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World War II - European Theater ("a thru z" titles)
After the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, America enters the war after declaring war on Japan. Germany and Italy support their ally Japan by declaring war on the U.S. In the European Theater which includes the Atlantic, Mediterranean and North Africa, the Allied powers paid dearly for victory.
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89th Infantry Division In Germany (HD) Ref #: BOF-26-771

Unedited footage of soldiers and tanks of the “Rolling W”, 89th Infantry Division, entering Arnstadt Germany past smoking buildings, as a few curious German civilians watch from doorway. Soldier uses rifle butt to knock open building door. Scene of Army Corpmen or combat medics following infantrymen. Shows 50 cal machine gun firing out of building window. Damaged German plane in field, appears to have crash landed. Soldier inspects German artillery gun. Long shot of smoking buildings, sign reads Bamberg, building on fire in background. German soldiers comes out of burning building with hands raised and are taken prisoner. American tank at a street barricade. Tank firing cannon at burning and smoking buildings. Shows American tanks entering town after barricade of poles and rocks is destroyed. Tank at a barricade firing machine gun. Soldier shoots lock off door. Tank with dozer blade keeps battering street barricade until it is destroyed. Infantry and tanks capture Bamberg Germany.
00:10:00:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

AAF Combat Aircraft 1943 (HD)

Army Air Force Combat Aircraft WWII. BT-13 Valiant Trainer in flight. LS Curtiss P-40 Warhawk taking off. MS P-47 Thunderbolt taking off. MS B-26 Marauder Bomber taking off. MS P-38 Lightning taking off. LS P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. MS B-26 in flight. MS B-17 Flying Fortress in flight. CU B-17 in flight. MS B-24 Liberators in formation. MS B-24 Liberator peeling off. B-25 Mitchell Bomber taking off. CU B-25 in flight. MS A formation of B-24's. One plane dropping bombs. MS Formation of planes dropping bombs. AS Explosions from bombs. MS B-26 taking off. MS B-26 in flight. CU B-26 in fight. MS Formation of B-26's taking off. MS A formation of B-26's.

P-38 in flight. MS P-38 flying through haze. LS A formation of P-38's. MLS A formation of P-38's. Formation of P-39 Airacorba aircraft. MS P-40 taking off. LS P-40 maneuvering. MS P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. LS P-47 maneuvering. MS Douglas C-47 Skytrain taking off. MS C-47 in flight. CU C-46 Commando in flight. MS Douglas C-54 Skymaster taking off. MS Douglas B-18 Bolo taking off with glider. MS Glider leaving ground. ALS Gliders in flight. US Gliders dropping landing gear. MS Helicopter ascending from platform. AMS Helicopter in flight. ALS A single of Douglas A-26 Invader. ALS A formation of P-38's. A formation of BT-13's. A formation of Martin B-12 Bombers. US Large aerial formation of unidentified aircraft.
00:06:25:19 BW (1920 x 1080)


Axis Sally - American Voice Of Nazi Germany (HD) Ref #: BOF-91-012

Times Square New York;
Young Men Registering For Draft Washington DC;
Axis Sally, Mildred Gillars, Arriving In Washington; 
Judge Carl Hyatt And Secy Kenneth C. Royall, Washington; 
Gen. Sosa Molina Greeted By Gen Albert C. Wedemeyer, Washington
00:09:45:00 BW (1920 x 1080)


Bastogne, Belgium - 1945 (HD)

Gens. McAuliffe and Collins confer in a snowy street. Supplies are dropped from C-47 transports to the encircled 101st Airborne Division. Shows the gathering of the supplies, a wrecked C-47, troops in foxholes and trenches, tanks firing, and a field telephone. German prisoners, including one wounded man, are questioned and taken to the rear. U.S. troops file through a forest behind tanks one of which strikes a land mine and explodes. The injured crew members are carried to the rear. U.S. dead are buried and partially demolished vehicles inspected. A half-track tows a field gun along a snow-clogged road. Troops are decorated.
00:08:29:20 BW (1920 x 1080)

Belgian Bulge Offensive - December 1944 (HD)

U.S. motorized infantry rolls into a French town; civilians cheer. U.S. dead and injured are removed by stretcher from a battlefield; tanks, and infantry advance. German film shows officers, including von Runstedt, studying maps; Volksturm, armed with panzerfausts, marching; German tanks and infantry, covered by fog, moving through a snowy forest; a V-1 bomb exploding on an Allied position; camouflaged German tanks advancing; the use of flamethrowers; an Allied motor convoy in flames near Malmedy, Belgium; and U.S. POW's in the town.

