- Title: VM-825
- Summary: UNITED NEWS:
- Description:00:01:45 - U. S. NAVY CARRIER PLANE SWEEP CHINA SEA MONTAGE HEAVY SEAS POUND WARSHIPS IN CHINA SEA. HEAVY WINDS SWEEPS ACROSS DECK OF CARRIER AS PLANE READIES FOR TAKE-OFF. 00:02:28 - AERIAL JAPANESE SHIPS ARE HIT BY GUNFIRE & BOMBS, AS SEEN FROM ATTACKING PLANES' CAMERAS. CU PLANES RETURN TO CARRIER. CU CAMERA CATCHERS PLANE AS TURNS ON ITS NOSE WHILE LANDING ON CARRIER DECK. CARRIER CREW HELP INJURED PILOT OUT OF PLANE. 00:03:46 - AERIAL JAPANESE SHIPS UNDER ATTACK OFF SAIGON, VIETNAM. BOMB SCORES DIRECT HIT. SAIGON OIL FIELDS BURN. 00:04:31 - YALTA, CRIMEA SUMMIT MEETING. COAST OF CRIMEA OFF BLACK SEA NEAR YALTA. LABADIA CASTLE, ONCE SUMMER PALACE OF CZAR NICHOLAS II. RUSSIAN FEMALE SOLDIER GUARDS IN SNOW OUTSIDE. 00:05:26 - RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ROLL OUT COMMUNICATIONS LINES FOR PALACE, FROM BEHIND TRUCK. RUSSIAN SOLDIER CLIMBS TELEPHONE POLE. RUSSIAN, U.S., BRITISH FLAGS FLY TOGETHER. 00:05:43 - RUSSIAN OFFICIALS, INCLUDING MOLOTOV, VISHINSKY WAIT ARRIVAL OF U.S. DELEGATION. SOVIET ARMY BAND FOLLOWED BY SOVIET HONOR GUARD PARADE AT AIRPORT. PLANE ARRIVES WITH SIR ANTHONY EDEN, EDWARD STETTINIUS, HARRY HOPKINS, AVERELL HARRIMAN, U. S. AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA, ARE MET BY MOLOTOV ET AL. 00:06:47 - WINSTON CHURCHILL EXITS PLANE PUFFING ON CIGAR IS GREETED BY MOLOTOV. 00:07:18 - FRAIL-LOOKING FDR ARRIVES & IS GREETED BY RUSSIANS, HONOR GUARD. CHURCHILL & MOLOTOV WALK & CHAT ALONGSIDE FDR WHO SITS IN SLOW-DRIVING JEEP. 00:08:17 - CHURCHILL AND EDEN ARRIVE AT CASTLE ARE GREETED BY FDR'S DAUGHTER MRS. ANNA BOTTINGER. 00:08:36 - JOSEF STALIN ARRIVES BY LIMO. SITS AT ROUND TABLE ACROSS FROM FDR AND CHURCHILL. STETTINIUS, GENERAL MARSHALL AND OTHERS ARE THERE. 00:09:46 - SARAH OLIVER, MRS. BOTTINGER AND CATHERINE HARRIMAN POSE OUTSIDE MEETING ROOM. CHURCHILL, STALIN AND FDR POSE FOR HISTORY MAKING PHOTOS. 00:11:38 - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MEETS MIDDLE EAST LEADERS. SAILORS ON CRUISER IN SUEZ CANAL, EGYPT, STAND ALONG SHIP'S RAIL AND SALUTE AS DESTROYER CARRYING SAUDI ARABIA'S KING SAUD APPROACHES ALONGSIDE. 00:12:19 - KING SAUD SITS ON THRONE ON SHIPS DECK SURROUNDED BY ARAB BODYGUARDS. COLORFULLY ROBED ARABS SIT AND POSE. ARAB POURS DRINK FROM PITCHER FOR ANOTHER ARAB AND BOTH DRINK. 00:13:04 - THE 70 YEAR OLD SAUD CROSSES PLANK TO CRUISER TO MEET FDR. ROOSEVELT AND KING DISCUSS MUTUAL PROBLEMS. AMERICAN INTERPRETER IS THERE. 00:13:47 - EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE IS WELCOMED ABORD CRUISER BY NAVAL HONOR GUARD. FDR WAVES HIS HAT FROM HIS CHAIR AS SELASSIE APPROACHES. FDR'S DAUGHTER IS THERE. 