Formal surrender of the German army before the Allies at headquarters of the 15th Army Group in Italy during World War II. Four star General Mark W. Clark flanked by Major General Benjamin W, Chidlaw, Lieutenant General R. L. McCreery and Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott in a war room. Motorcade of surrendering German Generals arrives and enter War Room. U.S. and German military officials on a table for signing surrender. U.S. staff officer addresses the surrender party. German officers leave in sedan after signing surrender.
Armed Italian Partisans escort several Italian Fascist officials, who walk with their hands raised along a street in Ivrea, Northern Italy, during final days of World War 2, in Europe. Local citizens walk along beside and behind them, including some on bicycles. Another scene shows Italian Partisans escorting several soldiers, of the Italian National Republican Army, with their hands on their heads. This group is also followed by a large number of local citizens. Scene shifts to an American jeep carrying an officer and two U.S. soldiers. It is followed by an automobile, seen, later parked with another near a sidewalk, where several Italian Republican Army officers are conversing cordially with American soldiers of the U.S. 92nd Infantry Division.(By May 5, 1945, all Nazi German forces in Italy, had capitulated.) Italian women and children seen in a small open bus.
Vietnamese awards to United States Servicemen on the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Lieutenant General Nguyan Van VY and party de-bark from U.S. Air Force plane C-2A on flight deck of USS America. U.S. officers salute the Vietnamese officers. Two United States Marines follow the official party. A hot suit man sits on tractor. The C-2A plane taxi on deck with wings folded directed by a crewman. UH-2B helicopter flies on side of the ship.
Cars drive on American highways in the early 1930s. Closeup view of a sign indicating a speed limit of 40 miles per hour. Point of view shot from inside a moving car driving on a highway, as men workers on the other side of the road are seen hand-painting white stripes on the highway while cars pass by. Milestone indicates distances on roads to locations in Indiana and Ohio and Florida. Closeup view of a route number sign for Indiana route 31. Ford Model T cars driving on roads and streets and passing by. Instructions to drivers like curve ahead (beneath a Florida route 4 sign). A Florida US 1 route sign with palm tree branches behind it. A grouping of road signs along US Route 20 in Ohio, with signs pointing to other nearby routes and cities in Ohio.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry in Savannah, Georgia. Experts in a bamboo forest. One of them digs ground using a shovel. He pulls out a root from the ground. He cuts it into two equal parts from center. The experts drive away in car to the headquarters of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biological Survey. The name plate consists of portrait of Migratory Waterfowl Refugee bird. At the headquarters a man puts the root into a clipper for processing.
Elements of Allied D-Day invasion fleet underway in the English Channel, as viewed from a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI), during World War 2. U.S. Coast Guard 83-foot crash boat, Number 6, of Rescue Flotilla One, cruising along near the U.S. Attack Transport, USS Samuel Chase. A line of other ships underway,behind.
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