Red Cross personnel examine the bound bodies of U.S. POW's and Belgian civilians massacred by German SS troops in Malmedy; the dead are buried in a common grave. German film shows blazing supply depots left by the retreating U.S., and German troops smoking American cigarettes. U.S. artillery and antiaircraft fire pointblank at advancing German tanks. U.S. tank guns and machine guns fire over the snowy battlefield. General Eisenhower addresses troops at the front.
00:11:01:14 BW (1920 x 1080)

Buchenwald Labor Camp, Germany (HD)

Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp established in 1937 near Weimar Germany was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil. Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia worked as force labor.
00:06:33:03 BW (1920 x 1080)


Campaign In Sicily (HD)

Reel 1:
Shows Brit. Adm. Cunningham and Gens. Eisenhower, Tedder, Montgomery, Patton, and Doolittle. U.S. planes bomb Pantelleria; Brit. inf. go ashore. Shows masses of Ital. POWs Axis planes bomb an Allied supply, ship off the island. Brit. engrs. repair an airstrip on the island. Allied bombers strike objectives in Italy. Troops Transports assemble in the harbor at Alexandria; Gens. Eisenhower and Patton are aboard the Monrovia. Allied troops, following a night naval bombardment, land on Sicily using amphibious vehicles and floating causeways. Steel mesh mats are laid down: bulldozers are taken ashore. Gen Patton and 3rd Inf. Div. units land. Axis planes attack the convoy, exploding an ammunition ship.
00:07:44:08 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 2:
Shows debris on the beach near Gela and masses of Ital. POW's. 3rd Div. troops clear minefields. Shows Gen. Truscott. Motorized artillery is moved to the front. Allied antiaircraft mistakenly downs friendly transport planes near Gela. The 45th Div. advances on Rogusa. Ital. POW's repair roads. The 3rd Div. enters Palermo; Gen. Eisenhower inspects debris in the city; antiaircraft repels an Axis attack.
00:06:20:09 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 3:
Shows debris in Palermo's harbor; a smoke screen shields the harbor. Allied and Axis wounded are evacuated. Ger. troops are evacuated from Messina to the mainland. Allied Military, Govt. agents distribute rations, supervise medical care, and Institute war crime trials. Pres. Roosevelt reviews Allied, troops from a jeep.
00:06:52:16 BW (1920 x 1080)

Carry The Fight 1942 - 1943 (HD) Ref#: BOF-64-618

HD stock footage clips, various subject matter. MLS Chinese troops marching along the Great Wall. MS A Russian tank moving down the street in Stalingrad (SV). HA MS Looking over the stern of a ship underway at sea; US flag flying from the mast. LA MS An officer on the bridge of the small craft looking out to sea with binoculars. MS A Signal man sending a signal message with a blinker light. ELS A convoy underway at sea. G--to-A MS A seaplanes in flight overhead. MS Stores on the pier at New York ready to be lowered aboard ship. MLS Three ships underway (merchant ships). HA MS Three crew members looking out over the side of a speeding ship. CU A bomber moving by the camera. MS PAN An American armored car in a large field; men at the machine gun. MS Looking over the roof tops in London showing fire burning. MS rubble in London; firemen fighting the fire. HA MS The rubble of the buildings. MS Looking down a city street somewhere in America. CU Aircraft workers entering the gate of a defense plant. MS Several harvesters in the field; the huge line of harvesting implements cutting grain (SV). A-to-G MCU A fruit orchard; mountainous terrain in the BG. HA MS The Martin Bomber production line; the noses of the aircraft on the production line. HA MLS Several bombers in the production line. MS Looking down over a railroad yard filled with rail cars. MLS Several merchant ships underway at sea (SV). MLS Several merchant ships in an unknown harbor. LS Looking across the water showing several merchant ships in the harbor; shoreline in the BG. CU A damaged patrol boat underway. MS Four survivors floating in the water on a raft. A-to-G MLS a merchant ship sinking. LS A convoy underway (the scene is in silhouette); a portion of the gun barrel in the left of the frame. LS ship convoy underway. HA MS Looking over an industrial city showing smoke coming from the smoke stacks; water in the BG. Quality good.
00:06:28:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Deutschland Erwache! (Germany Awake!) - 1945 (HD)

Reel 1:
Translated title. Recounts Germany's wartime experiences and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 1 shows dead Germans and POWs; rubble in Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin; Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery; Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at Yalta; and Hitler, Streicher, Hess, Himmler, and Goebbels addressing crowds. Germans are shown bodies in the Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps.
00:09:28:03 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 2:
Translated title. Recounts Germany's wartime experiences and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. survivors of atrocities are treated. Atrocities at Lublin, Poland, are described and bodies are shown. The Nazi race myth is decried as crematories are shown.
00:07:26:19 BW (1920 x 1080)


Feuertaufe (Baptism Of Fire) 1939 (HD) Ref#: BOF-3-986

Reel 1. Shows airplanes in flight; a Polish newspaper; a parade of Polish cavalry units; and Polish planes, armored units, and tanks. Maps illustrate Poland's presumed expansionist tendencies which include the conquest of Germany. Crowds in Danzig listen to a Nazi orator. German-Danzig troops patrol and construct wire obstacles. Shows German flags and symbols on Danzig buildings, German troops, German warships, and German planes on the ground. Includes a montage of maps and scenes of Zurich, Budapest, London, Warsaw, and Paris.
00:06:43:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Fighting First, The (Big Red One) (HD)

