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YALTA CONFERENCE 1945 PLANE LANDS WITH SECRETARY OF STATE STATTINIUS, AND IS MET BY SOVIET COMMISAR MOLOTOV.

OTHER DIGNITARIES ARRIVE, INCLUDING HARRY HOPKINS. OTHER PLANES ARRIVE ON AIRSTRIP.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT (FDR) ARRIVES AT YALTA CONFERENCE, IS GREETED BY DIGNITARIES.

LS EXTERIOR 100 ROOM CASTLE OF LIVADIA, JUST OFF THE SHORES OF BLACK SEA. ABOVE VIEW LIMOS WITH LEADERS ARRIVING AT CASTLE FOR MEETINGS. FIRST TO ARRIVE IS STALIN, FOLLOWED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL. SHOTS OF THEM ENTERING CASTLE.

MS VARIOUS SHOTS HEADS OF STATE AND MINISTERS SEATED AT MEETING TABLE. PAN LEADERS. OUT OF CONFERENCE COMES THE CRIMEAN CHARTER TO SPEED FINAL DEFEAT OF GERMANY

TITLE: "AID TO LIBERATED EUROPE" - (ALSO ON BIG 3 AGENDA - GOOD SHOTS SMALL CHILDREN, SDULTS, SCRAMBLING FOR MORSELS OF FOOD ON GROUND.

CU MAP OF POLAND SHOWS THE CURZON LINE FOR ITS EASTERN FRONTIER. A NEW PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE SET UP IN POLAND. PAN DOWN MAP TO YUGOSLAVIA. VOICE OVER, "A NEW GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT FOR YUGOSLAVIA", TO BE HEADED BY MARSHAL TITO. MS TITO PUFFING ON CIGARETTE.

TITLE: "UNITY IN PEACE AND WAR" - SUPER-IMPOSED OVER GATHERING OF BIG THREE AND MILITARY LEADERS, OUTSIDE CASTLE.BEVY OF CAMERAMEN TAKING SHOTS. MS FDR, CHURCHILL AND STALIN SEATED FACING CAMERA.

PRESENTATION OF LOOK MAGAZINE NEW MOVIE AWARDS AT LOS ANGELES THEATER WITH MC BOB HOPE.

BING CROSBY & DIRECTOR LEO MCCAREY ARE HONORED FOR "GOING MY WAY"

TITLE: "TOP DESIGNS GET STYLE "OSCARS" - NEW YORK - LONG LINE OF MODELS SASHAY ACROSS STAGE IN VARIETY OF CLOTHING DESIGNS, AS PRESENTATION OF FASHION CRITICS AWARD FOR 1944. VARIOUS SHOTS MAYOR LAGUARDIA ON STAGE, PRESENTING DESIGNER "ADRIAN" WITH OSCAR-LIKE AWARD. VARIOUS SHOTS MODELS SHOWING AWARD WINNING GOWN DESIGNS OF GRECIAN INFLUENCE, AS VOICE OVER DESCRIBES. 1944 fashions

TITLE: "MANILA - 3700 CIVILIANS FREED" - EXTERIOR LARGE PRISON BUILDING IN MANILA. - VARIOUS SHOTS GENERAL MACARTHUR ARRIVES FOR SURPRISE VISIT. IS CHEERED BY ADORING CROWD, INCLUDING SOME OF THE 3700 CIVILIAN PRISONERS, MOSTLY BRITISH AND AMERICAN, FREED BY THE YANKS.

PARTING BOMBARDMENT BY JAPANESE IS MET WITH FIERCE BOMBARDMENT BY U. S. ARTILLERY. MS MSLE EX-PRISONERS CHOP WOOD, THOUGH EXHAUSTED BY MAL-MALNUTRITION. VARIOUS SHOTS PEOPLE ON LINE FOR FOOD AND SHOTS OF THEM EATING THEIR FIRST SQUARE MEAL IN YEARS. MS WOMAN TAKES A DRAG ON HER FIRST CIGARETTE IN YEARS, SHOWS ELATION ON HER FACE.

BATTLE OF IWO JIMA: COMBAT FOOTAGE FILMED UNDER FIRE BY NAVY & MARINE CORPS COMBAT CAMERAMEN

AERIAL VIEW IWO JIMA, ONLY 700 MILES BEYOND SIAPAN AND 620 MILES TO TOKYO. MAP SHOWS LOCATION IN RELATION TO JAPAN. LS VARIOUS LS VIEWS AMERICAN DIVE BOMBERS BOMBING ISLAND OF IWO JIMA, FOOT BY FOOT, HE MOST HEAVILY DEFENDED SPOT IN THE WORLD.

