United States President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, visits the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth II welcomes them at Windsor Castle (Windsor SL4 1NJ, United Kingdom). President Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II and their spouses Nancy Reagan and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, watch the Queen’s Guards marching. President Reagan and Queen Elizabeth ride horses early the next morning. View of the Palace of Westminster (London SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom) as seen from across the Thames River. President Reagan gives a speech to both houses of parliament in London, the first American to ever do so. In his speech, he challenges the Soviets to allow him to address them in a television broadcast in exchange for the same in America.
The liberated Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manila, Philippine Islands during World War II. Soldiers and Filipino civilians standing in the front yard of the Main Building of the University of Santo Tomas, used during the war as a concentration camp by the Japanese forces for Filipino prisoners and prisoners from the United States, United Kingdom and other Allied countries. Heavy columns of smoke rise from a building where an explosion has occurred. People in the yard are mainly curious. American soldiers drive into the yard in jeeps. A squad of American soldiers marches across the yard. Soldiers and civilians carry wounded on litters. Some damage seen on exterior of the University of Santo Tomas Main Building, with holes in the damaged building. Several U.S. soldiers on guard duty are silhouetted against the light sky. A dead and bloated Japanese soldier in a wrecked car. U.S. soldiers running take cover near a truck. Several mutilated and burned dead bodies in various stages of decomposition on the street.
Aerial views of U.S. fleet off the coast of Tokyo, Japan towards the end of World War II. A Japanese DD (destroyer) underway. HMS King George V of the United Kingdom Royal Navy underway. A United States Navy Iowa Class BB (battleship) underway. A column of DDs underway.
Dignitaries arrive for the Potsdam Conference at Cecilienhof Palace (Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. The palace building and gardens. Red flowers planted in the shape of a star called the 'Big Red Star' in a garden. Green lawns and a river in the background. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill; United States President Harry S. Truman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin arrive at Cecilienhof Palace. The Big Three seated in chairs in the garden. Photographers take pictures.
United States President Harry Truman; General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and United Kingdom Prime Minister Clement Attlee at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. The dignitaries arrive for the Potsdam Conference. The dignitaries seated in chairs pose for a photograph. New British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin stands behind President Truman. Photographers take pictures.
The film 'Two Down and One to Go' talks about the activities of the Axis powers Italy, Germany and Japan during World War II. United States Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson at a desk. Animation shows a swastika being exploded over Germany. Caricatures of the late Duce of the Italian Social Republic Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, the late Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo. A cross being superimposed on the two dictators. The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Pius XII blesses the crowds in St. Peter's Square. 1st Military Governor of the American Occupation Zone in Germany Dwight David Eisenhower, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin display festive moods in separate events. People cheer.
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