
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16:45:39  Home Front montage.   London street scenes w/ St. Pauls Cathedral in BG , British civilians, family life, workers.  Home guard drilling, no uniforms, trained to use machine guns, grenade launchers. 16:46:36 

 

            221359          14:31:00 - 14:36:27            1940s; 1945;            B/W                USSR; Russia; Germany

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14:33:56  German Generals.  CU Russian tank crew soldiers smiling.  Men in trenches carry shells & sacks (powder?).  Artillery firing grenades, artillery.  Tank & troops across river, fields, troops in trenches & foxholes.  Advancing.  Carrying & helping wounded.  Burning buildings.  Exploding dynamite charges in concrete buildings & steel factory structures (GOOD). 14:35:32 

 

            220478          21:38:09 - 21:43:17            1941   B/W    SD        Norway            British Commandos In Spectacular Raids On Norwegian Isles (Operation Archery)
British fleet on North sea.  Officers meeting aboard.  RAF Planes overhead. British prepare hand grenades.   CUs men waiting then departing.  On mission.  Landing crafts at dawn   Enemy flares.  British cannon fire.  British troops  advance on shore in snow.  Burning houses and arresting Nazi soldiers.  Wounded German garrison commander taken away on stretchers. LS mountain village with German HQ on fire as British troops watch.  Officer talks into field telephone. Commandos make other landing.  Destroyer in fjord. Commandos enter burning town. Machine gun battle. Norwegian collaborators and German soldiers arrested and led at gunpoint.  House blown up.  Burning Nazi headquarters. Troops past wrecked house and leave island; wounded.  MCU Nazi prisoner on boat.  Journey back to main ship.  Prisoners loaded on ship.
Journey home to Britain through heavy seas.  British troops on board pose with Nazi battle flag and wearing bits of Nazi uniforms. 21:43:17

 

            220683          20:29:11 - 20:40:07    1941          B/W    SD        Russia Russian Newsreel - #75 R6
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20:31:31 Russian army  study map in snowy woods. Good shots Russian tanks and military vehicles. Artillery, explosions. Reconnaissance.  Soldiers crawling.  Hand grenades thrown.  Medics bandaging wounded soldiers.  German aircraft.  Burning wreckage.  Pan of Russian pilots.  Germ. POWs. 20:34:35 

 

            220683          20:48:44 - 20:56:3?      1941           B/W    SD        Russia Soviet World #7, R11
Stalin Says the Word: People in line for newspaper.  LS of line.  Groups of people reading 'Pravda.'  Picture of Stalin.  People in park.  Commentary says Stalins speech is calling on Russians to fight Fascist Germany.
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20:55:22  Strong, Quick: Red Army basic training.  Men in cross country running & throwing grenades. 20:56:3?

            221439          05:16:57 - 05:26:53            1941   B/W    SD        USSR   [Russian Newsreel, 23Jul41]
05:17:20  Title:  In The Name Of Stalin To Fight The Enemies
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05:24:21  Title:
Outboard boats racing on river past camera.  Swimmers w/ rifles strapped on back dive in & swim in competition or race.  Other swim holding grenade above water w/ one hand.  Rescue demonstration shown.
Four men in gas masks rowing or sculling w/ coxswain on river.  05:26:09 

 

            221530          09:44:58 - 09:54:35            1941   B/W    SD        Poland; Germany;       Gebirgsjager im Kampf um eine Ortschaft  R2 of 3  aka Mountain Troops Fight For A Village  or ...Battle For A Town - Training film for troops prior to leaving for Eastern Front.  Shot near Baronowice, Poland.
Dir.  Fritz Hippler
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09:47:29  Soldiers w/ reel of wire on back stringing telephone lines.  Pan over troops, tanks in place.  Tanks advancing; smoke rising in distance.  Artillery firing from brush.  Explosions.  More prisoners taken.  Tanks along road.  POV from tank firing.  Tanks advancing  CU tank short gun barrel firing.  Soldiers w/ flame throwers run ahead; throwing grenades.  Firing flame throwers & igniting grass fields.  Piles of brush; log houses burning.  Prisoners taken. 09:51:38 

 

            221530          09:54:38- 10:02:22 1941   B/W    SD        Poland; Germany;       Gebirgsjager im Kampf um eine Ortschaft  R3 of 3  aka Mountain Troops Fight For A Village  or ...Battle For A Town - Training film for troops prior to leaving for Eastern Front.  Shot near Baronowice, Poland.
Dir.  Fritz Hippler
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09:57:31  CU rifleman, men w/ stretchers & treating, bandaging wounded Nazi soldier.  Others firing from prone position.  Dead Russians (?).  German crawls past body of another.  Dead.  German troops past smouldering buildings; others in full flames.  Soldier pushes grenade thru window & runs.  CU burning log buildings & grass roofs.  09:59:22 

            H1150-06     03:55:09 - 04:03:01            1941   B/W    SD        Germany;        Titles.
03:56:28  Germans standing in snow, on half-track truck thru stream & mud pulling artillery.  Machine guns, mortars & grenades  w/ infantry in snow. (over-exposed print)
03:59:56  Tanks across snowy field; infantry & tanks firing, advance
WW2; Battles; Fighting; German Tiger Tanks;
NOTE 1:  Very poor quality.
NOTE 2:   In our experience German Nazi material is considered in the public domain throughout the world.  If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.

            H1917-05     01:29:12 - 01:39:18            1941   B/W    Sd/Sil  USA;    [Pre-WWI - 1941, INCLUDING:

01:33:51  Soldier in dirt bank under camouflage of dry grass, leaps out.  Troops shown the placing camouflage; shots of soldiers w/ bayonets on rifles climbing out.  Firing rifle from camouflaged position.  Truck w/ soldiers drives over camouflaged position & soldier out & throws grenade.
01:35:15  Several soldiers out of camouflaged fox holes.  One take w/ sound. 01:35:5? 

 

            221174          02:25:36 - 02:36:01            1941 - 1944 B/W    SD                    [Documentary Extract re Japanese Militarism]  Pt 1 of 2
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02:34:23  Pacific islands - Marines hunt Japanese soldiers out of foxholes w/ grenades & flamethrowers - Japanese sniper shot, body falls into trench.  02:36:01
WWII Summary; Pacific War; Anti-Japanese Racism; Militarism; Fighting; Battles;

            220821          09:01:01 - 09:10:32            1941 - 1945 c          B/W    SIL       Pacific New Guinea & Buna Activities, c.1941-45
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09:08:46  Lt. Gen. Eichelberger w/ Austrian Gen. Blamey.  GIs fire grenades from jungle position.  Trench full of dead Japanese.  Catholic service w/ troops.  Eichelberger and Blamey inspect heavy artillery positions. 09:10:32

            250007-06   13:42:03 - 13:46:13            1941; 1942;  B/W    SIL       Ukraine;          Title.
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13:43:16  Map of Ukraine.  Heavy artillery fired, explosions.  Troops advance throwing grenades, firing light machines guns, crossing barbed wire; firing flame throwers.  Crossing river (Dnieper or Desna?) in boats.  13:43:51

NOTE:   In our experience German Nazi material is considered in the public domain throughout the world.  If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.
NOTE:  Good coverage but quick shots.

            220449          17:41:05 - 17:49:48            1942   B/W    Sd        Russia Middle East Libya North Africa           Titles explain that the following is captured enemy newsreel which shows Axis hopes and plans for the campaign in the Middle East as of October 1942. French accented English  narration laid over original French.
Map showing Middle east and advances made by Germans. German footage of advancing Nazi troops near Stalingrad - artillery fire - Germans throwing grenades - flame throwers - destroyed buildings. Animated map shows how Germans have cut off supplies to allied troops through Persian Gulf. Animated map with American commentary shows how this is propaganda and shows what really happened in the battle for Stalingrad. Actuality footage of battle - many Russian tanks and troops - fighting scenes. Russian aircraft - wrecked German planes and German prisoners of war marched through streets, abused by Russian citizens. Russian tanks advance on snowy fields of Leningrad - excellent shots Russian cavalry charging and troops running in advance.
17:46:06 Newsreel continues Rommel with troops, German military vehicles and tanks in convoy. Artillery firing. Building of landing grounds and airfield - pumping water - irrigation. Tobruk harbour. German troops disembark Tobruk, supplies unloaded - transported by desert railway. Rommel and Kesselring - animated map showing how Axis have surrounded Middle East. American commentary  tells what has really happened - actuality British 8th army firing artillery  - US planes dropping bombs over desert. British troops and tanks advance. Allies advance on Tobruk.. Wrecked German planes. Captured  German prisoners of war including General Von Toma ? .

