(Audio only). Radio broadcast from Washington DC during World War II. Correspondent Morgan Bailey reports on death of President Franklin D Roosevelt. Vice President Truman retains Roosevelt's Cabinet before taking oath of President's office. Cabinet meeting in White House. The White House Press Secretary Stephan Early makes an official announcement of President Roosevelt's death in Warm Springs, Georgia. Reports from White House radio room. Correspondent Ralph Howard Peterson summarizes events immediately before and after death of President. Luxembourg: Correspondent Lowell Thomas reports President Roosevelt's death and war in Europe.
(Audio only). Reporter John Charles Daly reports on US, British and German advance in Europe during World War II. News about Allied forces advancing to Berlin, Russian troops in Austria and war in Pacific. U.S. troops advance on Western Front, French troops in France and Allied Armies in Germany. Correspondent Burnett Winston reports from Supreme Allied Headquarters in Paris. British troops advance across Rhine, U.S. troops under command of General Bernard Montgomery advance. British troops enter into Holland.
(Audio only). Radio reporter John Charles Daly reports on World War II in Europe. News about Allied forces advance towards Berlin, Soviet Army across Hungary and in Slovakia. Generalissimo Joseph Stalin announces Soviet troops guarding Moravian Gap. Correspondent from Washington DC reports on San Francisco Conference.
Displaced Persons (DP) and refugees travel in horse drawn carts on streets of Germany. German civilians on streets. German civilians ride bicycles. Pedestrians on pavement. German civilians loot a warehouse, taking bags of goods. People fill lorries from goods of warehouse, during time of food and supply scarcity near end of World War 2 in Europe.
General Eisenhower confers with British Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory and British Air Chief Marshal, Sir Arthur Tedder, in front of a map of Europe on a wall. New York Post, June 6, 1944, headline reads "INVASION Smashing Inland." U.S. troops assault beach at Normandy on D-Day and several fall from enemy fire during World War II. German troops surrendering as Americans advance. Dead German soldier. Adolf Hitler sits in a room. B-24 bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 2nd Bomb Wing, 446th Bomb Group, in flight on mission over Germany. Bombs falling on target. View through gun camera of fighter strafing German aircraft on the ground and strafing a railroad train filled with ammunition, that explodes. Sun newspaper headline reads: 'Allies plunging deep into Reich.' U.S. troops move through grassy field. U.S. artillery crew fires M-114, 155mm Howitzer under camouflage net. New York World Telegram newspaper headline reads: 'Allies swarm across Rhine'. U.S. troops crossing the Ludendorff Bridge, at Remagen, Germany. View of dead victims at German concentration camp. Journal American newspaper headline reads: 'Mass surrender of foe underway'. German prisoners of war double-time march running along a road with hands held high in surrender. Emotion and distress show on face of very young German boy soldier as he unbuttons his coat. A German woman sits quietly in background. A mile long line of German prisoners march in a field. A Nazi Swastika flag burning on the ground.
Large number of German prisoner of war soldiers assembled in barracks yard in British Zone in Germany, just after the end of World War 2 in Europe. The German soldiers are being demobilized, finger printed, and insignia are removed from their uniforms. A man cuts a wing symbol off of a German officer's hat. A German farmer addresses the group. Soldiers work in farm and pitch hay.