Reel 1 & Reel 2:
On the 1st Infantry Division in World War II. Recruits train, go to England, debark for Africa, and capture Oran. Shows Gen. Terry Allen, Rommel, and German troops. Troops battle at Kasserine and meet the British. Sicily is invaded and a town is captured. Reel 2 shows amphibious training in England and the invasion of France at Omaha Beach. Tanks fire among hedgerows; engineers dig up mines; the Division enters Coutance, Mortain, Etampes, Meaux, and Soissons and enters Belgium. Troops battle for Aachen and the Hurtgen Forest and then rest in Belgium before the Ardennes campaign. The Division crosses Remagen Bridge and fights in Germany.
00:12:53:00 BW (1920 x 1080)


Fighting Lady: Selected Footage - 1943 (HD)

Planes spotted on flight deck USS Yorktown Aircraft Carrier, DD draws alongside. GV Banks of Panama Canal. MS Carrier goes thru locks of Panama Canal. MS Electric train pulls carrier thru locks, locks close. CU USS Yorktown goes thru locks in 1943. MCU Men aboard ship place fenders on side of ship to protect ship from scraping against dock. MS Carrier comes around bend in canal. CU Carrier goes thru locks showing tiny slit between ship & docks. CU 5" guns on carrier. MS Marine guards on dock watch ship go thru locks.
QUALITY: GOOD
00:12:17:05 BW (1920 x 1080)


Flying Bomb Sites (V-1), Etc 1944 (HD)

Reel 1:
V-1 Buzz bombs fly over Britain and some are downed. Shows remains of various launching facilities in France. Part 2: Artillery shells Toulon, France (August 25). Shows French ships scuttled in the harbor. Troops fight in Marseille and march in a parade. Part 3: Freed U.S. fliers bid goodbye to Russian soldiers and are flown from Bucharest, Rumania, to Italy. Part 4: Canadian troops occupy Rouen and Dieppe. Shows wrecked German vehicles and emplacements, including camouflaged and dummy pillboxes.
00:11:04:03 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 1 & 2:
Rockets are loaded on British planes and fired at German targets. 9th Air Force P-47's strafe the enemy. Shows German wreckage. Amiens, Brussels, and Antwerp, Belgium, are occupied. Books are rescued from a burning library, citizens celebrate, and Germans are captured. Part 6: 1st Army tanks battle near Marle, France. Shows facilities of a wrecked German train at Braine, France. Reel 3: Shows German torture chambers in Paris. The 3rd Army crosses the Seine and fights. Troyes is entered and German guns are destroyed with thermite bombs. Citizens in Reims burn Mein Kampf. German planes bomb Verdun. U.S. troops enter the city and cross the Meuse River
00:13:14:13 BW (1920 x 1080)

French Campaign, The (HD)

Reel 1:
Shows the Eiffel Tower and crowds in the streets of Paris. Mobilization placards are posted in 1939 as war is declared on Germany. Civilians dig air raid shelters and sandbag buildings. Newspaper headlines announce the fall of Poland and the invasion of the Low Countries. German motorized forces roll through France. German troops march into Paris under the Arc de Triomphe as Parisians weep. Hitler and Goring enter Paris.

Pres. Roosevelt addresses Congress. Volunteer workers prepare packages for French relief. U.S. troops drill, ships are constructed, factories turn out guns and tanks, and convoys cross the Atlantic. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill confer in Quebec and confer with Stalin, Molotov, and Marshall in Tehran. U.S. planes bomb Germany. Slave laborers construct German fortifications along the French coast and German officers inspect it. Gens. Montgomery and Eisenhower plan the European invasion at headquarters. Allied troops land on the Normandy coast under cover of an aerial and naval barrage.
00:11:08:13 BW (1920 x 1080)

German Army In Action - 1944 (HD)

Reel 1:
Shows German troops moving up to the French invasion coast, German coastal fortifications, coastal guns firing, wrecked allied landing craft and equipment on the beaches, smashed allied vehicles along roads, ruined French villages, German antiaircraft and rocket launchers firing, French refugees fleeing, U.S. prisoners being marched to the rear, and bicycle troops moving up. Note:Reel 2 missing.
00:08:15:22 BW (1920 x 1080) (SILENT)

