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Japanese Kamikaze planes are shot down during the Battle of Okinawa (WW2)

Japanese planes attack United States fleet off Okinawa Island, Japan. A barrage of United States Navy fire shoots down the Kamikaze planes. Views of fire and smoke-filled sea and air. Curtain of anti-aircraft flak fired at Japanese aircraft. Many attacking aircraft seen streaking across the sky and some falling into the ocean after being hit by fire form U.S. Navy ships. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, May 3
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032528
General MacArthur visits the Philippines and Borneo (WW2)

General Douglas MacArthur meets President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines in Nichols Field (present day Villamor Air Base), Manila during World War II. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland accompanies General MacArthur. Jean MacArthur, wife of General MacArthur, visits wounded soldiers in makeshift hospital. MacArthur and his wife visit Mindanao in a Jeep. Dive bombers bombard Japanese positions in Ipo Dam, Norzagaray, Bulacan. Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers found near Ipo Dam. View of soldiers killed and their remains. General MacArthur also accompanies a task force in the invasion of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo. General MacArthur is seen smoking a corn cob pipe. General MacArthur and General George Kenney inspect Australian troop operations in Borneo. They meet Bornean civilians and Australian soldiers. General MacArthur watch the body of a dead Japanese sniper (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 28
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032529
U.S. President Harry S. Truman closes the San Francisco Conference leading to founding of the United Nations.

U.S. President Harry S. Truman greeted at San Francisco Airport by U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius before a parade through streets. President witnesses the voting, as fifty nations agree to the new United Nations Charter. First to sign is China followed by Russia, Great Britain and France. Then Mr. Stettinius affixes his signature. A close view of signed charter is shown. President then addresses the Conference.

Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032530
Representatives of nations sign United Nations Charter at end of San Francisco Conference.

San Francisco streets, people standing. Representatives of nations signing the United Nations Charter during the San Francisco conference, including representatives from France, two other nations, and the United States (with Edward Stettinius signing and U.S. President Harry S. Truman standing by. View of a U.S. Navy bus pulling up in front of the building. Disabled war veterans from World War 2 exit the bus with assistance. Many are missing limbs and are using crutches or wheel chairs. A small group of citizens is gathered to welcome them. A young boy looks on with concern as the disabled soldiers and sailors exit the bus. His father comforts the boy. President Truman addressing the General Assembly. Views of United Nations flags of many countries fluttering in San Francisco, California.

Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032539
UN Charter signed in San Francisco Conference; President Harry S. Truman addressing General Assembly; Franklin Roosevelt speech about peace

Delegates arrive in San Francisco for United Nations Conference for World Organization in San Francisco, California. U.S. President Truman arrives by airplane at the conference and is met by representatives from U.S. delegation including Stettinius. Delegates from other countries are also present and greet the President including Jan Smuts of South Africa and William Lloyd Mackenzie King of Canada. Views of presidential motorcade traveling through streets of San Francisco in a parade-like environment, with crowds lining the sidewalks and cheering. Delegates sign the United Nations Charter during the conference. First to sign is Dr. Wellington Koo from China, signing with a traditional Chinese brush. Also shown signing is Gromyko from the Soviet Union, Lord Halifax from Great Britain, and the delegation from France led by acting delegation chairman Joseph Paul-Boncour. Next is Edward Stettinius and Senator Tom Connally, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Commander Harold Stassen, from the United States. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses the general assembly. Representatives of different nations like Lord Halifax of Great Britain, Mackenzie King of Canada, Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, Andrei Gromyko of Russia and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru of India can be seen. Flashback to President Franklin D Roosevelt, shortly before his death, addressing Congress about the coming San Francisco Conference. Roosevelt speaks, expressing his hope that Congress and the American People would "accept the results of this conference as the beginning of a permanent structure of peace, upon which we can begin to build, under God, that better world in which our children and grandchildren -- yours and mine - children and grandchildren of the whole world -- must live and can live."

Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 8 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032540
Displaced Russian people awaits transportation to homeland from Grimma, Germany

World War 2 displaced Russian people gets off of railroad trains which are decorated with greenery and large pictures of Stalin. Russian men, women with their children and luggage waiting and relaxing on railway station. Two United States Army soldiers in conversation with a Russian woman holding an infant in her lap. Russians in an open field, relaxing and waiting for transportation to homeland. Soviet soldiers are also among the group.

Date: 1945, June 21
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032575