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INVASION OF OKINAWA, APRIL 1, 1945 BOMBARDMENT BY NAVAL VESSELS, 170,000 COMBAT TROOPS HIT THE BEACHES IN LANDING CRAFT, BRUTAL BATTLE SCENES INCLUDING BATTLE FOR INFAMOUS "SUGAR LOAF HILL". GRAPHIC SHOTS OF DEAD ENEMY SOLDIERS.
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00:01:01 26.2 |
MONTAGE NAVAL SHIPS BOMBARD OKINAWA. U.S. TROOPS CLIMB DOWN ROPE NETS TO LANDING CRAFT ALONGSIDE TROOPSHIP, HEAD TO SHORE RELATIVELY UNOPPOSED. CU FACES OF WAR WEARY SOLDIERS ON LANDING CRAFT ON WAY TO OKINAWA SHORE.
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00:01:59 85.2 |
MONTAGE TROOPS EXIT LST'S (LANDING CRAFTS) HEAD ONTO BEACH, INLAND. EXPERIENCING NO RESISTANCE.
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00:02:25 110.2 |
AERIAL VIEW OF MOUNTAINOUS OKINAWA CONSISTING OF LARGE NATIVE POPULATION.
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00:03:06 151.2 |
FLAME THROWER POURS FIRE INTO SUSPECTED ENEMY POSITION. ROCKET LAUNCHERS FIRING HUNDREDS VOLLEYS INTO THE AIR.
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00:03:30 175.2 |
GIS UNDER FIRE, RUN ACROSS RUBBLE TO TANK, BEHIND WHICH THEY TAKE COVER. SHELL EXPLODES NEAR TANK, GIS.
GIS UNDER FIRE RUN THROUGH RUBBLE, TOWARDS CAMERA, WITH HEADS LOWERED. GIS PLACE WOUNDED COMRADE ON TANK. |
00:03:45 190.2 |
U.S. GENERAL SIMON BUCKNER IN FIELD WITH HIS MEN. HE LATER DIED, A VICTIM OF ENEMY MORTAR FIRE.
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00:03:53 198.2 |
STEADY FLOW OF JEEPS, TANKS CLIMB HILL AS THEY MOVE AWAY FROM LANDING SITE. SEA FILLED WITH SUPPLY
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00:04:04 209.2 |
GI WITH ROLLED UP PANTS STANDS IN KNEE DEEP WATER OUTSIDE CAMP, AFTER 15 INCHES OF RAIN FURTHER COMPLICATES INVASION. ANOTHER GI WEARING RUBBER COVER-ALLS, STANDS IN HIP DEEP WATER SEARCHING KNAP-
SACK FOR SHAVING KIT. TAKES SHAVE ON HIGH GROUND. TENTS IN BKGD HALF SUBMERGED IN WATER. |
00:04:15 220.2 |
GIS, BACKS TO CAMERA, WATCH U.S. TANKS IN DISTANCE ADVANCE TOWARDS HILL. SHELL EXPLODES NEAR TANKS.
MEDICS CARRY WOUNDED GI ON STRETCHER TOWARDS TANK. |
00:04:30 235.2 |
MONTAGE TANKS, TROOPS UNDER FIRE ASSAULT SUGARLOAF HILL, KEY ELEMENT IN JAPANESE LINES. MARINES AT BASE OF HILL BEFORE BEING THROWN BY JAPANESE. LARGE EXPLOSION ON DISTANT SUGAR-LOAF HILL.
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00:04:50 255.2 |
CU GI HOLDS BULLET BELT AS PARTNER FIRES MACHINE GUN AT JAPANESE LINE ON "SUGAR LOAF HILL"
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00:04:56 261.2 |
BATTLE HARDENED GI, CIGARETTE DANGLING FROM LIPS
POINTS TO JAPANESE POSITION. GI PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS. MONTAGE BATTLE SCENES. |
00:05:07 272.2 |
SHIRTLESS GI PASSES LARGE SHELL TO SHIRTLESS GI IN TANK-LIKE ARTILLERY VEHICLE.
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00:05:17 282.2 |
CU HUGE EXPLOSION FROM JAPANESE MINE UP-ENDS U.S.
ARMY TANK. GIS WORK FEVERISHLY TO PUT OUT FLAMES OF UP-ENDED MINE TO RESCUE CREW STILL INSIDE. PAN GIS DIG WITH SHOVEL AS ANOTHER USES FIRE EXTINGUISHER. |
00:05:45 310.2 |
TANK DAZED CREWMAN, THROWN CLEAR FROM TANK, RETURNS TO HELP. FELLOW GI'S LEAD HIM AWAY WHEN NOTHING CAN BE DONE TO HELP THOSE TRAPPED.
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00:05:57 322.2 |
GI FLIPS GRENADE IN UNDERGROUND BUNKER, THEN RUNS.
