- Title: VM-829A
- Summary: UNITED NEWS:
- Description:00:41:55 - LIBERATION OF PRAGUE. LARGE U.S., BRITISH FLAGS HANG DOWN OVER CITY'S STREET. GERMAN SIGNS ARE TORN DOWN FROM BUILDINGS. MAN RISKS INJURY AS HE INCHES ALONG LEDGE HIGH ON BUILDING TO TEAR DOWN SIGN. 00:42:24 - ARMED GERMAN SOLDIERS PATROL STREETS DESPITE GERMANY'S SURRENDER. PEOPLE RUN ACROSS WIDE STREETS AS CZECHS BATTLE GERMAN TROOPS. 00:43:00 - CU CIVILIAN PUTS A CLIP OF BULLETS INTO RIFLE. BOX OF HAND GRENADES BEING OPENED AND GRENADES HANDED OUT. MAN WALKS ALONG TILED ROOF WITH RIFLE. AIMING AND FIRING HIS RIFLE AT GERMANS BELOW. 00:43:16 - MAN BEHIND GARBAGE PAIL FIRES SUB-MACHINE GUN. GERMANS IN STREET YAKE COVER BEHIND TANK. THREE SUPPOSEDLY DEAD CIVILIANS LIE FACE DOWN IN STREET. ONE OF THEM RAISES HIS HEAD. 00:43:38 - TWO ARMED CIVILIANS DRAG WOUNDED OR DEAD WOMAN, LYING ON SIDEWALK, TO SAFETY. GERMAN ARTILLERY SOLDIER SETS SITES ON CANNON, BOMBARDS CITY. MONTAGE DESTROYED BUILDINGS IN PRAGUE. 00:43:56 - LARGE GERMAN FLAG IS PLACED ON LARGE STREET FIRE. TRUCKS AND TANKS LADEN WITH TROOPS OF RED ARMY ROLL INTO PRAGUE TO CHEERS OF PEOPLE. 00:44:21 - DR. EDWARD BENES, PRESIDENT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, ARRIVES IN PRAGUE BY TRAIN. HUGE CROWD OF CZECHS WAVE HANDKERCHIEFS AS BENES APPEARS ON BALCONY 00:44:37 - U.S. LIVESTOCK FOE WAR-RAVAGED NATIONS. HERD OF SPECIALLY SELECTED AMERICAN CATTLE ARE GATHERED IN PENS TO AWAIT SHIPMENT ACROSS ATLANTIC. CATTLE CLIMB ONTO SPECIALLY ENCLOSED RAMPS TO BOARD SHIP 00:45:29 - JAMES F. BYRNES, NEW SECRETARY OF STATE. PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND CROWD WATCHES AS BYRNES IS SWORN IN ON WHITE HOUSE PORCH. FORMER SECRETARY STETTINIUS, NOW APPOINTED TO UNITED NATIONS POST, SHAKES HANDS WITH BYRNES. 00:46:06 - CORDELL HULL SIGNS NEW WORLD SECURITY CHARTER. CU CHARTER WITH SIGNATURES ON IT. 00:46:32 - PARIS PARADE HAILS REBIRTH OF FRANCE. AERIAL 50,000 FRENCH AND FRENCH COLONIAL TROOPS MARCH UP AVENUE DE LA GRANDE ARMIE AND UNDER ARC DE TRIOMPHE IN PARIS AND DOWN CHAMPS-ELYSEES. 00:47:32 - GENERAL DE GAULLE AS SEEN FROM BEHIND AS HE SALUTES THE TROOPS COMING DOWN AVENUE. PAN TO PLANES FLYING OVERHEAD. 00:47:45 - CHIANG KAI-SHEK CONFERS WITH U. S. GENERAL WEDEMETER IN GARDEN OF CHIANG'S HOME. 00:48:20 - U.S. TAKES MANY PRISONERS IN PACIFIC WAR. U.S. TROOPS ADVANCE THROUGH KNEE-DEEP WATER IN SWAMPS OF LUZON. GI THROWS HAND GRENADE INTO JUNGLE CAVE. OTHERS STAND OVER CAVE AND FIRE RIFLES INTO IT. DEAD JAPANESE ARE PULLED OUT. 00:49:06 - GI HOLDS EARS AS MORTAR IS FIRED. JAPANESE DEAD LITTER THE JUNGLE GROUND. PAN 00:49:32 - CAPTURED JAPANESE SOLDIER ANNOUNCES OVER WARSHIP LOUDSPEAKER FOR JAPANESE ON OKINAWA SHORE TO SURRENDER. JAPANESE APPEAR ON BEACH. SAILORS ON SHIP WAVE THEM TO SWIM TO SHIP. JAPANESE SWIMS TO SHIP IS TAKEN ABOARD WITH OTHERS. 