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  1. Bitter War on West Front (Gen. DeGaulle)

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371.

  2. Formal Jap Surrender

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information: "Japs Sign Surrender Papers." On the broad decks of the USS "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay, the official Japanese delegation signs the formal surrender documents. Military representatives of each of the victorious Allied powers, then affix their signatures, and hostilities are ended. Gen. MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allies, speaks to the gathering, and to the world, stating that hostilities have ceased, and that with God's help, war will be ended forever.

  3. Truman speaks

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information, "The President Speaks." In Washington, Pres. Truman offers thanks for the Allied victory, and summons American to work as diligently in the postwar period as she did in the prosecution of the war.

  4. US Army in Japan

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information, "Tokio [sic], The Desolate City." As Yanks occupy the Japanese capital they see that Tokio is a ruined city. The antiquated Jap fire-fighting equipment was unable to save immense areas which were burned out by fire bomb raids. Yet, most of the buildings in the Mikado's compound are untouched.

  5. Atom bomb havoc

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 432. Release date, 09/10/1945. According to UN advance information: "Hiroshima-Atomic Bomb Target No. 1" When Col. Paul Tibbetts, Jr. winged his Superfortress over Hiroshima, that metropolis became the first target city for the new destructive terror--the Atomic Bomb. This single bomb, equal to 20,000 tons of TNT in explosive power, levelled 70% of the city, killed 126,000 and left acres of empty wastelands in the heart of a once thriving city.

  6. Nazi war criminal sentenced

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 444. Release date, 10/22/1945. According to UN advance information: "Nazi Criminals Face Justice" Dachau, Germany. Men who perpetrated some of the worst war crimes in history face Allied courts. Franz Strasser, who murdered many Allied airmen is convicted and sentenced to be hung--the first Nazi to be tried at this former notorious concentration camp. Shows Commission, including Judge Col. Raymond E. Zickel at far right at 02:45:00.

  7. Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton at Ohrdruf

    (LIB 5419) Ike Visits XX Corps, Gotha, Germany, April 12, 1945. SEQ: Arrival of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Gen. George S. Patton at airfield. Gens greeted by Gen. Walton H. Walker (XX Corps Commander) and Maj. Gen. Troy H. Middleton (CG, VIII Corps). MS, Walker and another officer standing/talking/waiting in field. CU jeep with 5 stars. MS small plane landed, Patton getting out, then Eisenhower. CU, Eisenhower takes off coat after deplaning. MS, Bradley getting out of plane. MS at camp, former prisoner (survivor) with scarf talking to officers, GIs standing in BG. MS, ...

  8. Destruction of Worms, Germany; POW camp

    (LIB 5406) Seventh Army POW Cage, Worms, Germany, April 7, 1945. AVs city of Worms, showing damaged town below. AVs, showing undamaged Catholic cathedral and Lutheran church in Worms. AVs, prisoners of war in caged area. LSs, MSs, HSs POW enclosure holding 2400 prisoners. MS, prisoners arriving and getting out of trucks. Individual CUs, various types of prisoners.

  9. Eisenhower at Ohrdruf; liberated prisoners with radio

    00:57:57 (LIB 5416) General Dwight D Eisenhower Visits Atrocities Concentration Camp at Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945. MS, inmates of camp demonstrate for Gen. Eisenhower the methods of torture used by the Nazis. MSs, CUs, Eisenhower looks at dead bodies of prisoners, GIs standing in BG. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf talking to officers. CUs, corpses. Mass of US soldiers gather for Eisenhower's departure, barracks in background. Various shots of Gens Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. leaving camp in jeeps. Crowd of soldiers disperse. MSs, US soldiers ...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Newspaper Correspondents Overseas

    Office of Universal News Service, 72 Fleet Street, London. MSs and CUs of Mr. Knickerbocker examining tape machine. MSs and CUs of Mr. Knickerbocker typing, sitting down at desk. Men in BG reading tape machine, typing, etc. CU of Knickerbocker typing. Shot of Webb-Miller walking in the garden of his house in Kensington. CU of Webb-Miller out of picture (2 takes). MS of Webb-Miller towards camera (2 takes). MS of Webb-Miller walking toward camera (2 takes). MS and CU of Webb-Miller sitting on edge of baclony reading book. 2 more shots, same. Mr. Carroll Binder (foreign editor of Chicago "Dai...

  11. War Crimes Trials: Jodl under interrogation

    British prosecuting attorney in CU puts questions to Jodl who answers but we never see Jodl, only hear his voice. Includes question regarding plebicites as an excuse for military force. Talks of Schussnig and his fate, considered an "Honorary member of Dachau." Response: "that is an honor one would be glad to dispense with." 01:32:00 Staged shots of young women walking in sitting down and listening thru headphones.

  12. UN opens conference at San Francisco

    Issue 153, Part 1: Opening of first session of U.N. Secretary of State Stettinius introduces President Truman who speaks from Washington, D.C. Good CU. Architects of a "better future." Second day session, EXT, various delegations arrive. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Great Britain with Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov and Lord Halifax. Joined by Stettinius and Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko. VS, delegates seated in auditorium. Shots of press coverage. China delegate Ambassador T.V. Soong, Molotov, and Eden speak (sync sound).

  13. Italian patriots execute Mussolini

    Issue 153, Part 2: Brief retrospective of Mussolini reign in Italy. Shows Mussolini and Hitler in 1943. Mussolini lies dead in Italy.

  14. German Atrocities

    Issue 153, Part 3: Assisting survivors of Ohrdruf. Inspected by Gens. Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley. Exhumations at Arnstadt. Assistance given at Nordhausen, German townspeople required to view and assist in burial of dead.

  15. Nazi leaders meet justice

    Issue 159, Part 2: Trial of Vidkun Quisling. Arrest of post-Hitler Nazi government in Plainsberg, Germany. Death of Himmler by suicide in Luneberg, Germany.

  16. Nazi death camp at Belsen destroyed

    Issue 159, Part 3: Barracks of Belsen, survivors being given medical assistance. Women being deloused. Children loaded onto truck and being sent out of camp. Josef Kramer under arrest. British army uses flame throwers to torch barracks.

  17. Liberation in Prague

    Issue 163, Part 1: Prague liberated, street signs ripped down. Street fighting between civilians and SS units. Good shots of street battles. Czechs use rifles, grenades. Dead in street. Germans shell city, burning buildings. Trucks of Russian army enter city, units of first Czechoslovak army, tanks. Pres. Edvard Benes dismounts from train. Shot of him at balcony.

  18. US soldiers go directly to the Pacific from Europe

    Issue 166, Part 3: Good aerial shots of American staging area of tents, equipment. GIs loaded into transport, then board ship in Marseilles for war in Pacific. Served food by Red Cross worker. Men line rails of ship. LS, ship pulls out.

  19. Europe's stranded millions begin emigration

    Issue 166, Part 4: Refugees in Allied displaced persons camps, including Leipzig and Shanouw, are routed homeward.

  20. US carriers fight off enemy suicide attempts

    Issue 166, Part 5: Japanese kamikaze planes strike the battleship Nevada and the carrier Ticonderoga.