GRENADE EXPLODES. ANOTHER LEFT-HANDED GI THROWS GRENADE IN ANOTHER BUNKER, EXPLOSION. |
00:06:19 344.2 |
HUGE EXPLOSION IN CAVE FILLS AIR WITH SMOKE.
INCREDIBLY, DAZED JAPANESE SOLDIER STAGGERS OUT, FALLS ON HIS FACE, SITS UP IN DAZED CONDITION. STRIPPED TO UNDERWEAR, HE WALKS OUT. GI OFFERS HIM CANTEEN OF WATER WHICH HE SITS DOWN, DRINKS. |
00:06:57 382.2 |
DEAD JAPANESE SOLDIER SLIDES FACE DOWN, DOWNHILL, COMES TO REST AT BASE. CU PAN MONTAGE GRAPHIC VIEWS MAGGOT RIDDEN DEAD JAPANESE SOLDIERS.
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00:07:18 403.2 |
CU FEET OF GIS ADVANCING, WALK PAST AND OVER DEAD BODIES. GI RISES AFTER SAYING PRAYER OVER BURIED GI.
RIFLE USED AS GRAVE MARKER. |
00:08:02 447.2 |
FRIGHTENED YOUNG WOMAN CIVILIAN WITH BOTH LEGS BANDAGED, IS CARRIED BY SHIRTLESS GI TO RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION. CIVILIANS WERE TOLD BY JAPANESE AUTHORITIES, THAT ADVANCING MARINES WOULD RAPE, KILL THEM.
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00:08:04 449.2 |
NUDE LITTLE BOY, FACE BURIED IN BOWL OF FOOD, AS GI WITH RIFLE STANDS BY. GI GIVES DISHEVELED, SHAKING, THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENED LITTLE GIRL, SITTING IN RUBBLE, DRINK FROM CANTEEN. CU LITTLE GIRL SHAKES UNCONTROLLABLY.
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00:08:26 471.2 |
CU GIS GATHER AROUND YOUNG GIRL SEATED ON STRETCHER, WHOSE FOOT WAS HACKED OFF BY JAPANESE AS PUNISHMENT FOR NOT RETREATING WITH THEM. CU BANDAGED STUMP.
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00:08:49 494.2 |
AERIAL PAN OF OKINAWA RUINS.
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00:08:57 502.2 |
LONG THIN STREAM OF FLAMING LIQUID POURS OUT OF FLAME THROWER. FLAME THROWING TANKS LIGHT UP LARGE AREAS OF FORESTRY AND SHRUBS ON ASSUMPTION THEY ARE HIDING PLACES FOR SNIPERS.
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00:09:08 513.2 |
GIS IN FIELD FLING GRENADES AT SHRUBBERY. GRENADES EXPLODING.
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00:09:15 520.2 |
YOUNG JAPANESE SNIPER ROLLS OUT OF HIGH GRASSY HILL, RAISES HANDS IN SURRENDER. HE IS LAIN DOWN, SEARCHED AND STRIPPED NUDE, HIS LEG WOUND TREATED BY MEDIC.
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00:09:49 554.2 |
HIGH ANGLE SEVERAL JAPANESE SOLDIERS, STRIPPED NUDE, WAVING WHITE FLAGS IN SURRENDER. PRISONERS INTERROGATED BY GI. CU SEATED ON GROUND, POSING.
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00:10:07 572.2 |
AMERICAN FLAG BEING RAISED ON OKINAWA. COMPANY OF TROOPS POSING UNDER FLAG.
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00:10:18 583.2 |
LONG COLUMNS OF JAPANESE SOLDIERS EMERGE FROM BRUSH AND LAY DOWN THEIR WEAPONS. CU JAPANESE LAYS DOWN HIS PISTOL IN GRASS. OTHER JAPANESE REMOVE THEIR SIDE ARMS AND AMMUNITION BELTS. JAPANESE SOLDIERS RUN OUT OF BRUSH TO SURRENDER. JAPANESE LARGEST LOST OF LIFE, WORSE DEFEAT IN HISTORY.
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00:10:51 616.2 |
THOUSANDS OF WHITE CROSSES FILL AMERICAN MILITARY CEMETERY IN OKINAWA. HUNDREDS GIS VISIT GRAVE SITES LOOKING FOR FALLEN COMRADE GRAVES. CROSSING AMERICAN FLAGS, PALM BUSHES ON GRAVE SITES.
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00:11:30 655.2 |
ATOMIC BOMBS: COLOR SCENES AFTERMATH OF THE DROPPING ATOMIC BOMBS ON CITIES OF HIROSHIMA, (8/6/45) AND NAGASAKI, (8/9/45), JAPAN. HORRENDOUS DEVASTATION.
RESILIENT PEOPLE TRY TO GET LIFE BACK TO SOME LEVEL OF NORMALCY. |
00:11:33 658.2 |
AERIAL PAN HIROSHIMA, IN AFTERMATH OF EXPLOSION, THE ENDLESS MILES OF COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF LARGE PART OF CITY WHERE BUILDINGS REMAINING UPRIGHT ARE THE EXCEPTION RATHER THAN THE RULE.
