Nazi German officials attend wedding of Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein (Hans Georg Otto Hermann Fegelein) to Margarethe "Gretl" Braun, sister of Eva Braun, at the Mirabell Palace (Mirabellplatz 4, 5020 Salzburg, Austria) in Salzburg, Austria during World War II. Interiors of room in the Palace where civil ceremony is held. Bride and Groom and Nazi officials arrive at the wedding reception. Head of SS (Schutzstaffel) Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, and bride and groom seated. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addresses the group gathered. Hermann Fegelein, a favored pupil of Himmler, and Gretl Braun sign a marriage document. Martin Bormann looks on. Himmler and others sign the document. Himmler presents two silver cups to the bride and groom.
Heinrich Himmler toasts German Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein, his liaison officer on Hitler's personal staff, and Eva Braun's sister, Gretl, following the civil ceremony wedding of Fegelein and Braun in Salzburg at the Palace of Mirabell. The couple are greeted by other military officers. Gretl Braun Fegelein is presented flowers. As they are exiting the room the couple stops and talks to Martin Bormann. The couple gets into a car and drive away, bound for a wedding reception.
Car arrives at top of mountain road bearing Eva Braun's sister, Gretl, the bride, her husband, Nazi Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein (Himmler's liaison officer on Hitler's personal staff), and other German officers. Others arrive and all enter the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagles Nest) to attend a wedding reception. This is following a civil wedding ceremony held in Salzburg Austria. They walk into the entrance tunnel. Bride and groom enter room. Bride removes some lipstick. Bride sips champagne,greets well wishers and receives flowers. Eva Braun greets and kisses her sister, the bride. Many other guests greet her. A little girl dressed in a cupid outfit arrives and reads a poem or message. Another litle girl presents flowers to the bride. Kitchen staff is shown preparing for the celebration. View of the large kitchen in the Eagles Nest. Members of the wedding party are seated at several tables around the dining room. Martin Bormann is seen speaking to Fegelein and his bride. Change of venue to the Great Hall of the Berghof, where Adolf Hitler poses with the newly wedded couple and converses with the bride.
Testing of concrete Mulberry Caisson at Portsmouth harbor in England. A warehouse and a Caisson at the dock. Sailors and Chief )Project Officers ( CPOs) work on hausers, climb ladder and secure cable hausers. A tug tows the Caisson from the dock. These structures had the code name Phoenix
World War 2, the Pacific Theater. A Japanese Kamikaze suicide plane (Lieutenant Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3, Type 33,) seen diving and crashing amidships into the United States aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9). It explodes with a huge fireball. The Essex quickly becomes engulfed in smoke.
World War2, the Pacific Theater. United States battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) in rough seas. Heavy sea breaks over the bow of the ship. Ship submerges in sea up to the deck at bow. Seamen in a small boat Raft in rough seas as men rescued in whaleboat. Whaleboat picks up men in rough sea. Two rubber life rafts in water. Men rescued in life rafts. Whaleboat in rough seas. Six life rafts come alongside a ship. U.S. sailors and Marines being rescued. Navy TBM airborne in flight and drops smoke flare. Men in rubber life rafts. Three life rafts with men in them in open seas.
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