Reel 3:
German troops load munitions on camouflaged trucks, allied planes attack, and the truck convoy scatters to the side of the road as antiaircraft lays down a barrage. German tanks and trucks move up by night. German paratroops ambush U.S. tanks in the woods with bazookas and panzerfausts. U.S. prisoners are marched to the rear. A French village burns. V-1 bombs are launched.
00:10:10:14 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 4:
German troops line up at a funeral for those killed in the anti-Hitler bomb plot; Goring speaks and lays a wreath; bearers carry a coffin to its crypt. Hitler tours a hospital and visits injured bomb plot victims, addresses a cheering crowd, and confers with Goebbels and Goring, and his staff officers. The Berlin garrison marches in review for its commander. German troops retreat on the Russian front destroying everything as they withdraw; troops dig trenches and fire machine guns and artillery on the advancing Russians.
00:12:01:22 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 5:
German troops drive livestock to the rear in France as allied planes bomb German columns. French refugees flee. U.S. prisoners are marched to the rear. German fighter planes take off and strafe allied positions. German troops fight in the streets of burning villages. German fighter planes take off to engage allied bombers.
00:09:07:22 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 6:
A German destroyer in the North Sea sights allied bombers, radios German airfields, and planes take off and down allied planes. Captured U.S. pilots are questioned; dead allied airmen are buried. r7. civilians dig trenches on the eastern front and German civilians are evacuated by a Baltic Sea convoy. Latvian troops in the German Army march in review. German planes take off and strafe advancing Russians.
00:12:09:05 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 8:
German officers confer around a map. German troops and equipment move up towards the Russian front. Bazooka and panzerfaust men ambush and destroy advancing Russian tanks in the woods as German dive bombers attack Russian columns. German tanks and troops advance near Aachen and fire on allied troops. Allied prisoners are marched to the rear past smashed allied vehicles and equipment. Goebbels addresses a victory rally in Cologne.
00:08:28:07 BW (1920 x 1080)

German Entry Into Austria 1938 (HD)

Reel 1:
Shows the German occupation of Austria in 1938. German motorized inf. cross the Austro-German border. Hitler rides in a motorcade through city streets, mounts a podium, and speaks as Austrians cheer. Children wave swastikas and cheer as German tanks roll through city streets.
00:09:18:01 BW (1920 x 1080)


German Submarine In Action (HD) Ref#: BOF-10-508

Construction of Nazi U-Boat in WWII, 1942. MS Ribs of sub being put into place. MCU Plates being welded onto ribs. MCU Conning tower being attached to hull of German submarine. MCU PAN; conning towers on production line. MCU Diesel engine on production line. CU Lathe making cut. MCU Diesel engine being assembled. MS German sub being slid down ways for launching ceremony. MS German sub on trial run in North Atlantic. MCU Skipper of German sub. MS German sub in heavy seas in North Atlantic. MCU Crew members of German U-Boat manning battle stations. MCU German sailor operating valve of sub. MCU German sailors getting below deck for crash dive of submarine. MS Point of view (pov) Periscope shot of an allied ship. MCU Skipper of German sub giving signal to fire on allied ship while he is looking into periscope, taking bearing. MCU Ship listing heavily after large explosion. MCU Conning tower of sub. MCU German sailors manning deck gun in preparation for attack. MCU German submarine attacking allied shipping in North Atlantic in WWII. MCU Deck gun of German sub being fired. MCU Crew of sub securing gun and getting below in preparation for crash dive. CU Depth gauge (gage) on German U-Boat.
00:06:43:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Here Is Germany 1945 (HD)

Reel 1:
S hows panoramic views of the Germany countryside, crowds, schools, offices, and factories; dead and living victims of Nazi concentration camps at Rome, Lublin (Poland), and Brussels; articles made of human skin; Kaiser Wilhelm; and a German soldier. Describes the lack of democracy in medieval Germanic states. German troops march during World Wars I and II. The U.S. Declaration of Independence is signed.
00:10:56:01 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 2:
Contrasts the British and French tradition of representative government with the totalitarianism of Germany. Describes Frederick the Great's wars with Austria. Shows portraits of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, founders of the General Staff. Describes the dictums of Clausewitz, crushing of the 1848 revolt, German emigration to the U.S., and Bismarck's policies. Dramatizes combat during the Franco-Prussian War and the crowning of Wilhelm I.
00:08:13:04 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 3:
D ramatizes the development of German industry, the merchant marine, and the General staff, and dueling in German Universities. German troops cheer Kaiser Wilhelm, parade, and invade Belgium during World War I. Transports carry U.S. troops overseas. Shows U.S. tanks and artillery in action. Ludendorff requests an armistice. Crowds cheer news of peace.
00:09:14:22 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 4:
Shows the Kaiser in exile in Holland and Ludendorff in Sweden. Describes the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic. Allied occupation forces depart. Describes the establishment of German veterans and athletic clubs. Germany munitions factories are retooled. Gen. Hindenburg becomes President of the Weimar Republic.
00:10:59:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 5:
S hows the Weimar parliament in session; German troops parading; Hitler; Nazi riots; and closeups of Goebbels, Rohm, Goring, and Hess. Describes Hitler's rise to power. SS troops parade, books are burned, and Hitler speaks.
00:09:06:13 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 6:
Describes the unconditional surrender of Germany. Shows prisoners and industrial ruins. Contrasts "lackadaisical" occupation in 1918 with the morecomplete occupation, the trial of war criminals, and denazification processes in 1945.
00:04:35:12 BW (1920 x 1080)


Invasion Of Crete (HD) Ref #: BOF-72-442

Captured German films (2-reels) show Nazi paratroops in Europe packing supplies and preparing for the invasion of Crete in 1942. They board planes, fly over the Mediterranean and part of Crete, jump, secure equipment on the ground, and battle British troops. Shows large groups of British prisoners. Shows other battle scenes and lauds German tactics and techniques.
00:17:30:00 BW (1920 x 1080)