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00:12:28 713.2 |
MONTAGE GROUND LEVEL SHOTS OF BLACKENED TREE TRUNK STANDS AMID LEVELLED BUILDINGS. FACTORY BUILDING SEEMINGLY UNTOUCHED AMID TOTAL RUINS AROUND IT.
PEOPLE IN NATIVE DRESS WALKING ABOUT. |
00:12:36 721.2 |
LARGE WALL CLOCK STOPPED AT PRECISELY 8:14 A.M., THE MOMENT OF DETONATION, AS DID THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 70,000 PEOPLE.
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00:12:43 728.2 |
PAN OF RUINS INCLUDE FEW BURNED OUT TREES, PARTS OF STRUCTURES THAT ONCE WERE BRICK AND STONE, THE REST RUBBLE AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.
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00:13:04 749.2 |
THREE STORY STRUCTURE WITH WINDOWS AND ROOF BLOWN OUT. EERIE SCENE OF TROLLEY CAR PASSING IN FRONT, MAKING LONELY TRIP THROUGH WASTELAND THAT ONCE WAS HIROSHIMA. BICYCLIST PASSES BY LEANING LAMP POST
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00:13:20 765.2 |
STANDING FACADE OF WINDOWLESS LARGE APARTMENT BUILDING. LONE BICYCLIST PASSES IN STREET IN FRONT OF IT.
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00:13:28 773.2 |
JAPANESE WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME WALKS PAST RUINS WITH HER TWO SMALL CHILDREN IN HAND, AS PEOPLE TRY TO CARRY ON WITH THEIR LIVES AMONG RUINS.
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00:13:32 777.2 |
MAN, BACK TO CAMERA RUMMAGES THROUGH RUINS TRYING TO SALVAGE WHATEVER BUILDING MATERIALS HE COULD SALVAGE.
UNBROKEN BRICKS CONSIDERED A PRIZE. |
00:13:51 796.2 |
PAN MARINA WITH MANY SMALL BOATS, SEEMINGLY UNTOUCHED BY EXPLOSION PILED TOGETHER. MAN ON BOAT CRANKS WINCH.
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00:14:05 810.2 |
OLD WOMAN WITH HEAD STOOPED VERY LOW, HOBBLES TOWARDS WOMEN MAKING PILGRIMAGE TO RELIGIOUS SHRINE, MIRACULOUSLY UNTOUCHED BY BOMB BLAST. MONTAGE WOMEN SEATED, PRAYING, SOME CRYING, BEFORE SHRINE.
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00:14:28 833.2 |
BURNED RUINS OF BUSES, AUTOS, TRUCKS.
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00:14:34 839.2 |
MONTAGE NATIVE MEN DRIVE OX-DRIVEN CARTS LADEN WITH GOODS, TIMBERS ETC THROUGH VILLAGE STREETS
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00:14:44 849.2 |
LITTLE JAPANESE KIDS SITTING ON CURB
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00:14:47 852.2 |
PAN HIGH ANGLE CROWD AT OUTDOOR MARKET IN HIROSHIMA
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00:15:04 869.2 |
NATIVE WOMAN WITH CHILD IN LAP HANDS OUT WRAPPED GOODS WITH ONE HAND ACCEPTS PAYMENT WITH OTHER.
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00:15:11 876.2 |
WOMAN SHARPENS LARGE BUTCHER KNIFE WITH HAND-HELD SHARPENER. WOMAN STIRS BREW IN LARGE WOK WITH CHOP STICKS.
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00:15:21 886.2 |
YOUNG WOMAN WITH BANDAGED ARM EXITS AS WOMAN ON CRUTCHES ENTERS HOSPITAL GATE, BOTH SURVIVORS OF BOMBING. IT WASN'T UNTIL ONE AND A HALF KILOMETERS FROM GROUND ZERO DID SURVIVORS OUT-NUMBER DEAD.
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00:15:32 897.2 |
DOCTOR FEELS FOR TUMOR IN WOMAN'S BREAST. DOCTOR REMOVES TINTED GLASSES FROM WOMAN REVEALING HORRENDOUS BLISTERS AROUND HER EYES.
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00:15:45 910.2 |
CU DOCTOR BANDAGES WOMAN'S ARM. CU YOUNG BOY BLISTERED, REDDENED HANDS. CU BOY TURNS HEAD REVEALING LARGE BALD SPOT CAUSED BY BLAST.
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00:16:03 928.2 |
CU MONTAGE GRAPHIC SCENE SURGEONS PEELING AWAY BURNED SKIN DURING OPERATION. CU SURGEONS OPERATE ON CHILD'S ARM, EXPOSING MUSCLES, AS THEY TRY TO CORRECT DEFORMED FINGERS. FINGERS QUICKLY BECOME NORMAL.
