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Delegates of United Nations Conference watch motion picture on surrender of Germany and work toward defining UN Charter.

Exterior of a United Nations theater in San Francisco, with movie theater marquee indicating its use exclusively for pass holders attending the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Inside the Delegates of United Nations conference gather during the 2nd week of the conference to watch footage of the German surrender at Reims, signed by General Alfred Jodl. Projectionist and movie projector in booth of theater are shown. View of men and women in movie theater watching movie, including an elevated side view of people watching the movie, and views of the theater screen and movie playing, with backs of heads of people in foreground. Delegates talking and attend meeting in San Francisco, California as they continue work leading toward defining the UN Charter and founding the United Nations organization. Footage from the San Francisco Conference vote, chaired by Anthony Eden of Great Britain, approving the Charter of the United Nations on June 26, 1945

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032538
Americans celebrate victory over Germany , ending World War II, in Europe. Crowds cheer in streets of Manhattan, New York

A huge crowd cheering and celebrating the news of victory over Germany, ending World War 2, in Europe, on May 8, 1945 (VE Day). Cheering crowds gathering at Times Square and Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City. American flags on display.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032951
Funeral of United States General George Patton and key moments and accomplishments during his life.

On the life of U.S. General George S Patton Junior (with narration by Ronald Reagan). Fight at the Siegfried Line during World War 2. U.S. 3rd Army cross the Siegfried Line. General Patton with his officers. Patton's troops cross the Rhine. American soldiers in the streets of Germany. Patton presents the Medal of Honor to a soldier. Patton sees dead people at a concentration camp in Germany. Patton's army moves towards Denube Valley. Civilians in the streets. Patton with officers. Written on a wall 'Hitler is kaput'. Trucks loaded with soldiers. A gun thrown on a pile of guns on the ground. Patton in a barge. A welcome ceremony for General Patton on his return to US: A parade along Broadway in Los Angeles on June 9, 1945, as over 1 million citizens welcome General Patton home and cheer. Shops and offices on Broadway in Los Angeles. Patton waves at the people from an open jeep. Patton and General Doolittle in Los Angeles. General Doolittle makes a speech at a ceremony and introduces General Patton. Patton addresses the gathering and talks about the war and the accomplishments of the Third Army. He notes that from aerial view, Germany and Austria "look like hell from the top." And "that's what any place that the 8th Air Force and the Third Army worked on looks like." Also Patton says, "You must remember this. That from Brest, to various towns in southern Germany and Austria whose names I can't pronounce, but whose places I have removed," (laughter in crowd), "the trail of the Third Army and the 19th Tactical Air Command and the 8th Air Force is marked by more than forty thousand white crosses; forty thousand dead Americans." View of a military cemetery graveyard. General Patton lays flowers at the grave of one of his soldiers. Patton watches a race at Soldiers Field Academy. He shakes hands with the winners. Soldiers carry Patton's coffin wrapped in American flag. Patton's grave with flowers on it. Two soldiers stand beside it. Patton's statue at the West Point Military Academy.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945
Duration: 8 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033597
Views of Guam at end of World War II

Beach scene at Tumon Bay, Guam in 1945, at end of World War 2 . Bathers and some small boats in water of a bay. Sand beach covered with palm trees and other semitropical flora. People seated on the sands. Water of the bay and promenatory of land in background. Different sequence, showing three U.S. Landing Craft Support, Large, LCS (L) clustered together at anchor in a bay, with buildings on shore in background. The mast of a U.S.warship. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber in flight overhead. It displays tail code of solid black square with "M" inside, identifying it as belonging to the 20th Air Force, 314th Bomb Wing, 19th Bomb Group, based at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Camera focuses on the bomber as it passes overhead. Sailors speed into the bay, aboard a motor boat. The B-29 circles directly overhead, passing the American flag displayed on the main mast of a warship. The B-29 appears to be descending to land at the airbase.

Location: Guam
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035636
Villagers of Bande, Belgium, massacred by Nazis on Christmas Eve, in retribution for deaths of three German soldiers, in World War II

A sign identifies the village of Bande, in Belgium, during World War 2. View of snow-covered village rooftops from a distance. Closeup of a cafe in the village. Bodies of 34 young men from the village are seen lying in the cellar of the cafe. All had been executed on Christmas Eve, by a unit of the Nazi SD (Sicherheitsdienst) affiliated with the SS (Schutzstaffel) in retribution for the deaths of three German soldiers killed by Belgian maquis (Resistance fighters) on September 5, 1944. (Bande had been occupied by U.S. forces soon thereafter, but was retaken by German forces in the December Ardennes offensive, setting the stage for the massacre.) British troops that re-occupied the village on January 10th, 1945, are seen removing the bodies from the cellar and placing them on the snow-covered street. Wooden coffins are stacked up at the side of the building. Some closeups of the victims are seen. Scene shifts to a snowy field where the bodies are on the ground and men wrap them in sheets and place them in coffins. Closeup of British soldiers placing cover on a coffin and affixing an identification tag on it. Next, the Village Priest presides over a mass funeral for the victims, as villagers stand along the line of coffins. Women in black grieve over the victims. British soldiers carry the coffins to army trucks.The villagers follow behind the trucks as they proceed to the graveyard for burial. The coffins are placed on the ground at the cemetery.

Location: Bande Belgium
Date: 1945, January 10
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036158
Americans in New York City celebrate the surrender of Japan in World War II, at Times Square.

Film opens showing aerial view of a United States B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft in flight, then scenes of numerous U.S. Army Air Forces warplanes and bombing (partially obscured by on screen newsreel text). Next, crowds are seen jamming Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, celebrating victory over Japan in World War 2. (Known as V-J Day or Victory over Japan day, marking the end of World War 2, on 14 August, 1945.) A facsimile of the Statue of Liberty has been set up in the square. Moving lights on Times Building motograph news zipper or ticker announce Japanese surrender. Jubilant celebrations and smiling Americans wave American flags. Closeup of the Statue of Liberty facsimile. A woman dances the Lindy Hop with a U.S. Navy sailor, as others (including many servicemen in uniform) watch.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036267
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