AERIAL BOMBARDMENT & DAYS OF SHELLING BY SURFACE SHIPS ON PACIFIC ISLAND OF IWO JIMA.
GRUMMAN WILDCAT AIRPLANE DIVES INTO SEA WITH PILOT SWIMMING AWAY SAFELY

H-HOUR AS 4TH & 5TH MARINE DIVISIONS GO ASHORE ON VOLCANIC ISLAND

JAPANESE MORTAR & ARTILLERY FIRE AS MARINE CORPS HIT ISLAND

LS LANDING CRAFT RECEIVES DIRECT HIT

ATTACK ON MT. SURIBACHI ON IWO JIMA AS MARINE CORPS DIG IN

JAPANESE CAVES, DUG-OUTS & PILL BOXES ARE TAKEN OVER

ATTACK ON AIR FIELD NO. 1 AS FILMED FROM INSIDE TANK

FAMED SHOT (PHOTO) MARINES RAISING U. S. FLAG ON MOUNT SURIBACHI.

TITLE: "HOME - FOR 1000 HEROES" - OVER THERE - U. S. WOUNDED BEING CARRIED ABOARD TROOP SHIP BY CORPSMEN - "NEW YORK HARBOR" - VARIOUS SHOTS TROOPSHIP CROWDED WITH WAVING, CHEERING, RETURNING GIS, ENTERS NEW YORK HARBOR. THEY WAVE AND CHEER AS THEY PASS STATUE OF LIBERTY, NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE. FACE SHOTS OF SMILING, GIS. ONE WITH ARM IN CAST. VOICE OVER, "FINEST SIGHT FOR BATTLE WEARY EYES". MCU ONE OF WOUNDED GIS IN COT, SWOONS WHEN HE DRINKS HIS FIRST GLASS OF MILK.

GIS DEBARKING FROM TROOP SHIP, TOWARDS CAMERA. ONE OF THEM WITH ARM IN CAST. ONE OF THE SOLDIERS SUDDENLY DROPS HIS GEAR, FALLS TO HIS KNEES, KISSES THE GROUND. ABOVE SHOT GI BEING CARRIED OF SHIP ON STRETCHER, WAVES HAPPILY TO CAMERA. HE IS PLACED IN AMBULANCE.

CU VARIOUS SHOTS GIS CALLING HOME ON PHONE IN MEDICAL UNIT. MS GROUP OF WOUNDED GIS IN CASTS AND CRUTCHES GATHER AROUND PIANO SING SONGS AS NURSE PLAYS. "I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE RAILROAD ...".

NEWBORN BABY GIRAFFE AT NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK IN WASHINGTON, DC

CU ZOO ATTENDANT HOLDS TINY BABY GIBBON IN ONE HAND AS HE FEEDS HER (BARBARA).TWO WIDE-EYED CHILDREN AND MOM WATCH. CU GIBBON FEEDS FROM BABY BOTTLE AS ATTENDANT HOLDS THE TINY ANIMAL.

GERMANY ATTACKED FROM BOTH EASTERN & WESTERN FRONTS AS RUSSIAN & AMERICAN ARMIES CLOSE IN

TITLE: "MARCH 19, 36" - OLD FILM SHOWS LONG COLUMN GERMANY ARMY TROOPS MATCHING, AND INSIDE CITY OF TO COLOGNE. MS VARIOUS SHOTS LONG COLUMN OF GERMAN PRISONERS MARCHING (TOWARDS CAMERA), THE SAME ROUTE IN MARCH 1945. OVER 1 MILLION HAVE BEEN TAKEN PRISONER. CU SHOTS GERMAN PRISONER WITH HANDS UP.

