- Title: VM-796
- Summary: UNITED NEWS: WWII ERA NEWSREELS. WORLD WAR TWO
- Description:00:01:54 - B-29'S FLY FROM JAPAN TO CHICAGO IN 25 HOURS ARRIVES IN CHICAGO AIRPORT AFTER 6000 MILE NON-STOP FLIGHT. B-29 BOMBER. 00:02:09 - GENERALS O'DONNEL, LAMAY OR LAME AND GILES POSE 00:02:20 - GROUP POSES IN FRONT OF PLANE WAVING. 00:02:24 - CREWMEN REFUEL PLANE 00:02:27 - GENERAL WAVES BEFORE GETTING IN BOMBER. B-29 TAKES OFF 00:02:46 - B-29 BOMBERS IN WASHINGTON AT NIGHT. CHIEF ARNOLD GREETS THE GENERALS 00:03:09 - HURRICANE SWEEPS THE EAST COAST OF AMERICA. 140 MPH WINDS TROPICAL HURRICANE. MIAMI. PALM TREES WHIPPED BY THE WIND. FLOODED STREETS. PLATE GLASS WINDOWS BLOWN OUT. MAN STRUGGLES TO GET OFF STREET. TRAFFIC LIGHTS BLOWING. MOTORIST DRIVES. 00:04:41 - DOWNED TRAFFIC LIGHT IN MIDDLE OF STREET 00:04:45 - FOOTAGE OF HURRICANE HITTING MIAMI, FLORIDA VIOLENT WINDS. RAGING FIRES BREAK OUT. 00:05:34 - AFTERMATH, HURRICANE DAMAGE. FALLEN TREES BOY PICKS UP COCONUT, DESTROYED HOUSES. FAMILY INSPECT PILE OF RUBBLE WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR HOUSE 00:06:02 - BADLY DAMAGED NAVY AIRSHIP BASE, RICHMOND, FLORIDA. WOODEN STRUCTURES SWEPT BY FIRE. 00:06:30 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN WALKS WITH HENRY LEWIS STIMSON RETIRING SECRETARY OF WAR. PEOPLE WATCH FROM BEHIND HEDGES, HEDGEROW. AS TRUMAN PINS SERVICE MEDAL ON STIMSON. 78 YEARS OLD 00:06:46 - NEW SECRETARY OF WAR PATTERSON CONGRATULATES STIMSON 00:06:51 - GENERAL STAFF OFFICERS ESCORT THE STIMSONS AS THEY DEPART WASHINGTON BY PLANE 00:07:10 - CU GENERALS MARSHALL AND ARNOLD SALUTE 00:07:18 - FORT HAMILTON, NEW YORK, SGT. JOE LOUIS RECEIVES MILITARY HONORS. HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMP IS GIVEN LEGION OF MERIT MEDAL. CU MEDAL. 00:07:34 - AFRICAN AMERICAN TROOPS MARCH IN PARADE 00:07:44 - JOE LOUIS STANDING WITH OFFICERS SALUTES AS THEY MARCH BY. SPECTATORS STAND, MEN TAKE HATS OFF IN DEFERENCE, 00:07:50 - MADAME CHIANG KAI SHEK ARRIVES HOME AFTER 14 MONTHS OF TREATMENT IN NEW YORK. SOONG MEI-LING 00:08:20 - BANQUET FOR THE AMERICAN CREW OF THE C-54 TRANSPORT THAT BROUGHT MADAM CHIANG HOME. 00:08:34 - AMERICAN CREW DECORATED BY CHIANG KAI SHEK 00:08:54 - SURRENDER OF HONG KONG, WAKE ISLAND. AERIAL OVER SHELTERED HARBOR, HONG KONG COAST 00:09:09 - BRITISH FORCES FIGHT JAPANESE SNIPERS. 