U.S. 305th Infantry, 77th Division mops up on the outskirts of Yuza, Okinawa. Lieutenant talks with a soldier pointing out enemy positions on hill. He walks to M-4 tank, climbs aboard and talks to man in turret. Smoke arising from attacks on hillside. Tanks advance through field. Several M-4 tanks parked on plateau. One tank shoots flame-thrower into possible Japanese positions. (World War II period).
From a series of clips on the making of the modern magazine called the "Dearborn Independent." Scenes of cities all over the world from which reports come in for the magazine. View of railroad station in Europe, possibly France. Palm trees and foliage somewhere in Africa. In Sendai, Japan, view of men, women, and children along street. Japanese family eats, joined by several anglo men. View in South America of a river bank with huts. Somewhere in the American south: A city street with horse-drawn carriage and people walking beside grand homes. View of editorial page of the magazine and close up of 'Mr Ford's Page' (referring to Henry Ford).
Panoramic view of rice paddies in Japan. Mountains in the background. Workers pull plants. Ox draws harrow over fields. Workers standing in water plant sprouts. Trees in the background. Japanese couple eats rice from a bowl with chopsticks.
Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.
U.S. ships underway during the Pacific campaign of World War II. A man stands on the deck of a ship. Supply ships of Task Force in background. Ships' guns fire during a night battle. Night sky shows tracers. Flames on flight deck of a ship after it is hit by a Japanese Kamikaze plane.
U.S. ships battle enemy during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battleships fire rockets in distant background during a night battle. A landing craft moves through water between the ships. Marines go down a net into a boat. LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) loaded with marines ready to leave the side of a ship. American flag flies from LCVP. A photographer in the boat as itheads for a beach. Camouflaged destroyer underway. Main battery on the ship fires guns. Twin 5 inch gun barrels fire. Shells strike near the shoreline. The landing craft heads for the beach during invasion. LSMR (Landing Ship Medium Rocket) fires rockets at the beach. The island partially obscured by smoke arising from rocket explosions. Camouflaged cruiser class ship fires. Explosions on beach of island. Destroyer fires. Three planes in flight over water. Marines look skyward. Formation of aircraft in the sky. Rockets and bombs explode in the beach area. Destroyer underway is firing guns. Landing crafts underway in all directions in water. LCVP underway. The photographer in a landing craft takes pictures. An LCVP hits the beach. Marines disembark from the landing craft. They move inland past debris and hide behind dunes. 155mm howitzer is fired. Dead body of a Japanese soldier.
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