VARIOUS SHOTS BOMBERS TAKING OFF TO BOMB GERMANY. AERIAL VIEWS POV PLANE CAMERAS,BUILDING BLOWING UP DURING STRAFING AND BOMBING. LS RETURNING U. S. PLANE, CLEARLY IN TROUBLE, LANDS, SLIDES ACROSS FIELD, SMASHES INTO PARKED FIGHTER PLANE. VARIOUS SHOTS BOMBER SQUADRONS IN FLIGHT, RANGING ACROSS. AERIAL VIEWS BOMBS EXPLODING ON BERLIN. ALL GERMANY

VARIOUS SHOTS BRITISH, FRENCH, CANADIAN TROOPS FIGHTING HOUSE TO HOUSE IN SNOW COVERED GROUNDS. GRAPHIC VIEW DEAD GERMAN SOLDIERS. VARIOUS SHOTS GI CORPSMEN CARRYING WOUNDED ON STRETCHERS, UNDER FIRE BY NAZIS. MS GROUP U. S. GIS POSE. ONE SPEAKS, "LOOKS LIKE NO END AT ALL TO THIS WAR"

CU TANK SOLDIER TELLS BATTLE STORY IN COLORFUL WAY. TELLS HOW HE AND HIS MEN WERE SHOOTING UP EVERYTHING IN SIGHT, THEN THEY WERE HIT BY ANTI TANK WEAPON, AND HE SCRAMBLED OUT OF TANK FOR HIS LIFE.

OHIO RIVER FLOODS LEAVING CITY OF CINCINNATI UNDER WATER. NATURAL DISASTER

RED CROSS NURSES POURING SOUP INTO BOWLS FROM LARGE POT. CU MOTHERS WITH BABIES ON LAPS FEED THEM MILK, FOOD. TWO LITTLE GIRLS BITING INTO SANDWICHES.

CHILDREN BOXERS FIGHT AT U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY IN ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND AT 26TH ANNUAL NAVY JUNIOR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS

REFEREE WALKS TWO TINY CONTENDERS TO CENTER RING. JUDGE RINGS BELL. VARIOUS SHOTS BOUT IN PROGRESS, FIGHTERS CAN HARDLY RAISE THE HUGE GLOVES. ONE FIGHTER PUSHES THE OTHER TO GROUND.

LIBERATED PRISONERS OF WAR FROM BATAAN, PHILIPPINES JAPANESE PRISON CAMPS RETURN TO U.S. AT SAN FRANCISCO HOMECOMING

CAPTURED JAPANESE FILM SHOW DEFEAT OF U.S. TROOPS AT CORREGIDOR IN THE PHILIPPINES IN 1942 & BEGINNING OF BATAAN DEATH MARCH

CORREGIDOR IN 1945 AS U.S. CRUISERS & DESTROYERS AT MOUTH OF MANILA BAY DESTROY JAPANESE

503RD PARACHUTE REGIMENT DEPLOY OVER "THE ROCK"

U. S. LANDING CRAFTS LANDING ON BEACH OF CORREGIDOR. TROOPS HEAD FOR SOUTH BEACH, WHERE THE JAPANESE OVERWHELMED OUR FORCES IN MAY 1942.VARIOUS SHOTS TROOPS USING MORTARS, ARTILLERY AND MACHINE GUNS ON JAP POSITIONS. TROOPS, TANKS MOVE INLAND. VOICE OVER, "IN LESS THAN 3 HOURS CORREGIDOR IS IN OUR HANDS ...., THE ROAD TO TOKYO LIES AHEAD".

TITLE: "WAR CHIEFS AT FRONT HAVE CLIMAX" - VARIOUS SHOTS U. S. ARMY TROOPS, TANKS CROSSING THE RHINE, AS 5 AMERICAN ARMIES LAUNCH THE BIG PUSH.

TITLE: "INSIDE GERMANY" - "CHURCHILL" - CU NAZI EMBLEM AND SIGN AST SIEGFRIED LINE INSIDE THE REICH. CHURCHILL, FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY AND LT. GENERAL OF U. S. 9TH ARMY INSPECT TANK BARRICADES ALONG SIEGFRIED LINE NEAR AACHEN. SIGN: "THIS WAS THE SIEGFRIED LINE". CU CHURCHILL AUTOGRAPHS ARTILLERY SHELL, THEN FIRES IT WITH ARTILLERY PIECE.

TITLE: "INSIDE GERMANY" - "EISENHOWER" - EISENHOWER WEARING THE NEW 5 STARS AND GENERAL SIMPSON, SURVEYS THE DESTRUCTION BROUGHT TO GERMANY BY HIS SUPREME COMMAND.

TITLE: "ITALIAN FRONT" - "MARSHALL" - CHIEF OF STAFF GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL INSPECTS TROOPS WITH GENERAL MARK CLARK. HOLDS HANDS TO EARS AS HE WATCHES ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT.

