(Audio only). Reporter John Charles Daly reports on US, British and German advance in Europe during World War II. News about Allied forces advancing to Berlin, Russian troops in Austria and war in Pacific. U.S. troops advance on Western Front, French troops in France and Allied Armies in Germany. Correspondent Burnett Winston reports from Supreme Allied Headquarters in Paris. British troops advance across Rhine, U.S. troops under command of General Bernard Montgomery advance. British troops enter into Holland.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman warns Japanese Militarists in World War II. President Truman speaks from his desk. He states that Japan will face the same complete destruction that was visited upon Germany. Millions of troops and their implements of war are transferred more than half way around the earth. The President adds that though many key industries have already been leveled by U.S. air attack, all of Japan's industries will be completely destroyed unless Japan surrenders in World War II.
VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. From the White House, in Washington DC, President Truman announces that Germany has surrendered, bringing World War 2 in Europe to an end. Americans are seen celebrating the good news in the streets of downtown, Manhattan, New York City. Crowds on Wall Street and cheering on steps and in front of statue of George Washington at Federal Hall. Ticker tape falls on Wall Street. View of Trinity Church between tall buildings. Cheering crowd fills Times Square. Many in the crowd are soldiers, sailors and other military servicemen in uniform. American flags are seen on buildings and some carried by people in the crowd.
City of Novorossiysk is recaptured by Russians from Germany. Russian heavy artillery fired. Buildings in view. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Russian soldiers observe the area through binoculars. Russian soldiers aboard the ships. Naval and aerial bombardment on the city. Intense street fights. Wrecked and damaged buildings in view. Rubble on street. Russian soldiers cheer as Russians recapture Novorossiysk. (World War II period).
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War 2. The Germans outside buildings in the camp in Karlovy-Vary. German men and women seated outside a building. A line of German men, women and children waiting outside the Administrative office to get the number of the trucks in which they will be going back to Germany. All the men and the women wearing armbands for identification. Two men come out of the office wearing a tag, on their jacket, with the number of the truck. A few men and women inside the office. Two women officials in the office. One of them works on a typewriter. The other woman official pins the tag with the numbers of trucks on the jackets of the two women waiting. A man beside the two German women. The two women leave the office. Men coming out of the administrative building. A Czech official at the entrance of the office. The men hand over their armbands to the Czech official as they leave the office with the tags on their jackets. German children playing in a park in the camp behind a high wire fence. A young Czech boy beside a vehicle outside the wire fence watches the German children playing. A guard inside the fence patrols near the children playing.
A ship blows up at sea (presumably torpedoed by a German submarine). Newspaper of April 2, 1917 announces the United States and Germany at War. U.S. Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, speaking on a public platform, outdoors.. General John J. Pershing, Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1, is seen seated behind Secretary Newton. Scene shifts to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signing papers his his desk at the White House, Washington, DC. Next, Red Cross women are seen serving coffee into the mess of American soldiers about to embark for Europe. Another Red Cross woman carries a basket of baked goods. The soldiers are checked off by officers at the pier, and then embark on a troop ship. View of the troop ship in camouflage paint, moving away from the pier Scene shifts to glimpse of a town in France, where an American officer and some soldiers are seen walking past French inhabitants on a street corner Other American soldiers stand near a large canvas covered army truck. They salute as the American officer passes them.
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