00:09:24 - JAPANESE ROUNDED UP, FRISKED 00:09:35 - CHINESE CIVILIAN PRISONERS WATCH THROUGH GATE AS OCCUPATION TROOPS ENTER HING KONG CU FACES LOOKING OUT OF CIRCULAR IRON WORK 00:09:45 - JAPANESE FORMER COMMANDANT IS QUESTIONED 00:09:52 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS SIT AND WAIT 00:10:12 - ABOARD DESTROYER LEVY US GENERAL LAWSON SANDERSON ACCEPTS THE CAPITULATION OF THE JAPANESE GARRISON, DECEMBER 23, 1945 00:10:38 - JAPANESE SURRENDER WEAPONS, INCLUDING SAMURAI SWORDS TO U.S. SOLDIERS 00:11:09 - AMERICAN FLAG RAISED IN WAKE ISLAND AS JAPANESE LOOK ON AND SALUTE 00:12:34 - U. S. ARMY AIRFIELD, MECHANICS WORK ON MINIATURE PLANES. PARACHUTE CAREFULLY PACKED AND PLACED IN COMPARTMENT IN PLANE'S FUSELAGE. 00:12:50 - ASSEMBLED MINIATURE PLANES ARE PLACED ON CATAPULT LAUNCHING RAMP. 00:13:10 - MINIATURE PLANE IS LAUNCHED, NEW TARGET PLANE IS CONTROLLED BY RADIO. OPERATOR CONTROLS PLANE FROM LAND. GUNNERS SHOOT BULLETS AT PLANES 00:13:30 - WHEN HIT, THE TINY PLANE'S PARACHUTE IS RELEASED BY RADIO & MACHINE FLOATS SAFELY TO EARTH 00:13:51 - CREW PUT PARACHUTE AWAY. CU TINY PLANE WING DAMAGED 00:14:08 - AERIAL OVER CAPITOL CITY OF KOREA, U.S. SEVENTH INFANTRY DIVISION TROOPS ENTER THE CITY, CITIZENS REJOICE. SIGNS: "KOREA WELCOMES ALLIED TROOPS" 00:14:42 - INTERIOR KOREAN CAPITOL BUILDING, JAPANESE SURRENDER. AMERICAN GENERAL JOHN R. HODGE ACCEPTS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS 00:14:57 - JAPANESE FLAG IS LOWERED FROM FLAGPOLE AND UNITED STATES FLAG IS RAISED. KOREANS REJOICE 00:15:17 - JAPANESE WAR PREMIER HIDEKI TOJO ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. CU CEREMONIAL DAGGER AND SWORD. PISTOL TOJO USED IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT 00:15:36 - ENTRANCE SIGN "98TH EVACUATION HOSPITAL" EXTERIOR HOSPITAL. 00:15:48 - AMERICAN SGT. GIVES BLOOD FOR TOJO 00:16:00 - TOJO GIVEN PLASMA TRANSFUSION. KEPT ALIVE SO HE CAN BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES 00:16:24 - HORSES FOR EUROPE ROUNDED UP IN CANADA. COWBOYS ROUND UP WILD HORSES TO REPLACE HORSES IN WAR TORN AREAS OF EUROPE. GREAT SHOT OF 1000 STRONG HERD OF WILD HORSES ACROSS BARREN HILLS & HERDED INTO CORRAL, ONTO TRAINS 00:17:41 - AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO ARGENTINA BRADEN ARRIVES BACK IN WASHINGTON. 00:17:50 - ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE BRADEN POSES WITH WIFE AND DAUGHTER BESIDE PLANE 00:17:53 - BRADEN SPEAKS, SOF. SAYS ARGENTINIANS ARE DEMOCRATIC AND SINCERELY OUR FRIENDS 00:18:05 - MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA 00:18:09 - ARGENTINE PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST DICTATOR RULE, BUENOS AIRES. ANTI-PERON DEMONSTRATION, 1945 00:18:48 - COL. PERON AND PRESIDENT FARREL ?SP EMBRACE, WATCH MILITARY PARADE FROM BALCONY. GOOSE STEPPING ARGENTINIAN ARMY 00:19:09 - BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINIANS DEMONSTRATION 00:19:21 - U. S. VETERANS RETURN HOME. NEW YORK HARBOR. LUXURY LINER