President Harry S. Truman of United States addresses the United States following his return from the Potsdam Conference in Germany, during World War II. President sitting at a desk at the White House explains the choice of Hiroshima as a target for the atomic bomb due to its focus as an industrial rather than a residential center. (This speech is made on the same day as the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, but either before the Nagasaki bombing occurred, or before it was confirmed and announced publicly). President Truman warns of additional atomic bomb attacks on more industries in Japan and says the Japanese can foresee what will happen in a future atomic bomb attack, based on what happened at Hiroshima. Truman reminds about the number of warnings issued to the Japanese by the US, Chinese and British governments and how the Japanese rejected them. In a foreshadowing of the attack on Nagasaki, Truman says "I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction."
Blue Division Spanish soldiers in Madrid, Spain during World War II. Flags of Spain and Germany on El Estacion del Norte train station in Madrid. Officers gives speeches. Spanish spectators observe. A train pulls into the station. A large crowd at the station. The Spanish citizens greet soldiers and salute them. Spanish soldiers say goodbye to their wives and families at the station. They are bound for the Eastern Front, serving as volunteers in the German Army.
German soldiers in Germany during World War 2. A flooded area of the Eastern Front. German soldiers in speed boats. A man steps in a water filled gutter. A wheel with chains. Water up to the level of the axle of the wheel. Trucks skid in mud. A German car moves through very deep mud. A half truck pulls a field piece through mud. German soldiers with horses walk through mud. They fire anti tank guns and mortars through a wooded area.
Blitzkrieg attack on London by Germany during World War II beginning in September 1940. Scenes of London city. Soldiers help civilians to move to safety underground in air raid shelters. A building is evacuated. A man talks over a telephone reporting incoming German aircraft. Officers watch through binoculars. German planes over the city. British pilots in aircraft defend the city. British people at a station platform. A train arrives. German planes drop bombs. Aerial bombs away views of bombs falling from German bombers, and views of German pilots in cockpit, and from point of view of German pilots. View of damaged buildings in London, rubble, and devastation. Men around the remains of the damaged buildings. Exterior and interior views of damaged and destroyed shops, homes, hospitals, and churches. A view of Big Ben in the distance and rubble from bombing in the foreground. British people climbing on piles of rubble and beginning to clear the damage. A man carrying an unexploded bomb or delayed action bomb on his shoulder to remove it from an area. A man drives a car. British people in a market using ration stamps for food. British people work in a factory continuing the war manufacturing effort. People inside underground rail system at Picadilly Circus station, serving as an air raid shelter. A man plays a harmonica to entertain civilians in the crowded air raid shelter. Doctors operate on a casualty. Soldiers rescue people from ruins of blitz damaged buildings. Fire fighters spray fire hoses on a building. Men take a break from clearing rubble and drink beer from glasses at the base of a ladder. A girl sits outside a damaged house and pets a cat. Civilians gather as King George VI and the Queen of England visit citizens amidst the rubble.
Blitz (blitzkrieg) air attack on London by Germany during World War II. German officers led by Goering plan a attack on Britain. The officers stand in front of a map and discuss. German aircraft stationed. German planes take off. British officers in a control room receive reports from sighting stations of incoming Luftwaffe and scramble British spitfires. British aircraft take off in defense. British and German aircraft attack each other in multiple dogfight scenes including some gun camera footage. View from British machine gunner position firing at German aircraft. German fighter aircraft is hit and plunges toward the ground. A British man draws a swastika on brick in chalk beside a line of similar markings, indicating another downed German aircraft. German aircraft fly over London. They drop bombs. A man tries to save himself by ducking and covering his head in a low-lying area during the air attack. Typewriter or teletype machine typing out reports on downed aircraft. A woman tears the update from the machine and reads the report. A man reads a paper mentioning the total damage. Damaged German planes. Ruined buildings in London and the body of a woman buried in the ruins. Important buildings of London damaged, including: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, House of Commons, newspaper publishers on Fleet Street, and St Paul's Cathedral. British soldiers inspect crashed and damaged German warplanes.
Blitz air attack on London by Germany during World War II, focusing on night attacks in October of 1940 during Battle of Britain. Goering and Adolf Hitler sit and discuss. A German aircraft takes off for a blitz night air attack on London. British soldiers observe through binoculars. British soldiers play chess and pool. A soldier looks at a map. German planes bombs on the British soil. People gathered at air raid shelter. Homes and business offices on fire. British people sleep on a platform of an underground railway station (Leicester Square tube station underground) for protection during bombing. People move through ruins of their damaged houses after the attack. British citizens eat at lunch counters and homes and talk. A couple walks towards a house. A man holds a broken mirror in his hand and talks to a woman. Views of cleanup underway in streets after attack, and numerous damaged buildings in England from Luftwaffe Blitz. British civilians traveling to work through debris in streets. British men and women workers at work in a factory.
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