Negro mothers drive in Paris. France. <br/> <br/>A group of mothers of African-American soldiers visit France in the 1920's. No other info. Film of the women arriving at a railroad station in Paris. They walk along platform; accompanied by a few white Army officers. Next; the mothers and officers in front of building; an all black brass band plays; some Frenchmen stand watching in BG . The musicians are wearing stylish civilian suits. <br/> <br/>The mothers carry American flags and wear military decorations. Shots panning on the group of women. Then various CU's of the band- -some great shots of men playing saxophone; tuba; drums; trombone; trumpet; etc. CU African-American officer. CU pans on the crowd of women and men; now not all playing instruments; all smiling; waving enthusiastically. Group pose; w/ a little boy in front row. World War One veterans? Family.

Japanese dead on Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands during World War II

Americans win new air bases from Japan in South Pacific during World War II. Americans bombers fly towards Japanese targets in the South Pacific. Planes drop bombs on enemy positions. Explosion along the coast. Smoke rises up. Animated picture show Manus in the Admiralty Islands. American troops shell the island. U.S. cavalrymen land on the Los Negros Island and march forward. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Soldiers carry the wounded on stretcher. Dead Japanese soldiers. Soldiers move towards the airstrip on the island. Wrecked Japanese planes. Heavy equipment on the airstrip. American planes at the airstrip. Location: Los Negros Island New Guinea. Date: February 29, 1944.

B&W FILM, 1944. IMAGES OF THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS CAMPAIGN IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING WORLD WAR II. EXACT DATE OF FILMING UNKNOWN.

"NEGRO TROOPS IN ACTION" - UNITS OF 92ND DIVISION IN GROUND ACTION, ATTACKING AN ITALIAN VILLAGE. NEGRO TROOPS FIRING BAZOOKAS AND RIFLES. LS BAZOOKA SHELL HITTING BUILDING. NEGRO TROOPS ENTER VILLAGE, WITH CIVILIAN PEOPLE WATCHING. ITALIAN WOMAN SHAKES HAND OF PASSING NEGRO SOLDIER. african-american / negro history

Caribbean soldiers and families at a Caribana church service in Toronto. Flag procession out of church.

[WWI Meuse Argonne Offensive] Sept./Nov.,1918. HAS of supply convoy arriving in town. Troops marching single file along countryroad. CU of French Gen. Ballou. Negro soldiers marching in double time. Ballou walking through trench. Negro soldiers of the 325th Field Signal Corps. setting up telephone communications in strategic areas. Soldiers testing equipment. LS of soldiers crossing field. Man on stretcher being lifted into truck. Negro soldiers in facial bandages sitting at Red Cross Station. Negro soldiers looking over an artillery shell and preparing food. Soldiers receiving a hot meal. A man receiving a hair cut.

The War Department presents ""The Negro Soldier"" - AMAZING!!!! Part 1 The Negro Soldier - 1944 - Part of ""Why We Fight"" series Office of War Information through the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. The Negro Soldier, part of the Why We Fight series. WWII Anti Nazi propaganda film featuring historical timeline of Blacks fighting in American battles w historical reenactments, engravings, paintings & newsreel footage. The Negro Soldier was a 1944 propaganda film produced by the United States War Department encouraging African-Americans to join the armed forces and otherwise help the war effort. People enter Black church. (good shots of Blacks entering church from different angles) US soldier leads choir in singing hymns. Minister delivers sermon from pulpit. The pastor decides to devote his sermon on the Negro and the war. He begins with a historical introduction, talking about African-American contributions to American military endeavors. MS military service flag. American boxer Joe Louis knocks down German boxer Max Schmeling during fight. Parishioners in pews. Paratrooper Schmeling jumps during military training. Louis climbs fence & monkey bars during field exercises. Preacher discusses how stakes in war are even more important. American flag superimposed over American Constitution. Nazi flag superimposed over Hitler's book Mein Kampf. Minister reads racist passage from Mein Kampf (Blacks described as half ape). MS congregation. Historical reenactments, paintings & engravings show timeline of Black heroes who fought in major US battles & contributed to building US Plaque at Granary Burial Ground. Engraving of Crispus Attucks at Boston Massacre (1770). Monument for Attucks & Samuel Maverick at Concorde Bridge. Peter Sale's gun & painting of Sale in battle. Prince Whipple in Emmanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware 1776 painting. Reenactment of Washington's troops crossing Valley Forge 1778. Liberty Bell ringing superimposed over American flag. Men c hopping trees in forest. CUs faces & hands of Blacks & Caucasians laying bricks for building. Farmer's field. Ship firing cannon. Tyler Thompson at Lake Erie. Reenactment of Thomas Wilson at Battle of New Orleans. Shipbuilding. VS Abraham Lincoln Memorial (Washington, DC). Black homesteader couple driving covered wagon. Workers building railway track. LA train. Reenactment 9th & 10th, 24th & 25th Infantry Cavalry at Santiago, Cuba for Spanish-American War. Blue collar railroad worker black men, one saying goodbye to friends, telling them he's going to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War.