00:14:36 - EGYPT'S KING FAROUK BOARDS SHIP, IS MET BY HONOR GUARD. FAROUK IS GREETED BY FDR AND HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. BOTTINGER. FAROUK AND FDR LAUGH AND CHAT. FAROUK LIGHT FDR'S CIGARETTE. 00:15:40 - LIBERATION OF MANILA. MONTAGE MEN & TANKS OF U.S. 8TH ARMY BATTLE JAPANESE ON ROAD TO MANILA 00:16:36 - GI FIRES BAZOOKA INTO JAP POSITION. GI FIRES RIFLE GRENADE INTO JUNGLE. 00:16:58 - BUILDING NEARBY BLOWS UP IN BRIGHT FLASH. U.S. UNIT CROSS BRIDGE UNDER HEAVY FIRE. 00:17:22 - WRECKED ENEMY PLANES AND HANGAR SHOW FURY OF U.S. ATTACK. SOLDIERS DIG UP BOMBS ON AIRSTRIP, BURIED AS MINES BY RETREATING JAPANESE. TROOPS ON ROADS ARE MET BY JOYOUS FILIPINOS. GROUP OF NATIVE GUERRILLA SOLDIERS MARCH DOWN ROAD. 00:17:51 - WAVING CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF MANILA GREET GIS AS THEY MARCH IN. YOUNG WOMEN HAND BOTTLES OF BEER TO THE AMERICANS. LARGE CHURCH BELL IS RUNG. 00:18:16 - THREE GI DRINKING BEER FROM BOTTLES. GIS POUR BEER INTO GLASSES FROM HELMETS. GIS DRINK BEER OUT OF THEIR HELMETS. 00:18:31 - SOLDIERS BATTLE HOUSE-TO-HOUSE INSIDE MANILA. HUGE FIRES SET BY RETREATING JAPANESE HINDER ADVANCE AS CITY IS IN FLAMES. MONTAGE FIERCE FIRES INUNDATE BUILDINGS. PEOPLE FLEE WITH BELONGINGS. PEOPLE FILL THE STREETS. 00:19:24 - GI HANDS FOOD TO HUNGRY CHILDREN. GRAPHIC SCENE OF DEAD BODIES OF MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED BY RETREATING JAPANESE LITTER THE STREETS. WOMAN HOLDS HER NOSE AND MOUTH AS SHE WALKS AWAY FROM SCENE. 00:19:45 - FIRE AND SMOKE RISE FROM BURNING CITY IN DISTANCE. MAN RUNS THROUGH SMOKE FILLED STREET IN SHORTS AND UNDERSHIRT. MONTAGE GIS BATTLE IN THE STREETS LITTERED WITH JAPANESE DEAD. 00:20:55 - NATIVES WHO COLLABORATED WITH ENEMY STAND AGAINST WALL WITH HANDS UP. GENERAL MACARTHUR ENTERS CITY IS FOLLOWED BY CROWD. 00:21:10 - U.S. SENDS RAW MATERIALS TO FRANCE JEAN MONNET, REPRESENTING FRANCE, CONFERS WITH WILL CLAYTON, U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE. MONNET READS FROM PREPARED SPEECH AS CLAYTON LISTENS. 00:22:12 - AS MONNET SPEAKS, FRENCH SOLDIERS MARCHING, FRENCH WORKERS IN ASSEMBLY PLANTS, RAILROAD TRAINS AT FRENCH RAIL YARD. ARMS BEING PRODUCED IN PLANT. 00:22:25 - CLAYTON READS WRITTEN RESPONSE. STOCK PILES OF TANKS AND OTHER ARMS ARE SEEN. CARGO BEING UNLOADED FROM FREIGHTERS. 00:24:10 - NEW FIGHTER PLANE FLIES "TAIL FIRST". ST-55 PLANE WITH MOTOR AND PROPELLER II REAR AND RUDDER IN FRONT IS TEST FLOWN. ODD-LOOKING PLANE TAKES OFF. 00:24:52 - 3,700 CIVILIANS FREED FROM MANILA PRISON. MACARTHUR, IN SURPRISED VISIT, DRIVES UP TO SANTA PUMA PRISON IN MANILA, FREES THE MOSTLY BRITISH AND AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN PRISONERS. 