Allied forces in Japan after atomic explosion during World War II. A group of British military officers, members of British Physical Damage Team, examine damage at an electric transformer station in southwestern Nagasaki. Officers observe the destroyed Power Transmission Grid. Destroyed electrical supply poles, damaged transformers. Officers observe damage to the grid. Ruins of electrical poles and distribution lines.
Allied forces in Japan after atomic explosion during World War II. A group of British military officers, members of British Physical Damage Team, examine damages by atomic explosion. Officers visit the destroyed Nagasaki Prison at approx 1000 feet distance from the ground zero. Officers examine effects of immense heat from explosion, on a discolored steel piece found in debris. Team of British officers, one of them smokes a pipe. Members of British delegation are shown in close ups: Captain W.N. Thomas, Professor of Engineering at Cardiff College, who led the team; Flight Lt. H. Elder; Squadron leader R.G. Whitehead; Squadron Leader J.B. Hawker; Special Duty Officer O.C. Young.
Allied forces in Japan after atomic explosion during World War II. Australian Forces during an oath take ceremony. Troops lined up at parade grounds in front of their barracks. Bugler stands in front of flag pole and another soldier hoists the flag. The Australian flag hoisted at the ceremony. Troops march with their rifles.
Training regarding relief and rebuilding works in Germany and Japan by United States Army, after World War II. Narrator discussing adoption of American inventions during the war that were used against America and allies. Sketch of an early American submarine design, followed by view of German U-boats operating under sea, firing torpedoes and target ship is destroyed. Footage of Wright brothers with an early Wright Brothers airplane invention, as they prepare it for a flight. This is followed by a view of London burning after aerial blitz raids by German aircraft during World War 2. View of atomic bomb explosion over Japanese city of Nagasaki and mushroom cloud seen from the air. Also view of Trinity blast in New Mexico - the first U.S. atomic test. The atomic cloud rises high and vast in the sky. Narrator warning against the perils of a third world war.
Flags of Allied nations hoisted by soldiers at a ceremony at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Military Generals of England and the United States descend from a plane. Lord Tedder and United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shake hands and talk with Russian officers including Marshal Sokolovsky. German Field Marshal Keitel and others in his delegation arrive at the airport. Military band plays and Russian honor guard marches as British, American, and Soviet officials observe, while Keitel and his staff consult over paperwork in a car. Motorcade drives through ruined city of Berlin. Many views of various damaged and destroyed buildings and bridges filmed from a moving vehicle in the motorcade. Rubble all over the city roads and citizens moving about the streets, some observing the motorcade. Views of the building in Karlshorst, in a suburb of Berlin, where signing of the Nazi surrender takes place. Views of the Meeting hall (converted from a mess hall) before the signing . Views of the various military officials in the building before the signing of the surrender. Excerpt from Japanese newsreel. (World War II period).
The converted mess hall in Karlshorst, outside Berlin where signing of the German surrender takes at the conclusion of World War 2. British delegation arrives and take their seats. Flags of United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain at the meeting hall. Nazi delegation arrives and takes their seats at the side of a table. Nazi officials Field Marshal Keitel, Colonel Stumpff and Admiral Friedeburg sign the document. Lord Tedder, General Spaatz and Marshal Zhukov sign the document.
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