A U.S. Navy PBY transfers soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines. Soldiers get into a truck. Few American soldiers seated in a truck. The soldier's belongings being transferred to the truck. Two men carry boxes. Few soldiers outside a tent. PBY Catalina (Patrol Bomber Consolidated Aircraft), an American flying boat of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron on an airstrip. Other aircraft in view. Two trucks parked beside the flying boat. Men transport material from the trucks onto the aircraft. Soldiers board the aircraft with their belongings.
From a Russian feature film "Meeting on the Elbe" (dubbed in Korean). Reenactment depicts meeting of the American 69th Infantry division and Russian soldiers at the River Elbe near Torgau Germany on April 25 and April 26, 1945. Reenactment : An American soldier meets a Russian soldier on the shore of Elbe river and the soldiers talk. A tank behind the soldiers. The soldiers sit down and the American soldier takes out a dollar note and scribbles on the note. A bridge over the River Elbe as the raised spans meet and come into place. The Russian troops stand in a line on the bridge. Two of the soldiers holding flags. A banner being displayed on the bridge across the river. An American officer and a Russian officer shake hands. The American officer reviews the troops. The band plays. The soldiers stand in a line. The officers salute and walk past the troops. The American soldier and the Russian soldier on the shore of the river. The officers salute. American tanks with troops move. The American officer views the soldiers through binoculars. Soldiers standing behind the American officer. The officers converse looking at a document. An American officer in a room inside a building. A crowd outside the building. The officer looks at the crowd through the window of the building. Another officer enters the room and approaches the American officer. The American officer hands over a symbolic key to the other officer and both men converse.
From a Russian feature film "Meeting on the Elbe" depicting East Meets West meeting of the American and Russian soldiers at the River Elbe in Germany on April 25 and April 26, 1945. The film is dubbed in Korean. Reenactment: The interiors of Russian occupation headquarters in a German city perhaps intended to be Torgau. An American officer talks to the Russian officer in the headquarters. Two nuns stand beside them and listen to the conversation. The American officer moves over and picks up the telephone and speaks over the telephone. The nuns and the Russian officer watch the American officer. The Russian officer sits down at the table and writes on a paper. The American officer leaves and the nuns bow to the officer. A woman in a bicycle approaches the American officer. The woman speaks to the officer. Other men and women move about in the headquarters. The American officer talks to a group of men. The officer talks to a couple of men. A Russian guard stands behind. The American officer outside a door to an office room.
British Conservative member of Parliament (MP) Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, arm of accompanying MP, as they walk through recently liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. She is obviously distressed, and sniffs some smelling salts from her purse. She and others look at a jumbled pile of human bodies on the ground, victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces. A flat body truck is piled with corpses, covered with pine boughs.Viewing members of the British Parliament delegation make notes in pads. Various views of the corpses and members of parliament and accompanying British and American officers. Member of Parliament being shown ovens in which corpses were incinerated. Members of the group look at pile of ashes from ovens and pick up human bones that did not burn. They examine a tall wooden gallows-like rack with hooks from which prisoners were suspended and tortured or hanged . An MP holds on to a rope or wire extending from one hook. Camp fence and guard tower in background.
Repatriated French soldiers are welcomed at a reception center in Paris.The move in an informal line and are given refreshments by a young woman. The reception center is decorated with bunting. A portrait of Charles de Gaulle is displayed on the wall.
Gun camera footage of American Army aircraft strafing tanks in Germany. Strafing wooded area. Target burns. Smoke rises from the target area
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