            220811          18:17:03 - 18:23:10            1942   B/W    SD        Philippines     Corregidors Surrender
Captured Japanese film 
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Montage of Japanese troops advancing thru jungle.  Japanese aircraft in formation.  AVs Bataan?  Japanese tanks advance on Bataan, troops firing guns, grenades, skirmish while advancing thru jungle.  Explosions. 18:18:59 

 

            220835          02:50:50 - 03:00:31            1942   B/W    SD        AT Sea; Pacific; USA;  Convoy Snapshots - Somewhere In The Pacific
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02:55:37  Instruction on house-to-house fighting.  Men run in & out of doors & windows; throw grenades; fire at pop up targets. 02:56:36

WW2; WWII Training; Propaganda Film; 1942;
NOTE:  Low audio

            221090          10:09:20 - 10:11:23            1942   B/W    SD        Germany ?;  Ukraine - USSR
Russia
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10:10:13  Ground troops through woods, across stream w/ pack horses & up rocky slope.  Grenade thrown.  SS troops advancing through mountains - CU machine gun fired, SS insignia visible on helmet.  Partisans taken prisoner & led back to German encampment where SS men sitting around fire. 10:11:23
WWII.  Eastern Front.  Russia / USSR.

            221122          16:15:13 - 16:18:50            1942   B/W    SD        Russia; USSR  The Battle For Stalingrad  [Reel 6 partial]
Soviet commanders watch Katyusha rockets launched in snow.  LS series of explosions.  Brief air to air shots fighter planes over countryside.  Heavy guns fired in industrial / factory area on outskirts of city.  Grenades thrown - 62nd Army in street fighting offensive.  Good shots Soviet troops running forward through snow-covered ruins & smoke.  Surrendering German troops out of garrison w/ hands up - sign re Wehrmacht above door.  Others pulled out of foxholes among ruins - kicked & prodded by Soviets - CU prisoner w/ wounded face - PoWs marched off w/ hands up - white flag.
WWII.  Eastern Front.  Russia / USSR.  Red Army.  Nazi Occupation.

            221237          09:10:01 - 09:25:10            1942   B/W    SD        Russia / USSR

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09:22:51  Wrecked Soviet equipment & bodies in trench.  German soldiers resting, smiling.  Grenades handed out.  More tanks firing from abandoned village.  CU soldier out of trench.  Ground-based rocket launcher.  The End. 09:25:10

Eastern Front;

            221321          17:16:17 - 17:35:07            1942   COL      SIL       USA;    [1942 - Hawaiian Department, Ranger Combat Training School, Pt 2 of 2]
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17:19:04  Title:  Instructions on booby traps.  Men sitting on red dirt watching demonstration on platform in front; CU string attached to device.  Title:  Sabotaging w/ Molotov cocktail.  Man throws against rock & it explodes w/ fire & smoke.  Title:  Grenade throwing.  instructor demonstrates pulling pin & throwing.  LS men practicing throwing grenades from on grow & falling flat; throw from in trench.
17:20:33  Title:  Mud-ouflage.  Men applying mud to own face, to others; in trench in helmets w/ mud.  Men throw grenades at fire crackers; crawl alongside logs w/ grenades & throw through hoops. 17:21:25 

 

            221436          23:48:11 - 23:57:55            1942   B/W    SD        USSR; Russia; Fight For Gomel  R2 of 2
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23:51:39  Map w/ animation of advance around Gomel in large maneuver.  Large water tower, fighting behind.  Troops advance thru destroyed buildings & fighting from inside them; riflemen taking turns firing; advance.  Aerial over city w/ text over.  After text good destroyed city buildings; marching troops enter greeted by women & children & old men.  Woman talking to soldier.  Pan over empty city street & CU of mine detector.  Soldiers moving down street w/ mine detectors.  Soldiers inspecting grenades.  Remains of burned large concrete & stone buildings. Destroyed factories & government buildings.  Broken statues.  Cemetery. 23:56:10

 

            221545          09:47:27 - 09:55:32            1942   B/W    SD                   [WWII - Rommel In Africa, ca 1942]
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09:49:37  Grenades launched; explosions.  Stuka dive bombing seen from ground & in air.  Explosions seen from air.  Ground view of explosions; German troops in pith helmets fire large artillery.  Burning tank.  Tanks firing. 09:50:28

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            X221324        04:00:11 - 04:09:48            1942 – 1972    COL&B/W     SD        Russia; USSR  The Soviet Army:  Victorious Stalingrad  R1 of 2
Moscow Central Documentary Film Studios
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04:04:54  Street fighting, ruined buildings, grenades thrown, machine gun fire.  Map of ciy showing Nazi advance.  Modern dam across river; war memorials; cutaways to German troops marching.  Ludnikov Island where Russian troops cut off from rest of army fought.  Fighting.  Gutted shell of Stalingrad flower mill preserved as it was.  Sergeant Pavlov & Pavlovs House.  Street fighting.  04:07:13 

 

            220544          04:06:00 - 04:14:05            1942; 1943   B/W    SD        Russia; USSR; The Battle of Russia  R9 of 10 (Military Version - Part 2)
re Battle of Stalingrad
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dead.  Snow & destruction of city.  Planes hit.  Firing guns & advancing in city outskirts; crawling thru wreckage w/ tommy gun; grenades thrown.  Destruction of city.
WWII Why We Fight Series, Military Propaganda Film; Invasion; History; Defenses;

            220857          02:45:08 - 02:55:59            1942? 1943?            B/W    SD        China;

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CHUNGKING  Soldiers march in China jungle.  Japanese soldiers crawling, fire machine guns, rifles & mortars; single file walk down spectacular mountainside.  Japanese soldiers crawl up mountain firing machine gun; throwing hand grenade, explosions.  02:46: ??

 

            220691-02   03:10:08 - 03:19:50            1943   B/W    SD        France            

The War 1941 - 1944  R6
INCLUDING:

03:16:47  D-Day - montage leaving Britain. Animated map re attacks on Germany.  Montage battle scenes in various theatres of war.   03:18:07  French underground uprising - man firing pistol -  Partisans with rifles - interior shot as one throws grenade from window.  German military vehicle on fire - burning Germans out.  Allies enter Paris - cheering crowds.  Montage liberation shots across Europe.  War graves.  Dead Germans.  Crying baby boy.  US tank breaking through  wall.  Montage allied armies - Allied flags. 03:19:50

            220811          18:31:40 - 18:42:01            1943   B/W    SIL       New Guinea; pacific   

INCLUDING:

18:36:12  Marines waiting for ??  Troops on landing craft.  Marines examine map of area.  Jungle troops throw grenade.  Marines resting.
18:36:53  AV LST hits beach, decks lined w/ troops.  More jungle scenes, Marines creep thru undergrowth seen from above.  Amphibious vehicle leaves transport onto beach; another camouflaged LST behind.  18:38:23 

 

            221136          18:35:57 - 18:45:45            1943   B/W    SD        Germany          Panzer-Nah-Bekampfung:  Manner Gegen Panzer (1943)  Pt. 2 of 3
Oberkommando Des Heeres  Chef Des Ausbildungswesens Im Ersatzheer Abteilung Lehrfilm
Hergeftellt
INCLUDING:

Smoke clears & Germans man artillery, seen from slit trench; tank approaching trench stopped with large grenade.  CU of Germans looking.  Pistol pointed out of tank; German soldier fuses mine and throws it against tank where it explodes.
18:37:39  Hatch of tank opens and man throws out a small explosive.  German w/ grenade crawls from crater to crater towards tank, places grenade on tank & it explodes as he dives into trench.  Continued fighting with another advancing tank.  Germans throw phosphorus grenades on tank, two men out & machine gunned down.  Another tank approaches.
18:40:36  Grenade thrown and hangs on gun barrel as tank approaches.  Catches fire & tank stops; Germans set up machine gun, run thru trench & get another mine and fuse.  Tank again approaches.  German runs out toward tank from crater to crater as tank repositions & fires gun.  Man places charge on tank but gets hit w/ shrapnel as tank explodes.  Another throws mine under tank and stops it ahead of the trench.  Placing another charge and blows up yet another tank, more coming.  CU.  Fires gun & approaches trench as another mine is placed on tank and fused.  Explodes & burns.  18:45:45
WWII German training film.
 

            221136          18:45:45 - 18:55:27            1943   B/W    SD        Germany          Panzer-Nah-Bekampfung:  Manner Gegen Panzer (1943)  Pt. 3 of 3
Oberkommando Des Heeres  Chef Des Ausbildungswesens Im Ersatzheer Abteilung Lehrfilm
Hergeftellt
INCLUDING:

18:49:04  Men open back of truck, roll out bus, wagons; soldier pulls Jerry cans out of truck, into partially demolished house.  Man throws grenade toward tank.  View of tank turret turning, fires shot; rolls thru and over bus, then building.  Firing and explosions from both sides.  Grenade thrown, gas poured over tank.  German runs up & gestures.  Title:  Auberdem stehen jetzt neue  Panzerbekampfungsmittel von groper Wirkung zur Verfugung  Cross-section diagram.
18:51:58  Tank through trees towards Germans w/ mortar in fox hole.  Pauses, fires at Germans who return fire w/ grenade launcher; another diagram & demonstration of camouflaged troops in woods close to tank where they fire a grenade at turret.18:53:11

WWII German training film.