00:25:24 - JAPANESE FIRE ARTILLERY INTO BUILDING IN LAST DITCH EFFORT. GI ARTILLERY CREWS ANSWER BACK. MEN, WOMEN INTERNEES GATHER FOR EVACUATION BACK HOME. 00:25:45 - PITIFULLY UNDER-NOURISHED MEN CHOP AND SAW WOOD TO COOK THEIR NEW ARMY RATIONS. WOMAN DRINKS FROM JAR, ANOTHER WOMAN TAKES LOG DRAG ON CIGARETTE, SMILES. WOMAN INTERNEE READS LETTER FROM HOME GIVEN TO HER BY RED CROSS WORKER. WOMEN SOB AS THEY READ LETTERS. 00:26:23 - LIBERATED PRISONERS CHEER MACARTHUR AS HE LEAVES IN CAR. AMERICAN FLAG IS HUNG FROM BALCONY. 00:26:37 - INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE OPENS IN MEXICO. SECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS ARRIVES IN MEXICO CITY AIRPORT, IS MET BY NELSON ROCKEFELLER ON GROUND. CROWD. 00:27:39 - MEXICO PRESIDENT CAMACHO ARRIVES AT PALACE FOR MEETING IN LIMO. DELEGATES APPLAUD AS CAMACHO AS HE TAKES SEAT. 00:28:02 - THROUGH THE SIEGFRIED LINE TO THE RHINE. FRENCH TROOPS IN STIFF STREET FIGHTING IN KOLMAR. FRENCH SOLDIERS CARRY WOUNDED IN STRETCHERS, PASSING DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER ON GROUND. WOUNDED ARE LOADED INTO AMBULANCES DRIVEN BY WOMEN RED CROSS WORKERS. 00:28:49 - FIRST FRENCH TANK ENTERS KOLMAR, ARE GREETED BY WAVING HAPPY WOMEN. 00:29:09 - AMERICAN TROOPS WITH WHITE CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORMS WALK ON SNOWY ROAD AS HEAVY SNOW FALLS. GI TRIES TO MOVE IN WAIST DEEP SNOW DRIFT. MULES ARE USED TO MOVE SUPPLIES ON SNOW-BOUND ROUGH TERRAIN. 00:29:29 - GI AND MULE SLIDE DOWN HILL IN WAIST-DEEP SNOW. MORTAR CREWS ON SIDE OF ROAD FIRE SHELLS INTO ENEMY POSITIONS AS SOLDIERS PASS ON ROAD. 00:29:49 - COMMUNICATION OFFICERS OF ARTILLERY POSITION IN UNDERGROUND HEADQUARTERS GET CALLS FOR ARTILLERY STRIKES. CU GI SHOUTS, "FIRE" AND HEAVY ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT COMMENCES. 00:30:15 - MONTAGE GERMAN PRISONERS COME IN WITH HANDS UP. SOME DRAG THEIR WOUNDED ON SLEDS. GERMAN CROSSES MARK GRAVES OF NAZI SOLDIERS. GERMAN HELMET ON CROSS AT CEMETERY. 00:30:34 - ALLIED TANKS AND TROOPS PASS THROUGH CONCRETE "DRAGON TEETH" OF SIEGFRIED LINE. 00:30:40 - PRESIDENT FDR REPORTS ON YALTA, CRIMEA MEETING FDR MOTORCADE RIDES IN FRONT OF CAPITAL BUILDINGS IN WASHINGTON. 00:30:52 - CONGRESS MEETS TO HEAR FDR. SEATED IN WELL OF HOUSE, FDR TELLS OF HIS MEETING WITH STALIN AND CHURCHILL. CONGRESSMEN LISTEN INTENTLY. FDR TELLS OF PURPOSE OF YALTA MEETING. 