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President Harry Truman of United States arrives in Antwerp and moves to Brussels' airport during his Europe visit after WW II.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin and other places in Europe after World War II. Buildings and streets of Antwerp in Belgium. President Truman and U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes aboard U.S. Ship Augusta. President raises his hat and waves to spectators on the dock at Antwerp. Few buildings damaged during war can be seen. Motorcade of President moving towards the Evere Airport in Brussels. Cars in cities and countryside of Belgium. At the Evere Airport, the 35th Infantry Division gives the honor guard to President. Soldiers in attention position near the Air Transport command airplanes on the airfield.
Marriages and births from various royal families in 1960
Princess Margaret of Britain waves towards a large crowd of people in England after her marriage to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, a commoner photographer later styled as the 1st Earl of Snowdon. British crowd cheering for Princess Margaret. Scene change to King Baudouin of Belgium as he marries Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón of Spain during a traditional Catholic ceremony at the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula (Place Sainte-Gudule, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium) in Brussels, Belgium. Queen of England Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip introduce little toddler Prince Andrew, sitting with his family on shore of a lake. Next scene shows Crown Prince Akihito of Japan playing with his newborn son Prince Naruhito at the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan). The next scene is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, with his wife, Farah Pahlavi, at a ceremony after the birth of their first son, Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince of Iran. Final scene is United States President John Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline in a hospital on the birth of their son John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
Film executives fly from Brussels to Frankfurt and dine at General Eisenhower's private dining hall at Farben building,Germany
Visit of film executives to Brussels, Belgium to Frankfurt in Germany. Aerial view of passenger aircraft in flight transporting the film executives from Brussels to Frankfurt. They enter the IG Farben Building (Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Military officers welcome them. Film producers dine at General Eisenhower's private dining hall at IG Farben Building. Robert Murphy, German Ambassador speaks to Edgar Mannix.
Allied troops liberate Le Havre, Lyon, Brussels and Antwerp (WW2)
Allied troops set off for the final drive of the Liberation of France and Belgium in World War II. La Havre: Intensive bombing by Allied bombers at the 2nd port of France. Allied planes in flight, drop bombs. Smoke from the explosions. German positions are covered by Allied target indicators. Soldiers and tanks advance through fields. Smoke and fire from destroyed vehicles and bombardment. The first Allied platoon enters the town. Destroyed buildings and ruins. The dock area, reduced to a complete rubble. Surrendered German soldiers are marched in the streets. Antwerp: Liberation of Antwerp. A convoy of tanks. Allied troops cross a Bailey bridge over the Albert Canal. British Second Army enters the city. Tanks and soldiers. Machine gun fire. The dock side railway head is captured. Civilians welcome the troops. Belgian Forces of Interior and civilians celebrate. Planes drop arms and supplies for the Belgian Army. Soldiers collect the supplies and load it into a cart. Brussels: Members of the Belgian Government lay wreaths at the Brussels war Memorial in tribute to the capital's liberation. Soldiers march. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is given a grand reception. The Field Marshal in a convertible. He greets the people from a hotel balcony. Lyon: The U.S. Seventh Army liberates Lyon. German snipers fire into crowded streets from a hospital on the banks of Rhone. Soldiers fire back at them. Civilians crouch and take cover. Hospital patients removed to safety. Nurses tend to a wounded man. French and U.S. troops drive through the city. Civilians shake hands with the soldiers. Nazi collaborators are disgraced and paraded on the streets. People cheer and celebrate.
German Army invades Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940
Invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands by Germany on 10th May, 1940. Belgium: Nazi troops enter Belgian border crossing with armor and infantry, and invade Belgium. Netherlands: German Ju 52 trimotor transport aircraft carry paratroopers who jump over Rotterdam, Netherlands. They land and move against defenders on the ground. Defenders surrendering under white flags. German aircraft bomb parts of Rotterdam and cause a large conflagration at Rotterdam Port. Fires burning in Rotterdam. civilians leaving areas of fire carrying belongings. (World War II period).
German propaganda film about the battle of Belgium commencing 10 May 1940, in World War II
Film opens with date: 10 May 1940 (date of the German invasion of Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium, in World War 2). Huge precise formation of German soldiers is shown. Alternating closeups of individual soldiers and camera pans across the formation. Animated map shows Germany, Belgium, France and Holland, plus Rein River, City of Lille, and Paris. It shows positions of English and French armies, ostensibly attacking from France, across Belgium and Holland, toward the German Ruhr region (but actually moving to repulse the German offensive). Belgian troops advancing on motorcycles past sandbagged buildings. The French border being opened followed by many French military vehicles, including trucks, trailers, artillery pieces, and some French Lorraine 37 tracked vehicles. A steam locomotive pulls a boxcar troop train. French and British forces seen on the train. Many of the Allied soldiers sit in its doorways with their legs dangling. A French Char B1 heavy tank rumbles along a road. French light tanks. More views of Allied troops, including French Colonials, marching through towns and villages. Closeup of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, General the Viscount Lord Gort, with another British Commander. British troops in armored personnel carriers. British troops marching as someone is hear singing in background, about "washing day on the Siegfried line." Several British self-propelled heavy guns in motion. German army engineers detonating a charge followed by large explosions.
