LST (Landing Ship, Tank) convoy heading for Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. Tracer bullets fired at Japanese plane in sky. Japanese plane is hit and shot down. U.S. battleship underway. (World War II period).
Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.
U.S. Navy bombardment of beach at Kerama Retto, Okinawa, during World War 2 invasion of Okinawa. LSMs (Landing Ship, Medium), destroyers and battle ships underway. Rocket barrage fired. Rocky shoreline of the island in the background. Details seen include: Time 00:25 is the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40 firing main and secondary batteries. Time 00:41 is a detailed closeup bow-on view of the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40. (Note: As seen, the USS New Mexico did retain its casemated 5-inch/51 caliber guns for the Okinawa invasion, contrary to some historic references.)
Bombardment on beach of Kerama Retto, Okinawa in Pacific Theater. LSMs (Landing Ship, Medium), destroyer ships and battle ships underway. Rockets fired from ships. Rocket barrage fired. Black smoke rises up. Mountains and island in the background. (World War II period).
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the Presidency in United States. Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool, at night, as seen from the Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Potomac River in background. View of the U.S. Capitol Building and the White House. Presidential Seal. Officials deliberating. Ballistic missiles. Soviet leader, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Russian troops. U.S. Aircraft carrier. U.S. helicopters in flight. U.S. tank crew in a Patton tank. Citizens of United States. U.S. soldiers in Vietnam War. Presidential Seal. The White House. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Statue of Liberty in New York. The campaign stresses that Nixon has the required qualifications and experience of a leader.
Film opens showing a Paris street scene. Cars and buses pass on the streets. A man peruses publications on a newsstand. Camera moves to the newsstand. Traffic flows past. Pedestrians walk past. Customers patronize the newsstand.Camera moves across the street to reveal flowers on a Chestnut tree looming above the newsstand. Scene shifts to the flower market on the Cite Island in Paris. The Palais de Justice; La Conciergerie; Tour de l'Horloge are in the background. Vendors bring wares to the flower stands. Views of patrons walking amongst the various flower stalls.
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