00:34:47 - U.S. TROOPS RETURN TO CORREGIDOR. MAP SHOWS CORREGIDOR IN PHILIPPINES ISLANDS. AERIAL VIEW OF ISLAND OF CORREGIDOR. JAPANESE FILM SHOW JAPANESE SOLDIERS STANDING AND WAVING ON TOP BIG AMERICAN CANNON AFTER THEIR CAPTURE OF CORREGIDOR. 00:35:14 - CAPTURED AMERICAN DEFENDERS OF CORREGIDOR WITH HANDS UP, ARE GUARDED BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS. GENERAL JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT SURRENDERS TO BALD HEADED JAP GENERAL 00:35:53 - JAPANESE TROOPS TAKE DOWN AMERICAN FLAG AND RAISE JAPANESE FLAG. 00:36:00 - PAN OF U.S. WARPLANES, EQUIPMENT & SOLDIERS ON AIRFIELD ON MINDORO ISLAND PREPARE FOR ASSAULT ON NEARBY CORREGIDOR. SHIRTLESS GIS CLEAN THEIR RIFLES AND EQUIPMENT. PARATROOPER IS HELPED ON WITH HIS CHUTE. PARATROOPS BOARD CARGO PLANES. 00:36:51 - PARATROOPER IN PLANE ADJUSTS HIS HELMET STRAP AS HE PUFFS ON CIGAR. AERIAL CORREGIDOR HILLS AS SEEN FROM PLANE. PARATROOPS JUMP. 00:37:31 - PARATROOPS JUMPING FROM PLANE & CORREGIDOR ARMY BARRACKS BELOW AS SEEN FROM PLANE FLYING ABOVE. MONTAGE PARATROOPS HITTING GROUND HARD, RAPIDLY ASSEMBLE. NAVY STARTS BOMBARDMENT. AERIAL FIGHTER PLANES STRAFING 00:39:04 - LANDING CRAFT HEAD FOR SHORE. LAND ON BEACHES MEET PARATROOPS, BOTH MOVE FORWARD, RETAKE ISLAND. 00:40:07 - WOUNDED WEST FRONT VETERANS COME HOME SOLDIERS, SOME WITH CASTS ON ARMS WAVE TO STATUE OF LIBERTY AS TROOPSHIP ENTERS NEW YORK HARBOR. 00:40:34 - GI WITH CAST ON ARM KNEELS AND KISSES GROUND AFTER WALKING OFF SHIP. ANOTHER CRAWLS ON ALL FOURS BEFORE KISSING GROUND. RED CROSS WORKERS HAND COFFEE AND DONUTS TO GIS LOOKING OUT OF BUS WINDOWS. MONTAGE MEN ARE TAKEN OFF SHIP IN STRETCHERS PLACED IN AMBULANCES. 00:41:14 - CHEFS COOK BEEFSTEAKS ON GRILL AT HOSPITAL. NURSE SERVES TRAY WITH BEEFSTEAKS AND MILK TO SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL BED. SOLDIER TAKE BITE OF BEEFSTEAK. 00:41:28 - TURKEY, EGYPT JOIN UNITED NATIONS. AS UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE WATCHES, TURKISH OFFICIAL SIGNS PACT, AFTERWARD THE PAPERS ARE HANDED TO EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR WHO SIGNS. 00:42:15 - GREATEST ONE-DAY BOMB ASSAULT ON GERMANY. BOMBERS TRAIL VAPORS AS THEY FLY TO GERMAN TARGETS OVER LUDWIGSTLUST AND NUREMBERG. AERIAL HUGE CLUSTERS OF EXPLOSIONS ARE SEEN OVER NAZI TARGETS AS BOMBS HIT. MONTAGE BOMBS FALL ONTO NUREMBERG. 00:42:56 - AERIAL ATTACKING PLANE CAMERAS SHOW NAZI PLANES ON GROUND BEING STRAFED. SOME OF THEM EXPLODE. SMOKE RISES FROM DOZENS OF PLANES ON GROUND AFTER RAID. 00:43:26 - AERIAL BOMBS FALL ON LUNEBURG AND EULZEN RAILROAD YARDS. HUGE EXPLOSIONS BELOW OBLITERATE AREA. 00:45:25 - MARINES RAISE FLAG OVER IWO JIMA. MARINES OF 5TH DIVISION ARTILLERY CREW, SURROUNDED WITH EMPTY SHELL CASINGS, FIRE ON MOUNT SURIBACHI IN THE DISTANCE. MONTAGE SHELL EXPLODES ON SUMMIT OF MOUNTAIN. 