TITLE: "WASHINGTON" - "NIMITZ REPORTS" - NIMITZ AT MEETING TABLE WITH OFFICIALS AND SURROUNDED BY STANDING NEWSMEN. CU NIMITZ SPEAKS. 'WE ARE PREPARED TO MEET THAT REMNANT OF THE JAPANESE FLEET ANYTIME IT COMES OUT,....."

TITLE: "PACIFIC" - "SLAPPING THE JAPS". ACTION SHOTS U. S. WARSHIPS BEING ATTACKED BY JAP SUICIDE BOMBERS. LOW FLYING PLANE CRASHES INTO U. S. SHIP. LS SAILORS STAND AT ATTENTION ON FLAGSHIP, AS ADMIRAL COMES ABOARD TO MEET WITH ADMIRAL HALSEY ON FLEET OPERATIONS, FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS ON IWO JIMA AND LONG SUCCESSIONS OF PACIFIC VICTORIES. THE TWO MEET, SHAKE AND POSE.

STARVED AMERICAN POWS FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMP AT BILIBID PRISON IN MANILA.

MS THREE PRISONERS POSE WITH JARS IN HAND SHOWING THEIR DAILY RATIONS OF 600 GRAMS OF RICE, SOY BEANS AND CORN MEAL. THOUGH THEY LOOK GOOD WITH UNIFORM ON, THEY POSE IN SHORTS, WHICH TELLS A DIFFERENT VISUAL STORY. CAMERA SHOWS THEIR UNDERNOURISHED BODIES, WITH BONEY CHESTS AND THIN LEGS. VOICE OVER, "REMEMBER BATAAN, HOW COULD THESE MEN FORGET IT:.

TITLE: BASEBALL GETS GREEN LIGHT" - "NEW YORK GIANTS" -GIANT PLAYERS PLAY CATCH WITH EACH OTHERS AT LAKEWOOD, N. J. SPRING TRAINING CAMP. CU MANAGER MEL OTT SPEAKS TO PITCHER CARL HUBBLE AT THE BATTING BOX.

TITLE: "ST. LOUIS BROWNS - 1944 CHAMPS - GOOD SHOT SENSATIONAL ONE PLAYER, PETE GRAVES IN BATTING CAGE HITS OUT A FEW. PETE GRAVES IN FIELD, CATCHES FLY BALL IN GLOVE, SLIPS GLOVE UNDER ARM, THROWS BALL IN RAPID ORDER. oddity, sports, baseball

TITLE: "WASHINGTON SENATORS" - CU LT. GREG SHEPPARD IN ARMY UNIFORM WATCHES SENATORS AT BATTING PRACTICE. THOUGH HE LOST LEG AFTER BEING SHOT DOWN IN GERMANY, TRIES OUT FOR THE TEAM. VARIOUS SHOTS SHEPHERD, PRACTICING WITH TEAM, LIMPS AS HE RUNS AROUND FIELD WITH TEAMMATES. CU SHEPHERD IN BASEBALL UNIFORM TELLS HIS STORY. SHOWS HIS ARTIFICIAL LEG. JUMPS UP AND DOWN, RUNS BASES. sports, baseball

TITLE: "RUSSIA'S BALKAN FRONT" - :BELGRADE" - AERIAL VIEW YUGOSLAVIA'S CAPITAL CITY OF BELGRADE. MAP OF YUGOSLAVIA SHOWS BELGRADE, :THE CITY THAT SPARKED THE SOVIET DRIVE. GREAT SHOTS SOVIET MOBILE LAUNCHER LAUNCHING HUNDREDS OF MISSILES IN RAPID ORDER. TANKS AND ARTILLERY FIRING AT ENEMY INSIDE CITY. TITO'S PARTISAN MEN AND WOMEN FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH SOVIETS. CARRY SOVIET WOUNDED IN MAKE-SHIFT STRETCHERS. MORE HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHTING UNTIL LAST INVADER IS DRIVEN FROM CITY. HUNDREDS NAZI PRISONERS PARADED IN STREETS. AMONG THEM COLLABORATORS. GOOD SHOT ANGRY PARTISAN HITS COLLABORATOR WITH RIFLE BUTT.

VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE CROWD WELCOMES YUGSLAVIA LEADER, MARSHAL TITO TO CAPITAL. CHEERS WELCOME SOVIET SOLDIERS AND PARTISANS AS THEY MARCH IN CITY.

