A crowd and newsmen await the arrival of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, back from his meeting in Berchtesgarden, with Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler. The British Airways Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra aircraft (G-AFGN) carrying him arrives and parks at London Heston Airport. Airline personnel open the cabin door. Chamberlain steps from the aircraft and shakes hands with British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and others. He poses for pictures.
Opening slate shows images of weapons such as hammer, switchblade, dagger. A communist meeting outdoors in Victoria Park in East London, with a speaker on an elevated platform and flag that says, in part, "NE Bethnal" on it. Fascist Blackshirt marchers (British Union of Fascists or BUF under Oswald Mosley) arrive and crowd begins to disperse and to go view Blackshirts. British civilians and children in the crowd departing the Communist rally area.
Infantrymen of U.S. 94th Division, 301st Regiment advance in Oberleuken, Germany during World War 2. Infantrymen advance along a road. A German roadblock destroyed by explosions. Soldiers clear debris after destroying the roadblock. Soldiers use minesweepers over the area. M4 Sherman tanks and infantrymen pass after clearing of road. Soldiers set detonation wire into place. ( Note: The final column of M4 Sherman tanks are worth noting as they are M4A2 dry stowage tanks received from the British as evidenced by the "T" numbers visible on a number of the tanks in the clip and British spare track stowage. The tanks are fitted with U.S. radios, as evidenced by the antenna.)
Newsmen of different nations prepare news in Lisbon about Allied occupation of Africa during World War II. Sign on door reads 'Associated Press Lisbon Bureau'. Correspondent for Associate Press Mr. Luiz Lupi reads latest dispatch. Lupi puts down paper and starts to prepare his wire. Mr. Lupi rings the bell to summon telegraph operator to whom he gives the cable. Daily Herald correspondent Miss Shereliff in her villa at Casoaix. She prepares a meal and leaves stove to answer telephone. She prepares her cable, 'V' sign on wall. Sign reads 'Anglo American Press Conference'. Correspondent of Allied Nations in Lisbon. Correspondents at Royal British Club listen to release of military information by press attache of British Embassy. Press attache in the center, and two collaborators seated. Journalists listen to press attache. Office of U.S. Minister in Lisbon shows U.S. representative to the Vatican, Myron Taylor receive the press in the office of the U.S. Minister. Myron Taylor speaks to American and English correspondents. U.S. Minister at Lisbon, Mr. Bert Fish with Mr. Taylor.
V-E Day and Victory celebrations in Europe at the end of World War II in Europe. Civilians celebrate on the streets in Brussels, Belgium. Victory celebrations in Paris, France show a church bell ringing. French, American and British flags are raised. Cheering French crowd on the streets in Paris. French General Charles de Gaulle visits the Arch de Triomphe and pays homage at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery receives German surrender at Lundberg.
Officials confer during World War II. Allied war material stacked on a port in England, including U.S. tanks, trailers, razor wire, fencing, and trucks in preparation for invasion of Europe in 1944. American and British soldiers work and load the supplies for their shipment to the war front. U.S. soldiers unload at a beach site. British Army soldiers roll a covered artillery piece . It has a chalk handwritten label on the gun barrel that says, "Slim's Deadly Poison" and an image of skull and cross bones. Laborers building a German fortification in coastal France. German General viewing English Channel from coastal fortification along the Atlantic Wall. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini confer in a meeting. The officials discuss strategies for the war over a large map. Newspapers with English headlines speculating about the coming Allied invasion. George Marshall and other Allied officers of the War Council of the united nations assembled at a large conference table and in discussion for the Invasion of Europe (D-Day invasion of France).
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