            221359          14:19:59 - 14:25:43            1943   B/W                USSR; Russia;

            [WWII - Battle of Stalingrad & Surrender; Christmas 1943 in Egypt; Germany]
INCLUDING:

Aerial of city (Stalingrad?) burning w/ water beyond.  Rubble.  Russians running out of trenches in city; move thru streets; firing machine guns, rifles, tommy guns from buildings.  Running thru fire.  Sniper.  Grenades & street fighting. 14:21:08 

 

            221613          12:18:11 - 12:28:08            1943   B/W    SD                   The Tarawa Operations  R3 of 5
INCLUDING:

12:22:25  Troops move up & run across sand; planes strafing.  Fires.  Small light tanks moving up; marines running ahead.  Marines on top of underground bunkers throwing grenades. 
12:24:41  Flame throwers used.  Marines dug in.  Moving up thru smoke & dust.  Destroyed buildings & palm trees.  Firing rifles from various points. 
12:27:23  Machine gun firing from behind sandbags.  Throwing grenades into bunker.  Naked prisoner walked forward w/ hands in air surrendering. 12:28:08
WWII Pacific; Battle; Diagrams; 1943; Tarawa Invasion; Fighting; WW2;
NOTE:  Battle fought 20-23Nov43

            200567          11:00:00 - 11:09:39            1943 (?)       B/W    Sd/Sil  Russia / USSR Battle of Kursk (Related)  R16 of 18
INCLUDING:

11:03:45  Russian troops running, woman at machine gun, others advancing w/ artillery, firing from trenches, throw grenades.
11:04:08  English Sd.  Anti-Nazi-posters in the streets of Moscow to greet the American Allies.  Unloading supplies from USA, crates stacked.  Russian Generals over maps.  Heavy fighting in Kiev, Rostock as prelude to Stalingrad.  CU machine guns, placing mines, firing artillery.  Soldiers firing as shot.
11:06:12  (very grainy) Snow covering Stalingrad; German planes & artillery firing at them.  Fighting in streets in snow, past remains of factories, railroad yard w/ Tommy Gun.  Throwing grenades, using flame throwers.  Running through rubble.
11:07:54  Russian Sd.  (running scratches but good picture quality)  Soldiers cleaning artillery, instructed in mortar firing, training w/ long barrelled gun & hitting tank w/ armor piercing shells.  Mounted cavalry riding past; pulling light artillery. 11:09:39
WWII Largest Armored Engagement; July 1943; Operation Citadel; Kursk Campaign; Operation Kutuzov; Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev; Fighting;
NOTE:  Includes good sound effects.  Eastern Front battles may be mixed dates.

            200567          11:09:39 - 11:20:55            1943 (?)       B/W    Sd/Sil  Russia / USSR Battle of Kursk (Related)  R17 of 18
Russian Newsreel title:  
INCLUDING:

11:11:52  MOS  Russian women training.  Soldier demonstrating mortar to women soldiers; lecturing at board outdoors, women taking notes.  CUs.  Lecturing about small machine gun.  Women soldiers in military uniforms, bayonet practice.  Drilling along road in woods.  Bayonet practice on poles, instructor deflecting.  Rifle target practice.  Marching to tables in woods & instructed on assembling & dissassembling small machine gun or rifles.  Firing tommy guns.  Shoveling while laying on ground.  Throwing live grenades; firing pistols.  Camp tents.  Men firing machine guns in training.  Running from trenches thru smoke.  Practice taking prisoners. 11:18:20

NOTE:  Includes good sound effects.  Eastern Front battles may be mixed dates.

            221393          08:05:17 - 08:15:24            1943 (?)       B/W    Sd/Sil  Russia; USSR;

            Battle of Kursk (Related) R07 of 18
INCLUDING:

08:13:44  Blowing up Orel bridges.  Very large explosion.  Dynamiting power poles & railroad.  Troops up valley.  Germans thru trenches; MCU & CU setting in w/ grenades etc. 08:15:24
WWII Largest Armored Engagement; July 1943; Operation Citadel; Kursk Campaign; Operation Kutuzov; Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev; Fighting;
NOTE:  Includes good sound effects. Eastern Front battles may be of mixed dates.

            221394          09:21:25 - 09:35:05            1943 (?)       B/W    SD        Russia / USSR; Germany        Battle of Kursk (Related)  R11 of 18
INCLUDING:

09:23:24  Title:  12  43 (?)  Early morning & pond & sky shots; barbed wire.  Soldiers waiting; fusing grenade in trench.  Smoking in trenches.  Artillery & fighter planes silhouetted.  Flare dropped.
09:24:59  Artillery barrage.  (GOOD but scratched.)  Excellent night artillery sequence, explosions.  Rocket barrage fired at night; flames.  Soldier in trench w/ binoculars; others in trench after explosions.  Russians forward at dawn, across barbed wire.  Heavy smoke w/ troops silhouetted.  Aerial of planes, bombs dropping.  Night & equipment burning.  Dawn nebelwerfer. 09:28:08 (Good but dirty)

NOTE:  Includes good sound effects.  Eastern Front battles may be mixed dates.

            221394          09:35:05 - 09:48:21            1943 (?)       B/W    SD        Russia / USSR; Germany        Battle of Kursk (Related)  R12 of 18
INCLUDING:

Troops across wide plains & grass, up hills.  Germans (?) firing from bunkers; Russians into them.  Dead Germans.  Taking German prisoners from pillboxes & trenches.  Marching.  Burning town; buildings on fire as Russian troops run past, throwing grenades.  Advance on farm buildings, greeted by family.  Woman soldier holds child.  Refugees.  Watching houses burning.  Tanks past cemetery.  Smoking buildings & Russian troops hurrying past.  two soldiers w/ boy.  Old man out of haystack. 09:39:11

NOTE:  Includes good sound effects.  Eastern Front battles may be mixed dates.

            221617          20:47:16 - 20:58:47            1943 ca          B/W    SD        USA      Go For Broke
100th Battalion; 442nd Division.
INCLUDING:

20:48:19  Marching, drilling w/ rifles.  Bayonet drill; throwing hand grenades; gas mask drill.  Infantry w/ 37mm artillery.  Machine gun training.  Field training in helmet camouflage.  Trucks of troops along dirt road.  Putting up camouflage netting; anti-aircraft practice; digging in 37mm & camouflaging.  50 cal. machine gun crew placing. 20:51:45
NOTE:  sound is compressed / muted.  Grainy picture.

            221325-15   06:00:07 - 06:03:10            1943 ca.         B/W    SD        USSR; Russia; [WWII - Soviet Battles]
INCLUDING:

Checkpoint in Stalingrad in Fall or Summer & soldiers checking papers.  Metal gate & soldiers thru.  Pan over destroyed building; soldiers fire machine gun from inside building; running thru courtyard.  Firing from balcony, from rubble in foundation, throw grenades.  Explosions.  Pan over dead, burning German tank. 
06:00:48

            221660          04:21:04 - 04:29:52            1943; 1944; 1940s;            B/W    SD        Tunisia; Libya;           Tunisian Victory  R7 of 8
INCLUDING:

04:23:16  British 78th Division infantry attacking Longstop Hill w/ machine guns; climbing hillside w/ rope.  Grenades.  Explosions.  Running w/ rifles & bayonets.  Mortars fired.  Dead Germans.  GOOD
04:24:48  Bulldozers & men building roads.
04:25:07

NOTE:  Good quality.

            220330          13:47:03 - 13:58:22            1944   b/w     Sd        Japan;

Film Communique - Fifth Issue  R2 of 2  (Bloody Tarawa)
INCLUDING:

13:52:15  Machine guns firing; sniper; machine gun kills Japanese soldier (gory) bodies.  Wounded carried out on stretchers - transfusion given on beach.  Stretcher bearers transfer wounded to rafts, then to Higgins boats.  Japanese bodies.  Japanese block house where Japanese hiding being demolished by bulldozer  - grenades into block house, explosions & dead Japanese. 
13:55:47 

 

            220332          15:45:56 - 15:55:08            1944   b/w     Sd        Pacific; Europe;          Film Communique - 15th Issue  R2 of 2 - Whats Your Name?
INCLUDING:

On the "unsung heroes" of World War II:  the infantry man & the defense worker.
Foot soldiers march along hillside, thru mud & dust; creep up hills & across fields, fire rifles & machine guns;  flame throwers, grenades, bazookas, mortars, howitzers, land on beaches, crash planes.  GIs get briefed by officer, rest, eat, fight house to house & in city streets.  Troops dig in, move up to the front, tend refugee children & eat; rest in uncomfortable areas.  CUs.
15:49:55 



            220332          15:19:33 - 15:34:44            1944   b/w     Sd        France Invasion - Nazi Version
Captured film w/ OSS commentary over German sound track.
INCLUDING:

15:30:58  French civilians in street in bombing aftermath.  Refugees w/ wagons.  German divisions in camouflaged tanks on road.  SS armed division in combat in field.  Allied airborne troops arrested in field. CUs US artillery & tanks destroyed.  Germans moving up on foot & tanks.  Heavy smoke & burning in distance.  Burning tank.  Wounded US soldier carried.  German armoured tank.  Near Bayeux, combat including inside small village.  Street fighting, grenade throwing, artillery firing & many flames.  The End.
NB Some of the footage is very grainy.