00:46:20 - WARSHIPS FIRE DEVASTATING BOMBARD AT MOUNTAIN. MONTAGE HUGE EXPLOSIONS FROM BOMBARDMENT ARE SEEN ON SHORE. 00:46:46 - MARINES CRAWL UP MOUNT SURIBACHI ON STOMACHS. DIG FOX HOLES AS THEY CLIMB. MEDIC LYING ON STOMACH, ATTENDS TO WOUNDED MARINE TWO MARINES ASSISTING WOUNDED TO WALK ARE SILHOUETTED ON HILL AS THEY SIT HIM ON RIFLE TO CARRY HIM DOWN HILL. 00:47:35 - CU FEET OF DEAD JAPANESE AMONG OTHERS LITTERED ON MOUNT SURIBACHI. MONTAGE NAVY DIVE BOMBERS DROPPING BOMBS ON MOUNT. 00:48:24 - TUNNELS ON SIDE OF MOUNTAIN USED BY JAPANESE DEFENDERS. MARINE RUNS FOR COVER AS GRENADE EXPLODES IN TUNNEL 00:48:46 - MARINES RAISE U. S. FLAG ON MOUNT SURIBACHI IN NOW FAMOUS SHOT WHICH INSPIRED MEMORIAL. 00:48:58 - AMERICAN NATIONS SIGN PACT AT CHAPULTEPEC. DELEGATES FROM NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS SIT AROUND CONFERENCE TABLE AT INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY 00:49:13 - MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER PADILLO SIGNS PACT, REPRESENTATIVES OF BRAZIL, PERU AND CUBA. FOLLOW. SECRETARY STETTINIUS SIGNS FOR U. S. 00:49:43 - NAVY PLANES SMASH THE TOKYO AREA. WARSHIPS OF TASK FORCE 58 PLOWS THROUGH HEAVY SEAS ON WAY TO TOKYO AREA. CARRIER CREWMAN LEANS AGAINST STRONG WIND AS HE WALKS ON DECK. PLANES TAKE OFF FROM CARRIER. SIGNAL OFFICER GESTURES DRAMATICALLY FOR PLANE TO TAKE OFF. 00:50:40 - AERIAL MONTAGE COAST OF TOKYO AND TOKYO BAY AS SEEN FROM BOMBER. DOCKS, STORAGE SPACES AND AMMO DUMPS ARE STRAFED AND BOMBED. 00:51:27 - JAPANESE PLANE BEING PURSUED AND SHOT DOWN BY U.S. FIGHTER AS SEEN FROM FIGHTER'S WING CAMERAS. AERIAL ENEMY PLANES ARE CAUGHT ON GROUND AND STRAFED. HEAVY BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM THOSE HIT. 00:51:56 - SNOW-CAPPED MOUNT FUJIYAMA 00:51:59 - ALLIES OVERRUN GERMAN POSITIONS IN BIG PUSH. ALLIED TROOPS MARCH AND RIDE THROUGH BOMBED OUT CITY. GIS SIT IN FOX HOLES AS TANKS BOMBARD ENEMY POSITIONS ALONG THE RHINE. 00:52:35 - JEEPS CROSS BRIDGE ALONG RUHR RIVER. GI RUNS ACROSS PONTOON BRIDGE. GI FIRES SUB-MACHINE GUN INTO BASEMENT WINDOW IN TOWN OF LINNICH. 00:53:00 - GRAPHIC SCENE OF DEAD GERMAN SOLDIERS LYING ON GROUND. MONTAGE GRIM-FACED GERMAN PRISONERS WITH HANDS ON HEAD. HUGE COLUMN OF GERMAN SOLDIERS WITH HANDS ON HEADS. CU GRIM-FACED GERMAN WOMAN HOLDS INFANT IN ARMS. 00:53:20 - MONTAGE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS AND AN ENTIRE AREA ATTESTS TO THE FEROCITY OF BATTLE. 