00:50:07 - LOUDSPEAKER IS SET UP ON OKINAWA CLIFF TO CONCEALED ENEMY. JAPANESE SOLDIERS TRICKLE IN. STUNNED, YOUNG JAPANESE OFFICER WITH BLOODIED FACE, IS HELPED AS HE SHAKILY TAKES HAND OF GI. 00:50:40 - LARGE GROUP OF JAPANESE PRISONERS WEARING NOTHING BUT UNDER SHORTS, MARCH IN. GI MACHINE GUNNER IN TOWER, OVERSEES TENT CITY OF JAPANESE PRISONERS. 00:52:14 - FINAL VICTORY ON OKINAWA: ALLIES INVADE BORNEO. ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENTS, EXPLODING SHELLS IN DISTANT HILLS ON OKINAWA. TANKS FIRE FLAME THROWERS INTO FORTIFIED CAVES. TUNNELS BEING DYNAMITED. MONTAGE HUGE EXPLOSIONS. 00:53:34 - FOOT SOLDIERS SLOWLY ADVANCE UP HILLS OVER ROUGH TERRAIN. MONTAGE P-38 FIGHTERS DROP NAPALM BOMBS ON DISTANT HILLS. 00:54:31 - LT. GENERAL SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER WATCHES ACTION FROM HILLTOP. MARINES LIE ON GROUND IN DISTANT VALLEY. MARINE RUNS FOR COVER AS ACTION INTENSIFIES. 00:55:03 - GENERAL BUCKNER STAYS AT HIS POST DIRECTING ACTION DURING HIS LAST MOMENTS ALIVE. CU BOMB EXPLODES NEARBY WHICH KILLED GENERAL BUCKNER. CU WHITE CROSS ON BRUCKNERS GRAVE. GI PLACES FLOWERS ON GRAVE. 00:55:20 - CU DRUM ROLL PLAYED BY ARMY DRUMMER AS FLAG IS RAISED DURING CEREMONY. 00:55:51 - MONTAGE WARSHIPS OF 7TH FLEET OPEN THREE-DAY ARTILLERY BARRAGE ON BORNEO SHORES. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ON LANDING CRAFT GO FORWARD ON 1ST WAVE OF INVASION. 00:56:25 - GENERAL MACARTHUR HOPS ONTO BEACH FROM LANDING CRAFT. SPEEDING PT BOATS SET OUT ON MISSION AROUND ISLAND WHERE THEY ATTACK JAP OIL CENTER ON SHORE. BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM OIL TANKS ON SHORE. 00:57:29 - FLOATING DRY DOCK FOR NAVY'S DAMAGED SHIPS. ODD-LOOKING LARGE SHIP WITH TWO HUGE TOWERS IS LAUNCHED SIDEWAYS AT SHIPYARD. THE STRANGE LOOKING VESSEL WHICH IS A FLOATING DRY DOCK, SAILS WITH CONVOY TO AN ASSEMBLY BASE IN PACIFIC. 00:58:13 - THE ASSEMBLED DOCK SUBMERGES TO RECEIVE A DAMAGED CRUISER. WITH CRUISER SAFELY INSIDE THE DRY DOCK RISES AGAIN LIFTING CRUISER OUT OF WATER. SAILORS PAINT AND REPAIR SIDE OF SHIP. 00:59:00 - GENERAL EISENHOWER PAYS TRIBUTE AT ROOSEVELT GRAVE IKE CARRIES FLORAL WREATH AS HE AND MRS. ROOSEVELT WALK TO GRAVE SITE AT HIS HOME IN HYDE PARK, N. Y. 00:59:32 - U.S. TROOPS ON THE MARCH FROM EUROPE TO PACIFIC. QUEEN ELIZABETH LINER WITH 15,000 U. S. TROOPS PULLS INTO NEW YORK HARBOR. SOLDIERS WAVE FROM SHIP. TWO WOMEN ON SHORE WAVE BACK. GIS CARRY DUFFEL BAGS DOWN GANGPLANK. CADRE OF JAPANESE DIPLOMATS CAPTURED IN GERMANY ARE AMONG THOSE LEAVING SHIP. 01:01:12 - THOUSANDS OF HARDENED U.S. TROOPS WHO FOUGHT IN EUROPE BOARD SHIPS AT SAN FRANCISCO FOR ACTION IN PACIFIC 01:02:53 - HUGE FLYING SHIP "HAWAII MARS" IN TRIAL RUN. MANY WORKERS STANDING ON 200 FOOT WING SPAN OF HUGE PLANE. 10 MEN STANDING ON EACH SIDE OF THE TAIL ASSEMBLY LOOK DWARFED. 