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End of World War II and signing of UN charter in San Francisco, United States

United States and Soviet Union soldiers celebrate their victory as world War 2 comes to an end in Germany. "Elbe Day": Soviet and American soldiers meet at the River Elbe on 25-26 April, 1945. View of Nazi swastika being blown up at Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg Germany in 1945. Scenes of celebration in the streets of Paris with French civilians cheering American and French soldiers and celebrating the end of World War 2. French women kiss soldiers. Crowd gathered in Times Square in New York celebrating VE-Day (Victory in Europe Day). Foreign Ministers of fifty nations arrive at San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter. United States President Harry S. Truman addresses the delegates at the closing ceremony of the conference on June 26, 1946. Ships bring American soldiers back home, including some wounded, after World War 2. Women and families on dock at harbor wave and smile at arriving troop ship with American soldiers returning home. Also seen are soldiers of other countries including Soviet Russian soldiers returning to their families at a train station, with smiling and tearful family reunions. Cemeteries with headstones honoring soldiers who died in the war. Military hardware being scrapped to make peacetime goods. Views of explosive charges being set and military aircraft being blown up for scrap. Piles of scrapped military vehicles. A woman in a factory organizes newly manufactured clothes irons. Workers in a factory perform final assembly on newly manufactured ovens and stoves for homes.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037571
Sailors clean and lubricate parts and equipment of a submarine prior to its decommissioning at San Francisco Navy yard.

U.S. Submarines being decommissioned in San Francisco, California. Us sailors at the San Francisco Navy yard clean and lubricate parts and equipment prior to storage. Bridge over a river. Submarines at a port. Honor flag being brought down during a ceremony. Flag being presented to submarine's oldest man. Sailor plays a trumpet. Seaman looks through a periscope. View of a blast through periscope. Vessel being retired. Submarine being painted to protect it against corrosion. Deck guns being covered with cocoon type plastic sheet. Engines, air compressor and other parts of submarine being cleaned, oiled and left in working a condition. Submarines parked at a port.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046673
Men load locomotives aboard SS Hannibal Victory and lay pine timbers to cushion the weights of locomotives, San Francisco.

A film depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A man cleans a plaque of SS Hannibal Victory ship with a cloth. The chassis stacked at the port . A trolley tows the freight car underframes. The stevedores and longshoremen at work . They load freight car underframes aboard SS Hannibal Victory. The freight car underframes is hoisted and lowered aboard the deck. K-rations, cots, hospital supplies like bandages and plasma loaded in the spaces between the cargo. Men aboard the ship at work. The eight full-grown railroad engines complete with tenders taken towards the ship on the railroad flat cars. Men stand near a locomotive on the railroad flat car. The men aboard a ship and at the dock. A man attaches ropes to the locomotive. The hoisted locomotive is taken aboard the ship. A man directs. The locomotive is cautiously lowered at the deck. A crane operator operates the controls. The locomotive is being lowered. The men giving directions. The men lay road bits and big pine timbers to cushion the weights of the big locomotives . Several views of men turn buckle and put steel rod assemblies to the deck , clamped them tight and wedged chained and bolted them down. A chief with his wife walk and talk. A view of the city in the background. They walk towards the dock. The men covering the locomotives. The chief and his wife cross a road and walk along streets of San Francisco with harbor views behind them. Cars parked on side of the road. The crane operator seated at controls. Men finishing the end tasks. The chief meets his wife before leaving. The chief boars the ship. His wife stands at the dock. Men aboard the ship at work.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069915