Invasion Of Europe (Normandy) - Volume 1 (HD)

Color film. LVT underway on Normandy beach; tank in background. CU LCM coming up toward beach. CU LCM being pulled off beach where it has run aground. MS House that has been gutted by shells; landing craft in background. Liberty ship at anchor; Coast Guardsmen standing about an LCI. LST alongside liberty ship; Coast Guardsmen in background. Coast Guardsmen; two men working on windlass in background. Sea going tug towing some type of caisson; Task Force in background. LCVP underway; Normandy beach in background. Two Coast Guardsmen, dressed in watch caps and foul-weather jackets, leaning up against a 20mm gun mount. LCI underway at sea; concrete caisson unloading in background. LST, showing line running off side. LST under tow. LCI; liberty ships and barrage balloons in background. LS Coast Guard cutter;

Task Force and balloons in background. Men holding up canned Vienna sausages, on main deck. Vienna sausages are taken out of can and put onto tray. LS Deep cliff that drops down to the sea; LCVP underway in background. LCI loaded with troops; sunken ships in background. LS Beach and cliff; in extreme foreground is the conning tower on LCI. Sunken boat with LCM alongside. British trawler with two barges behind it. LS British trawler. Patrol boat; sunken ships and another patrol boat in background. LCI washed upon beach at Normandy. Patrol boat; another patrol boat and sunken ships in background. CU Superstructure of patrol boat; another patrol boat and sunken ships in background.

LCM underway; LCTs, patrol boats, and sunken ships in background. CU Patrol boat. LS Patrol boat. Two Coast Guard patrol boats; sunken ship in background. LS Breakwater, formed by sunken ships (SV). CU Bow section of patrol boat. LS British LCT and two American LCTs; sunken liberty ship in background. Waves washing over sunken ship. Landing craft in very rough water (SV). LCT anchored; waves breaking over stern. LCT which has been washed aground; explosion on beach in background. British LCT which has been broken in two; American LCT alongside of it; sunken ships forming breakwater in background.
00:06:30:01 COLOR (1920 x 1080)

Invasion Of Europe (Normandy) - Volume 2 (HD)

Color film. 1) ECU Face of lookout wearing non-glare glasses as he scans sky for aircraft. Good 2) HA MS Looking down over deck of LCI, beaching at Normandy; cargo and men are seen on deck in faint morning light; side ramps are dropped on LCI and men are seen moving down ramps and onto beach area. Fair 3) HA MS LCU and other equipment up to beach; troops seen in background. Good-fair 4) HA MS Column of troops going down beach, heading toward an LCU on beach; they make a left turn, moving inward; other activity is seen going on in background. Good 5) LA MCU Two officers on bridge of small ship, coming alongside larger ship; the officers appear to be on an LCI. Fair 6) LA MS Looking up toward bridge of LCI, which is next to a transport; LCI-94 moving away. Good 7) HA MS Men working with a windlass at stern of an LCI; LCI appears to be laying to, no weigh on. Good-fair

8) ECU LCI; man seen sitting on extreme bow of LCI. Fair 9) LS Battleship of the Nevada Class; camouflaged destroyer comes into scene and out again to right. 10) CU LCI underway. Fair 11) CU Four men on deck of LCI, wearing helmets; men are turning cranks, apparently on some hand type windlass (dark). Fair 12) MS LCI, cable attached to its stern; no weigh seems to be on, except there is a strain on cable. Good 13) ECU Looking up toward bridge area of LCI-94; man is brought up to starboard side of bridge on boatswain's chair; man gets to top and begins painting on side of bridge. Good 14) LA ECU Man sitting in boatswain's chair, painting on side of LCI. SV Good 15) CU Group of American Navy personnel in flat hats and blues, walking away from camera with a group of British women service personnel, similar to our WACS; park is seen off to right, homes in background. 16) CU Same as before. Good 17) CU Suitcase being held up in front of a man; insignia on suitcase reads "U.S. Coast Guard." Good 18) CU Looking down over a sign which reads "U.S. Coast Guard, CPHOM Ruley." CPHOM is designation for Chief Photographer's Mate in the 1942 era. Good 19) MS Patrol craft; many small boats seen in background; water is quite rough. 20) CU LCI-85, no weigh on and listing badly to starboard, unable to see whether troops are aboard or not because of darkness on area. Very good 21) MLS APA, with LCU along its starboard quarter, LCI-492 enters scene from left, moving at about 10 knots. Very good 22) MCU Starboard beam view of transport; smaller craft alongside. 23) LA MS Troops aboard transport with packs on, ready for disembarkation.

