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U.S. Navy submarine USS Bluefish underway with Japanese prisoners aboard it in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

U.S. Navy submarine USS Bluefish submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. An insignia aboard the U.S. Navy submarine USS Bluefish. Japanese prisoners go topside aboard the submarine. Smoke rises in the background as a small boat burns. Two small boats burn in the background as the submarine pulls away. Lookouts with binoculars. The USS Bluefish approaches a Japanese schooner. A lookout with binoculars on the background. Oil afire on the surface at night. The oil fire is from the i350, a Japanese submarine sunk by the Bluefish on 15 July 1945.

Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059903
German officers surrender to Allied Forces at end of World War II

Film begins with nighttime bombardments of rockets and artillery. Then at one minute after midnight, on May 9th, 1945, the guns stop. Next, a day earlier, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel enters a conference room on May 8th, accompanied by German staff officers. He salutes with his Marshal's baton and takes a seat. He signs surrender document. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov stands before being seated. British Air Marshal, Sir Arthur Tedder, is seen signing the document along with Marshal Zhukov. General Carl Spaatz, Commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe, shakes hands with Marshal Zhukov. Several scenes of battlefield cemeteries are seen next. German officer prisoners are seen from the back as they walk with hands behind their heads. Views of Surrendered German senior military officers, including: German Admiral Erich Raeder; German Marshal Walter Model; German Marshal Wilhelm Keitel; and Marshal Hermann Goering (being disarmed).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060117
Scenes of World War II as the Allies converge through Germany towards Berlin.

Animated map shows direction of Allied forces converging on Germany, Western Powers from the West, and Soviets from the East during final phase of World War 2, in Europe. Newspaper headline reads: "Russians strike for Berlin."The New York World-Telegram newspaper headline reads: "Yanks Cross the Rhine!."U.S. Army troops seen in house-to-house fighting in Germany.American troops standing at Rhine River viewing Cologne, Germany. The cathedral at Cologne. Film of Hitler's troops crossing the Rhine in 1936 contrasted with views of many German prisoners of war being marched under Allied guard, in 1945. USAAF P-38 lightning aircraft taking off on mission against German targets. View from Allied aircraft strafing German target which explodes. A P-38 landing on a snowy airfield. USAAF P-47 of the 388th Fighter Squadron (C4), 365th Fighter Group, landing and skidding sideways off the runway. It slides in the snow and strikes another P-47 aircraft with engine running, on the ramp. B-24 Liberator bombers taxing for takeoff. Formation of USAAF B-17 bombers dropping bombs all over Germany. Formation of B-17s at very high altitude, leaving contrails behind them. U.S. infantry and armor fighting in snow-covered streets of German city. Allied troops, including Polish soldiers, fighting in the snow. Allied wounded being carried while under fire from German forces. U.S. Sergeant Peter Di Guiseppi and Private Pat Brady being interviewed. De Guiseppi remarks that the war seems like it will never end. Brady recounts being in a tank that hit a mine or something that exploded and abandoning the tank faster than he could ever imagine. He hunkered down in a ditch while bullets flew all around him, including the ammunition from the destroyed tank.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060202
United States 9th Army troops and equipment cross the Rhine River in Europe during World War II.

A 1976 training film in the United States details the role of Combat Military Police of the United States Army in supporting river crossing during war. A member of U.S. Military Police looks through binoculars on a hillside while the division advances on a training battlefield. Rest of clip shows actual footage from World War 2: U.S. 9th Army troops cross the Rhine River in Europe in 1945 during World War II. Equipment and U.S. Army soldiers cross the river. Landing crafts and barges across the Rhine River. The troops disembark from landing crafts at the river bank. A pontoon bridge is built by men. An MP directs traffic of vehicles and other equipment along the bridge.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061446
Army Air Force Republic P47 fighter aircraft strafes lines of communication and attacks an Me-109 during World War II

Gun camera footage from USAAF P-47 of the 378th Fighter Squadron, 362nd Fighter Group, operating from Verdun Airfield, France, during World War 2. The aircraft flown by pilot named Bullock, on March 31, 1945, strafes lines of communication, striking vehicles on roads and trains moving on rail lines. In second sequence, the same pilot, now identified on slate, with the 377th Fighter Squadron, on April 4th, attacks a lone German Me-109 seen flying in thin cloud below him.

Date: 1945, March 31
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063582
British Gloster Meteor jets land and take off at a British airfield immediately following World War 2

British Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor twin jet aircraft taking off and landing at an airfield in Britain, in June, 1945, right after the end of World War II in Europe. Several American soldiers sit on grass beside the runway and watch. One takes pictures. The clip shows a Meteor, so wrong clip!

Date: 1945, June 10
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063594