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Montage of World War II scenes, encompassing the allied Pacific campaigns and Big Three wartime meetings.

Allied campaigns against Imperial Japan during World War II. Animated map depicts Allied victories in various Pacific islands like Guadalcanal, Palau, and the Mariana Islands. A map of the Philippines. United States troops invade the Philippines. Naval guns fire at a shore and flak bursts are seen. Dramatic shot of a Japanese Zero aircraft approaching United States Navy ships that are firing guns. The Japanese aircraft is hit at close range to the ship, a wing ruptures, it is consumed in fire and crashes with explosion in the sea beside the ship. Many landing craft with U.S. Army forces landing at beach on Leyte. Soldiers land and advance inland. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippines wade ashore. Filipino women and children on the island are assisted by U.S. forces and provided with food and protection. Following are meetings of wartime Allied leaders, shown briefly in the ending of the film: Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the battleship, USS Augusta, at Newfoundland, during the Atlantic Conference, 1941. Roosevelt stands at the railing, assisted by his son, Army Captain Elliot Roosevelt. Roosevelt and Churchill meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, at the Cairo conference, in 1943. Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill pose outside the Livadia Palace (Baturyna St, 44-а, Livadiya, 98655) during the Yalta conference in 1945. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, American Ambassador Harriman, British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, and Churchill's daughter, Sarah, in uniform, are among those standing behind the seated Big Three. Delegates from 51 Nations gathered for the first meeting of the UN General Assembly, in Westminster Central Hall, London, England, in 1946.

Location: Philippines
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065887
Allied officers and officials enter Montgomery house for the Malta Conference (Code name: Argonaut, Phase I, Cricket) in WW II

Allied leaders and officers arrive for the Malta Conference (Code name: Argonaut, Phase I, Cricket) during World War 2. American and British Chiefs of Staff arrive in cars. Seen are the U.S. Admirals King and Leahy; Ambassador Averell Harriman; General George Marshall; and other officials..

Location: Malta
Date: 1945, January
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065898
Soviet units defend against German invasion on the Eastern Front during World War II..

Soviet units in action against the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War 2. Soviet soldiers, tanks and artillery concealed in a forest. Camouflaged Soviet trucks and tanks move along a road. Soldiers confer at a map. German Pz.III and Pz.IV tanks, of 11th Panzer Division, and trucks advance. A soldier looks through binoculars at an enemy position. A Soviet heavy gun is fired from a concealed position in the woods. Soviet soldiers crawl across a field and throw flaming grenades. They fire water-cooled machine guns. Wounded Soviet soldier being treated by medics. German Messerschmitt aircraft in flight. British Hawker Hurricane aircraft (provided to Soviets under lend-lease) takes off to engage German airplane. Flaming wreckage of German aircraft on the ground. A Soviet pilot records the victory in a log book. Soviet fliers smile, as they pose in front of radial-engined biplanes. Wreckage of German aircraft strewn on the ground. German prisoners being marched under Soviet guard.

Location: Russia
Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675066001
Polish Refugees travel three years and 3 thousand miles to Iran during World War II.

Many Polish refugees are seen in the final phase of their monumental trek of three years and three thousand miles from Poland, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Poland in 1939, where polish refugees crowd roads carrying their belongings in wooden carts and other conveyances. They are seen at a rest stop where they obtain food. Animated map shows path of refugees fleeing East into the Soviet Union, following the German invasion in August, 1939. The path continues Southeast in 1941, as they flee from the German campaign, Operation Barbarossa, into the Soviet Union. Their journey continues along the west coast of the Caspian Sea, through the Caucasus, to Persia (Iran). Views of refugees arriving at the Persian border, where they are seen near many tents, and being provided with articles of clothing from British and American Red Cross Stations. Refugees donning new shoes and other items. Young girls having their hair styled. Refugees sit at long tables where they receive hot meals. A teacher conducts an outdoor class for Polish refugee children. Closeup of children at their desks. Refugee women are seen tilling soil to plant crops, while fathers and grown sons and daughters leave to join the new armies of the Polish Government in Exile. Views of Polish women, in uniforms marching and of uniformed armed Polish soldiers, as well becoming part of the Allied war against the Axis powers. Polish refugees at an outdoor shrine, offering prayers for the safety of their members in the military. New polish refugee arrivals at the Persian border being greeted by others, many of whom are family members.

Location: Iran
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066020
Delegates from various nations meet at the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

The World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates from various nations meet to discuss issues and means of disarmament. The delegates including French Prime Minister Joseph Paul Boncour, Chairman Of the United States Delegation Norman H. Davis and British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson confer at the meeting.

Location: Geneva Switzerland
Date: 1933, June 8
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066028
Allied prisoners eat, dance and relax at a prison camp in the European Theater during World War I.

Allied prisoners in the European Theater during World War I. Prisoners at a Central Powers' prison camp. British and French prisoners relax and eat at the camp. A Russian prisoner smiles as another raises his hat. Two men talk and shake hands. Food being served to the prisoners. The prisoners dance for recreation as others look on. A group of Allied prisoners march in France.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066061
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