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Allied National Leaders hold numerous conferences to plan and coordinate their efforts during World War II

First scene shows President Harry Truman shaking hands with Joseph Stalin on a porch of the Cecilienhof ( home of Crown Prince Wilhelm) in Potsdam, Germany. The two leaders are accompanied by their respective foreign ministers, James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov. Stalin descends steps from the building followed by Truman. View of the back lawn at Cecilienhof. View of its front entrance. Various views of the house and grounds. American, Soviet, and British flags flying from the building. Cars carrying the leaders on road to the Cecilienhof. President Truman and James Byrnes entering outside gate, followed by other attendees. Then Stalin is seen entering followed by Soviet officers and officials. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in Europea and U.S. Army Chief of Staff. George Marshall are seen walking together in a wooded glade on the meeting grounds. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, entering the grounds for the meeting. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin stand on a step before an entrance to Cecilienhof. Truman places their hands together in a mutual handshake, at which Churchill and Stalin laugh. Views of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia where foreign minsters of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union are seen meeting meeting in conference at the Spiridonovka Palace in October, 1943. Closeup of Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, and U.S. Secretary of State, Warren Hull, successively signing a document. Scene shifts, to a C-47 transport aircraft flying over great pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Next, the front of the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, Iran, is shown. The "Big Three" (Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill) sit on the porch of the building. Military officers from their countries stand behind them. Narrator (Franklin D. Roosevelt) says they agreed to launch a gigantic attack on Germany. Scene shifts to Germany, where German military is paraded on public display, showing artillery, Panzer I tanks carried aboard army trucks, Heinkel He 111 bombers in formation overhead, and marching troops giving Nazi salute silhouetted against bright pavement. View shifts to the Livadia Palace, in Yalta, Crimea, Russia. Brief view of the "Big Three" and their staffs sitting around a conference table. Change of location to San Francisco, California, where flags of many nations are displayed along with a United Nations Logo. Representatives of the many nations sign the Charter of the United Nations, founding the U.N. organization on 26 June 1945. Film shifts to Germany where victorious American, British and Soviet troops shake hands and celebrate victory. They share drinks and toast victory.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069647
U.S. citizens of Chinese descent stand in lines, California

U.S. citizens of Chinese descent stand in lines. They register to build Liberty ships. They work in a California shipyard. Chinese food cooked. Workers eat traditional Chinese food.

Date: 1943
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041590
U.S. Army IX Corps soldiers fill and load gasoline cans into trucks and discuss maps in California.

U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at desert training centers in California. RHD Calipatria: A gasoline rail cargo in the background. Gasoline cans are filled and loaded into trucks. Blue CP: A IX Corps officer explains a maneuver map to the soldiers. Red CP: Soldiers camp in the desert. Soldiers discuss a map. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057527
U.S. aircraft on a landing strip, soldiers refill gasoline cans at the IX corps camouflaged headquarters in California.

U.S. Army IX Corps combat operations at desert training centers in California. Landing strip and desert training center area. Four aircraft being parked on the strip. Camouflaged HQ (headquarters) behind the bushes and trees. Aircraft camouflaged with trees and bushes. Soldiers at work on the plane engine under camouflaged netting. Water tank truck leaves a water point. Soldiers refill portable gasoline cans. Crew refuels and starts a U.S. Army Medium Tank M-3 (M3 Lee) tank. A jeep pulls into the camouflaged HQ area. Two African American soldiers at work on a telephone pole. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057529
Camouflaged guns and equipment, soldiers with bazookas while other load land mines at a IX Corps camp in California.

U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at desert training centers in California. Half-track mounted with 50 cal Machine Gun moves. A tank moves on. A soldier on truck and another soldier on ground. Many camouflaged tanks move ahead. Soldiers on the barbwire boarder. A soldier in a trench. Another soldier with a gun inside a foxhole. A soldier digging trench. Two soldier in trench aims Bazooka. Soldiers on the barbwire boarder. Anti tank mine field..Three soldiers unloading mines from a truck. 155 mm Howitzer camouflaged. Four soldiers take stance with 75 mm AA (anti aircraft) gun in preparation for firing. A soldier sees through binoculars. Some more soldiers near a camouflaged trench. A soldier making calculation on the map using drafting instruments. Another soldier sights through transit.. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057530
A P-38 flying at low level flies past a 75 mm antitank gun on a half-track at the IX Corps camp in California

Infantry moves across a wide expanse of a desert at U.S. Army IX Corps camp in California during World War II. A United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning flying at low level across a maneuver area flies past an M3 GMC (Gun Motor Carriage) 75mm antitank gun on a half-track. The P-38 aircraft flies at low level in the open desert area.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057532