24) HA MCU Looking down over men administering first aid to a wounded man, covered with a blanket, on deck of transport. Good 25) MS Transport at anchor; small gun boat speeds by in foreground. Good 26) HA MS Looking down over an LCVP alongside ship; men on deck of camera ship in foreground, look down over landing craft. Good 27) MS Man on stern of LCI. Good 28) CU Men on deck of LCI, letting go of lines; LCVP alongside. Good 29) HA MS Men on deck of the LCI, tending wounded man; LCVP alongside. Good 30) HA MS Looking down over a wounded man, lying on deck, covered over with a blanket; only his face is seen. Good 31) HA MS Men on LCI preparing to lift another wounded man from landing craft. 32) HA MS Wounded man in landing craft. Good 33) HA MS Wounded man lying in hold of landing craft on a stretcher; landing craft moves out of scene to left. Good 34) HA MS Wounded personnel on deck of camera ship. 35) CU Men tending wounded personnel. Good 36) HA MS Wounded man on a stretcher, being lowered to main deck, from an upper deck. Good

37) HA CU Blood and parts of the human body scattered around on deck. Good 38) CU Small camera case covered with blood and fleshy parts of the human body. 39) MS LCU loaded down with troops, heading for beach area; other ships are seen scattered in background. Good 40) MS LCU-199 loaded down with troops, heading for the beach; unidentified ships are seen in background. Good 41) MLS APs at anchor; barrage balloon is seen over second APA in background. Fair-poor 42) MCU LCI laying to; barrage balloons are seen flying above other LCIs in background. Good 43) MS LCIs underway, looks like evasive tactics; barrage balloon seen above LCI. Good 44) HA MS Hold of landing craft; hold is filled with personnel; one man's head is bandaged. 45) CU Officer and enlisted man standing near windlass. 46) LS Invasion ships near beach; barrage balloons seen above ships; beach in background. Good 47) LS Beach area with smoke drifting off beach; invasion ships seen in mid foreground. Good 48) LS LSTs and other ships of invasion force near beach; barrage balloons seen above ships. Good 49) MLS Looking toward a small patrol craft; in background is a battleship of the Nevada class. Good 50) MLS Unidentified ship laying to; beach area seen in far background at Normandy. Fair
00:08:46:10 COLOR (1920 x 1080)

Invasion Of Europe (Normandy) - Volume 3 (HD)

Color Film. ) LS Battleship bombarding beach; LCM passing in foreground. 2) LS USS Texas (BB-35) fires a salvo; amphibious craft in far background. 3) MS Free French cruiser of Gloire Class. 4) MLS LCT and LCI; steep cliffs in background. 5) LS Beach; LCI passing in extreme foreground; barrage balloons flying overhead. 6) LS Beach; LCTs and LSTs. 7) LS Task group; enlisted man in left foreground. 8) LS Breakwater, made up of sunken ships. 9) CU Man standing on deck of LCI in foul weather jacket and watch cap, looking over horizon. 10) MS Wounded man being put over into LCM, several enlisted men in foreground. 11) MLS Looking down on cargo deck of LCM, showing three wounded men on stretchers.

12) MS Signalman, signaling; flag bag in background. 13) CU Man picking shrapnel out of ammo ready-box. 14) CU Man examining a piece of shrapnel. 15) CU Man's hands as he examines one of holes made by shrapnel in ready box. 16) CU Port hole in conning tower of LCI, showing a piece of shrapnel laying on it. 17) MS LCVP trying to tow British landing craft that has been turned upside down; AP in background. 18) MS Breakwater at Normandy beach, made up of sunken ships, placed bow to stern. 19) LS Sunken ships, forming breakwater at Normandy beach. 20) MS LCVP broken in two; LCT, beached in background. 21) MS Free French man standing alongside wrecked LCM on beach. 22) CU Army sargeant walking guard on beach; lot of debris in background. 23) MS Wrecked landing craft. 24) CU Man, as he examines a German, 37mm gun inside a bunker. 25) LS Task Force at Normandy beach. 26) MCU Beachmaster looking thru binoculars. 27) HA LS Small slit trench, showing a lot of barbed wire around it. 28) CU Underground bunker, barbed wire in front of it. 29) HA CU Looking down into hole used for storing ammo.

30) LS Normandy beachhead. 31) MS Coast Guard corpsman and Army man walking along road; Task Force seen in background. 32) MS Looking at two German prisoners inside barbed wire enclosure. 33) MS Two men looking toward Task Force in background (SV). 34) LS Looking out toward Task Force, showing sunken ships used as a breakwater. 35) CU USCG officer working on charts. 36) CU USCG ensign inspecting ammo in ready-boxes. 37) CU USCG officer looking thru porthole toward camera (scene is framed by porthole) SV. 38) CU USCG ensign in wheelhouse of LCI; helmsman in background (SV). 39) ECU Officer looking thru binoculars, he then speaks to helmsman in background (SV).

