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Madame Chiang Kai-shek is greeted by people at Chongqing Airport after returning from the United States in China.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing (Chungking), China. Madame climbs down a ladder and is helped by two officers. People greet her at Chongqing Airport. Madame walks towards a car parked at the airport. Madame Chiang escorted by Chinese officers. She enters a building. Other Chinese dignitaries enter the building. C-54 Skymaster at the airport. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek walks towards the building. Chinese officers stand near a car. Madame and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, walks followed by Chinese officers. The General and wife getting into the car. The car leaves.
Gadget being hoisted to top of tower for detonation prior to the Trinity Nuclear test in Alamogordo,New Mexico, United States.
Activities prior to the Trinity nuclear test conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II. This is the day before the first ever atomic bomb test in history (the first ever detonation of a nuclear device). The plutonium core nuclear device nicknamed the "Gadget" being raised up to the top of the steel tower after final assembly. Men arrange drum shaped cushioning pads on platform, under the device, as the hoisting begins, and cover the pads with canvas tarps. The Gadget atomic bomb being hoisted to the top of a 20 meter steel tower for detonation early the next morning.
Mushroom cloud rises up after the Trinity nuclear test at Alamogordo in New Mexico, United States.
The first detonation of a nuclear device in history. Trinity nuclear test being conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II. Pitch black night is blindingly illuminated as the nuclear device sometimes nicknamed "The Gadget" is detonated in the White Sands Proving Ground, ushering in the "atomic age." Then the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb explosion can be seen. Billowing smoke and fire fills the view.
United States publishers and editors visit a prisoner of war enclosure and a cathedral in Reims, France.
U.S. publishers and editors visit Reims, France during World War II. U.S. Army General Omar Nelson Bradley at a headquarter building. Newspapermen walk through a prisoner of war (POW) camp area. They visit reclamation and spare parts maintenance headquarters. Vehicles parked outside the building. Trees in the background. An official briefs the newspapermen. They visit the POW enclosure and a cathedral. The visitors get in cars and move.
United States B-17 Flying Fortresses escorted by P-51 fighter aircraft during World War II
Allied warplanes in formation flying over Germany during World War II. Extreme closeup of a B-17 bomber in flight. Crew members can be seen in their positions in the cockpit, in the nose and in the top gun turret. Inside a B-17 cockpit, the pilot and copilot are seen wearing their oxygen masks. Closeup of two U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 aircraft supposedly providing fighter escort for B-17s. The nearest is a P-51D-5-NA, tail number 44-13325, VF-Z of the 336th Fighter Squadron,4th Fighter Group (probably flown by Lieutenant Earl F. Hustwit). Next, an African American pilot is shown in the cockpit of a fighter plane. Scene shifts back to the pilots in the B-17. Distant view of B-17 formation with top-cover formation of fighters. Another view of P-51, number 44-13325 and its wingman, in flight. Another view of the African American pilot in his cockpit. Several German Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft flying toward the camera. Three passing the camera.. View of several P-51s in flight. They release their belly drop tanks and peel off, ostensibly to engage German fighters. View of African American pilot, in cockpit, diving with hand on stick, pressing gun firing trigger. Closeup of guns firing from aircraft wing. A German fighter being struck and smoking. More views of the African American pilot in his cockpit. Gun camera view of an American fighter plane pursuing a German aircraft close to the ground. The German plane is hit and explodes. A P-51 flying close to the ground. Extreme closeup, again, of B-17 in flight, its pilots in cockpit, and the same two P-51s from the 336th Fighter Squadron, ostensibly escorting them. (Note African American fighter pilots, known as the Tuskegee Airmen flew in the 332nd Fighter Group during the war. Unfortunately, none of the aircraft from that renowned Group of "Red Tails" are actually seen in this film.)
Soviet, British and United States officials receive surrender from German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in Berlin, Germany.
Allied officials receive a surrender from a German officer in Berlin, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. A Soviet officer reviews Red Army troops parading at an airport after the Soviet capture of Berlin. Exteriors of a headquarters in Berlin. Soviet Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, British Air Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. General Carl Spaatz receive surrender from German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.