NURSES, DOCTORS WRAP ARMS AND LEGS AFTER TREATING BURNS. |
00:16:43 968.2 |
AERIAL VARIOUS ANGLE VIEW OF MUSHROOM CLOUD AS IT RISES FROM BLAST AT NAGASAKI, AS SEEN FROM ATTACKING B-29. 35.000 CASUALTIES ADDED TO 70,000 AT HIROSHIMA.
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00:18:04 1049.2 |
INVASION OF ITALY, 9/8/43 WAR MATERIALS ARE STOCKPILED FOR INVASION. BOMBING AND STRAFING RAIDS.
ALLIES TAKE ROME. |
00:18:14 1059.2 |
U.S. ARMY, WEARING TROPICAL HEADGEAR, ON PARADE, LED BY U.S. FLAG BEARERS, IN SICILY, ITALY. 8/1943. CRANE AT WORK LIFTING HUGE CRATE AT NEWLY WON MEDITERRANEAN PORT IN SICILY.
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00:18:28 1073.2 |
PAN ARMY TRUCKS OTHER VEHICLES JAM DECK OF HUGE LANDING CRAFT ON WAY TO ITALIAN MAINLAND SURRENDERED BY ITALY, NOW OVERTAKEN BY GERMANS.
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00:18:45 1090.2 |
HIGH RANKING ARMY, NAVAL OFFICERS OF U.S., BRITAIN, STAND OVER, PLAN LANDING ON THREE DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF LANDING AREA IN ITALY, LAID OUT ON WARSHIP'S DECK.
OFFICER STRADDLES MODEL, GESTURES PATH OF LANDINGS. |
00:19:12 1117.2 |
GI WAVES YELLOW FLAG TO GUIDE LANDING VESSEL INTO SHORE. LANDINGS WENT UNOPPOSED ON TARANTO AND MESSINA. NOT SALERNO WHERE GERMANS INFLICT HEAVY CASUALTIES ON ALLIED FORCES.
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00:19:22 1127.2 |
SHELL EXPLODES ON PIER ALONGSIDE CRANE AT SALERNO.
HEAVILY DAMAGED SHIP LIE HALF SUBMERGED IN HARBOR. WOUNDED ALLIED SOLDIERS LIE ON STRETCHERS ON DECK OF SHIP. ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1943 SALERNO WAS SECURED, GERMANS RETREATED TO MOUNTAIN DEFENSES. |
00:19:35 1140.2 |
PAN SALERNO SHORE AS SEEN FROM ALLIED SHIP. MOUNTAINS IN DISTANCE BKGD. AERIAL VIEW RUGGED MOUNTAINS WHERE GERMANS MADE ALLIES PAY FOR EACH TORTUROUS STEP THEY TOOK UP MOUNTAINOUS ITALIAN BOOT.
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00:19:57 1162.2 |
SHIRTLESS ALLIED MECHANIC WORKS ON ENGINE OF FIGHTER PLANE BEFORE TAKE-OFF. BRITISH "SPITFIRE" TAKES OFF FROM AIRFIELD. THREE BRITISH FIGHTERS TAKING OFF, PEEL OFF TO STEEP CLIMB. TOWARDS CAMERA.
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00:20:20 1185.2 |
ALLIED BOMBER SQUADRON IN FLIGHT OVER ITALY. ABOVE VIEW OF FOUR ENGINE AS BOMBS BEGIN TO POUR OUT OF BOMB BAYS. AS SEEN BY PLANE FLYING CLOSE BY. AERIAL VIEW BOMBS EXPLODING ON LANDSCAPE BELOW.
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00:20:39 1204.2 |
CU TWO LARGE BOMBERS FLY ALMOST WING TIP TO WING TIP EACH WITH CLEARLY VISIBLE MEN IN GUN TURRETS. AS SEEN BY PLANE FLYING CLOSE BY.
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00:20:43 1208.2 |
THREE U.S. FIGHTER PLANES, IN CLOSE FORMATION, AS SEEN FROM PLANE FLYING IN FRONT OF THEM. ONE PEELS OFF FOR ATTACK.
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00:20:57 1223.2 |
AERIAL HUGE BOMB CRATER SEEN IN MIDDLE OF RAILROAD TRACKS. AERIAL STRAFING OF INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AS SEEN FROM WING CAMERAS. CU PILOT IN COCKPIT, WEARING OXYGEN APPARATUS LOOKS BACK AT HIS WORK.
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00:21:13 1238.2 |
FIGHTER PLANE WITH MISSING LANDING GEAR, COMES IN FOR BELLY LANDING, SLIDES GRACEFULLY ACROSS AIRSTRIP. IS UNHURT.
