American officers at Manila Harbor in the Philippines towards the end of World War II. An officer inside a building as he looks out from a window towards the sea. He comes out and gets into a jeep with a sign on it that reads ' War Shipping Administration Regional Headquarter '. Another officer gets into the jeep and they drive away. They arrive at a swimming pool. Clothes to be dried are spread on the ground. The officers silhouetted in the foreground as they sit by the pool side. Other U.S. soldiers in the background as they are about to get into the pool.
Filipino civilians at work in Manila, Philippines towards the end of World War II. Filipino women wash clothes. Water running from taps as the women wash clothes. A woman smiles. Clothes lines outside houses. Women hang clothes on the lines. A Filipino man climbs onto a huge container. Exteriors of a building with trees in the foreground. A damaged half ton truck outside the building. A man unloads bags from the half ton truck. People outside the building.
Unloading of equipment at Manila Harbor in the Philippines towards the end of World War II. Huge boxes lined up. Japanese characters on the boxes. A shell being lowered by a crane with a sign on it that reads ' USN '. A United States soldier on the deck of a ship as he looks on. A soldier aboard a ship in the foreground. A number of ships underway in the background. Soldiers tie a rope to wrecked equipment aboard a ship. The wrecked equipment is hoisted in a sling and is being lowered on a deck. A shell being lowered into water.
Germany surrenders in Rheims, France during World War II. Nazi General Alfred Jodl arrives at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. General Jodl and others enter the building. U.S. General Walter B. Smith, Allied Chief of Staff and other officers at a desk. German General Jodl signs the surrender papers. General Smith also puts his signature on the papers. The surrender document with the signatures of the two Generals. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower smiles. He holds two pens in a V sign.
German prisoners of war arrive in New York, United States during World War II. 3,000 prisoners of war disembark from a ship in New York. The prisoners being searched by soldiers. The prisoners include men of all age groups from young to old. The prisoners lined up.
Former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini’s body is put on display in Milan after his execution in Northern Italy (WWII). Many people gathered in a street in Milan. Dead bodies of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, and other fascists such as Alessandro Pavolini, Achille Starace and Nicola Bombacci at Piazzale Loreto, near Milano Centrale railway station. People gathered around the bodies as policemen try to control them. Cameramen record the event. Dead bodies of Mussolini, Clara Petacci hanged upside down from a metal girder framework of an Esso gas station.
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