            220414          06:26:24 - 06:35:08            1944   b/w     Sd        USA; Japan; Pacific    Action at Angaur  R2 of 3
INCLUDING:

06:32:00  Landing craft w/ ammunition. Explosion; troops put out fire in ammunition dump.  General Miller  coming on land.  Troops using grenades; move inland w/ bulldozers.  Troops blow up caves on Shrine Hill - flame throwers, bodies of Japanese. 
06:34:08  Saipan Town.  Blowing up cave & flame thrower ...little apes.  Phosphate plant - ruined factory - dead Japanese.  Tanks & US troops - patrol streets.

            220441          08:03:11 - 08:07:39            1944   B/W    si         Italy    WWII - Italy, Anzio Area - 3rd Div. Training, Sgt. Kreider
3rd Division Training MCU GIs in helmets listening; MS.  Blacks & Whites w/ rifles.  LS watching line of men shown having guns inspected. Gear checked.  Looking at map.  Wearing signs as to who they are in the group i.e. scout, etc.  Men laying on ground; firing rifle grenades.

 

            220441          08:07:48 - 08:16:21            1944   B/W    si         Italy    3rd Division Training Men on slope watching team advance; explosions in the background. Explosions around them.  Firing & advancing.  Tank burning.  Man throwing phosphorus grenade.  Group wearing name tags around map; patrol leader pointing to map, others listening.  Men run toward camera, fall down & fire automatic rifles. Men run past & fire from hips.  Others run & jump ahead.  Tank & sandbagged position being shot at.  Water splashing by tank. Phosphorus grenade goes off near by & smoke blows past camera. Men run & advance; tank burns.  CU of smoke.  Men run up hill. 08:16:21

 

            220479          02:11:58 - 02:13:08            1944   B/W    SD        Pacific Yanks Complete Mopping Up Of Japs On Guam
02:12:04  MCU Lieutenant General Holland Smith in DUKW landing craft.  Explosions, heavy destruction; marines firing mortars from crater, firing machine guns; throwing grenades into underground bunkers.  Flame throwers (GOOD).  Wrecked Japanese equipment.  Infantry advance; Japanese corpses.
02:13:00  Raising flag on Guam. 02:13:08

            220527          23:46:07 - 23:54:56            1944   b/w     SD        France  

Army Navy Screen Magazine No 32;  Normandy Invasion - D-Day
INCLUDING:

Invasion fleet at sea,  bombers fly overhead.  Closer shots ships.  Naval officer  speaking into microphone. Ships firing at coast of France.  Men in landing craft heading for shore.  Shots from inside landing craft as it hits the beaches.  Shots from second landing craft.  Shots on the beaches as allied forces come under fire. Men hit.  Beachhead activity - men dig small trenches - arming grenades.
Troops carry wounded on stretchers along beach under shelter of the cliffs.  Medics tend wounded - Plasma transfusion given.  German prisoner given treatment.  German POWs on beach.  Fleet lying offshore - barrage balloons.  23:49:24

 

            220662          10:19:47 - 10:24:07            1944   B/W    SIL       Solomon Islands
Pacific
Infantry in Jungle Fighting, Bougainville
Troops moving covertly through trees,  taking instruction from officer.  CU  faces as soldiers take cover in trees.
10:20:54 Plume of black smoke rising from trees.  Soldiers wearing flamethrower backpacks moving through jungle.  Trees burning from flamethrower.  Soldier throws grenade, small explosion.  Troops moving forward using flamethrowers and firing guns 10:24:07(some soft focus)

            220662          10:42:23 - 10:52:03            1944   B/W    SIL       England            D-Day, England
INCLUDING:

10:43:26  Stretcher carried to waiting ambulance.   Piles of personnel effects? uniform boots,  helmet.  Grenades and bullets.   Brief shot black soldier talking to truck driver. 10:44:33 

 

            220767          23:12:00 - 23:17:08            1944   b/w     Si         Germany          WWII, Newly taken town, Wingen, Germany
RV troops down road. Sign Wingen Kreis Weissenburg. Soldier down street past smoking buildings. Tank towards camera and through town. German Prisoners of War escorted. US troops in forest - mopping up operations. Abandoned German tank. Soldier digging hole. GIs carve names .
23:16:12 Grenade launcher set up and fired on village. 23:17:08

            220785          00:11:12 - 00:21:37            1944   B/W    SD        Italy    San Pietro - Reel 2
Dir: John Huston
Troops advance, throw grenades, fire machine guns and mortars, and remove dead and place them in shrouds.  Shells explodes troops hide behind rocks;  MCUs enemy corpses and German POWs. P-38s patrol.  German plane downed. General Clark examines a map. 155 mm. artillery and tanks fire. 141st, 142nd, and 143rd Infantry Regiments. advance. Tanks enter town and are blown up; and flares are lit.  German dead and wounded POWs. 00:21:37

            220786-13   01:48:21 - 01:58:12           1944   B/W    SD       

INCLUDING:

01:53:05  Ukraine - Pripet marshes; German infantry  moving thru wooded area, take cover in trees, snow on ground, grenades fired.  Stukas overhead bomb marshes.  01:54:25

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            220791          09:04:24 - 09:10:07           1944   b/w     Sd        Italy    Fighting Near Cassino
INCLUDING:

09:07:02  Ruins of monastery, German troops move about the ruins.  British bombers fly ovrhead.  Bombs explode,  Ack-ack guns fired.  Planes fly through flack.  Plane shot down in flames.  Germans fire mortars from ruins of Cassino.  Germans prepare grenades.  German soldiers in shelter watching explosions outside, small Nazi flag flying.  09:10:07
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            220812          19:35:48 - 19:44:33            1944   COL      SIL       palau islands; guam; pacific   [WWII - 1944, Peleliu Casualties;  Sumay Harbour, Guam]
INCLUDING:

19:40:10  Wounded young  Japanese soldier comes out of jungle, US troops w/ guns.  Prisoner stripped and searched.  Grenade found.  Marines take prisoner away. 19:41:27 

 

            220820          08:47:02 - 08:55:09            1944   COL      SIL       Pacific [Marines with Okinawans - Marines Burning Huts - Color]
Apr44
INCLUDING:

08:50:54  Throwing grenade into cave; smoke coming out of hole.  Smoke over forest.  Troops advance warily.  Troops crawling up hillside. 08:52:11 

 

            220821          09:19:15 - 09:29:10            1944   B/W    SD        pacific Army-Navy Screen Magazine

INCLUDING:

09:25:09:  Stretcher bearers w/ wounded.  Stretchers loaded onto rubber rafts for transport to Higgins boats.  Marine throws grenade into foxhole.  Vars corpses of Japanese Imperial Marines in foxholes and gun placements. 09:26:33: 

 

            220822          10:25:10 - 10:35:03 1944 COL      SIL       pacific [Peleliu Landing and Battle, 15-16Sep44]
INCLUDING:

10:33:51:  MS and CU dead Japanese soldier in pool of blood w/ grenade.  VS Japanese? corpses.  VS airfield w/ burning planes. 10:35:03

            220826          15:16:27 - 15:18:50            1944   B/W    SD        France;

            [Street fighting - Battle of Paris - Aachen - Pacific]  Pt. 1 of 2
INCLUDING:

15:16:56  Paris liberation combat.  Tanks in street.  German running in street & fired at by Free French from window, wounded; throwing grenade at German truck -  explosion & Germans flee.  Tank at Eiffel Tower base.  Crowd around tank. (Paris section scratched in parts) 15:17:41 

            220835          03:00:43 - 03:19:10
            1944   COL      SD        Pacific;           With The Marines At Tarawa
INCLUDING:

03:08:12  Hand grenades thrown; flame throwers; mortars.   Approach bunker & throw grenades; flame throwers. 03;10:03 

NOTE:  Good Color but scratches printed in.  Any continuous 15 minutes sold at one reel price.

            221027          00:10:46 -     1944   B/W    SIL       Germany         

INCLUDING:

00:12:54  US soldier puts grenade into cellar window, runs, small explosion.  US infantry advance through small town.  Street fighting. 00:14:54
Battle of the Bulge ?

            221124          19:01:48 - 19:08:35            1944   B/W    SD        Ukraine ?; Russia ? - USSR  Die Deutsche Wochenschau 
INCLUDING:

19:05:11  Railroad station - new weapons & tanks arrive, transported to front.  German soldiers on rest break - smoking - chow - soldier pulls silly face after drinking water from bucket.
19:06:19  Soldiers stripped to waist building trenches.  Grenadiers into trenches.  Weapons installed & camouflaged.  Observation tower.  Radio / telephone operator.  Nazi officers consult map. 
19:07:31  Battle scenes: heavy guns fired - machine gunner - hand grenade thrown - POV from moving tank - explosions - CU soldier in tank turret. 19:08:35
WWII.  Artillery.  Russia / USSR.  Operation Bagration.

