Activities aboard a ship docked at Philadelphia Naval Base in Philadelphia. Ships in Reserve Fleet Basin. USS Brooklyn (CL-40) light cruiser in the foreground. Stern view of USS Brooklyn and USS Nashville (CL-43). Camera pans over ships, including the heavy cruisers USS Louisville CA 28, USS Augusta CA 31, and USS Portland CA 33, in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. United States and Chile Naval officials with State Department representatives on deck of USS Brooklyn. Navy band plays. American flag lowered and the Chilean Flag is raised aboard the USS Brooklyn. Chilean flag raised aboard the USS Nashville. United States Navy Rear Admiral Roscoe E Schuirmann hands ships papers to Chilean Ambassador Felix Nieto Del Rio. Chilean flag fly at masts of the USS Nashville and USS Brooklyn. Chilean officers inspect. Ambassador Del Rio and Vice Admiral of the Chilean Navy, Immanuel Holger come up gangway of USS Brooklyn. Rear Admiral Schuirmann greets them. Yni Louis Rivas Voisin and Yoeman Felix Labbe of the Chilean Navy raise flag aboard USS Brooklyn.
College students at Fordham University in New York, United States. Student sits on a bench along roadside and read book. Students walk in the Fordham University Rose Hill campus area (Fordham University Rose Hill Campus 441 E. Fordham Road Bronx, NY 10458). The Fordham Baseball Field and Hughes Hall. Group of students talk on steps. A group of Roman Catholic nuns walking. A group of male college students gather on campus, some of them are wearing white beanies.
German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.
Victory in Europe Day celebration in Paris, France during World War II. Crowd gathered around the Arc de Triomphe for Victory in Europe (V-E) day celebration. Aircraft in flight over Arc de Triomphe. People wave French flags. American, British, Russian, Chinese, and French flags grouped under the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). Crowd march on a street. They sing and wave flags. Damaged buildings in the background. Vehicles move through the streets. French honor guards stand around tomb of World War I Unknown Soldier.
Victory in Europe Day celebration in Paris, France at the end of World War II. People march through streets holding banners. Jubilant French men and women dancing on the streets to celebrate Victory in Europe (V-E) day. French civilians crowd on top of a moving military car. Damaged buildings in the background. A pamphlet and a photograph of Charles de Gaulle fastened on paper garlands. Allied flags flutter in wind at the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). People march through streets. Trees on either side of the street.
Victory in Europe Day celebration in London, England at the end of World War II. Crowd gathered at the Buckingham Palace (Buckingham Palace London SW1A 1AA) for Victory in Europe (V-E) day celebration. Vehicles move through streets. People march holding Allied flags. Trees on either side of the street. People wave flags in front of the Palace. Damaged buildings in the background.