40) HA MS USCG officer climbing ladder toward camera (SV). 41) CU USCG officer's face; he is wearing khakis. 42) MS Ensign saluting USCG Lieutenant Commander; 20mm mount in foreground. 43) CU Ensign saluting Lieutenant Commander as he relieves him of watch. 44) CU USCG ensign, in khakis, working on charts. 45) CU Hands, working on charts; plotting course. 46) LA MS Officer and enlisted man signaling with blinker. 47) LA CU Head and shoulders of USCG ensign. 48) HA MCU Ensign in khakis, and enlisted man examining 3"50 caliber ammo in ready-box. 49) CU Coast Guardsman wirebrushing rust off bits; ship is underway. 50) CU Man's hand as he is wirebrushing rust spot. 51) MS Four Coast Guardsmen scrubbing down deck; deck house of ship in background. 52) CU Feet of man as he scrubs down deck; water being sprayed into scene. 53) PAN; men scrubbing down the deck (showing only their feet) SV. 54) CU USCG enlisted man reading comic book; PAN over to other enlisted men relaxing. 55) HA CU USCG enlisted man reading magazine.
00:12:06:19 COLOR (1920 x 1080)

Jewish Brigade Story - 1940 (HD)

Jewish Brigade in action: Mortars firing; soldiers showing Star Of David on vehicle. Brig Gen Benjamin talking to Major Jackson. 25 pound gun in action. Night fighting patrol lined up and receiving instructions from officer. Funeral ceremonies for member killed in action. German prisoners captured by the Jewish Brigade.
00:09:06:02 BW (1920 x 1080)



Munich, Germany - 1945 (HD)

A U.S. motorized column moves toward Munich. A tank, laden with infantry, fords a stream which other troops cross in small boats. Infantry patrols move through fields and into the streets of Munich. Shows twisted rails and smashed locomotives in Munich's railroad yards. U.S. tanks and infantry move around a farmhouse; liberated U.S. POW's fraternize with their rescuers. Civilians fill buckets with coal from the railroad yard and loot a warehouse for food. U.S. officers confer with German military and civilian leaders. German POW's are marched through the city.
00:08:52:17 BW (1920 x 1080)

Nazi Plan, The (HD)

Reel 3:
Bin #2448. Hitler speaks at a press conference, at the christening of the von Hindenburg, on disarmament, and at a youth meeting in Thuringia. An official delivers an anti-Semitic address, Jewish businesses are marked, and books are burned. Joseph Goebbels speaks at the burning.
00:10:00:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 10:
Bin #2442. Hitler and Goring address the Seventh Party Conference (1935). Hitler speaks to Germans and greets the Hungarian prime minister.
00:07:28:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 11:
Bin #2443. Hitler addresses youths at Post Stadium, workers at the Krupp munitions plant, and delegates at the Eighth Party Congress(1936), and reviews a military parade. Shows reoccupation of the Rhineland. Ribbentrop asserts Germany's faith in Hitler.
00:10:56:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 12:
Bin #2444. Hitler lays a wreath commemorating the return of German soldiers killed in the Spanish Civil War and addresses a youth meeting and the Ninth Party Congress (1937).
00:11:10:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 15:
Bin #2445. Hitler predicts Jewish annihilation (1939) and ridicules Pres. Roosevelt's plea to avoid aggression. He meets Pres. Hacha of Czechoslovakia and arrives in Czech Bohemia after it has been occupied by German troops. He and his troops are cheered in Memel. Goring speaks at the launching of the carrier Graf Zeppelin.
00:11:10:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 16:
Bin #2446. Hitler attends the signing of the pact between Germany and Italy, reviews troops returned from the Spanish Civil War, and inspects West Wall defenses.
00:08:36:00 BW (1920 x 1080)

Reel 20:
Bin #2447. Hitler meets with Henri Petain, Pierre Laval, and Francisco Franco in France. He declares war on the U.S. in a speech at the Reichstag. Heinrich Himmler visits a youth camp.
00:10:21:00 BW (1920 x 1080)


Ploesti Refinery - Bomb Damage (HD) Ref #: BOF-35-242

Scenes from captured German film shows fire department fighting to extinguish oil tank fires at the Ploesti Roumania refinery after heavy bombing by Allied bombers in WWII, attacks by the 15th Air Force continued throughout April and May 1944. Scenes of burnt-out oil tanks. Heavy black smoke pours from buildings at refinery. VS, smoking and burning oil dumps and storage tanks. September 1944, Air Force officers examine the damage done to the Ploesti refinery. Various scenes of the complete wreckage of equipment and refinery buildings.

Scenes of damage to the Concordia Vega refinery, second largest in the Ploesti area. Scenes of bomb damage at Turnu-Severn Romania. Pan, wrecked buildings, railroad yard, round houses, locomotives in city. Long shot fires and much heavy black smoke at Brasov Romania. Various scenes of destroyed aircraft factory, railroad facilities at Brasov. Fires in buildings and railroad stations at Bucharest. German prisoners were put to work clearing and repairing bomb damage done by the 15th Air Force. Scenes of the bomb damaged university and royal palace in Bucharest.
00:12:00:00 BW (1920 x 1080)


Rhine Crossing, The - 1945 (HD)

Reel 1:
Infantry and trucks, carrying pontoon sections, move along a road in Germany. A flamethrower captured from the Germans is tested. Infantry, heavy equipment, and tanks are ferried across the river in amphitracks, barges, and pontoon rafts. German POW's are taken across in the opposite direction and marched to the rear. Engineers work on a pontoon bridge.

