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Allied Military Government working to provide medical care and food to Italians in liberated parts of Italy during World War II
Relief activities of the Allies in Italy during World War 2. Opening scene shows a sailing Schooner under Allied Navy control, docked at a port in Italy following the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. This schooner is being loaded with Allied Military Government (AMG) medical supplies. Closeup of wooden crates containing the supplies. American medical corpsmen checking a stream of water for mosquitoes, and then spraying the area from a DUKW. A hospital building and interior with Italian women holding their infants as they await checkups and vaccinations against disease. Italian citizens in a street anxiously seeking food from the AMG. Local Italian police work to control the crowd in which some persons become unruly and have to be removed. American troops of the U.S. 5th Army marching along Italian roads. Troops riding on a Sherman tank and on a truck pulling an artillery field piece. Supply yard stacked high with food supplies for U.S. troops. (Narrator states it required 750 tons a day to feed the 5th Army.) Views of Naples harbor cluttered with 30 large ships and 300 smaller ones blown up or scuttled by retreating German forces. Firemen manning hoses to fight fires at the waterfront. Smoldering ruins in the port. Three months later, U.S. forces are seen operating supply missions through the port. View from a hill of the port with barrage balloon overhead. Closeup of flour being offloaded from holds of ships by derricks. Italian soldiers unloading the flour bags and placing them aboard trucks for transport to Italian commercial food companies. A U.S. Army Captain at a table with Italian businessmen who purchase the flour from AMG at a fair market price. Italian purchasers examining the flour. Flour being transported to bakers who bake it into bread. Young men busy making and baking loaves of bread. Loaves stacked up at the bakery. A big tray of fresh loaves being sampled by Italian officials and distributed to local Italian civilians who enjoy it.
Allied Forces land In Japan depicting the surrender of Japan to the Allied forces in World War 2
Titled 'Allied Forces land In Japan'. USS Missouri leading a convoy of 400 warships into the Bay of Tokyo. Admiral Halsey of the U.S. Navy smiles. Huge guns on the ship. A U.S. Army Air Force base at the island of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. Army Air Force plane lands at a Japanese Air Force base near Tokyo. Officers of the Japanese Air Force surrender to the officials of the Allied forces. U.S. National Flag hoisted at Tokyo Airdrome. Base operations sign there for the 3rd Airdrome Squadron. Japanese Military Police marching at Hazuki Airfield. Scenes of destroyed planes and facilities on the ground at Hazuki airfield. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the fleet of Allied Forces congratulates forces on the USS Missouri. Japanese ship alongside USS San Diego. Japanese men climb into the ship and give navigation instructions to the San Diego and Task Force 31. Many sunken Japanese ships in harbor at Yokosuko. Japanese ship Nagato and crew taken into custody by the Navy and its new captain Thomas Flynn.
Signing of the surrender note aboard the USS Missouri after the surrender of Japan to the Allied Forces in World War II.
Signing of the instruments of surrender formalizing the capitulation of Japan to the Allied Forces in World War II. The Battleship USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay. The U.S. Destroyer, Buchanan, pulls alongside bringing representatives of the Allied Powers to participate. U.S. General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces boards the USS Missouri and is welcomed by Fleet Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey. They proceed to the ship's Veranda deck for the signing ceremony. Japanese delegation led by Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, accompanied by General Yoshijiro Umezo arrives in a boat. Speech by MacArthur as Japanese delegation looks on. Japanese representatives sign the surrender instruments. General MacArthur then signs using several pens that he presents to U.S. General Wainwright and British General Percival and others. Admiral Chester Nimitz signs for all U.S. forces, followed by Admiral Halsey. Allied representatives then sign for China, the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, and New Zealand. MacArthur gives closing comments. Allied aircraft fly overhead after the ceremony.
Germany in years leading up to World War 1 and during World War I
Traces events leading up to and through World War I. Portrait of German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. Wilhelm II riding on horseback. He starts the preparations for war. Views of German military officials including Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Newspaper headlines of assassination of Austrian Archduke. Celebrations on streets of Germany at start of World War I including views of German soldiers and citizens preparing for war. Germany launch war on Serbia, France and England. German infantry and u-boat submarines target enemy positions. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in his office . U.S. declares war on Germany. U.S. forces departing from American cities and arriving in Europe; moving toward battle. Scenes from trench warfare of World War I in France. Soldiers going up "over the top" out of trenches during offensive operations and into "no man's land". Retreat of Germans, views of General von Luddendorff, the German Chief of Staff. Armistice declared after secret message sent to German government by Luddendorff. Cheering people celebrate the end of World War 1 after armistice. Views of United States General Pershing.
Workers at Mint gold refractory in Philadelphia cast government gold into bars to transfer it to Fort Knox Vault in Kentucky.
U.S. Treasury prepares to move United States gold bullion to Fort Knox Vault in Kentucky. External view of U.S. Mint building in Philadelphia with cars passing by North entrance. Workers at the Mint's gold refractory in Philadelphia cast huge quantity of government gold into gold bars. Workers working at kiln to manufacture gold bars. 28th Director of the Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross, signs paperwork while seated at a desk, flanked by other U.S. Mint officials. View of gold bars to be transferred to Fort Knox Vault in Kentucky.
American post War II occupation of Japan.
Documentary depicts job of United States occupation forces in Japan. Opening scene shows Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita being escorted by armed American military officer to a room. A woman at an outdoor stand, passing out leaflets to Japanese people during the U.S. postwar occupation of Japan. Camera pans across exterior of prison where Japanese wartime leaders are incarcerated. Japanese read information posted on a telephone pole. Newspaper in English reporting that Emperor Hirohito says he is not a Diety and the Japanese are not a master race. A Japanese broadcaster spreading the new concepts. Loud speakers on city streets carry the news. People visiting news stands, including many Japanese soldiers in uniforms. Several Japanese citizens gathered by a bulletin board to read the latest information. Japanese workers shoveling up debris from bombing during World War 2. View of vast destruction in a Japanese city, where only several concrete and steel buildings can be seen standing. Japanese people going about their normal affairs, walking on paths cleared through the detritus of war. U.S. troops monitoring Japanese travelers boarding a railroad train. A U.S. soldier standing with a Japanese policeman, searches a Japanese cyclist for contraband. Views of the Pacific Ocean, with waves crashing on the shore. Dead American soldiers in the waters at the coasts of various scenes of combat against Japanese forces during World War II. Views of American soldiers helping and tending to wounded during the war. A huge formation of American soldiers marching. The Liberty bell. A closing slate reading: "Our Job in Japan". Music: Beethoven's 9th Symphony is heard.
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