Japanese troops and leaders surrender to the Allies after their defeat in World War II. Tanks being demolished during disarmament in Japan. United States troops advance with tanks. Imperial Japanese Army officers surrender their swords and salute to the British forces in Malaya (Malaysia). A Japanese officer surrenders his guntō or military sword. Captured Japanese soldiers march on a dirt road amongst a heavy rainfall.
A flag raising ceremony in Paris, France during operations for the Liberation of Paris in World War II. French men exit from an office. A man addresses newly appointed police. People applaud and sing the French Anthem. French soldiers salute. Partisans and FFI (French Forces of the Interiors) members present during the flag raising ceremony. The French flag on the Paris City Hall (Paris Hôtel de Ville, Pl. de l'Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris, France) and blood stains on a sidewalk. Vehicles parked and people walk in a square surrounded by buildings. (World War II period).
World War II French prisoners of war come out of freight cars and walk towards a railroad platform in Paris, France. Wounded French prisoners arrive at a train station in Paris. Soldiers assist the wounded. French prisoners of war walk with baggage. French politician Pierre Laval arrives from London, England at the North Station along with German Minister Schleier. He shakes hands with other German officers. Debris lying outside German troops barracks.
Scenes shot in 1942 and 1943 from inside German occupied Paris, France during World War II. German officers and civilians at the Longchamps racetrack in Paris, France. Horses run on a dirt track. German troops at the Eternal Light for the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the Arc de Triomphe. A German Panther tank captured by the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) in 1944. French collaborator Ferdinand De Brinon speaks into a microphone. German officers listen carefully. Collaborators Marcel Deat, and Laval's son in law, Comte Rene de Chambrun also seen. French Regimental flag held by French collaborator militia. A crowd outside Notre Dame Cathedral. French Marshal Philippe Petain arrives in a car. French collaborationist troops stand at attention. Ceremony for the Legion against the Soviet Russia shows assemblage and German Swastikas on a wall.
United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft drop parachutes and supplies over the Rhine in Europe during World War II. Aircraft fly in formation. Paratroopers descend through parachutes. A large number of parachutes coming out of the C-47 Skytrain aircraft. Supplies dropped by the aircraft on the ground through the parachutes. The aircraft fly over after dropping parachutes. View of the ground below.
Scenes in Germany near the end of World War II. A Sherman tank moving along a dirt road. A blown and twisted railroad track. An American convoy of trucks and other vehicles moving along the dirt road. German ammunition in an open railway car. A U.S. soldier walks past a German railroad train. Several wrecked German wrecked German utility vehicles, including a Citroen staff car lying in an open field. A U.S. soldier examines an 88mm antitank round for a German Panzerschreck (antitank recoilless gun, like a bazooka).
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