Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges of the United States Army at Master Tac headquarters area in Belgium, during World War II. Lieutenant General Miles E. Dempsey of 2nd British Army and Hodges talk to each other. Lieutenant General Miles E. Dempsey sits in his car and drives away. Lieutenant General Hodges enters a building.
Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges of the United States Army at Master Tac headquarters area in Belgium, during World War II. Soldier removes cover on front license plate revealing three stars on plate (representing the three star general), and then waits by open car door for General Hodges to enter the car. Hodges walks towards his car. Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges and Lieutenant General Miles E. Dempsey of the 2nd British Army walk out of a building talking to each other.
Council of Foreign Ministers of France, Britain, Russia and the United States at a meeting at Luxembourg Palace in Paris, France. The Foreign Ministers Georges Bidault of France, Ernest Bevin British Secretory of Foreign Affairs, Russian Vyacheslav Molotov and Foreign Secretory of United States James F. Byrnes step out of their cars and proceed towards the meeting hall. They shake hands and greet each other. A round table conference to decide a final peace treaty after the World War II.
Damage to buildings and houses in South Eastern town in England due to bombing by German bombers, during World War II. Routine life of the people of the town resumes in morning after bombing at night. Men and women walking on paths along the bomb struck roads. British Army soldier and police men walking on roads. Damaged buildings and houses, road with rubbles. Workers clearing trash on a dairy building. Shops working normally after blasts. Woman buys fish from a shop.
President Harry S. Truman of United States addresses the United States following his return from the Potsdam Conference in Germany, during World War II. President sitting at a desk at the White House explains the choice of Hiroshima as a target for the atomic bomb due to its focus as an industrial rather than a residential center. (This speech is made on the same day as the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, but either before the Nagasaki bombing occurred, or before it was confirmed and announced publicly). President Truman warns of additional atomic bomb attacks on more industries in Japan and says the Japanese can foresee what will happen in a future atomic bomb attack, based on what happened at Hiroshima. Truman reminds about the number of warnings issued to the Japanese by the US, Chinese and British governments and how the Japanese rejected them. In a foreshadowing of the attack on Nagasaki, Truman says "I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction."
A review of the events that occurred in the year 1945. The Battle of Bulge between Germans and Allied military. Allied military tanks and soldiers after victory in the battle. Soldiers smoke cigarettes. Destroyed and burnt U.S. Army tank and jeeps. British Army troops advance in trucks, towards Normandy. Infantrymen walk across farms towards the enemy. Fleet of bombers airplanes of the Allies fly on a mission. The tank units advance across farmlands. Soviet forces greet American officers.
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