            221124          20:09:23 - 20:19:29            1944   B/W    SD       

            Die Deutsche Wochenschau [Mar44]
INCLUDING:

20:16:44  Eastern Front - Man on phone, giving order to fire artillery against Russian attack.  Heavy bombardment; flak; machine gunners; grenade launchers.  Wounded soldiers.  Russian fighter planes strafing.  German infantry w/ Estonian volunteers in trench - Tiger tanks & heavy assault guns firing across snowy wasteland - 2cm flak cannon - hand grenades thrown. 20:19:05 

X          221189          00:42:40 - 00:52:44           1944   B/W    SD        USSR   900 Unforgettable Days  (1964) Pt 5 of 5
INCLUDING:

00:42:40  Armys artillery factory, people work on producing rockets, bombs, grenades.  Tank on street.  Animated map w/  Soviet command attack plans.  Troops load ships w/ equipment, tanks & leave. 00:43:44 

 

            221231          20:09:47 - 20:17:00            1944   B/W    SD                    Die Deutsche Wochenschau  [Oct44 Reel 1]
INCLUDING:

20:13:22  Several Focke Wulf FW-190s fly over Eastern Front; attack cars & marching troops.  Air to air shots fighters in formation; bombs away - gun camera footage. POV from planes strafing w/ grenade launchers. 20:14:11 

 

            221236          07:42:21 - 07:50:46            1944   B/W    SD       

INCLUDING:

07:49:49  Eisenhower w/ ??  out of building, walk towards car, on 5th of June air force division briefed, sit on  ground, listen to commander.  American GIs prepare, load guns, grenades into pockets, sharpen knives & throw them at cartoon of Hitler, jeep onto plane. 07:50:46
WWII Normandy Invasion; Operation Overlord; 06Jun44;

            221236          08:00:37 - 08:05:47            1944   B/W    SD        France [D-Day 6-6-44]  Pt. 2 of 3 ?
INCLUDING:

Tanks & troops on country road, soldiers run behind tanks.  Fighting in streets, CU soldiers, explosions.  Camouflaged soldiers run thru woods, throw grenades, load guns & shoot.  Field artillery, tanks, farmhouse on fire, shots of the battlefield; as weather gets better Air Force joins in battle, officer w/ cigar looks up in the sky, air force planes lift up from the runway. 08:02:30 

WWII Normandy Invasion; Operation Overlord;

            221307          11:01:05 - 11:14:20            1944   B/W    SIL       Japan;

Castle Films Presents
INCLUDING:

11:09:26  Title:  U.S. Marines Crush Japs in Marianas!  Artillery firing, explosions.  Fighting on Saipan thru jungle; tanks, flame throwers into caves.  Surrendering, grenades into caves.  Suicide off cliffs.  Piles of bodies.  MacArthur Back in Philippines  Massive flotilla of ships, MacArthur watching; wades ashore w/ Osmena.  GIs moving up, burning village.  At Presidential palace.  11:11:55 

 

            221539          00:23:30 - 00:30:48            1944   B/W    SIL       Burma [WWII Burma w/ Merrills Marauders, ca 30Apr44]
INCLUDING:

00:28:36  Grenades launched.  MCU Marine sniper shooting, moves up.  Find Japanese (?) machetes.
00:29:43  Slate.  Putting wounded on litter & carrying thru jungle.  Covering dead, burial ceremony.  Digging grave. 00:30:48
WWII Pacific; Jungle Fighting; 1944;

            221544          07:30:36 - 07:35:36            1944   B/W    SD        Poland  (Germany)     [German Newsreels ca Sep44]  R2 of 2
German tanks past on Western Front, some camouflaged.  Half tracks & other vehicles w/ soldiers.  Horses & wagons thru village in rain.  MCU two soldiers smoking cigarettes, holding grenade launcher; machine gun in grass; CU soldier.  VO says its showing orderly retreat vs reality of chaos.
07:31:35  Explosions, Germans move forward slowly, smoking in rain.  Dug in, ducking explosions.  Stringing telegraph or telephone lines.  Firing rockets.  King Tiger tanks moving up, firing in fields.  Artillery firing.  Large explosions.  GOOD.
07:33:32  General Ball (?) on Eastern Front looking at map w/ ??  Firing rockets.  Tanks moving past.  Good battle; rocket launching.  Burning city of Praga near Warsaw; moving thru heavy rubble.  Dive bombers.  View thru tank slit.  Firing rifles, grenades, artillery; explosions & destroying already destroyed buildings.  Flame throwers. 07:35:36
WWII; German Propaganda; American Counter Propaganda; Weapons; Fighting; Battles; Camouflaged Tanks; 1944;
NOTE:  VERY GOOD combat footage.
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            221673          05:20:07 - 05:29:07            1944   B/W    SD       

            [D-Day Special]  R1 of 2
INCLUDING:

05:24:58  Gliders w/ British markings, paratroopers issued rations, checking on motorcycles.  Loading magazines w/ bullets, checking pistols, guns, loading hand grenades, sharpening knife.  Load gliders w/ jeeps, artillery.  Men blacking faces, march to gliders who wave goodbye.  Briefing outside planes; put on life jackets.  Gen. Brereton seeing men off.  Salute goodbye, 9th Air Force C-47 planes taking off.  Planes in flight over English Channel.
05:28:33  Planes over German coastline, dropping bombs & explosions. 05:29:07(GOOD)
WWII - Invasion - France; Normandy; 06Jun44; WW2;

            H0389            01:29:48 - 01:37:36            1944   B/W    SIL       [WWII - 1944, England, 82nd Airborne Preparations for D-Day]
INCLUDING:

01:35:30  30May44  Paratroopers getting life-vests, supplies, ammunition & grenades.  Men strapping on parachutes.  Gear laid out on ground. 01:37:36
WW2;  Europe; D-Day Invasion Preparations; Paratroopers;

            H1169-06     01:36:39 - 01:49:49            1944   B/W    SD        France;

INCLUDING:

01:48:01  Danish man getting equipment, pistol, grenades & walkie talkie.  CU women agents after returning w/ bruises etc.
01:49:10  General Marshall arrives, talks w/ OSS & others, receives flowers from kids.  The End.01:49:49
WW2; Spies; 1944;
NOTE:  On activity of Strategic Secret Intelligence teams operating w/ the 7th Army in Southeast France moving up Rhone River Valley.  Describes how teams obtain short range intelligence to contact the Fighting French (FFI) of the Interior's elements, set up missions, give instructions in radio operations, and recruit male and female agents.

            H1266-01     10:00:20 - 10:18:33            1944   COL      SD                    Titles.
INCLUDING:

10:07:28  Hand grenades thrown; flame throwers; mortars.   Approach bunker & throw grenades; flame throwers.
10;09:29  Leader / slug.
10:09:43  Corpses; wounded marines.
10:10:17  Firing at stalled amphibian occupied by Japanese machine gunners.  Direct hit.
10:10:31  Commanding officer talking w/ staff on beach.  Firing mortars.  Burning, black smoke.  Marines in fierce battle, sharpshooters, move forward.  Tanks & troops move up airstrip & wounded removed by jeep. 10:12:40

NOTE:  Good Color but scratches printed in.  Any continuous 9 minutes sold at one reel price.

            H1917-02     01:08:42 - 01:16:04            1944   B/W    SIL       USA;    [WWI - 1917, Camp Sherman, Ohio & 83rd Division Training Activities]
Title:  The Division maintains a completely equipped Fire Department of its own.
INCLUDING:

01:14:46  Title:  Drilling w/ the new Enfield rifles.  Recruits & instructors; men being timed, pretending to shoot standing & prone.  Men practicing grenade throwing w/ French instructing.
01:15:35  Soldiers in winter coats running up snowy hillside w/ guns, ammunition  stretchers.  Jumping into trenches
WW1; Draftees Training; 1917; 1918; Ohio

            221582          10:19:21 - 10:28:27            1944; 1945   B/W    SD        Italy    The Climb To Glory - Part One  R3 of 3
re Fifth Army, 10th Mountain Division assault on Gothic line, Nov44 - Feb45 - incl. some captured German footage.  Narrated by both American & German veterans.
GIs move around rocks w/ rifles.  LS moving along ridge.  CU of placing pitons, carabiniers & ropes.  Expert climbers fix ropes on rock.  Searchlights beaming.  Men on telephone, throw grenades & combat starts.  Night fighting.  Men run forward.  General Hayes looks thru binoculars.  Troops run thru charred trees.
10:22:03  Germans planning w/ map & firing guns, mortars, etc. from hideout.  Allies firing heavy artillery & men looking on.  CU & firing from under camouflage netting.  CU faces.  Plane flies overhead.  85th and 87th Regiments push uphill on Mount Belvedere. 
10:24:17  Germans firing from on top of Mt. Belvedere.  Men move up hillside thru smoke.  87th regiment on road.  Wounded evacuated.  Men running along ridge.  German Jeager Regiment & 10th moving up, throwing grenades, firing mortars, rifles; confrontation & fierce battle.  By 10Feb45 making headway.  German veteran testifies about success of American Mountain Division.  24Feb45 Riva & Belvedere were secured.  German says how hard each side fought.  End titles.  10:28:27
Quiet fields after area secured by Allies.  CUs American soldiers.
WWII - European Theater - Italy; W2; 1944; 1945;