EUROPA, TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP ARRIVES AT DUSK, NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE AT DUSK THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS CHEER FROM SHIP. NAZI FLAG HANGS FROM CAPTURED GERMAN SHIP. BANNER HANGING READS HIYA BUTCH 00:19:57 - FEDERAL MARSHALL TAPES OFFICIAL NOTICE ON CAPTURED GERMAN SHIP. CU SEAL. 00:20:11 - LT. COL. DEVEREAUX GREETED BY HIS 11 YEAR OLD SON AFTER NEARLY 4 YEARS OF PRISON ON WAKE ISLAND HEROIC HOMECOMING. WOMEN KISS HIM. 00:20:32 - COL. DEVEREAUX RECEIVES NAVY CROSS FROM UNDER-SECRETARY OF NAVY, GATES 00:20:46 - SAN FRANSCICO AIRPORT FILLED WITH FAMILY MEMBERS RELATIVES OF RETURNING SERVICEMEN. WOMEN ANXIOUSLY AWAIT GLIMPSES OF LOVED ONES. WOMAN HOLDS HANDKERCHIEF UP TO HER NOSE TEARS OF JOY. TEARFUL REUNIONS. HAPPY REUNIONS. SOLDIERS COMING HOME. HOMECOMING 00:23:15 - SAILING SHIP "DANMARK" GOES HOME AGAIN. THREE MASTED DANISH SHIP, USED BY THE U.S. COAST GUARD DURING WAR-YEARS RETURNED TO HER DANISH CREW. 00:23:29 - AMERICAN FLAG LOWERED, DANISH FLAG RAISED 00:23:42 - SQUARE RIGGER CREW HOISTS SAILS, SHIP SETS SAIL 00:24:14 - MARINES AND SAILORS WIN HIGHEST AWARD. LT. COL. BOYINGTON RECEIVES CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR 00:24:39 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN DECORATES SGT. WHO LOST BOTH HANDS ON IWO JIMA, CU HOOK HANDS. 00:24:53 - TRUMAN DECORATES A SAILOR WHO IN LAND FIGHTING OFFERED HIS LIFE TO SAVE MARINE COMRADES 00:25:03 - 17 YEAR OLD PRIVATE WHO THREW HIMSELF ON AN EXPLODING GRENADE TO SAVE HIS FELLOW MEN IS DECORATED BY TRUMAN 00:25:10 - NAVY AND ARMY CHIEFS OF STAFF CONGRATULATE DECORATED WAR HEROS. 00:25:17 - ALLIED UNDERSEA DEMOLITION TEAMS AIDED INVASION. BRITISH FROGMEN IN INFLATABLE RAFT SUDDENLY DIVE INTO THE WATER. CRASH DIVE IN TRAINING MANEUVER USING SELF CONTAINED OXYGEN TANKS & RUBBER FROG'S FEET TO SWIM THROUGH OTHERWISE IMPASSABLE WATERS TO PREPARE FOR DEMOLITION WORK. 00:26:03 - AMERICAN UNDERWATER DEMOLITION TEAM PREPARE UNDERWATER EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, MEN SPILL OUT OF BOAT INTO RUBBER RAFT. EXPLOSIVES THROWN OVERBOARD. BALIKPAPON, BORNEO. WHEN JOB IS DONE MEN ARE SWIFTLY PICKED UP. 00:27:42 - SECRETARY BYRNES REPORTS ON LONDON MEETING, SOF. COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINSTERS CLOSED IN STALEMATE 00:28:47 - BELSEN DEATH CAMP LEADERS MEET JUSTICE. BRITISH MILITARY TRIBUNAL. NAZI WAR CRIMINALS. JOSEPH KRAMER, BELSEN'S COMMANDANT. BERGEN-BELSEN. NAZI WOMEN ALSO TRIED. THE ACCUSED WEAR IDENTIFYING NUMBERS. 26 MEN, 19 WOMEN. FRITZ KLEIN. 