00:53:38 - GENERAL EISENHOWER AND 9TH ARMY'S COMMANDER, GENERAL SIMPSON INSPECT THE DEVASTATED ULICH. 00:54:02 - GROUP OF GERMAN CIVILIANS, INCLUDING MAN CARRYING CHILD ARE ASSEMBLED FOR QUESTIONING. MORE CAPTURED GERMAN SOLDIERS. 00:54:16 - GI SHAKES HANDS WITH ONE OF GROUP OF POLISH AND RUSSIAN WOMEN HE LETS OUT OF STOCKADE. THE SMILING WOMEN CHAT WITH GIS. RELEASED MEN HUG AND SMILE. 00:54:48 - MEN AND WOMEN WASH DISHES IN OUTDOOR KITCHEN. 00:55:00 - PAN OF GRIM LOOKING-BARBED WIRE ENCLOSED CONCENTRATION CAMP AND GUARD TOWER. PAN TO DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER ON GROUND. 00:56:12 - MANILA ENTIRELY FREE IN LAST-DITCH BATTLE. BURNING MANILA, SET FIRE BY RETREATING JAPANESE. 00:56:23 - AMERICAN SOLDIERS HUG WALL IN SPORTS STADIUM AS TANKS FIRE ON JAPANESE SNIPERS CONCEALED UNDER GRAND-STAND. AMERICANS FIGHT BLOCK-BY-BLOCK IN MANILA, DEVASTATING CITY'S BUILDINGS WITH BOMBARDMENTS. 00:57:10 - HUGE EXPLOSION FROM AMERICAN ARTILLERY SEEN IN DISTANT AMID GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS. ARTILLERY GUN CREW FIRES FROM BEHIND WALLS, INSIDE BOMBED OUT BUILDING. 00:57:33 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS SEEN RUNNING IN OPEN FIELD. ARE FIRED UPON BY RIFLEMEN AND MACHINE GUNS. 00:57:59 - GI FIRES FLAME THROWER INTO GULLY. BATTLE-SCARED MANILA POST OFFICE IS FIRED UPON IN DISTANCE. MEDICS CARRYING WOUNDED SCATTER, AS SNIPERS OPEN FIRE. MEDIC HOLDS UP BOTTLE OF PLASMA HE IS GIVING TO WOUNDED GI. 00:59:27 - GRAPHIC VIEW OF MANY DEAD JAPANESE SOLDIERS SCATTERED STREET CURB AND SIDEWALK. 00:59:36 - PONTOON BRIDGE IS LAYED ACROSS RIVER AFTER MANILA'S LIBERATION, TO CARRY ACROSS FILIPINO HOSTAGES. MAN WITH FACED BANDAGED, CROSSES BRIDGE WITH NUDE BABY IN ARMS. FOLLOWED BY WOMEN CARRYING BABIES AND TWO NUNS. 00:59:51 - CU GRIM-FACED DISHEVELED YOUNG WOMAN ATTESTS TO THE ORDEAL. CU TWO YOUNG CHILDREN LOOK INTO CAMERA IN BLANK STARE. MAN SITS AGAINST WALL IN EXHAUSTION AND BEWILDERMENT. 01:00:06 - MONTAGE GRIM SCENE OF DOZENS OF FILIPINO DEAD SCATTERED ON GROUND AFTER BEING BAYONETTED BY JAPS WITH HANDS TIED BEHIND BACKS. 01:00:39 - GENERAL MACARTHUR STEP ON PIER AT CORREGIDOR, SPEAKS TO TROOPS BEFORE FLAG IS RAISED. MACARTHUR SALUTES AS FLAG IS RAISED. 01:01:18 - 75,000 TONS OF U. S. CLOTHING FOR LIBERATED PEOPLES. SHIP UNLOADS BUNDLES OFF SHIP. WOMEN VOLUNTEERS FOLD AND PACK CLOTHING. MAN TAKES SUIT AND SHOES OUT OF CLOSET FOR DONATION. AS SON WATCHES MAN LOADS CHILDREN CLOTHING IN CARTON. WORKERS IN GOVERNMENT WAREHOUSE PACK PILES OF CLOTHING. SHIP-BUILDER HENRY KAISER HOLDS UP POSTERS. 