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00:21:46 1271.2 |
GROUND CREWS PULL HOSE FROM FIRE TRUCK SPRAY HEAVY BLAZE ON BURNING PLANE. FUEL BURNS PROFUSELY AS FIREMEN BRAVE POSSIBLE EXPLOSION BEFORE PUTTING OUT FLAMES.
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00:21:51 1276.2 |
BURNING, MANGLED PLANE WHERE PILOT WAS NOT AS LUCKY.
HORRENDOUS SCENE GIS USE GRAPPLING HOOKS TO REMOVE STILL SMOLDERING, BLACKENED BODY OF PILOT FROM WRECK, WRAP IT IN BLANKET |
00:22:03 1288.2 |
CAMERA ARF FOLLOWS JEEP FULL OF GIS WHO ARE GREETED BY ITALIAN CIVILIANS AS THEY TRAVEL DOWN NARROW STREET, BACKS TO CAMERA.
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00:22:19 1304.2 |
ITALIAN POLICEMAN WATCHES COLUMN OF U.S. TANKS ROLLING DOWN ROMAN SQUARE, GOVERNMENTAL BUILDING IN BKGD. JUNE 4, 1944 FIRST ALLIED TROOPS ENTERED ETERNAL CITY OF ROME.
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00:22:27 1312.2 |
FIVE ITALIAN MEN RIDE IN MOTORCYCLE WITH SIDE CAR, FOLLOWED BY MANY BICYCLIST, DELIGHTED TO GREET U.S.
TROOPS. TOWARDS CAMERA. |
00:22:29 1314.2 |
ANCIENT DOMED BUILDINGS IN ROME. CU CHALK WRITING ON DOOR OF BUILDING: "A MORTE MUSSOLINI" (DEATH TO MUSSOLINI).
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00:22:37 1322.2 |
THREE GIS RIDE BY IN HORSE DRIVEN CARRIAGE POSE AS THEY PASS.
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00:22:41 1326.2 |
U.S. FLAG AT HALF MAST IN HONOR OF 40,000 DEAD, WOUNDED, MISSING ALLIED SOLDIERS IN LIBERATION OF ROME. GERMANS LOST 38,000.
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00:22:49 1334.2 |
MONTAGE CELEBRATING ITALIAN YOUNG PEOPLE, MOSTLY WOMEN IN CROWDED STREETS, WAVE TO PASSING CAMERA CAR.
TWO DAYS AFTER LIBERATION OF ROME 6/6/44, D-DAY, ALLIED FORCES INVADED NORMANDY. INVASION ARMADA AT SEA. |
00:23:08 1353.2 |
LIBERATION OF PARIS 8/25/44. EIFFEL TOWER AFTER LIBERATION. PAN TO RAINBOW IN SKY, PEOPLE IN STREETS.
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00:23:19 1364.2 |
GENERAL CHARLES DEGAULLE SPEAKING TO FRENCH OFFICERS BEFORE HE LEADS FRENCH ARMY INTO PARIS. CU PAN WILDLY CHEERING, WAVING PEOPLE.
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00:23:28 1373.2 |
FRENCH ARMY MARCHING DOWN CHAMPS D'ELYSEE, CROWDS CHEER, U.S. HIGH RANKING OFFICERS ON REVIEWING PLATFORM, SALUTE.
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00:23:40 1385.2 |
MONTAGE BATTLE SCENES ON WAY TO BERLIN. TANKS, GERMAN PRISONERS SURRENDERING.
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00:24:07 1412.2 |
GIS EXAMINE ABANDONED NAZI FIGHTER PLANES. SOME DAMAGED.
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00:24:17 1422.2 |
BACKS OF GI CONTROLLERS IN TOWER WATCHING U.S.
FIGHTER PLANES TAKE OFF IN BKGD. |
00:24:24 1429.2 |
HORSE GRAZING IN FIELD AS FIGHTER PLANE ZOOMS BY OVERHEAD.
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00:24:30 1435.2 |
MONTAGE AERIAL VIEW FIGHTER PLANE STRAFING RAILROAD STATIONS, BUILDINGS, OTHER TARGETS AS SEEN THROUGH WING CAMERA. SECONDARY EXPLOSIONS.
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00:24:53 1458.2 |
ALLIED TRUCKS, MILITARY VEHICLES SPEEDING ON TO BERLIN. EACH ALLIED ARMY, U.S. BRITISH, RUSSIAN.
TRYING TO GET THERE FIRST. |
00:25:19 1484.2 |
BOMBED OUT BRIDGE OVER RHINE RIVER, BARRING ADVANCE OF WESTERN ALLIES. GI MORTAR CREW FIRE SHOT ACROSS RHINE, RUN FOR COVER.
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00:25:37 1502.2 |
MONTAGE GRAPHIC VIEW GERMAN DEAD SOLDIERS LYING ALONGSIDE BOMBED OUT BUS.
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00:25:43 1508.2 |
ARMY VEHICLES RIDS ACROSS RHINE RIVER ON PONTOON BRIDGE, TOWARDS CAMERA.
