Saint Patrick's Day being celebrated at Cassino front in Italy during World War II. General Alexander, who served with the Regiment in WW1, celebrates St. Patrick's Day with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards. He presents the Shamrock as well as gallantry awards to the Guardsmen who had fought at Anzio. Later they march past while General Alexander takes the salute. [?Allied troops pass in review before the Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower.] British Anzio rocket guns being fired.
U.S. Forces shoot down enemy airplanes and submarines in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Task Force underway at sea off the coast of Saipan. Three Japanese aircraft attack ships. Naval guns being fired at the airplanes. The airplanes being shot down. An aircraft bursts into flames and falls into sea. A U.S. aircraft attacks a German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean. The U boat being strafed and sinks into the sea.
The Germans sign unconditional surrender in Berlin, Germany on May 8, 1945 during World War II, signing a document similar to the one signed at Reims the day before. People gathered outside a German Army Engineering School. Soviet General Georgi Zhukov and British Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder at a desk as they represent the Allies. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other officers representing Germany arrive. Keitel puts his signature on the document of unconditional surrender. Zhukov and Tedder also put their signatures as they take over Germany. The two officers shake hands. Allied officers tour the city of Berlin. Damaged buildings in the city due to Allied bombings. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The heavilly damaged Hotel Adlon. Aerial views of the damage caused due to Allied bombings in Hamburg. Damaged buildings and shipyards in Hamburg.
American air attack on Japanese cities during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress aircraft in flight as it drops bombs over an airplane factory in Nagasaki. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up. A map depicts the air strike on Tokyo by U.S. aircraft that took off from Saipan, Mariana Islands. During an American air attack on Iwo Jima, Japan U.S. Army Air Force P-51 Mustangs shoot down Japanese aircraft. A Japanese airplane descends as smoke rises. B-29 aircraft in formation flight as bombs are being dropped and smoke rises. A damaged B-29 comes in for landing at an air base. The damaged B-29 aircraft. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft lined up at an air field.
U.S. Army Air Forces P-47s drop napalm incendiary bombs on German military fortifications and military site in Germany a month after the Allied victory in Europe during World War II. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft drops bombs over a pillbox and an explosion occurs. Bright orange flames and black smoke arise from the bombing.
Damaged buildings at the Zoologischer Garten zoo (Hardenbergpl. 8, 10787 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany due to Allied bombings during World War II. A wall of a building with Egyptian carvings at the zoo, riddled with bullet holes. Carvings on the walls with extensive damage. A flak tower (the Zoo Tower, presently the site of the Hippopotamus Park inside the zoo) with a sign on it that reads 'ZOO'. The damaged flak tower at the zoo. A wrecked iron gate at the zoo.
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