 

            H1895-06     01:46:-09 - 01:58:25         1944; 1945   B/W    Sd        Italy   

INCLUDING:

01:49:37  GIs move around rocks w/ rifles.  LS moving along ridge.  CU of placing pitons, carabiniers & ropes.  Expert climbers fix ropes on rock.  Searchlights beaming (GOOD).  Men on telephone, throw grenades & combat starts.  Night fighting.  Men run forward.  General Hayes looks thru binoculars.  Troops run thru charred trees.
01:52:14  Germans planning w/ map & firing guns, mortars, etc. from hideout.  Allies firing heavy artillery & men looking on.  CU & firing from under camouflage netting.  CU faces.  Plane flies overhead.  85th and 87th Regiments push uphill on Mount Belvedere. 
01:54:23  Germans firing mortars from on top of Mt. Belvedere.  Men move up hillside thru smoke.  87th regiment on road.  Wounded evacuated.  Men running along ridge.  German Jeager Regiment & 10th moving up, throwing grenades, firing mortars, rifles; confrontation & fierce battle.  By 10Feb45 making headway.  01:56:22  German veteran testifies about success of American Mountain Division.  24Feb45 Riva & Belvedere were secured.  Quiet fields after area secured by Allies.  CUs American soldiers.  German says how hard each side fought.  End titles. 
WWII - European Theater - Italy; WW2; 1944; 1945; Gothic Line Fighting;

            221396          13:00:02 - 13:10:58            1944; 1945 (?)        B/W    SIL       France [WWII Colmar offensive; Fort de Guentrange & Maginot Line; Liberation of Vittel, France Internment Camp]
INCLUDING:

Two French soldiers studying map in field in Colmar offensive, smoke behind.  CU men prone on ground looking thru binoculars; firing machine guns, running; firing from weeds in ditch & behind embankment.  Throw grenades; explosions of phosphorus shells & running thru smoke. 13:02:28 

 

            220433          10:28:50 - 10:47:20            1944?            B/W    Sd        China; Palau; Pacific; Defeat and Victory
INCLUDING:

10:38:19  Alligators on way to land, amtracks, Japanese barges w/ men trying to swim to shore, dead Japanese in water picked up by US troops.  US troops disembark on Palau, advance on beach & jungle.  Flame thrower, talking on radio in foxhole, in trench, firing, CU throwing grenade, Molotov cocktails, tank. 
10:41:33  GI throws canteen to wounded, other crawls. Carrying wounded on stretcher.  Badly wounded soldier w/ bandaged face. Wounded carried out.
10:42:29  After battle unloading ammunition boxes & supplies on beach, carrying supplies on Island, troops w dogs up roads, climb hill. 
10:44:01  Soldier firing into cave, then flame thrower, then explosive in hole.  Advancing.  Confrontation with lone Japanese soldier who throws stick grenade.  Tank advancing, machine-gun, flame-thrower burning caves & ammunition exploding.
10:45:42  Burial service.  Sounding trumpet, hoisting US flag.  Admiral Halsey (?) & troops saluting.
Kweilin burning at night.  GIs marching on island past camera.10:47:20

 

            220812          19:52:04 - 20:01:46            1944?            COL      SIL       Palau;  [Marines On Angaur Island, Palau]
INCLUDING:
19:55:20  Marine shoots Japanese soldier, takes souvenir - looting. Smoke grenade thrown into Japanese sniper position. 
19:56:23  Marines pass banner reading: Shore party C-P Orange-1-2.  Amphib. vehicles on beach, Black troops unload supplies. Loading wounded on stretchers.  Laying communications wiring.
19:57:50  Island viewed from landing craft offshore, clouds of smoke and aircraft visible.  Tank and troop activity on beachhead.  Mines laid along beach.  Marines fire at Japanese snipers among trees. 20:01:46

            220819          07:50:43 - 08:00:13            1944?            B/W    SD        Pacific

INCLUDING:

07:52:03  Angar Island.  81st Army division landing leaving ship & to shore in amphibious troop carrier & w/ tanks.  Dig foxholes, fighting, dead soldier in water.  Flame throwers, burnt corpse.  Grenades.  Wounded.
07:54:33  Palalu (Peleliu), Japanese sniper killed on boat.  Bombing of ridge; flame throwers, machine guns. Charred corpse.  Soldier shot on camera.  Dead soldiers removed by others.
07:56:30  Fighting,flame throwers; explosions, throwing grenades.  Lone Japanese soldier.  Throw Molotov cocktails (?). Throwing grenade into cave.  Japanese out of cave and surrender.  Naked Japanese prisoners rounded up.  Gruesome corpses.  Airstrip of Palalu.  Montage of invasion & fighting.  The End.
NOTE:  Sound crackly from original transfer from negative source material.

            200522          01:03:52 - 01:11:48            1945   Col       Sd        Pacific Landing on Iwo Jima  (good colour)
Marines / troops in landing craft approaching shore.  Other naval ships.  Troops land and run from landing craft under fire.  Wounded on beaches.  Medical supplies unloaded. Animated contour model showing where medical units had been set up. Explosions - rockets fired. Casualties helped and carried to battalion aid stations.  Plasma given.  Explosions as more injured brought in.  Grenade thrown.  Artillery fired.  Stretcher party  - injured treated -  plasma and whole blood.  Wounded carried on stretchers  to go to evacuation points. Seriously wounded treated  in hospital tent.  Blood transfusion - surgery.  Silhouette of casualties arriving. Line of stretchers with wounded being transferred to transport plane.  Other wounded transferred to truck for transport to landing craft.  Wounded taken to hospital ship.  Operating theatre on ship.  Soldier having leg plastered.  Facial wound treated.  Hand stitched.  Top shot deck of hospital ship with lines of men on strechers.
01:11:05 Dead on battlefield.  Mass grave - funeral service.  Military cemetery - crosses. Incomplete
Pacific War

 

            220335          - 20:56:58     1945   b/w     Sd        Pacific Islands            Objective Security  R2 of 2
INCLUDING:

20:47:48 Artillery barrage fired, land battle, firing guns & explosions.  Firing rockets from trucks, trenches.  Machine-gun. Throwing grenade.  Flame throwers, explosive in hole; troops advance. 20:49:24 

 

            220419          13:51:17 - 14:00:39            1945   B/W    SD        Pacific USA     Okinawa
The Naval Workers Digest
INCLUDING:

13:58:56  Battle in jungle.  Firing guns.  Japanese killed, tumbes in front of camera.  Dead Japanese.  Throwing grenades.  Surrendered Japanese soldier. POW.  Pull dead Japanese out of cave.  The End.
WWII Pacific War; War Effort; Home Front;
Note:  Launched 29Apr45 as Coral Sea; renamed 08May45.

            220442          09:33:19 - 09:33:58            1945   B/W    Si         France Oise Salvage, Reims France.
Russian guard who was injured when grenade exploded in salvage yard  carried on stretcher put on truck.


            220469          03:44:30 - 03:48:30            1945   B/W    SD        Pacific Tarawa - Marines Toughest Battle!
03:44:38  Low angle of men running across sand, others in fox holes thru destroyed palm trees.  Firing and fierce ground battle amid debris & torn palm trees; marine helmet shot off.  Shot from various points.  Flamethrowers, machine guns, riflemen.
03:45:44  Wounded carried on stretcher & treated.  Desolate beach w/ dead bodies & destruction. 
03:46:04  Reinforcement from Coast Guards arrives in landing crafts, POV on board.  Dive bomber attacks  Japanese position.  Flame thrower fire and hand grenades.
03:47:12  Troops crawling towards Japanese pillbox & throwing grenade - explosion.  Almost naked Japanese prisoner at gunpoint.  Dead Japanese.
03:47:57 Admiral Hill & General Smith. Smiling  Lt. Col Arnold Johnson congratulates men passing.  Flag raised, men salute.
WWII Pacific fighting; Tarawa; Gory; Gruesome; Horrors of War;
NOTE:  Filmed by Norman Hatch

            220471          07:17:14 - 07:19:47            1945   B/W    SD        Okinawa; Japan           Movietone News
Yanks Force Jap Retreat In Bitter Okinawa Fighting
Land battle on Okinawa - explosions & flame throwers, heavy fighting.  Hut burning.  Advancing GI throws grenade.  Firing.  Cave tunnel entrance.  Okinawan children found & carried by GIs.  Native refugees, women & children.  G.I. befriends wounded canine soldier dog.  Writing letter.  Savage fighting. Soldiers behind tanks advance into city of Naha.  CU tanks; soldiers marching.  LS Naha burning.
WWII Fighting; Horrors of War; Pacific Battle;