00:29:45 - BERGEN-BELSON NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP, BODIES EVERYWHERE 00:29:56 - ADMIRAL NIMITZ IS HAILED IN WASHINGTON. HUGE AMERICAN FLAG AND BANNER "WELCOME NIMITZ" HANG CHESTER W. NIMITZ RECEIVES HERO'S WELCOME PARADE US NAVAL ACADEMY MIDSHIPMEN LEAD A COLUMN OF 5000 MARCHING NAVY PERSONNEL. MARINES PAY TRIBUTE TO NIMITZ. VETERANS OF IWO JIMA AND TARAWA ISLAND CAMPAIGNS IN PARADE. WOMEN MARINES. COAST GUARD TRAINED PATROL DOGS MARCH WITH COAST GUARD. 00:31:48 - NAVAL AIRCRAFT FLY OVERHEAD. 00:31:58 - REPLICA OF THE USS MISSOURI IS THE REVIEWING STAND. 00:32:08 - CITIZENS CHEER AS NIMITZ ARRIVES AT THE FOOT OF WASHINGTON MONUMENT. 00:32:22 - WWII VETERANS PASS NIMITZ ON REVIEWING STAND MADE TO LOOK LIKE SHIP JAPANESE SURRENDER TOOK PLACE 00:34:08 - USS ORISKANY, FIRST POSTWAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER IS LAUNCHED. NEW YORK NAVY YARD. CHRISTENED, PEOPLE WATCH AS SHIP SLIDES DOWN THE WAYS INTO THE WATER. 00:34:45 - USS TICONDEROGA RETURNS FROM THE PACIFIC. AIR CRAFT CARRIER RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO. AIR SHIP DIRIGIBLE FLIES OVERHEAD. 00:35:10 - HEROS WELCOME AS SAILORS DISEMBARK. TEARFUL REUNIONS. 00:35:36 - EXTERIOR WHITE HOUSE, FOUNTAINS. 00:35:40 - PRESIDENT RIOS OF CHILE VISITS PRESIDENT TRUMAN SECRETARY BYRNES PRESENT. NORTH PORTICO OF THE WHITE HOUSE. 00:36:11 - BIG CATCH OF SALMON BEATS 1944 RECORD. BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. SALMON FLEET SETS OUT 00:36:24 - NETS 3/4 MILE LONG DROPPED AROUND BIG SCHOOL OF SALMON. CU SALMON IN NETS. FISHERMEN HAULING IN NETS. SALMON IN HUGE BASKET NET LOADED INTO SHIP'S HOLD 00:37:00 - AT CANNERY, SALMON ARE CLEANED, COOKED, PACKED. MASS PRODUCTION METHODS. 00:37:29 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN DEDICATES NEW KENTUCKY DAM PHOTO OP, WITH KID ON HIS KNEE. 00:37:40 - GREAT DAM, GILBERTSVILLE, KENTUCKY. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY. TRUMAN WITH OTHERS POSE FOR PHOTO OPS. 00:38:06 - US NAVAL ACADEMY AT ANNAPOLIS MARKS 100TH YEAR MIDSHIPMEN MARCH TO MEMORIAL SERVICE. 00:38:34 - OUTDOOR CEREMONY COMMEMORATING THE FOUNDING OF THE ACADEMY. UNIT OF MIDSHIPMEN WEAR ORIGINAL 1845 UNIFORMS 00:38:50 - WEST POINT CADETS PRESENT STEERING WHEEL OF THE BATTLESHIP MAINE. GESTURE OF COMRADESHIP 00:39:04 - FORMAL REVIEW. UNIFORMS FROM PREVIOUS GENERATIONS OF MIDSHIPMEN ARE WORN 00:39:40 - TOP NAZIS AWAIT TRIBUNAL AT NUREMBERG. BOMBED OUT CITY OF NUREMBERG. 00:39:53 - NUREMBERG COURT BUILDING. GERMAN PRISONERS REBUILD COURTROOM. INSTALL BROADCASTING BOOTHS AND PRESS FACILITIES 00:40:13 - ROBERT H. JACKSON, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE US SUPREME COURT WITH WIFE 00:40:20 - COVERED CORRIDOR FROM JAIL TO COURTROOM ERECTED SOLDIER WALKS TO DOOR "JUGENDARRES", ON OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR, SOLDIERS LOOKS OUT OF SMALL PEEPHOLE, OPENS DOOR. SHOWS CREDENTIALS BEFORE BEFORE PASSING. 