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00:25:51 1516.2 |
HUGE NUMBER GERMAN PRISONERS ASSEMBLE FOR MARCH TO REAR OF ALLIED LINES. GERMAN OFFICERS SIT SEPARATED FROM GERMAN SOLDIERS
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00:26:10 1535.2 |
MONTAGE SOVIET SOLDIERS, OFFICERS POSE AS THEY STAND ALONG ROAD, PREPARING FOR HISTORIC MEETING WITH AMERICANS IN SLEEPY VILLAGE 70 MILES SOUTH OF BERLIN.
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00:26:20 1545.2 |
"EAST MEETS WEST": LARGE POSTER SHOWING U.S. SOLDIER SHAKING HANDS WITH SOVIET SOLDIER
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00:26:24 1549.2 |
WITH ARMY PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING FILM, PHOTOS, U.S.
GENERAL APPROACHES, SHAKES HANDS WITH SOVIET GENERAL IN HISTORIC LINK-UP |
00:26:34 1559.2 |
SOVIET WOMEN SOLDIER SITS ON GI'S LAP, (CIGARETTE DANGLING FROM HIS LIPS), BOTH WITH ARMS AROUND EACH OTHERS NECK, POSE FOR PHOTO. GI HAS CIGARETTE DANGLING FROM LIPS. OTHER SOVIETS BEHIND THEM.
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00:26:42 1567.2 |
SOVIET SOLDIER DOES LIVELY ETHNIC DANCE WITH DAGGER IN HAND. SOVIET ACCORDION AND TOM TOM PLAYER PROVIDING THE ETHNIC MUSIC.
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00:26:53 1578.2 |
ANOTHER SOVIET SOLDIER DOES HIS VERSION OF DANCE AS OTHER SOVIETS WATCH. PAN TO MUSICIANS. GOOD SHOTS.
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00:27:02 1587.2 |
MONTAGE TILT UP RUINS OF DOMED BUILDING IN BERLIN PAN TO RUINS OF ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY.
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00:27:15 1600.2 |
STATUE OF HUGE NUDE MAN, BACKS TO CAMERA, HOLDING REINS OF HORSE OVERLOOKING WHAT WAS ONCE BEAUTIFUL OLYMPIC STADIUM IN BKGD. TWO GIS TOUR THE HOLLOW SHELL OF STADIUM.
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00:27:33 1618.2 |
GI GUARD, BACK TO CAMERA, WATCHES HUGE COLUMNS OF GERMAN PRISONERS MARCH THROUGH CITY STREETS. ON MAY 8,1945 GERMANS UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER TO ALLIES.
WAR IN EUROPE IS OVER |
00:27:46 1631.2 |
LIBERATION OF DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP BY AMERICAN ARMY. ATROCITIES.
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00:27:49 1634.2 |
TWO TEENAGE EX-PRISONERS IN STRIPED UNIFORMS WALK ARM IN ARM TOWARDS CAMERA, SCORES EX-PRISONERS ROAM STREET, GATHER IN GROUPS OUTSIDE CAMP. SOME IN STRIPED UNIFORMS OTHERS IN BEDRAGGLED CIVILIAN CLOTHES.
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00:27:55 1640.2 |
GROUP OF EX-INMATES IN STRIPED UNIFORMS PULL LARGE WAGON CONTAINING SMOKING 50 GALLON DRUMS, SOUP?
TOWARDS CAMERA. |
00:28:05 1650.2 |
GROUP OF EX-INMATES STAND NEAR BARRACKS BUILDING, PAN TO BODIES OF INMATES LYING ON GROUND. CU GRAPHIC VIEW OF EMACIATED BODIES, HEADS EXPOSED FROM UNDER BLANKET.
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00:28:21 1666.2 |
HORRENDOUS VIEW HUGE PILE OF NUDE, EMACIATED BODIES.
CU SNOW COVERED BODY. BOXCAR WITH PILE OF BODIES INSIDE. |
00:28:37 1682.2 |
LOCAL VILLAGERS ARE LINED UP FOR CAMP SURVIVORS TRY TO IDENTIFY FORMER CAMP GUARDS, OFFICIALS, THAT TRIED TO BLEND IN WITH LOCAL VILLAGERS. COMMANDANT, 40 GUARDS, A DOCTOR WERE PICKED OUT.
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00:28:58 1703.2 |
GHOST-LIKE SURVIVORS, BLANKETS AROUND THEM, ARE PILED INTO TRUCKS FOR TRANSPORTATION TO TREATMENT FACILITIES.