Reel 2:
The POW's are searched and permitted to rest on the roadside. Motorized infantry and armor move through a rubbled town. Landing craft and pontoon rafts are used to continue the ferrying operation; the bridge nears completion.
00:12:10:18 BW (1920 x 1080)

Ruins of Countances, France - 1944 (HD)

Several HSs, town shows extensive damage. MSs, priests walk in ruins. FS, MSs, Gen George S Patton standing in jeep passes through town. MSs, M-4 tanks en route to the front; troops in trucks and other vehicles along roads. ADVANCE LESSAY TO CANISY.: France: 07/28/1944: Seq: US infantrymen and armored vehicles of the 4th Armd Div on road pass sign, "Periers". MSs, CUs, prisoners rest against wall of building, guarded by MPs. CU, prisoners sleeping. VS, prisoners are marched to trucks and transported along road. MSs, French civilian jeer at German prisoners. LSs, MSs, men in vehicles enter Canisy.
00:08:01:02 BW (1920 x 1080)


Tank Mission - World War II (HD)

Shows German troops in Paris in the Spring of 1941; U.S. tank maneuvers; German fortifications on the French coast; infantry and tank units landing at Normandy; tanks outfitted with hedgecutters moving through hedgerows; tanks being painted white for winter fighting; a tank hitting a mine and exploding; a British tank outfitted with flails to detonate land mines; an explosive "snake" used for demolition work; a tank battle between U.S. and German tanks; closeups of wrecked German tanks; tanks crashing through a forest, firing a rocket barrage, and fighting in the streets of a rubbled German town; M-26 tanks moving into the front lines; Germans surrendering; and U.S. tanks rolling through Paris streets.
00:10:17:07 BW (1920 x 1080)


That Justice Be Done - 1946 (HD)

A one reel film showing the preparations which were made for the prosecution of war criminals. Incorporated are views of the atrocity victims. Opening shot, statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC. Ext CUs, Adolph Hitler addressing German people at Nuremberg rally. CU, atrocity victims; weeping relatives. US soldiers shot in back, victim's of Nazi persecution. Wagons loaded with corpses are lead through streets. Horrible scenes showing living examples of those who spent years in the German concentration camps. Short scene Vyacheslav Molotov and Anthony Eden signing Moscow document. CU, Hans Frank, minister of Nazi justice. CU, Vidkun Quisling on trial in Oslo, Norway. CU, British General Whier(?) speaking at trial of Nazis. CUs, US Justice Robert H Jackson.
00:10:36:08 BW (1920 x 1080)



U.S. Bombers First Daylight Raid On Berlin 1944 (HD)

Story 1:
Many bombers strike Berlin and return to England, some badly damaged.

Story 2:
The Gripsholm arrives in New York harbor with soldiers recently freed from German prison camps.

Story 3:
Gen. Blamey reviews Australian veterans parading in Sydney.

Story 4:
Gen. William Shedd and Eleanor Roosevelt inspect garrisons in Puerto Rico. Mrs. MacArthur christens the Australian destroyer Bataan at an Australian shipyard.

Story 5:
German prisoners in the U.S. shovel snow and work in a shoe shop.

Story 6:
Italian refugees, including children, are evacuated to southern Italy.
00:10:28:21 BW (1440 x 1080)

U.S. Troops In Stadwaldgurtel Germany - 1945 (HD)

German civilians wave flags and greet U.S. troops entering this rubbled city in the Rhineland. Columns of German POW's are marched to the rear. Shows German women Red Cross workers, U.S. infantry move along a road. Civilians loot a warehouse for food. The U.S. flag is raised over a stadium in the city.
00:06:55:01 BW (1920 x 1080)



What's My Score - Handicapped Veterans (HD)

Ref#: BOF-76-31. 2-reels. This 1946 film shows how physically handicapped veterans of WWII can be gainfully employed in private industry. Flashback to brief WWII scenes. Veteran walking with the use of crutches. Scenes of  physically handicapped veterans performing many different types of jobs. Brief scene of the exterior of the Veterans Hospital in the Bronx and the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Six disabled veterans demonstrate their abilities before industrialists and manufacturers in New York City. Shows these veterans going through their daily routines. Includes shots of veterans attending a training school of the Bulova Watch Corporation and of Gen. Omar Bradley, Administrator of the VA, delivering a graduation address at the school. Wounded warriors of WWII.
00:14:00:00 BW (1920 x 1080)


World War II Battlegrounds - 1954 (HD)

WWII battlegrounds in 1954. Front of a new modern store building in Saint Lo France. Sign: St Lo. 11 June: Ultra-modern (radical design) cathedral in Metz France. Tilt down, old cathedral, Metz. The Porte des Allemonde, part of the old walled city of Metz (1480). Street scene, houses along canal, church on canal in Metz. American soldiers look at remnants of aerial bomb, pass barbed wire entanglements, look under old fortification. Train moves in RR yard. A few cars being shunted. Two couples enter American Military Cemetery in Luxemburg. They look at grave of Gen George S Patton. LSs, crosses on graves. Statue of boar, memorial to Leopold III, CG of Belgian Forces, 1940. Road sign: Bastogne.
00:09:39:18 BW (1920 x 1080)
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