Train station of Le Verdon in Bordeaux France is shown, early in World War 2. American refugees getting off train in Le Verdon, having arrived from Paris France just before Battle of France. Baggage seen at station, some refugee going through customs and some are lined up for passport and customs inspection. French officials checking the money and passport of American refugees before they board the SS Washington ocean liner ship.
Exterior of a United Nations theater in San Francisco, with marquee indicating its use exclusively for pass holders attending the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Inside the Delegates of United Nations conference gather during the 2nd week of the conference to watch footage of the German surrender at Reims, signed by General Alfred Jodl. Projectionist and movie projector in booth of theater are shown. Delegates talking and attend meeting in San Francisco, California as they continue work leading toward defining the UN Charter and founding the United Nations organization. Footage from the San Francisco Conference vote, chaired by Anthony Eden of Great Britain, approving the Charter of the United Nations on June 26, 1945
Film begins showing a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane in flight over the city of Cairo and Pyramids, in Egypt during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's voice is heard speaking in his 1943 Christmas report to the Armed Forces. He states that following the Cairo Conference, he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to Teheran, Iran. View of city of Teheran from an airplane overhead. View of front of the Soviet Embassy building there. Wider view showing conference principals on the porch with reporters and photographers below the steps. Next, a closer look with Soviet Marshal Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill, seated on chairs, conversing. Closeup of the Big Three with their military commanders standing behind them. Views of ongoing Soviet operations on the Eastern Front. Russian troops firing field artillery from a snowy field. (A transport airplane is in the far background.) Shells bursting on snowy hillside. Soviet soldiers training in white arctic clothing rush through toward tanks and lie down in the snow. Three Soviet aircraft buzz a snow covered field. A huge explosion is seen and then Soviet cavalry charge across snow. View shifts to U.S. Army troops operating in Italy. A jeep filled with soldiers tows an artillery field piece across a shallow river. U.S. soldiers ride across a stream in a truck. Rear view of artillery piece being towed toward an italian town. Glimpses of aerial combat between Allied and German aircraft. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Mark Clark are seen riding in a jeep across a bridge in Italy. Glimpse of Italian people trying to clean up destroyed section of a town. Portrait of Benito Mussolini in the debris. General Eisenhower walking with a local British commanding officer and General Mark Clark, in Italy. Eisenhower and Clark at an outdoor briefing by British officers. Eisenhower pinning the Legion of Merit medal on U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz, deputy commander of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces who President Roosevelt says has been selected to be commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe. Glimpse of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs in Europe. Film shifts back to Teheran and the Big Three Leaders sitting in chairs. Closeups of them. Then their foreign secretaries step being them (Molotov, Hull, and Eden.) Nazi swastika flag. German armed forces marching on parade. German boys playing on artillery pieces under watchful eyes of German soldiers. Children at a playground. European farmers harvesting grain by hand. German troops in black parading. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler giving impassioned speech. Several views of Teheran conferees. President Roosevelt holding a ceremonial sword. Scenes of good will with hand shakes among conferees. Glimpses of British, Soviet, and Chinese troops attacking. Massed flags of the Allies.
Swedish troops, guns and aircraft on alert to forestall Nazi German offensive move in Sweden. A truck tows a field gun and moves on a road. The barrel of an artillery piece visible as it is raised from a hidden gun emplacement. Swedish soldiers run between sandbags and take up positions. Swedish troops wearing M21 helmets fire a double-mounted Kulspruta m/36 water-cooled 8mm machine gun (a modified Browning design dual mounted). Next scene shows aerial view of biplanes: Swedish J8 Gloster Gladiator MK I bi-wing pursuit aircraft seen in formation. Brief closeup of a J8 in flight. Next, Swedish T3 aircraft seen in formation, flown by Swedish Wing F 17. These aircraft are Junkers Ju 86 K-13 aircraft built by SAAB, under license, and converted to torpedo bombers. Aerial views of the J8 biplanes conducting mock attacks on the formation of T-3 bombers, for training purposes. (World War II period).
Officials meet at Heston Aerodrome in London, England. Prime Minister Chamberlain arrives by car and enters airport building. Large crowd gathers. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain moves through cheering crowd to board airplane. He speaks briefly to the crowd before boarding. People cheer. Prime Minister enters plane. Plane taxis and takes off.
Plane parked at Heston Aerodrome in London, England. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain shakes hand with officials as he boards the airplane. People wave hats as Prime Minister's plane departs. Photographers stand with their cameras.
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