            220676          09:00:00 - 09:09:32            1945   B/W    SD        Germany; Eastern Europe
            [Fall of Berlin & End of WWII - Soviet Viewpoint]
INCLUDING:

09:02:17  Soviet woman soldier handing out bread to Germans; soldier helping old man - VO says Red Army saved all of Germany from the yoke of despised fascism.  Hand-held grenade launchers fired.  Brandenburg Gate w/ burning wreckage in FG.
09:02:55  Reichs Chancellery & Ministry of Propaganda after capture - ransacked interior & courtyard w/ burned documents - CU Goebbels body - burnt remains.  Radio tower.  More rockets fired.  09:03:30 

 

            220810          16:00:00 - 16:06:27            1945   COL      SIL       JAPAN; PACIFIC          [Marines In Action On Iwo Jima; USS Fremont Leaving Guam]
INCLUDING:

VS 2nd Battalion, 9th G Company US Marines dug in & fighting, Iwo Jima, 10:45am 26Feb45 at the front.  Flamethrowers  advancing.  Dead Japanese burning.  Marines in trench.  CU Marine shouting orders.  Explosions on horizon.  Troops advancing. 
16:02:31:  Marines w/ flamethrowers cross trench w/ corpses.  Throw grenades.  CU Japanese shot dead in trench.  16:04:20 

            220812          20:11:39 - 20:19:11            1945   COL      SIL       Japan; [Japanese PoWs On Iwo Jima; War Dog Killed]
INCLUDING:

20:18:00  Marines carry stretcher w/ dead dauberman dog, CU dog covered in blanket.  Handwritten card reads:  War dog killed by a grenade.  He took the blast of it & saved the trainers life, who was wounded.
Animals in Pacific War; WWII; WW2; 1945; Prisoners of War Captured; Surrender;

            220815          02:53:51 - 03:04:19            1945   COL      SIL       Pacific [Action On The Front Lines, Iwo Jima (?), Mar45]
Stretcher bearers.
LS heavy battle action w/ tanks & flame throwers.  Bodies.  Men across valley past tanks.
Soldiers firing shoulder mortar / bazooka & automatic rifle into valley.
Men firing & throwing grenades into mouth of cave.  Explosions close to camera.
Rockets mounted on jeeps fired. 
Pacific War; WWII; WW2; Fighting; Desert Island; 1945;

            220825          14:15:25 - 14:25:01            1945   COL      SIL       JAPAN;            [Iwo Jima - 5th Div. US Marines, 1945]
INCLUDING:

14:19:28  VS Marine points to shell damage on tank w/ ruler.
14:20:59  Marine holding injured Japanese boy.  Japanese soldier surrenders to Marines, forest burning. 14:21:28  Marines inspect naked wounded Japanese soldier.  Marines throw grenades; US soldier w/ Japanese flag.  Marines pull various corpses from bushes.  Looting body.
14:22:39  US troops treat wounded Japanese civilians including women & children, load some onto truck.
14:23:16  Okinawa, south tip, west flank.  22nd Marines flushing Japanese from culverts.  Marines w/ hand gun shoots Japanese soldier hiding in culver; CS Marine pulling out Japanese soldier by the feet using ropes.  CU second marine shoots point blank into legs & again into torso.  Explosives into culvert & explosion. 
14:24:30  CU Very bloody, wounded Marine given treatment.  Transfusion.
WW2; WWII; War Atrocities; Pacific War; Horrors of War; 1945;

            220834          00:00:00 - 00:08:59            1945   B/W    SD        China; Pacific Nippon News #237
INCLUDING:

00:06:35  Japansee Title:  ???   Japanese artillery firing.  Pan of destroyed American & Chinese B-24 bombers & other aircraft on Kweilin Airstrip, China.  CU sign:  12th Service Group Dispensary.
00:07:56  Japanese troops fire on an unknown village or military barracks, throw grenades.  Climb up hill; deserted village street.  The End.
WWII Japanese Newsreel; WW2; Asian Fighting;

            220935          04:17:33 - 04:23:09            1945   B/W    SD        Germany          [Fall of Berlin]
Pro-Soviet narration.  Russian planes flying overhead,  Russian officer watch from foxhole.  Poor quality shots bombs away, aircraft strafing.  Artillery and rockets fired.  Russian tanks and troops advance.  AV Berlin showing destruction.  Russians loading big gun.  Street fighting, locals run for cover.  Man cutting meat / flesh from dead horse.  Queue for water - woman licks moisture from finger after rubbing it on hole in barrel.  Berlins Commandant Gen. Weidling questioned, points to map explaining strategy as urged by Hitler before suicide - post-30Apr.  Red Army firing rockets in street.  Soviet woman soldier handing out bread to Germans; soldier helping old man - VO says Red Army saved all of Germany from the yoke of despised fascism.  Hand-held grenade launchers fired.  Brandenburg Gate w/ burning wreckage in FG.
04:20:28  Chancellery damage exterior and interior.  Debris littered in courtyard.  Goebbels burnt remains.  Radio tower.  Fighting in the streets, artillery.  Reichstag and red banners.  Russian names of soldiers on columns.  Liberated peoples, waves and cheers, celebrations.  Crowds welcome Russian troops across Eastern Europe.  04:22:52 

08May45  Keitel signs surrender document; CU signatures.
WWII.  VE Day.

            221001          16:16:28 - 16:26:05            1945   B/W    Si         Pacific; Japan Mopping Up Operations on Okinawa - Loudspeakers
17Jun45  32nd Inf. Regt, 7th Div.  Japanese-American soldier speaking into microphone over  loudspeakers to locals.  Civilians climb steep path up hillside.  Loudspeakers put in different direction calling out civilians who have been in hiding - coastline.  Natives including women some carrying babies climb up mountain path.
16:19:36  US soldier speaking over mic at entrance to caves - LS rocky coastline / beach.  More shots civilians climbing rocky footpath.  Captured Japanese soldier.  Smoke as Japanese sniper fires on American troops.  US soldiers return fire - grenade thrown.
16:22:49  Japanese civilians questioned.  Jap POWs seated on grass; GIs conduct search, make notes.  More loudspeaker shots.  Shots of tanks seen through viewing slit of another tank.
Pacific War.  WWII.  Geneva Convention.

 

            221027          00:47:27 - 00:55:22           1945   B/W    SIL       Germany          MP Raid on Civilian House / German PoWs
LIB 1969  07Jan45  US MPs loading cases of supplies, tinned food and bottles onto jeep.  Supplies unloaded.  Sign Military Police Investigators.  Jeep with MPs arriving at house, German civilian man lets them in, they come out carrying boxes of supplies. 
00:50:48  LIB 1968  German prisoners of war:  One young injured German PoW put into jeep.  PoWs searched.  American soldier with mouth organ.  Prisoners searched, baggage checked for grenades.  Injured PoW laid on bonnet of jeep.  Prisoners marched off down snowy road, small dog running alongside.  Snow on trees.
00:54:14  Sign Omaha P.W. - German PoWs arriving by truck; gathered outside building, papers checked.  Freezing weather. 
WWII.  Black Market.

 

            221145          00:44:39 - 00:50:17  1945            B/W    SIL       Philippine Islands Activities  (1945)
US field artillery in jungle emplacements w/ tanks dug in on Luzon.  Troops under cover on roadside & wade across stream beside bridge, fighter planes overhead.  Skirmishers creep up mountain thru destroyed brush, firing machine guns, throwing or hurling grenades, examining bodies of dead Japanese.
00:47:58  Filippino stretcher bearers carrying wounded US to rear along mountain road.  Smoke rising from shelled Japanese jungle positions.  GI troops loading mortar shells & firing, heavy artillery in action at mountain peak across valley.  Men passing ammunition & stacking.  Firing mortar in CU.  Japanese corpses covered in flies.  US infantry and Filippino porters moving through jungle carry boxes.
WWII Pacific War.