01:03:05 - JEEPS STAND SIDE BY SIDE UNDER WING TO SHOW HOW BIG IT IS. JEEPS DRIVE IN CIRCLE AROUND PLANE. NORMAL SIZE SEAPLANE IS ROLLED UNDER THE HUGE PLANE LOOKING LIKE A TOY MODEL IN COMPARISON. 01:03:24 - WOMAN LAUNCHES SEAPLANE WITH BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE. PLANE SLIDES INTO SEA. THE "MARS" TURNS INTO TAKE OFF POSITION AND TAKES OFF, LANDS. 01:04:19 - REPORT FROM THE RYUKYUS. LANDING BARGES OF 2ND MARINE DIVISION LAND ON RYUKYU UNOPPOSED. CIVILIAN COMES OUT FROM TUNNEL UNDER BRIDGE WITH HANDS UP. OTHER MEN AND WOMEN COME OUT OF HIDING PLACES. GI TENDS TO INJURED LITTLE GIRL SITTING SHIVERING ON GROUND. 01:05:13 - ON OKINAWA, MARINE HITS DECK AS HAND GRENADE HE THREW INTO CAVE, EXPLODES. OTHER EXPLOSIONS OCCUR IN MOP-UP OPERATION. JAPANESE SOLDIER COMES RUNNING OUT OF BRUSH, SURRENDERS. 01:05:51 - MONTAGE FLAME THROWING TANKS BURN UP CANE FIELDS. JAPANESE SOLDIERS COME OUT WITH HANDS UP. STRIPPED TO UNDER SHORTS, JAPANESE COME OUT IN LARGER GROUPS 01:06:32 - BARBED-WIRE ENCLOSED TENT CITIES HOLD THOUSANDS OF JAPANESE PRISONERS. TRUCKS LOADED WITH PRISONERS COME INTO THE CAMP AS WORD SPREADS OF THE GOOD TREATMENT AFFORDED POWS. 01:07:04 - TRUMAN, STALIN, CHURCHILL MEET IN BERLIN. TRUMAN WAVES HAT FROM CRUISER AUGUSTA AFTER 8 DAY ATLANTIC CROSSING, DOCKING IN ANTWERP, BELGIUM. U. S. AMBASSADOR SAWYER, GENERAL EISENHOWER AND ADMIRAL STARK BOARD CRUISER TO GREET TRUMAN. IKE & TRUMAN CHATTING. ADMIRAL LEAHY AND SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES ARE ON BOARD. 01:08:13 - TRUMAN TURNS AND WAVES HAT AS HE BOARDS PLANE TO BERLIN FOR MEETING WITH STALIN AND CHURCHILL. SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON, SECRETARY BYRNES ARE WARMLY GREETED BY SOVIET'S GROMYKO AT BERLIN AIRPORT. TRUMAN EXITS PLANE. 01:08:50 - ARMY CONVOY TAKES TRUMAN ON BRIEF TOUR OF SHATTERED BERLIN. MONTAGE BUILDING RUINS AS SEEN BY TRUMAN FROM MOTORCADE. PAN. LARGE PHOTOS OF TRUMAN, STALIN, CHURCHILL ON DISPLAY. 01:09:21 - STALIN MEETS TRUMAN FOR 1ST TIME. STALIN SHAKES WITH CHURCHILL, LIGHTS UP CIGARETTE. ALL GATHER, SIT AROUND ROUND TABLE. 01:10:12 - TRUMAN INSPECTS 2ND ARMORED DIVISION LINED UP ON AN AUTOBAHN OUTSIDE BERLIN. TRUMAN ADDRESSES TROOPS IN OUTDOOR SPEECH AT FLAG RAISING CEREMONY. 01:11:56 - GENERALS EISENHOWER AND PATTON SALUTE, TRUMAN HOLDS HAT TO CHEST AS STAR-SPANGLED BANNER IS PLAYED. 01:13:20 - ALLIES INVADE BALIKPAPAN, BORNE0. GENERAL MACARTHUR ON BRIDGE OF WARSHIP DIRECTS INVASION. ROCKET LAUNCHER SHIP AND OTHER WARSHIPS FIRES FIERCE BOMBARDMENT. MACARTHUR WATCHES. 01:14:13 - HEAVY BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM SHORE IN DISTANCE. LANDING CRAFTS HEADING FOR SHORE. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS ON LANDING CRAFT. TROOPS HIT BEACHES, POUR ONTO SHORE. DEAD JAPANESE. 