THE HOME FRONT: FDR IN NIGERIA; 99th NEGRO FIGHTER UNIT

00:00:00:00 [Memorial ceremony at Arlington Nat&apos;l Cemetery amphitheater honoring black Union soldiers of the US Civil War]---SOT singer singing &apos;Lift Every Voice &amp; Sing&apos;, Negro ...

[WWI Meuse Argonne Offensive] Sept./Nov.,1918. HAS of supply convoy arriving in town. Troops marching single file along countryroad. CU of French Gen. Ballou. Negro soldiers marching in double time. Ballou walking through trench. Negro soldiers of the 325th Field Signal Corps. setting up telephone communications in strategic areas. Soldiers testing equipment. LS of soldiers crossing field. Man on stretcher being lifted into truck. Negro soldiers in facial bandages sitting at Red Cross Station. Negro soldiers looking over an artillery shell and preparing food. Soldiers receiving a hot meal. A man receiving a hair cut.

Negro Colleges in Wartime

"The Negro Soldier"" Part 4 :war time shots in snow, desert, good weather - featuring primarily Black soldiers; Soldiers building a pontoon bridge; man at work atop a telephone pole; Black soldiers manning their anti-aircraft gun emplacement.; Combat training maneuvers: soldiers crawl across ground amid gunfire soldiers charge across stream and climb up cliff. VS war time shots from all war fronts (Europe, Africa, Pacific). Great shots of the front lines of WWII; WWII combat dramatization: Black soldier shoots anti-aircraft machine gun at Japanese Zero fighter plane, VS CU Japanese pilot - the fighter plane is hit and crashes. Poor shots; Montage of soldiers marching, most of them black, some are parade marches. - CU liberty bell ringing w V for Victory symbol.

Item title reads - MacArthur in the front line. <br/> <br/>South Pacific. <br/> <br/>Various shots of gunfire from ships laying siege on Los Negros. M/S of General Douglas MacArthur directing operations and watching. Landing craft speed towards the shore and planes fly over. Smoke rises from the island. The Americans disembark and advance under fire. After they have taken it General MacArthur inspects the site, he looks at dead Japanese soldier. Various shots as he shakes hands and congratulates some of his men.

United States Marines invade Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands during World War II

ECU OF BLACK SOLDIER TALKING ABOUT MUSIC IN VIETNAM ARMY CLUBS, MP ARRESTED BLACKS AT COUNTRY AND WESTERN CONCERT, RACIAL PREJUDICE IN MEDICAL CENTER. THE SOLDIER STATES: "THEY WANT YOU TO BE SOME KIND OF WHITE NEGRO"

A documentary titled 'Hell For Leather' shows combat activities of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division during wars. Dramatization shows a 1st Cavalry soldier seated on a step and his son touches the insignia of the U.S. 1st Cavalry division on the uniform. Reenacted footage of Cavalry unit battling Native American Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Next scene shows training of U.S. Army cavalry troops for World War 2, as they run an obstacle course and practice bayonet drills. The troops undergo combat training. They practice amphibious landings and crawling near razor wire. Animated map shows the amphibious attacks on Los Negros Island in 1944. A ship underway and soldiers on the deck of the ship. Ship guns are fired in Battle of Los Negros. The U.S. Army troops load a Landing Craft and it gets underway. They approach the shore and get off from the landing craft at the beach. The troops hold guns and advance in jungle region, firing rifles and machine guns, engaging enemy Japanese marines protecting the airfield. The U.S. Army troops firing and advancing against the Japanese. The wounded soldiers on a stretcher. The soldiers fire artillery and mortars. View of dead Japanese troops. The U.S. troops advance. U.S. General MacArthur praises a soldier. 'Bataan' written on the barrel of a gun. Location: Los Negros Islands. Date: February 1944.