TITLE: "1944 "OSCARS" - MOVIES HONOR TOP STARS" - CU FILM ROLLING ON CAMERA REELS. CAMERAMEN, STAGE HANDS, DIRECTOR, BACK TO CAMERA, WATCH AS ACTORS PERFORM ON SET. CAMERA ON MOBILE BOOM, FOLLOW, TAKES SHOTS AS HORSE DRIVEN SLAY WITH ACTORS RIDE IN SNOWY WEATHER. hollywood movies

GOOD SHOTS JENIFER JONES HANDING OSCAR TO INGRED BERGMAN, MARGARET O'BRIEN BEING GIVEN TINY OSCARETTE, CHARLES COBURN HANDS OSCAR TO BARRY FITZGERALD. AND NOW, (1945), GARY COOPER PRESENTS OSCAR TO BING CROSBY FOR "BEST ACTING AWARD" FOR MOVIE, "GOING MY WAY". hollywood, movies, actors, actresses

NAVAL AIRCRAFT CARRIERS TARGET TOKYO WITH UNITS OF ADMIRAL MITCHER'S TASK FORCE 58

VARIOUS SHOTS PLANES TAKING OFF FROM CARRIER FOR ATTACK ON TOKYO, DESPITE GALE FORCE WINDS. AERIAL VIEW CARRIER FROM PLANE IN FLIGHT.VARIOUS SHOTS SQUADRONS BOMBERS IN FLIGHT. AERIAL VIEW SNOW CAPPED MOUNT FUGIAMA IN JAPAN. AERIAL VIEWS BOMBS EXPLODING ON TARGETS IN TOKYO. JAP PLANES DESTROYED ON GROUND. MORE OF SAME.

GUN CAMERA REVEAL BOMBS & ROCKETS STRIKING AIRFIELDS & POWER PLANTS IN TOKYO'S METROPOLITAN AREA AS NAVY'S JOINS ARMY'S B-29 BOMBERS

TITLE: "IWO JIMA VICTORY" - "THE SITUATION WELL IN HAND" - U. S. MARINES. LS LS MOUNTAINOUS IWO JIMS AS SEEN BY INVASION SHIPS. VARIOUS SHOTS MARINES IN LANDING BARGES HEADING FOR BEACHES. MARINE HELL DIVERS ATTACKING FROM SKY, DROPPING BOMBS.MARINES ON BEACHES UNDER INTENSE FIRE.U. S. ARTILLERY UNITS AT WORK. WOUNDED GETTING HELP. GRAPHIC VIEW DEAD JAPANESE SOLDIERS. AND FINALLY MARINES RAISING AMERICAN FLAG ON MOUNT SURIBACHI.

01:46:07 TO END. TITLE: "THE LAST DAYS OF MANILA" - "A CITY FOUGHT BACK WITH BLOOD ....." THE FINAL HOURS BEFORE FREEDOM" - AERIAL PAN MANILA IN RUINS. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY SIGNAL CORPS CAMERAMAN) "VOICE OVER, "MANILA CAPTURED .. YES, BUT A MANILA RUINED ....".VARIOUS SHOTS U. S. TROOPS BATTLING DIE-HARD JAPANESE IN SPORTS STADIUM. WOUNDED BEING CARRIED BACK RIGHT IN THICK OF BATTLE.

FIGHTING JAPANESE WHO MAKE FORT FROM INSULAR ICE PLANT

WOUNDED AMERICAN BEING BROUGHT BACK TO TEMPORARY HOSPITAL ARE FIRED UPON BY ENEMY

BATTLE FOR THE INTRAMUROS, ANCIENT WALLED CITY INSIDE MANILA WHERE SNIPERS & FLAMETHROWERS ARE USED

FILIPINO CIVILIANS LEAVE WALLED CITY

GRUESOME PICTURES OF MURDERED PEOPLE WITH HANDS TIED

VARIOUS SHOTS GENERAL MACARTHUR INSPECTS THE CITY, CAREFULLY WALKS THROUGH RUBBLE. VARIOUS SHOTS MACARTHUR RETURNS TO CORREGIDOR. SOLDIERS STAND AT ATTENTION, BUGLE PLAYS. MACARTHUR MAKES SPEECH. WATCHES AS FLAG IS RAISED. CU U. S. FLAG BLOWS IN WIND.