United States prisoners and British prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. 511 Allied prisoners after being liberated from the Japanese prison camp. Soldiers get off a truck. Liberated soldiers share their experiences of the life at Japanese prison camps. British Sergeant Robert Fell speaks and says that he was taken prisoner in Singapore. He says that a number of prisoners lost their lives due to diphtheria, cholera and other diseases. He was taken to Thailand and brought back to Singapore from where the prisoners went aboard a Japanese ship. Majority of the prisoners lost their lives after the Japanese ship was sunk due to American air attack near Luzon. Then he was taken to the Cabanatuan prison camp. Another liberated prisoner Sergeant Samuel Goldy expresses gladness on being released by the Americans after 3 years of imprisonment.
An Allied ship bombards the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Men aboard the ship. Explosions occur at the coast of Iwo Jima. A naval gun in the foreground. A ship fires depth charges and explosions occur in water. Flaks burst at the coast and smoke rises. An enemy airplane in the air under tracer fire.
The Germans sign unconditional surrender in Berlin, Germany on May 8, 1945 during World War II, signing a document similar to the one signed at Reims the day before. People gathered outside a German Army Engineering School. Soviet General Georgi Zhukov and British Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder at a desk as they represent the Allies. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other officers representing Germany arrive. Keitel puts his signature on the document of unconditional surrender. Zhukov and Tedder also put their signatures as they take over Germany. The two officers shake hands. Allied officers tour the city of Berlin. Damaged buildings in the city due to Allied bombings. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The heavilly damaged Hotel Adlon. Aerial views of the damage caused due to Allied bombings in Hamburg. Damaged buildings and shipyards in Hamburg.
German air attack on Poland during World War II. Smoke rises from an area in Warsaw, Poland. German aircraft in flight over the city. An aircraft dives and bombards a building. Smoke rises as a bomb impacts. Billows of smoke rise due to an explosion.
An air raid over Anzio, Italy during World War II. American soldiers load shells in a 40 mm anti aircraft gun. An officer looks through binoculars. The anti aircraft gun being fired. Flaks burst in the sky and smoke rises from behind a building.
' A Fifth Army report from beachhead' about United States amphibious ladings in Anzio, Italy during World War II. A U.S. convoy in Naples Harbor. U.S. 5th Army supply trucks and equipment leave for Anzio. Soldiers loaded in trucks. An invasion fleet in the harbor. Equipment and troops being loaded onto vessels. LSTs ( Landing Ship Tanks) underway for Anzio. Barrage balloons in flight over the convoy. Troops and equipment aboard a ship. Soldiers aboard the vessels. A captain checks a navigational compass. Officers look at a map. A soldier carries a dog. Naval guns being fired at German airplanes during an air raid. Bombs explode in water. U.S. 5th Army equipment being unloaded from the vessels at a beach in Anzio.
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