German soldiers (prisoners of war) walk with hands on their heads, past U.S. M18 Tank Destroyers of 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion, attached to the 84th Infantry Division, a month before the end of World War 2, in Europe. An M4 Sherman tank makes way slowly through mud in a forested area of Lubbeck (Lübbecke) Germany. Scene shifts to a knocked out U.S. tank. A U.S. Army Lieutenant points to holes blown in the tank ( most likely by German panzerfausts). View looking into the tank reveals a dead U.S. crewman. Group of German soldier prisoners moves quickly along side of a dirt road, under guard by U.S. soldiers from the 334th Infantry Regiment. Another group of POWs moves on sidewalk past a cottage.
German civilian Matthias Gierens, a 37 year old railroad worker, is hanged in Rheinbach Germany for the August 15, 1944 murder of a downed American flyer, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss, from Forsythe, Montana. Reuss was the navigator on U.S. Army B-17 bomber #42-31183 which was downed by German aircraft after it attacked the Airdrome at Wiesbaden, Germany. Gierens and three other German civilian men, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, for the murder of the American airman after his parachute landing near Priest, Germany. The trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime. Military police are seen escorting Gierens toward the gallows in a prison yard in Rheinbach. A German Catholic priest performs the rites. U.S military officer reads charges as Gierens is readied for execution (the officer is possibly Lt. Col J.V. Roddy, of San Francisco, who was in charge of the hanging). Trap door opens and Gierens is hung. The U.S. Army executioners were Master Sgt. John C. Woods, a former Texas State executioner, and Staff Sgt. Thomas Robinson, of Bronx, New York. Witnesses present included seven U.S. Lieutenant Colonels and one British officer, a number of Military Police, news correspondents, and photographers.
A title reading “1917”. An American ship sinks down in the Atlantic Ocean after it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat during World War I. United States President Woodrow Wilson signs the United States declaration of war on Germany. President Woodrow Wilson at work in his desk. A United States soldier blows a trumpet. United States soldiers crowd the deck of a ship sailing to Europe during WWI. The American Expeditionary Forces are waving as the ship sails away from the port. Franklin Roosevelt during World War I. American troops disembark from their ships after arriving in Europe. American women working in military supply factory. Women manufacture bullets using hand drills. A woman assembles munitions. Men building battleships at shipyard assembly line. Allied soldiers running in the battlefield to avoid being hit or bombed by the Germans. Bombs explode in the battlefield in Europe during World War I. Soldiers avoid bombs. A railway gun fires. An biplane falls in smoke after being hit. Explosion from tank in battlefield. Soldier rolls down to a trench. Explosion beside a rolling tank. A German soldier ducks in trench. An Allied soldier fires from a trench. A soldier behind him throws a grenade. Soldier with machine gun ducks from a trench. Tank rolls and fires in battlefield. Black explosion in battlefield. Soldiers run and avoid explosions. German soldiers fire a machine gun and throw grenades. Surrendered German prisoner soldiers march out as prisoners-of-war. American soldiers celebrate Armistice Day. View of the United States flag. Allied soldiers march in victory through ruined city. Americans celebrate Allied victory in World War I, filling with crowds in New York City. Americans hold banner saying, “Germany Surrenders”. Celebrating Americans in New York City, hold American flags and their hats triumphantly after Allied Victory in World War I.
View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States) and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. Front entrance of the U.S. Department of Justice. Sign reads "Federal Bureau of Investigation." A truck enters the U.S. Department of Justice. Employees unload bags of letters from FBI Field Offices across the United States in the FBI mail room. FBI employees sort out new mail and documents from FBI Field Offices sent to the headquarters. A male employee puts mail in individual post boxes. Male FBI employee pulls out a package. Women FBI employees work with telephone switchboard. Female FBI employees in the FBI teletype department. FBI officials at a meeting in an office. FBI official hands out document to messenger. FBI official sits at large desk and discusses documents in meeting with other officers. Documents and letters on desk being reviewed. Narrator comments on the work of the FBI being assisted by the American public, "in complying with the President's request to report to the FBI knowledge of subversive activities, the loyal and alert citizen may help to protect the innocent, as well as to reveal the guilty."
Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.
Helicopter carrying Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson approaches the White House lawn, the Washington Monument can be seen in the background. United States President Lyndon B. Johnson welcomes Prime Minister Lester Pearson on the White House lawn. Prime Minister Lester Pearson and President Lyndon B. Johnson, with Canadian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Paul Martin and United States Secretary of States Dean Rusk sign a treaty on power and flood control development between United States and Canada. Prime Minister Lester Pearson and President Lyndon B. Johnson, with Canadian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Paul Martin and United States Secretary of States Dean Rusk shake hands after signing treaty. Photographers, one with a 16mm motion picture camera, take photos of the treaty signing. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Lester Pearson sign an agreement creating the Roosevelt Campobello International Park off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada. Maryon Pearson, the wife of Prime Minister Lester Pearson, is seen talking with United States and Canadian officials, behind Prime Minister Pearson and President Johnson.
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