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Events of World War 2, and creation of United Nations Organization following the surrender of Germany and Japan

Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.

Location: Europe
Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053066
Aerial views of Headquarters and camps in Reims and Mailly Sub area Assembly Command in Reims, France. (WW2)

Allied headquarters and camps in Reims (Rheims), France during World War II. Aerial views of Camp Norfolk, Camp Atlanta, Camp New Orleans, Camp Miami, Camp San Antonio, and Mailly Sub area HQ. Aerial views of Rheims and Mailly Sub area Assembly Commands, covered tanks, sheds, houses, pitched tents and vehicles.

Location: Reims France
Date: 1945, June 17
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071633
Germans surrender during World War II as General Jodl sign papers at the headquarters of Allied forces in Rheims, France.

Germany surrenders in Rheims, France during World War II. Nazi General Alfred Jodl arrives at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. General Jodl and others enter the building. U.S. General Walter B. Smith, Allied Chief of Staff and other officers at a desk. German General Jodl signs the surrender papers. General Smith also puts his signature on the papers. The surrender document with the signatures of the two Generals. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower smiles. He holds two pens in a V sign.

Location: Rheims France
Date: 1945, May 14
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059043
Glenn Curtiss at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation in Rheims, France, in 1909

Glenn Hammond Curtiss at the controls his Pusher airplane, the "Rheims Rider", which he flew to win the Gordon Bennett trophy, on August 28, 1909, in the Grande Semaine d'Aviation, at Rheims, France. Ground crew turns propeller and engine starts. Glenn Curtiss taxis out for takeoff.

Location: Rheims France
Date: 1909, August
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044885
Rededication ceremony at Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral in Reims, France.

Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral in Rheims, France. Many people gather outside the reconstructed Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral (Pl. du Cardinal Luçon, 51100 Reims, France) in Rheims, France for rededication ceremony. Priests and French President Albert Lebrun enter the Cathedral. Interiors of the Church as priests offer prayers.

Location: Reims France
Date: 1938, July 18
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675049443
President Wilson and party visit a cathedral at Rheims.

Cathedral of Rheims. President Wilson and the Presidential party look at the cathedral of Rheims. Crowd at remains of a building.

Location: Paris France
Date: 1919, March 13
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039618
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