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00:29:19 1724.2 |
LINE OF SOLDIERS WALKING IN FRONT OF SETTING SUN SILHOUETTED
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00:29:46 1751.2 |
LANDING BOATS ON SHORE WITH LOADS OF SOLDIERS DISEMBARKING SETTING UP BEACHHEAD
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00:30:28 1793.2 |
**TITLE SCREEN** DO NOT SEND
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00:30:40 1805.2 |
TWO SOLDIERS WALK WITH ARAB TRIBESMAN THROUGH THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERT. EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS IN BACKGROUND
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00:30:46 1811.2 |
SOLDIER WALKS DESERT WITH STONE FORTRESS QASR-LIKE BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND
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00:30:50 1815.2 |
SOLDIERS STAND IN FRONT OF STONE BUNKER. TRUCK ON ROAD BEHIND THEM
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00:30:54 1820.2 |
***DO NOT SEND MAP***
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00:31:21 1846.2 |
CITY OF STONE RUINS NEAR THE SEA
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00:31:36 1861.2 |
GUNS FIRING FROM EMPLACMENTS IN THE DESERT. SOLDIERS RUN THROUGH SCRUB GRASSES. TANKS ROLL THROUGH DESERT WITH SOLDIERS FOLLOWING
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00:32:04 1889.2 |
CAMERAMEN SET UP IN DESERT BRUSH FILMING THE ACTION
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00:32:19 1904.2 |
TANKS IN THE DESERT ON NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. SOLDIERS RUNNING BEHIND TANKS
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00:32:29 1914.2 |
POV SOLDIERS RUNNING BEHIND TANKS
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00:32:41 1926.2 |
TANKS FIRING AS THEY ADVANCE WITH SOLDIERS FIRING. TANKS AND SOLDIERS ADVANCING GAINING GROUND AGAINST ROMMEL'S FORCES
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00:33:38 1983.2 |
SOLDIER WITH BINOCULARS STANDS ON HILL WATCHING BATTLE
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00:33:42 1987.2 |
WOOD MASTER SHIP IN THE WATER. SIDE VIEW OF SHIP WITH SAILOR ON BOARD
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00:33:49 1994.2 |
AERIAL NORTH AFRICAN CITY ON THE SEA, SAVED FROM NAZI AGGRESSION
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00:34:11 2016.2 |
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00:34:21 2026.2 |
SEAPORT WITH TRANSPORT SHIPS. SOLDIERS BOARDING SHIPS
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00:34:35 2040.2 |
POV ON BOARD SHIP LOOKING AT TRANSPORT SHIPS
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00:34:38 2043.2 |
HUGE MAP ON THE FLOOR. OFFICER WITH POINTER POINTING OUT THE INVASION ROUTE TO GROUPS OF SOLDIERS
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00:34:55 2060.2 |
OFFICER ON DECK OF SHIP USES BLACKBOARD TO SHOW INVASION STRATEGY TO SOLDIERS
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00:35:00 2065.2 |
SOLDIERS PREPARING BELTS OF AMMUNITION. SHIRTLESS SOLDIER ON SHIP DECK LOADS AMMO BELT INTO MACHINE GUN
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00:35:04 2069.2 |
SOLDIERS FIRING MACHINE GUN FROM THE DECK OF SHIP
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00:35:08 2073.2 |
SOLDIERS RUNNING IN PLACE ON DECK CALISTHENICS
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00:35:10 2075.2 |
FACES OF SOLDIERS IN CROWD AS THEY HEAR RELIGIOUS SERVICES ON BOARD SHIP. PRIEST IN ROBES CHASUBLE SAYS MASS FOR SOLDIERS
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00:35:29 2094.2 |
SOLDIERS GETTING INTO LANDING CRAFT BOAT. LANDING CRAFT IS LAUNCHED
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00:35:36 2101.2 |
VIEW OF LANDING CRAFTS ON THE WATER
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00:35:38 2103.2 |
LS WAR SHIP ROCKED BY EXPLOSIONS
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00:35:40 2105.2 |
VIEW FROM ON BOARD SHIP AS CANNONS FIRE. EXPLOSIONS
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00:35:49 2114.2 |
PLANE OVER JUNGLE
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00:35:56 2121.2 |
SEA BATTLE, EXPLOSIONS
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00:36:01 2126.2 |
LANDING CRAFTS CHURN THROUGH WATER
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00:36:07 2132.2 |
SEA BATTLE PROVIDING COVER FOR LANDING. PLANE OVERHEAD. BOATS EXPLODING SMOKE ON THE WATER
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00:36:16 2141.2 |
LANDING CRAFT BOAT WITH SOLDIERS INSIDE SOLDIERS GETTING READY TO LAND. AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES CLIMBING OUT OF THE WAVES
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00:36:24 2149.2 |
JUNGLE ISLAND ROCKED BY EXPLOSIONS, SMOLDERING SHIPS AND PLANES FLYING OVERHEAD AS SOLDIERS ATTEMPT LANDING