            221237          09:25:20 - 09:39:22            1945   B/W    SD        USA; POLAND; GERMANY        Die Deutsche Wochenschau  Two reels
INCLUDING:

09:28:17  General Wlassow reviews Russian volunteer troops in snow, various units march past w/ grenade launchers, rifles & tanks, tanks reviewed, snowing.
09:29:10  Map of Eastern Front / Poland.  Kurland - Sign Achtung Klopse Stahlhelm auf! 50m Abstand [Helmets On!].  German troops in trench, explosions get closer, heavy gun fired - machine gun fire from snow around icy lake.  CU troops, smoking or chewing pipe. 09:30:24 

 

            221294          10:22:20 - 10:35:36            1945   B/W    SIL       Japan;

            The News Parade;  Castle Film Presents
INCLUDING:

10:24:34  Jungle fighting; phosphorus & burning brush & huts.  GIs crawling thru grass.  Grenades thrown into Japanese caves.  Dynamite set.  Dead Jap down rocks.  Another shot coming out.  Explosions. 
10:26:27  4 raise flag on pole.
10:26:37  Title:  Bombing Of USS Franklin!  19Mar45  Carrier (CV-13) w/ plane landing; divebomber, heavy smoke & running sailors fight fire seen on board.  Carrier seen in flames & exploding from another ship.  Fighting fire on deck.  Fireball from another ship.  More fighting fire.  Treating wounded.  Kamikaze planes shot down.  Tumble out of sky missing a wing.  10:29:58 

 

            221501          20:17:58 - 20:29:47            1945   B/W    Sd/Sil  Philippines     [WWII Fighting in Philippines; MacArthur & Osmena w/ MacArthur Speaking]
INCLUDING:

Aerial of mountains w/ snaking road-like Villa Verda trail.  American planes, clouds of smoke & strafing or bombing.  US Army w/ binoculars watching from hillside; 80mm mortars & artillery firing; GI on telephone giving directions.  Smoke rising from hits.  Explosions.  GIs firing machine gun; others firing rifle.  Japanese running hit.  Men moving ahead w/ rifles, throw grenade.
20:20:53  GI near hilltop throws grenade into cave, runs down; explosion.  Troops w/ flame thrower on hillside.  Dead smoking bodies.  Two Americnas help wounded.  Treating wounded & on stretchers to truck.  Dead laying near crest of hill.  Filipinos carrying supplies up winding trail & thru brush.  Resting, tired. 20:22:50 

 

            H1761-05     12:40:56 - 12:48:10            1945   B/W    SD        USA;    Titles.  R1 of 2
12:41:22  Men in field loading 4.2mm mortar; duck & fire; soldier throwing hand grenade.  Chart showing different distances, 40mm and 400m w/ dead spot in between & explains M79 grenade launcher developed for that range / distance.
12:41:58  Soldier loading M79 & firing standing, prone; hitting target at 80 meters.  Sight used for longer range, firing & explosion.
12:43:06  Instructor pointing out features standing against cement block wall.  CUs of trigger, safety & barrel locking latch.  Loading operation; sight shown.  Cut-away of grenade shown; practice grenade shown.
12:44:59  Weapon & parts shown & named on table. 
12:45:20  Instructor, CU removing screws to break apart using combination wrench.  CU of instructor; parts; cleaning, polishing & maintenance.
12:47:41  Re-assembling.
NOTE:  Very good picture & sound quality though basic.

            H1761-06     12:48:36 - 12:55:31            1945   B/W    SD        USA;    R2 of 2
Instructor re-assembling M79 grenade launcher on table.  CUs of completely re-assembled; method of loading shown in CU.  CU finger pulling trigger.
12:51:25  Assembled M79 oversized model shown mounted w/ parts & operation during unlocking pointed out.  Opening to discard spent cartridge.
12:54:28  Parts of M79 on table w/ labels.
12:54:53  Man w/ launcher prone on ground & firing; explosion of wooden target & dirt mound.
12:55:25  The End. NOTE:  Very good picture & sound quality though basic.

            H1839-06     01:38:16 - 01:47:01            1945   B/W    SIL       Okinawa;         [WWII - 1945, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands Clean-up]
INCLUDING:

01:42:55  25Jun45  Some of 600 Japanese civilians taken from large cave, assisted to top of ridge by marines .  Watched by CU Major General GEIGER & Gen. Shepard.  LS from below.
01:44:28  CU Corpsmen treating injured Japanese. 
01:44:39  Pan large entrance to cave.
01:44:59  CU Marines loaded wounded Japanese civilians onto dump truck.  CU Water & food given to Japanese prisoners.
01:45:36  Explosion w/ black smoke, cave (?). 
01:45:51  CU Japanese is shot with pistol by marine & dragged out of culvert under roadway.  MS Phosphorous grenade thrown into culvert.

            H1839-13     02:28:51 - 02:38:53            1945   B/W    SD        USA; Philippines; Mexico; Japan; Okinawa;  [WWII - 1945, Activities In European Theater of Operations]  R2 of 2
INCLUDING:

02:33:10  Title:  Pacific - Attack On Naha. 
02:33:17  Naha, Okinawa, 6th Division marines briefed; rocket barrage on Naha launched.  Explosions in hills.  MCU Major General Gieger.  Marines push towards Kings Ridge & Sugar Loaf Hill w/ tank support.  Troops & tanks attack w/ various weapons and explosives as wounded removed.   Marines crawl on stomachs; on rocky ridge.  Good cave blasting; flame throwers.  Phosphorus grenades thrown.  Explosions.  Flame throwing tanks.  Artillery & planes bombard positions.  Observation post overlooking Naha; tanks into city, troops   following. 02:38:44  The End.

            H1896            04:10: - 04:17:10    1945   B/W    SIL       Italy; USA;      [WWII - Italy, 10th Mountain Divison, Castel DAiano, Italy 03-04Mar45]
INCLUDING:

MCU dead bodies in mountain road gutter against retaining wall; GIs walking past on gravel road; jeep & tank past in dust.  GIs up hill on road w/ German POW, look at bodies.
04:11:42  Slate:  05Mar45  10th Mt. Infantry at Castel DAiano.  CU soldier putting on pack board w/ case labelled hand grenades; others w/ artillery ammunition & machine gun bullet belts, walk past German (?) tank off road, down mountain field.  04:12:37 

NOTE:  Good picture quality.

 

            220474          14:10:47 - 14:12:27            1945   B/W    SD        Czechoslovakia            Main Title:  Movietone News
14:11:12  Title:  Films Just Released:  Revolt In Prague During Last Days Of Nazi Occupation
14:11:18  Prague street.  House on fire.  Throngs of people running in street.  Nazi officers point gun at crowd. Czech prisoners held at gunpoint by Germans.  Czech civilians attack Nazi trucks.  CUs people firing in street.  14:11:48  Dead civilians on pavement.  Man runs to escape gunfire.  Dragging corpse.  CUs grenade.  Nazi propaganda leaflets drop in street.  Burning flag w/ swastika on bonfire.
14:12:13  Benes returns  - out of train, crowd waves.  Benes at window w/ wife.
1945 Post-WWII; Czechoslovakia; Street Fighting;

            220685          00:57:03 - 00:59:20            1945   B/W    SIL       Germany          Cleaning Debris, Ludwigslust, Germany
Piles of wooden crates with Vorsicht - Mine stamped on side.  Men removing ? from radios ? Piles of debris in streets including steel helmets - grenades - guns.  Wrecked German military equipment and vehicles. Civilians sweeping streets.

            221067          14:36:11 - 14:39:58            1945   B/W    SD        Philippines; pacific    Progress In The Pacific War
VS US Marines advance on Luzon island - tanks firing on last Japanese sniper positions in valley.  CU Marine talking into field telephone.  Troops running; wounded helped.  Infantry firing machine guns & throwing grenades into foxholes.  Dead Japanese soldiers.  Street sign Baguio City Limit.  Marines on tank pass along ridge above bombed city.  Civilians come out of hiding & cheer US troops - GIs give kids sweets.  Marines relaxing in chairs overlooking city.
14:37:52  Okinawa: LS flame-throwing tanks in action.  MCU Gen. Geiger & Gen. del Bauer [?] observe through long-range binoculars.  US troops attack hill w/ Japanese cave positions - flamethrowers - infantry - tank support.  Marines enter Naha - advance through bombed streets.  LS column of black smoke over island.

            220307          09:15:15 - 09:18:50            1945 ?           B/W    Sd        USA Pacific     The War Continues in the Pacific
US troops advance on Okinawa - tanks - flame throwers - artillery.  Women and children, natives of Okinawa, come in behind the lines, soldier carrying small child.  Wounded soldiers on stretchers loaded onto plane.  Soldier throws grenade and blast - Japanese taken prisoner.  Japanese shot, falls down hill.  Naval battle - Japanese planes bombing US Naval fleet - plane downed - flak - masses of explosions in sea - kamikaze - US aircraft lands on deck of Air Craft carrier - US plane lands in sea.  US plane unable to land properly collided with carriers superstructure.

 

            221181          15:19:10 - 15:28:29            1945 c            B/W    SD        USSR   Stalingrad Relives  aka Stalingrad Rebuilds  R5 of 6
INCLUDING:

POV from German car along road; Russians taken prisoner.  POWs along road.  Convoy thru & burning Stalingrad.  Destroyed buildings from air.  Trombone laying on street beside dead man & puddle of blood.  Nazis harassing man on street.
15:20:07  Dalmatian (?) seacoast town, people walk in square.  Old columned buildings, orchard.  German marching, through fields w/ flame thrower.  Map of Yugoslavia & Adriatic.  Steam train w/ passenger cars past.  German officers talking intercut w/ diplomats (?).  Menin street saluting; soldiers.  Grenade thrown & exploding.  Man w/ throat slit.  Man shaking hands w/ Nazis.  Nazi cocktail party.  Underground resistance fighting back. German truck & car on road ambushed.  Peasant farmers close houses & leave w/ families to go to mountains & fight. 
15:23:37  POV riding on train w/ German troops & view from rebels of ambushing.  Others in forest.  Headlines of Fight newspaper:  Victory Is Ours. 15:24:21

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