01:15:17 - AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS AND TANKS PUSH INLAND UNDER HEAVY FIRE. MACARTHUR WALKS JAUNTILY ON SHORE WITH ENTOURAGE. BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM BURNING OIL STORAGE TANK. 01:15:48 - BOMBER CRASHES INTO NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER. FOG OBLITERATES VIEW OF EMPIRE STATE BUILDING AND OTHER SKYSCRAPERS IN NEW YORK, CAUSING B-25 MITCHELL BOMBER TO CRASH INTO THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING TRYING TO REACH NEARBY AIRPORT. 01:16:08 - PEOPLE AND TRAFFIC GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS IN FOGGY AVENUE, SLOW PAN UP EMPIRE STATE BUILDING SHROUDED IN FOG. FIREMEN HOSE DOWN WRECKED ROOM ON 79TH FLOOR. 01:16:42 - PAN OF EXTENT OF DESTRUCTION AS SEEN FROM OUTSIDE BUILDING. PAN TO STREET FAR BELOW. MAN CARRIES INJURED VICTIM TO AMBULANCE. FIREMEN CARRY INJURED MAN ON STRETCHER. 01:17:12 - GAPING HOLE IN WALL AS SEEN FROM INSIDE. PARTS OF PLANE JAMMED INTO WALL. PAN OF WRECKED OFFICE. VIEW OF EMPIRE STATE BUILDING SILHOUETTED AGAINST SKYLINE. 01:17:46 - WORKERS ON SCAFFOLD HIGH ABOVE CITY BELOW, BEGIN REPAIRS ON BUILDING. PAN TO STREET. 01:17:52 - U.S. SOLDIERS GO DIRECT TO PACIFIC FROM EUROPE. AERIAL ACRES OF MILITARY VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT AT STAGING AREA IN SOUTHERN FRANCE. TROOPS BOARDING TRUCKS, FOR RIDE TO DOCK AT MARSEILLES 01:18:23 - TROOPS WAITING TO BOARD SHIPS ARE GIVEN REFRESHMENTS BY RED CROSS WOMEN. SOLDIERS WAVE FROM RAILINGS OF TROOPSHIP AS THEY DEPART. 01:18:38 - EUROPE'S STRANDED MILLIONS BEGIN EMIGRATION HOME. HORDES OF MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN BOARD TRUCKS FOR TRIP TO THEIR HOMELANDS. FULL TRUCKS PULL OUT. 01:19:09 - RUSSIAN FAMILY SIT ON BUNDLES OF THEIR BELONGINGS AWAITING TRANSPORTATION. DISPLACED PEOPLE, MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN POSE AT DOOR OF BOXCAR BEFORE TRIP. CU STEAM SPURTS OUT OF MOUTH OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE AS TRAIN TAKES OFF. AERIAL PEOPLE WAVE FROM OPEN GONDOLAS. 01:19:42 - MONTAGE PEOPLE WITH LUGGAGE STREAM ACROSS BORDERS AND OVER BRIDGES INTO RUSSIA. MEN SING AS ONE PLAYS GUITAR. 01:19:57 - U.S. CARRIERS FIGHT ENEMY SUICIDE ATTACK. TRACER BULLETS AND FLAK FROM U. S. WARSHIPS FIRE AT ATTACKING KAMIKAZE PLANES. KAMIKAZE PLANE SCORES DIRECT HIT ON USS NEVADA. TWO CREW MEMBERS ROLL WHEELS OF KAMIKAZE PLANE FROM DEBRIS ANOTHER HOLDS JAPANESE FLAG FOUND IN WRECK. 01:20:47 - MEN STOOPS OVER AMERICAN DEAD WRAPPED IN SHEET FOR BURIAL. 01:21:23 - KAMIKAZE PLANE DIVES STRAIGHT INTO CARRIER "TICONDEROGA". HUGE EXPLOSION. SMOKE ENVELOPS THE SHIP. IN ANOTHER VIEW PLANE IS SEEN DIVING STRAIGHT INTO CARRIER. 01:22:12 - CREWMEN WITH AXES CHOP HOLES INTO DECK TO CONTROL FIRE, WHICH IS BROUGHT QUICKLY UNDER CONTROL. MONTAGE DAMAGED PLANES ARE DUMPED OVERBOARD. MONTAGE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO CARRIER IS SHOWN.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-829A