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Trinity test - the first ever Atomic bomb tested in Alamogordo New Mexico, United States.

Shows the first atomic bomb explosion in history, on July 16, 1945, resulting from the work of the Manhattan Project. Atomic bomb tested at an experimental station in New Mexico, United States. Bomb explodes and a mushroom cloud forms, seen from cameras 6 miles away. Smoke and fire emerges. (World War II period).

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049279
United States Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, George S. Patton and Manton Eddy, inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp with the 4th Armored Division and concentration camp survivors, German civilians forced to tour camp during WW2

Survivors show United States soldiers around Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, part of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp network in Thuringia, Germany, after its liberation during World War 2. A group of concentration camp survivors talk to a United States soldier. A concentration camp survivor talks, behind him a fellow survivor smokes a cigarette. United States Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, George S. Patton and Manton Eddy, inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp with the 4th Armored Division and concentration camp survivors. Surviving inmates show the concentration camp whipping post to United States army and Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and Eddy. A United States soldier takes pictures of the whipping post to collect war crime evidence. Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and Eddy walk ahead of American soldiers in Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. A woodshed containing piles of lime-covered bodies. Close view of bodies, starved with some riddled with bullets. View of George Patton, disgusted from the pile of dead bodies, as he inspects the woodshed a few feet away. General Dwight Eisenhower speaks with General Manton Eddy (center) and another United States General. Former inmates demonstrate to the United States Army how the Nazis torture them using a rack. United States Army and generals find fresh corpses of prisoners, gunned by Nazis shortly before the United States Army captured Ohrdruf. Corpse lying face down, with anal area covered in blood. General Dwight Eisenhower and other generals inspect the crude woodland crematory made out of railway tracks by the Nazis to dispose dead prisoners. Charred bodies and skeletons of inmates are on grill. General Dwight Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley inspect the crematory. United States Army trucks arrive in Ohrdruf Concentration Camp with German civilians. German civilians, with some are prominent Nazi Party members, are led by the United States soldiers on a forced tour of the concentration camp. A German medical major, tasked to accompany the German civilians during tour, stands next to jeep with red cross flag. Colonel Hayden Sears speaks to German civilians and American soldiers. United States general speaks to German medical officer. German civilians are led to courtyard of the camp, where there are 30 fresh corpses of prisoners who were killed shortly before the camp’s liberation. United States soldiers lead a group of former slave labor bosses to join their tour. United States soldiers show the German civilians the woodshed containing piles of quicklime-covered bodies. German civilians enter the woodshed upon insistence of Colonel Hayden Sears. German civilians walk away, some covering their noses with handkerchief, from the woodshed. Nazi slave labor bosses enter the woodshed upon insistence by United States Army. German medical officer and slave labor bosses leave the woodshed. German civilians and slave labor bosses tour the camp with United States Army. A German slave labor boss denies his knowledge about the atrocities against the prisoners. German civilians are made to see the charred remains of prisoners in crude woodland crematory. A United States soldier reads to German civilians and officers a list of atrocities committed against prisoners in the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. Charred remains of a prisoner. German civilians listen to United States soldier.

Location: Thuringia Germany
Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 5 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078478
German surrender, UN founding, and Chiefs of Counsel meet before conducting Nuremberg and other trials after World War 2.

A film on preparations that are made for prosecution of axis war criminals following World War 2. Ratification of the surrender documents (from surrender two days earlier at Reims) held at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin, on May 9, 1945. German officers Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine enter room and are seated. View of Keitel signing the surrender document. Scene change to Hall of the United Nations Conference, held in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945, with delegates from 50 Allied nations creating the United Nations. This was officially the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO). Leaders of various United Nations countries address delegates present in the War Memorial Opera House of San Francisco, including Edward Stettinius Jr of the United States. Next: A meeting of the military tribunal Chiefs of Counsel of many nations, including France, Russia, Great Britain and the United States, held in London, England, United Kingdom. They sign the International Military Tribunal Charter governing how the major war criminals from World War 2 would be tried.

Location: Europe
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065511
Ground Infantry quiz question on the famous speech by President Harry S Truman in United States

Picture of Benjamin Franklin, Photo of President Franklin D Roosevelt, President Abraham Lincoln, President Harry S Truman, Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill and Premiere of Soviet Union Joseph Stalin. GI quiz question on the famous speech by President Harry S Truman. President Harry S Truman addresses United Nations Council on April 25, 1945 at the group's opening conference in San Francisco, California. Truman says, "If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace."

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025696
Views of the United States. Farms, cities, highways, and beaches. Destruction in Japan by atomic bomb. U.S. infantry in combat

Farmers harvesting grain and corn with machinery on American farms with a narrow tractor harvester. Steel mills and heavy industry and cargo railroads in the United States. Industrial views with smokestacks releasing much smoke and smog (also pollution scenes). Scenes of New York City with busy streets filled with cars, buses, and truck traffic, together with pedestrians. Many varied 1940s and 1950s cars on the roads. Elevated and also aerial views of U.S. highway networks busy with 1940s and 1950s cars. Views of Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. Scenes of destruction in Japan from the atomic bomb, with sweeping views of destroyed city in Hiroshima or Nagasaki circa 1945 or 1946. U.S. Army infantrymen engaged in house-to-house fighting in Europe during World War II, firing rifles and moving between points of cover in a city filled with rubble.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043634
The Signal Corps recruits being trained and study communication equipment in the United States.

A training film titled: 'Pro Patria Vigilans' on the wartime and peacetime activities of the U.S. signal Corps. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur aboard the U.S. Army battleship USS Missouri during the Japanese surrender ceremonies in 1945. Aircraft flying in formation overhead. Antiaircraft guns directed towards the aircraft. Signal Corps recruits train at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The recruits dive and swim across water. The soldiers attend lecture by an officer. A sign reads: 'Field Radio Course'. Men working in the radio room and are trained. An officer training the soldiers with the help of a model. The coastal defense training of the soldiers. The soldiers study the communication equipment. An aircraft takes off and lands near the message center. A sign outside the building reads: 'Master Message Center'. Officers seated at a desk, discussing a map. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075796
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