00:40:43 - HS PRISONERS WALKING IN PRISON YARD. 00:40:52 - INTERIOR, HEAVY NETS GUARD AGAINST DEATH LEAPS GUARD CHECKS JAIL CELLS. CU LOOKING INTO CELLS MARKED H. GOERING. VON RIBBONTROP. ARTHUR SEYSS INQUART. KARL DOENITZ. FRANZ VON PAPAN 00:41:16 - CU FOOD HANDED THROUGH TO PRISONER 00:42:30 - SIGN READS "PWE 29 A DOCHAU" WAR CRIMES BRANCH. FEET WALKING INTO BUILDING 00:42:42 - SS LEADER FRANZ STRAUSSER ON TRIAL FOR MURDER OF AMERICAN BOMBER CREW SHOT DOWN IN YUGOSLAVIA PLEA OF NOT GUILTY. WITNESS POINTS AT STAUSSER WITNESS ACCOUNT THROUGH INTERPRETER. 00:44:04 - STRAUSSER SWORN IN. SAYS AIRMEN WERE TRYING TO ESCAPE. TESTIMONY THROUGH INTERPRETER. AVOIDS DIRECT ANSWERING. 00:45:30 - JUDGES RETURN, GIVE DECISION. COMMISSION FINDS STRAUSSER GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES. SENTENCED TO HANG BY THE NECK UNTIL DEAD 00:46:20 - GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE IN BRUSSELS RECEIVES HEROS WELCOME, OVATION. FRANCO-BELGIAN FRIENDSHIP. SALUTES BELGIANS FROM BALCONY. 00:46:52 - PIERRE LAVAL CONDEMNED TO DEATH. PALACE OF JUSTICE, PARIS, FRANCE. TREASON TRIAL. CROWDED COURTROOM. 00:47:23 - LAVAL LOSES CONTROL, HURLS FIERY INSULTS AT THE COURT. LAVAL ORDERED BACK TO HIS CELL. LATER, FOUND GUILTY OF PLOTTING AGAINST THE STATE AND OF COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY & EXECUTED FOR TREASON. 00:48:18 - SUBMARINE OPERATIONS REVEALED. US SUBMARINE IN PACIFIC WATERS HUNTING FOR THE ENEMY, JAPANESE SHIP PICKED UP BY RADAR SIGNALS 00:48:34 - SUBMARINE SLIDES UNDER WATER. 00:48:40 - COMMANDER LOOKS THROUGH PERISCOPE AT OCEAN'S SURFACE. LARGE JAPANESE MERCHANT SHIP IS FOUND, COMMANDER ATTACHES SPECIAL MOVIE CAMERA TO PERISCOPE TO RECORD ACTION. TORPEDO RELEASED. TWO JAPANESE SAILORS ARE SEEN ON SINKING SHIP. 00:49:21 - COMMANDER OF ANOTHER SUBMARINE LOOKS THROUGH PERISCOPE, FIRE TORPEDOS AT ENEMY SHIP. POV THROUGH PERISCOPE 00:49:52 - SUBMARINE COMES UP FOR SURFACE ATTACK. CREW MANS GUNS AT JAPANESE FISHING SMACK. 00:50:18 - POV THROUGH PERISCOPE, SUBMARINE IN NAGASAKI HARBOR. COAL SHIP MOORED TO ITS DOCK IS TORPEDOED. THOUGH DANGEROUS, COMMANDER LEAVES PERISCOPE UP TO RECORD DAMAGE AND PANIC OF JAPANESE GUN CREW 00:51:05 - POV ON SUBMARINE RACING AWAY 00:51:20 - IN WASHINGTON, ABOARD SUBMARINE, OFFICERS RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATIONS FROM SECRETARY OF THE NAVY FORRESTAL. CU DECORATED CAPTAIN 00:51:49 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-796