An African-American soldier looks around in distress as he is taken prisoner by the Viet Cong. Transferred from film, mastered in Apple Pro Res 422 HQ and Uncompressed, available in all forms of HD and SD.

KIDS LEARN ABOUT TEXAS FRONTIER HISTORY FROM MEN PORTRAYING BUFFALO SOLDIERS, THE NICKNAME INDIANS GAVE TO BLACK CAVALRYMEN

The Admiralty Islands is a 1944 U.S. Army film giving viewers a look at operations in February and March 1944 that led to the capture and occupation of Manus and Los Negros islands in the Admiralty Islands. The film opens with a map of the Admiralty Islands and shows the movement of the U.S. military during the operations. A plane flies reconnaissance over an airstrip on Los Negros (01:12). In New Guinea, elements of the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division prepares for invading Los Negros (01:40). Men sit around and smoke cigarettes waiting to move out. Men ride in trucks to the fast destroyer ships (APDs) to take them across the Bismarck Sea to Los Negros. Soldiers climb aboard the destroyers. A sea plane follows in the wake of a ship. Lt. General Walter Krueger boards a cruiser to meet with General Douglas MacArthur. On deck, men clean and prep their guns. Men sit and read letters before the fighting begins (04:48). Troops receive a final briefing for the objectives of capturing Momote airstrip on Los Negros and Lorengau airstrip on Manus. Naval guns fire on Japanese installations on Los Negros (05:21). Planes of the 5th Air Force bomb the beach, and soldiers climb down from the destroyers and into assault boats. The troops head for Hyane Harbor. The men run ashore and meet no resistance. Soldiers take cover from sniper fire (07:02), then return fire with machine guns. The film shows the burnt jungle; assault forces move farther inland. Footage shows what appears to be dead Japanese. Soldiers move supplies and cargo off the ships and onto the island prior to invading Manus (07:50). Footage from deep in the interior of the inland shows soldiers firing machine guns and mortars, and digging foxholes (08:15). Soldiers capture the Momote airstrip, but face fire from Japanese troops (08:45). Reinforcements arrive on March 5 and 6. B-24s airdrop supplies onto the beach. Soldiers fire artillery. Footage shows corpses littered on the ground (10:26). U.S. troops carry wounded soldiers back to battalion stations. Surgeons operate on a critically injured soldier in a hospital tent. Two men carry a wounded man on a stretcher to the beach to move him to the hospital ship in the harbor. Soldiers patrol Momote air strip (11:30). Army Engineers bulldoze the air strip. General MacArthur comes ashore to survey the airstrip. On March 14 the rest of the 1st Calvary Division arrives at Los Negros. Jeeps and trucks drive off an LST (12:21). Artillery units bombard Manus across the channel. Troops wade onto the beaches of Manus Island, again meeting no resistance. MacArthur (13:14) surveys the captured Lorengau airstrip. Viewers see dead Japanese bodies as well as Japanese POWs. A patrol retrieves the gun from a killed Japanese sniper (13:46). General Krueger and Major General Innis P. Swift plan the next move (14:10). Native Manus men guide the Allied soldiers on their outriggers along a river through the island’s jungle. A U.S. soldier gives a Japanese POW a drink of water (14:59). Footage shows Japanese corpses on the ground and an Allied cemetery. A bulldozer knocks down a tree on the airstrip. B-24 or B-25 bombers fly overhead, ending the film.<p><p>The Admiralty Islands campaign (Operation Brewer) was a series of battles in the New Guinea campaign of World War II in which the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division occupied the Japanese-held Admiralty Islands. Acting on reports from airmen that there were no signs of enemy activity and the islands might have been evacuated, General Douglas MacArthur accelerated his timetable for capturing the Admiralties and ordered an immediate reconnaissance in force. The campaign began on 29 February 1944 when a force landed on Los Negros, the third-largest island in the group. By using a small, isolated beach where the Japanese had not anticipated an assault, the force achieved tactical surprise, but the islands proved to be far from unoccupied. A furious battle over the islands ensued. In the end, air superiority and command of the sea allowed the Allies to heavily reinforce their position on Los Negros. The 1st Cavalry Division could then overrun the islands. The campaign officially ended on 18 May 1944. The Allied victory completed the isolation of the major Japanese base at Rabaul that was the ultimate objective of the Allied campaigns of 1942 and 1943. A major air and naval base was developed in the Admiralty Islands that became an important launching point for the campaigns of 1944 in the Pacific.<p><p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com