01:02:05 - SAN FRANCISCO PLANS FOR UNITED NATIONS PARLEY. AERIAL SAN FRANCISCO CITYSCAPE. TWIN WAR MEMORIAL BUILDING WHERE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD. FRONT VIEWS OF BUILDING. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE 01:03:00 - AMERICAN DELEGATES INCLUDING STETTINIUS MEET IN WASHINGTON. DELEGATES POSE WITH PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. STETTINIUS SPEAKS. 01:03:52 - ALLIED ARMIES PUSH ON AFTER RHINE CROSSING. HEAVY HAZE HANDS OVER BALOGNE IN DISTANCE. ALLIED INFANTRY AND TANKS MOVE IN. GIS PHYSICALLY REMOVE RAILS SET UP AS TANK OBSTACLES IN COLOGNE STREETS. TANK PULLS TROLLEY CAR OUT OF THE WAY. 01:04:22 - MONTAGE SHELL EXPLODES DOWN STREET AMID TALL BUILDINGS. SECTIONS OF BUILDING TUMBLES DOWN. GIS RUN FORWARD OVER RUBBLE. CU SOLDIER WEARS HELMET WITH BULLET HOLE IN IT. 01:04:49 - TO GERMAN SOLDIERS SCRAMBLE OUT OF TANK WHICH IS UNDER INTENSE FIRE. THE TWO RUN FOR THEIR LIVES AS TANK IS REPEATEDLY HIT. PAN TO ANCIENT COLOGNE CATHEDRAL IN BACKGROUND WHICH STANDS ALMOST UNTOUCHED DESPITE BOMBING. 01:05:27 - LUDENDORF BRIDGE, CAPTURED INTACT AFTER INFANTRYMEN REMOVED EXPLOSIVE CHARGES. TROOPS AND MATERIALS CROSS BRIDGE FOR 10 DAYS BEFORE ITS COLLAPSE. NAZI PLANES ATTACK BRIDGE. MONTAGE HUGE COLUMNS OF GERMAN PRISONERS. 01:07:20 - ASSAULT ON OKINAWA. WARSHIPS, INCLUDING CARRIERS CLOSE IN FOR ATTACK ON ISLAND. MONTAGE NAVY CORSAIRS TAKE OFF FROM DECK. AERIAL JAPANESE FREIGHTER BEING STRAFED SUDDENLY EXPLODES 01:08:26 - MONTAGE JAPANESE PLANES PLUNGE TO SEA IN FLAMES AFTER BEING SHOT DOWN BY WARSHIP GUNNERS. 01:10:06 - AERIAL PLANES STRAFE OKINAWA AIRFIELD. BOW OF WARSHIP IS INUNDATED BY ROUGH SEAS. AS SEEN FROM SHIP'S BRIDGE. 01:10:56 - U.S. NAVY FIRE BOMB. WEAPON AGAINST JAPAN. NEW FIRE BOMB, NAPALM, ATTACHED UNDER FIGHTER PLANE IS TESTED. HUGE FIREBALL RISES AS BOMBS ARE DROPPED BY TWO PLANES. 01:12:08 - NAPALM BOMBS BEING DROPPED ON JAPANESE POSITIONS IN HILLS OF PELELIU ISLAND. 01:12:29 - U.S. SHIPS FOR FRANCE. LARGEST CARRIER LAUNCHED. 1ST OF 50 AMERICAN BUILT CARGO SHIPS LIE IN DRY DOCK IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. SHIP IS TURNED OVER TO FRENCH OFFICIAL IN CEREMONY. CU FRENCH SAILOR LOOKS INTO CAMERA AS HE STANDS AT ATTENTION. 01:13:21 - LARGEST SHIP IN WORLD, AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS MIDWAY IS CHRISTENED IN NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA. WOMAN SMASHES CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE ACROSS BOW. 01:13:46 - ALLIED ARMIES ON MARCH INTO CENTRAL GERMANY. SMOKE RISES FROM CITY OF SPIEBRUCHEN BEING POUNDED BY U.S. SEVENTH ARMY WEAPONS. TANK EQUIPPED WITH ROCKET LAUNCHER FIRES SCREAMING VOLLEYS OF ROCKETS. 