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00:36:40 2165.2 |
SOLDIERS IN SURF WADING TO SHORE
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00:36:42 2167.2 |
SOLDIERS RUN OVER WOODEN BRIDGE
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00:36:45 2170.2 |
SOLDIERS ON THE GROUND
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00:36:48 2173.2 |
PLANE OVER JUNGLE
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00:36:54 2179.2 |
EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE
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00:36:55 2180.2 |
SOLDIERS CRAWLING ON THE BEACH. SOLDIERS HAUL DEAD OR WOUNDED COMRADE. SOLDIER SMOKES CIGARETTE
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00:37:08 2193.2 |
SOLDIERS STAND AND RUN WITH DAMAGED HUTS IN BACKGROUND. SOLDIERS RUNNING ON TROPICAL ISLAND
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00:37:16 2201.2 |
SOLDIERS BEHIND HUT, ONE SOLDIER CROUCHED DOWN FIRING WEAPON AT ENEMY
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00:37:17 2202.2 |
SOLDERING RUINS OF HUTS AND FORTIFICATIONS
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00:37:22 2207.2 |
SOLDIERS WALK CARRYING STRETCHER
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00:37:24 2209.2 |
SOLDIERS AMID PALM TREES WITH SMOKE ALL AROUND. SOLDIERS CROUCH AND LIE ON GROUND
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00:37:35 2220.2 |
VIEW FROM BEHIND SOLDIER AS HE TAKES AIM AND FIRES
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00:37:38 2223.2 |
SOLDIERS PREPARING RUBBER RAFT ON BEACH. LIFTING STRETCHER WITH WOUNDED COMRADE. VIEW OF SOLDIER WOUNDED ON STRETCHER
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00:37:43 2228.2 |
VIEW OF SOLDIER FORM BEHIND AS HE FIRES AT THE ENEMY. OTHER SOLDIERS MOVE INTO POSITION BEHIND HIM
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00:37:47 2232.2 |
BATTLEFIELD. SMOKE AND EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE. SOLDIERS RUN AND FIRE
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00:37:55 2240.2 |
SOLDIERS IN COVER BEHIND TREES AND HUTS. EXPLOSION ROCKS EVERYTHING
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00:38:00 2245.2 |
SOLDIERS CAREFULLY CLIMBING OVER EVERYTHING WEAPONS DRAWN CREEPING ALONG, WARY OF ENEMY FIRE. SOLDIER AT TOP OF HILL DISCHARGES HUGE FLAME FROM FLAMETHROWER. EXPLOSION NEAR THEIR POSITION, SOLDIERS DUCKING FOR COVER
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00:38:44 2289.2 |
VIEW OF SOLDIERS FROM BEHIND AS THE FORTIFY POSITION BEGIN TO THROW GRENADES
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00:38:50 2295.2 |
AFTERMATH OF BATTLE
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00:39:05 2310.2 |
JEEP WITH DRIVER AND WITH SOMEONE LAYING DOWN IN BACK SEAT
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00:39:12 2317.2 |
WALKING WOUNDED SOLDIER WALKS THROUGH HIS COMRADES HOLDING BANDAGE TO HIS FACE
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00:39:18 2323.2 |
VIEW OF AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE IN THE WATER. EXPLOSIONS THROWING UP WATER ALL AROUND. VEHICLE IS HIT AND A PIECE OF IT GOES FLYING
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00:39:30 2335.2 |
SOLDIERS GATHERED AROUND TANK ON BEACH, PASSING OUT WHAT LOOK LIKE ARTILLERY
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00:39:47 2352.2 |
SOLDIERS UNDER COVER WATCH FIRES BURN, PALM TREES ON FIRE
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00:39:54 2359.2 |
SHIRTLESS GIs SEARCH BODIES OF THE FALLEN. PAN BODIES SCATTERED ALL OVER BEACHES. BODIES HALF IN THE WATER
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00:40:21 2386.2 |
SOLDIERS CARRY FLAG DRAPED COFFIN. PRIEST SAYS PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD. SOLEMN SOLDIERS AND SAILORS AT ATTENTION. BURIAL AT SEA. FIRING TWENTY ONE GUN SALUTE
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00:40:43 2408.2 |
AFTERMATH OF BATTLE RUINED TANKS PALM TREES LYING ON TOP OF RUINED FORTIFICATIONS, BULLDOZING WRECKAGE
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00:41:10 2435.2 |
PRISONERS MARCHING WITH THEIR HANDS UP. SOLDIERS SEARCH PRISONERS, STANDING GUARD. TREATING ENEMY WOUNDED
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00:41:50 2475.2 |
PLANE LANDS ON RUNWAY. SHAKING HAND OF PILOT
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00:42:04 2489.2 |
AMERICAN FLAG. PAN SOLDIERS SALUTING FLAG AS IT IS RAISED OVER CAPTURED ENEMY POSITION.
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00:42:17 2502.2 |
FEET OF SOLDIERS MARCHING. SOLDIERS MARCHING THROUGH JUNGLE, FACES OF RANK AFTER RANK OF SOLDIERS AS THEY MARCH
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00:42:29 2514.2 |
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