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Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Marshal Joseph Stalin meet at Crimea for the Yalta Conference
Allied Conference in Yalta, Crimea in Ukraine on coast of the Black Sea. The British, Russian and United States representatives meet to plan the political future of Europe after World War II. Livadia Palace, the summer residence of former Czar Nicolas II. Special communication lines are strung. Soviet Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov waits at air base for the British and U.S. delegations. Soldiers march in a field. Flags of Russia, Britain and U.S. Plane arrives at base. British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Adviser to President Roosevelt Harry Hopkins and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, W.Averell Harriman arrive. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrive by plane. Lavadia Castle at the island. Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston Churchill arrives by car with President Roosevelt's daughter Anna Roosevelt. Prime Minister of Soviet Union Marshal Joseph Stalin arrives. They discuss military and political postwar plans. They make decisions regarding postwar Germany. Family members of Allied officers visit the Palace. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin seated for a photograph.
General Jonathan Mathew Wainwright returns back to the U.S. after World War II and receives the Congressional Medal of Honor.
U.S. Army General, Jonathan Mathew Wainwright, home from Bataan and Corregidor, and Japanese prisons, reviews a parade in San Francisco and Washington DC and receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from U.S. President Harry S. Truman. General Wainwright exits an airplane in San Francisco. A crowd stands on both sides of a road. The General is greeted by the western defense commander, and by his sister, Mrs. Frederick Mears. They ride in a convertible car and wave at a large parade crowd along Market Street in San Francisco, gathered to welcome him back to the United States. Next scene shows his arrival by airplane in Washington DC, where he meets his wife for the first time since she left the Philippines in 1941. A military motorcade with General Wainwright crosses Memorial Bridge from Arlington into Washington DC. Huge "Welcome" sign and bunting arches all the way across Memorial Bridge, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background. Posters on poles read "Welcome Home Skinny" (his nickname). Large crowd gathers at the Washington Monument to celebrate General Wainwright. Next, on the White House lawn, President Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to the General in Washington DC.
Damaged city and an undamaged road following atomic bomb explosion in Nagasaki, Japan.
World War II damage in Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb attack. A damaged bridge in Nagasaki. The north street of Nagasaki undamaged due to its lower height from that of the explosion. People and truck on a road. Damaged houses. Survivors busy with restoration of their homes. View of an atomic bomb explosion (this is a domestic United States testing blast).
Sailors in a submarine stand off a shore and they load and fire guns in the Pacific Ocean.
United States task force in the Pacific Ocean. Sailors in a submarine stand off a shore. They work with guns and shells. Sailors work at a center hoist. They load and fire guns. Shells kept in a row. Measurement gauges and dials. A sailor looks through a periscope. A sailor at the wheels with headphones. A radioman reads a gauge. (World War II period).
P-47s with bubble canopies taxi in a single file from a flight line along a curved paved strip in Belgium.
Various United States fighter and bomber aircraft at an airfield in Belgium. [Slate states airfield # 78, which would be Florennes/Juzaine Airfield, Belgium. But it may actually be Le Culot Airfield (A-89) where P-47s of the 36th and 373rd Fighter Groups were based.] A large number of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes parked on a flight line. A B-17G Flying Fortress bomber parked in background. P-47s with bubble canopies taxi in single file from the flight line along a curved taxi strip.
P-47 Thunderbolt fighters parked on Le Culot Airfield (A-89) Belgium, and P-38 Lightning planes in flight overhead in World War 2
Various United States fighter aircraft , including those of 36th and 373rd Fighter Groups, on Le Culot Airfield (A-89), Beauvechain, Belgium. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane cartoon insignias on nose art include the following P-47 names: De Poiple Shaft III, B-3, Little Rocket, Hazel Honey, Easy's Angels and Bitterbitcher III. P-38 Lightning planes in flight.