Exteriors of a new Army Post Office in New York City. Railroad train arriving at post office station. Mail bags are unloaded from the train. Thousands of Postal mail bags filled with Christmas packages, parcels, and letters are seen stacked inside the post office. Mails being sorted inside the post office. Packages and letters on a moving conveyor belt. Bags being moved by multi-car trolleys. Troops' mails being unloaded from a truck at the war front. Packages and letters being handed out to U.S. soldiers in World War II. Soldiers standing by a Christmas tree and receiving mail. A soldiers patrols on guard duty in front of a Christmas tree.
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Henry Luce (unseen, but heard) conducts a staff meeting in New York. He is heard expressing doubts about the imminence of war in Europe. He speaks of possibly needing to explain to readers why war hasn't commenced. Journalist Harold Horan says a lot could be said about that and it would make a "swell" story..
The capture of German General Albert Kesselring in Berchtesgaden, Germany during World War II. General Kesselring and two aides enter the terrace of the Berchtesgadener Hof hotel (present location is now the Haus der Berge, Hanielstraße 7, 83471 Berchtesgaden, Germany) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, where U.S. General Maxwell D. Taylor had arranged for them to stay following surrender at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They sit together at a table and review documents. United States Army General Maxwell D. Taylor and Colonel Ned D. Moore of the 101st Airborne Division leave a building with a 101st Airborne emblem on the doorway and meet Colonel Charles H. Chase.
Aerial views of Adolf Hitler's Berghof residence, in Berchtesgaden, Germany during World War II. Ground view of the Berghof estate damaged by Allied bombing. German prisoners of war clean up bomb damage in the area of the retreat. They march back to camp with pick-axes and shovels.
Exterior of American Export Lines Office in Lisbon, Portugal. Interiors of offices, crowded with European refugees, including Jewish refugees, waiting to get ocean liner transport tickets to flee war and persecution during World War 2. American Nationality and export flags.
Port of Lisbon, Portugal. European refugees, including Jewish refugees, embark the transport ship Serpa Pinto, during World War 2, fleeing war and persecution. Men, women, and children boarding the refugee transport ship. Close up views of passengers, including young children, ascending the stairs to the ship. Ship crew members wearing tuxedos are seen on the stairway in one shot. The transport ship leaves the port into setting sun, as people wave at it from shore. Clip ends with separate shot of American Export Line refugee ship, the SS Excalibur, at the dock. In the distance, several refugees can be seen climbing walkway to board the SS Excalibur. (This ship was taken over by the U.S. Navy in 1942 and renamed the USS Joseph Hewes, AP-50.)
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