01:14:29 - TANKS AND TROOPS ENTER THE RUINED CITY. GI DIRECTS TRAFFIC OF ARMY VEHICLES. MAJOR GENERAL JOHN O'DANIEL WEARING PLASTIC GOGGLES, ARRIVES IN CITY ON JEEP 01:15:02 - TROOPS OF U.S. 7TH DIVISION, 7TH ARMY MARCH INTO SAARBRUCKEN. GERMAN PRISONERS. 01:15:10 - PAN OF PONTOON BRIDGE ACROSS RHINE & TANKS RIDING OVER IT. PEOPLE LOOK OUT WINDOW CARRYING WHITE SURRENDER FLAG. GERMAN CIVILIAN READ BULLETIN BOARD WITH ORDERS FROM ALLIED MILITARY GOVERNMENT. GRIM-FACED WOMEN LOOKS INTO CAMERA. PEOPLE LINE UP TO TURN IN WEAPONS. 01:15:26 - REMAINS OF BRIDGE CROSSING RHINE. GI SEARCHES GERMAN PRISONERS. CU GRIM FACES OF YOUNG AND OLD PRISONERS. 01:18:21 - FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT DIES. CROWD OF PEOPLE LOOKING FROM ACROSS STREET AT WHITE HOUSE WHOSE FLAG FLIES AT HALF-STAFF. HARRY S. TRUMAN TAKES OATH AS 32ND PRESIDENT, IN HISTORIC CABINET ROOM, ADMINISTERED BY CHIEF JUSTICE HARLAN STONE. 01:19:04 - FILM OF FDR AS YOUNG MAN, SHAKING HANDS WITH GROUP OF POLITICIANS VISITING HIS HOME. FDR POSES WITH WIFE ELEANOR AND HIS MOTHER PRIOR TO HIM BEING STRICKEN BY INFANTILE PARALYSIS. PIPE SMOKING FDR ON SAILBOAT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. 01:19:36 - FDR AND ELEANOR SIT ON PATIO CHATTING. THEIR SONS APPROACH AND PUT GRANDCHILD ON EACH OF THEIR LAPS. THE REST OF FAMILY JOIN IN FOR FAMILY PHOTO. 01:20:08 - FDR FROLICS IN LAKE WITH CHILDREN. HOLDS GRANDCHILD IN ARMS, IN WATER. 01:20:15 - DAPPER YOUNG FDR WEARS BOLLER AND POSES NEXT TO HIS MODEL-T. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WITH FDR POSTERS. FDR RUNS FOR PRESIDENT. ROOSEVELT IS SWORN IN AS DEPRESSION GRIPS AMERICA. CU MONTAGE FDR POSING AND AGING. 01:21:22 - FDR MEETS WITH CHURCHILL ON WARSHIP, STANDS, HOLDING ON TO AIDE. 01:22:02 - FDR MAKES FAMOUS SPEECH ON DECEMBER 8TH, 1941. AMERICA IS AT WAR. DECEMBER 11, 1941 FDR SIGNS WAR DECLARATION AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY. FDR REVIEWING TROOPS FROM JEEP. 01:23:02 - FDR POSES WITH CHIANG KAI SHEK, CHURCHILL IN CAIRO 01:23:13 - FDR, STALIN, CHURCHILL MEET IN TEHERAN, IRAN. 01:23:43 - CROWD GATHERS ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN AS FDR IS INAUGURATED FOR UNPRECEDENTED 4TH TERM. 01:24:14 - FDR, CHURCHILL AND STALIN MEET FOR YALTA CONFERENCE IN CRIMEA. 01:24:33 - FDR MAKES LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AS HE ADDRESSES CONGRESS ABOUT YALTA. FDR SPEAKS. 01:25:20 - TAPE ENDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-825