American newsreels of World War II (1942-1945)

A panorama of a part of London in 1942. Participants in a gala banquet in honor of the 60th birthday of US President Roosevelt dance in a hall in London on January 30, 1942. Invited American congressmen are at tables.

A festive cake with burning candles.

A congratulatory inscription on the cake.

Guests cut the cake.

A portrait of Roosevelt in the banquet hall.

Fighting in France in January 1945, British mortarmen open fire.

Wounded German soldiers go to surrender.

Faces of captured German soldiers.

The remains of a cafe building in the town of Banda, Belgium in January 1945. The corpses of Banda residents, tortured by the German occupiers during the "Banda massacre" in December 1944. The corpses of civilians, carried out into the street by the British military, before the transfer of the bodies to relatives (panorama).

American troops on the street of a Sicilian town after landing on the island in July 1943. An American military transport plane at an airfield in North Africa, with wounded lying in the shade beneath its wings.

Loading the wounded onto the plane.

Placing stretchers with the wounded inside the plane.

US military transport planes at an airfield, one of the planes begins its takeoff run.

American planes fly over the Mediterranean Sea.

American bombers before taking off from an airfield in North Africa to bomb Rome in 1943. Crew members during a pre-flight meeting.

Objects prohibited from bombing are marked with circles and crosses on the map.

A pilot approaches the plane and loads a bag into the hatch.

American bombers in flight.

Pilots in the cockpit, a gunner at the machine gun.

Dropping bombs on Rome.

A view of a Roman quarter attacked by aircraft (from above).

The pilot at the controls.

American bombers approach Rome.

View of Roosevelt's villa and its surroundings in Casablanca (top).

American soldiers on a street in Casablanca during telegraph line repairs.

Panorama of a part of Casablanca.

The US Army Color Platoon.

The guard enters the villa grounds.

The driver's documents are checked upon entering the grounds of the presidential villa.

A unit of the US Army Honor Guard, formed to meet the participants of the Allied Conference in Casablanca in January 1943. Roosevelt, sitting in a jeep during an inspection, tours the formation of American troops stationed in Morocco.

Roosevelt's jeep, accompanied by guards, passes a formation of US armored units.

A parade of infantry and tank units of the US Army, Roosevelt, sitting in a jeep, receives the parade.

Roosevelt's villa in Casablanca.

An American soldier with a rifle over his shoulder patrols the grounds of the villa.

Roosevelt F.D. Churchill and Winston Churchill talk while sitting in armchairs on the lawn in front of the villa during the Casablanca Conference, with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff standing behind them.

American Air Force air patrol overhead.

A sentry stands guard on the villa grounds.

A meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Chief of the Air Staff of the British Air Force Charles Portal, British Admiral Dudley Pound, General Alan Brooke, and American General George Marshall during the meeting.

Entrance to the American military cemetery in Morocco.

A sentry at the entrance to the cemetery.

Laying a wreath at the main memorial of the cemetery.

The US flag on the flagpole at the main memorial.

French General Henri Giraud and President Roosevelt F.D. during a meeting in Casablanca.

The faces of Giraud and Roosevelt.

General Giraud, Roosevelt F.D., General de Gaulle, and Churchill sit in armchairs on the lawn of the presidential villa in Casablanca.

Giraud and de Gaulle rise, shake hands, and return to their seats next to Roosevelt and Churchill.

A view of a partial airplane wing with engine.

The pilots in the cockpit are checking the flight route on a map.

American troops at an airfield in Liberia in 1943. Roosevelt, sitting in a jeep, tours the troops lined up at the airfield.

Roosevelt reviews the parade of American troops entering Liberia.

The troops march in parade formation across the airfield.

A pilot in the cockpit.

Roosevelt during a meeting with Brazilian President Vargas on the deck of a warship on January 28, 1943. Roosevelt and Churchill converse while sitting in armchairs on the lawn during a meeting in Casablanca.

US President F.D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister W. Churchill answer journalists' questions on the lawn in front of the villa about the work of the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. Views of the press conference, cameramen are filming.

Journalists take down Roosevelt's speech in shorthand in notepads.

Roosevelt answers journalists' questions.

General Giraud, F.D. Roosevelt, General de Gaulle, and Churchill sit in chairs on the lawn of the presidential villa in Casablanca.

Giraud and de Gaulle shake hands and sit in chairs next to Roosevelt and Churchill.

Giraud, de Gaulle, and Churchill say goodbye to Roosevelt.

A parade of American troops at an airfield in Liberia on January 28, 1943. F.D. Roosevelt and Liberian President Edwin James Barkley review the parade from a jeep as American troops march in formation across the airfield.

Roosevelt shakes hands with American officers at the conclusion of the parade.

An American honor guard lines the road in honor of President Roosevelt on his way to the villa in Casablanca.

General Marshall stands next to an admiral and a decorated American serviceman.

The face of a decorated American Ranger.

Pinning a medal on the jacket of a decorated Ranger.

The face of a decorated Ranger in profile.

American sentries stand guard on the grounds of the presidential villa in Morocco.

General Giraud and President Roosevelt converse in chairs against the wall of the villa during the Casablanca Conference.

Entrance to the American military cemetery in Morocco, with a sentry at the entrance.

A wreath lies on one of the graves.

Roosevelt and Churchill sit on the lawn of the villa among members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Roosevelt, during his stay in Liberia in January 1943, sits in a jeep awaiting departure; generals and the driver climb into the jeep.

Roosevelt, sitting in the jeep, inspects the parade formation of American troops.

Roosevelt, sitting in the jeep, talks with a Liberian soldier.

Roosevelt and Churchill talk, sitting in armchairs on the lawn in front of the villa in Casablanca.

The crew in the cockpit of the presidential plane clarify the flight route on a map.

The radio operator maintains contact.

The navigator plots a course on a map.

The first officer at the controls checks the navigation equipment.

The second officer in the cockpit.

A steward pours coffee into a paper cup.

One of the plane's engines.

American troops lined up for the parade in honor of Roosevelt's arrival in Morocco (panorama).

Views of the grounds of the presidential villa in Casablanca (from above).

General Giraud and President Roosevelt converse in armchairs on the lawn of the villa during the Casablanca Conference, as photographers and cameramen film.

American soldiers stand by tents as President Roosevelt's jeep passes (panorama).

A meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George Marshall during the meeting.

A military parade on the grounds of the presidential villa in Casablanca.

Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff salute the passing troops.