General Eisenhower confers with British Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory and British Air Chief Marshal, Sir Arthur Tedder, in front of a map of Europe on a wall. New York Post, June 6, 1944, headline reads "INVASION Smashing Inland." U.S. troops assault beach at Normandy on D-Day and several fall from enemy fire during World War II. German troops surrendering as Americans advance. Dead German soldier. Adolf Hitler sits in a room. B-24 bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 2nd Bomb Wing, 446th Bomb Group, in flight on mission over Germany. Bombs falling on target. View through gun camera of fighter strafing German aircraft on the ground and strafing a railroad train filled with ammunition, that explodes. Sun newspaper headline reads: 'Allies plunging deep into Reich.' U.S. troops move through grassy field. U.S. artillery crew fires M-114, 155mm Howitzer under camouflage net. New York World Telegram newspaper headline reads: 'Allies swarm across Rhine'. U.S. troops crossing the Ludendorff Bridge, at Remagen, Germany. View of dead victims at German concentration camp. Journal American newspaper headline reads: 'Mass surrender of foe underway'. German prisoners of war double-time march running along a road with hands held high in surrender. Emotion and distress show on face of very young German boy soldier as he unbuttons his coat. A German woman sits quietly in background. A mile long line of German prisoners march in a field. A Nazi Swastika flag burning on the ground.
Large number of German prisoner of war soldiers assembled in barracks yard in British Zone in Germany, just after the end of World War 2 in Europe. The German soldiers are being demobilized, finger printed, and insignia are removed from their uniforms. A man cuts a wing symbol off of a German officer's hat. A German farmer addresses the group. Soldiers work in farm and pitch hay.
A view of building of Westminster Church House in London, England. Men seated for a conference. Conference held to ratify the San Francisco charter in securing world peace. Vyacheslav Molotov and Wellington Koo attend the conference.
Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death in Oslo, Norway. Men stand outside the Court House. Vidkun Quisling arrives at the Court House. He gets out of the wagon. Vidkun Quisling inside the court room. He leaves the court after the sentence is announced and enters a patrol wagon.
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in Oldenburg, Germany. Aircraft on ground. Men seated in the cockpit. Wrecked plane of Field Marshal Montgomery from which he escaped unhurt. Jeeps and car parked. He reviews Canadians of Third Division. An officer reads commendations. Field Marshal Montgomery awards medals.
River travel in China. Several Chinese boats in a river which runs between high mountains. Natives on shore pull boats upstream. Laborers pull boats from mountain roads. Laborers strain to pull the craft. A man sits on boat with an oar.
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