1944-1945WORLD WAR II
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ROOSEVELT WINS LONG LINE OF PEOPLE ON NEW YORK CITY SIDEWALK WAITING TO ENTER THE POLLS TO VOTE. MONTAGE MEN &
WOMAN CLOSE CURTAINS IN VOTING BOOTHS. |
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SOLDIERS IN WAR ZONES READ BULLETIN BOARD BEFORE VOTING. GI ALONGSIDE HIS TANK WETS ENVELOPE WITH TONGUE BEFORE MAILING HIS BALLOT
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GOVERNOR DEWEY AND WIFE CAST THEIR BALLOTS.
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HOLDS ON TO AIDES FOR SUPPORT AS HE POSES STANDING NEXT TO BALLOT BOOTH.
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SIGN: "TABULATORS", NEXT TO MEN & WOMEN USING ADDING MACHINES TO COUNT BALLOTS. CU OF FAST MOVING FINGERS USING TABULATOR.
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TWO WOMEN WORKERS WRITE FIGURES ON LARGE TOTE BOARD, WITH HEADING ON TOP: "NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY ELECTION CHART".
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REPORTER AT DESK STOPS TYPING TO TAKE BITE OF SANDWICH.
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MONTAGE HUGE CROWD FILLS TIMES SQUARE AT NIGHT, TO AWAIT ELECTION RESULTS. PARTY FAITHFUL WATCH CHART AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. LARGE PHOTOS OF DEWEY AND BRICKER.
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| 00:23:57 157 |
GOVERNOR THOMAS DEWEY POSES WITH WIFE AS HE PREPARES TO CONCEDE VICTORY TO FDR. CU DEWEY MAKING HIS CONCESSION SPEECH.
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CROWD CHEERS FDR WHO SITS ON PORCH OUTSIDE HIS HOME IN HYDE PARK WITH FOLLOWERS & FAMILY AT NIGHT. MONTAGE SEVERAL CU VIEWS OF FDR POSING, AFTER WINNING UNPRECEDENTED 4TH TERM.
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51 NATIONS AT AVIATION CONFERENCE STEVENS HOTEL IN CHICAGO WHERE CONFERENCE IS HELD.
DELEGATES FROM 51 COUNTRIES CROWD ENTRANCE TO HALL DELEGATES GATHER AROUND REVOLVING WORLD GLOBE. |
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CU MONTAGE DELEGATES SIT AT TABLE WITH COUNTRY'S NAME ON PLAQUE IN FRONT OF THEM. US. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE BERLE DELIVERS MESSAGE TO DELEGATES FROM FDR
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| 00:27:07 347 |
MACARTHUR RETURNS TO PHILIPPINES ANIMATED MAP SHOWS ALLIED SWEEP OF PACIFIC ISLANDS SINCE WAR STARTED. MAP OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS SHOWING ISLAND OF LEYTE WHERE MACARTHUR ATTACKED.
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MACARTHUR PUFFS ON HIS CORN COB PIPE AS HE WATCHES INVASION FROM BRIDGE OF WARSHIP. ARMADA OF WARSHIPS HEAD TOWARDS LEYTE GULF.
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| 00:28:12 412 |
MONTAGE WARSHIPS START BOMBARDMENT. SMOKE RISES FROM BEACH IN DISTANCE. SOME OF 250,000 TROOPS HEAD FOR SHORE IN LANDING CRAFTS. SOLDIERS HEAD INLAND. GI ACCOMPANIES FILIPINO NATIVE WOMAN WITH INFANT IN ARM.
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| 00:29:10 470 |
TERRIFIED GROUP OF NATIVE MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN LIE ON JUNGLE GROUND TRYING TO KEEP OUT OF LINE OF FIRE.
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MACARTHUR CLIMBS DOWN GANGPLANK OF WARSHIP, RIDES IN LANDING BOAT WITH AIDES. MANUEL QUEZON, PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT BEFORE JAPANESE TOOK IT, IS HELPED INTO CRAFT BY GENERAL MACARTHUR AND OTHERS.
CU-MACARTHUR AND QUEZON CHAT IN LANDING BOAT. |
| 00:30:16 536 |
MACARTHUR, QUEZON AND GROUP OF AIDES WADE INTO PHILIPPINE SHORE IN KNEE DEEP WATER.
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MONTAGE TANKS AND TROOPS MOVE INLAND UNOPPOSED.
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ARMORED VEHICLE WITH U.S. TROOPS PASSES BOMBED OUT BUILDING IN DULAG, TAKEN AFTER HEAVY SHELLING.
CU MACARTHUR WITH SUNGLASSES AND CORN COB PIPE IN MOUTH. |
| 00:31:43 623 |
U.S. GENERALS AT BATTLE FRONT BEFORE METZ.
GENERALS EISENHOWER, PATTON AND BRADLEY SIT AND HAVE BOWL OF SOUP AT PATTON'S 3RD ARMY HEADQUARTERS. IKE CHATS WITH PATTON, SMOKES CIGARETTE. |
| 00:32:12 652 |
PATTON'S TANKS DRIVE TOWARDS METZ. BOMBARDS THE CITY. EXPLODING SHELLS IN METZ SEEN FROM DISTANCE.
3-MAN MORTAR CREW DUCK AS THEY LOB SHELLS INTO A GERMAN PILLBOX. SHELL STRIKING BUILDING. GI FIRES BAZOOKA AT PILLBOX. SHELL HITS PILLBOX. |
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BATTLE OF ANGAUR ISLAND IN PALAU AERIAL VIEW OF ISLAND. AMERICAN TROOPS MOVE THROUGH RUBBLE UNDER FIRE. GI TOSSES HAND GRENADE IN THICK BRUSH. VIOLENT EXPLOSION OCCURS. MAP SHOWS PALAU BETWEEN PHILIPPINES AND NEW GUINEA.
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GI SHOPS ROPES HOLDING PONTOONS, USED FOR MAKING PIER, TO SIDE OF SHIP AND THEY CRASH INTO THE SEA.
LONG COLUMN OF GIS USE PIER MADE WITH PONTOONS, & WALK TO SHORE ON IT. HEAVY CRANE & TRACTORS USE PIER TO GO ASHORE. |
| 00:35:37 857 |
SHIRTLESS PILOT OF "GRASSHOPPER" SCOUT PLANE TAKES OF ON RECONNAISSANCE MISSION.
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TANKS AND MEN MOVE INTO "BLOODY GULCH", A NARROW RAVINE UNDER HEAVY JAP FIRE. AMERICAN TANK HITS JAPANESE LAND MINE, EXPLODES.
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AMERICAN MEDICS CRAWLS IN TO SAVE WOUNDED COMRADES. THEY ADMINISTER FIRST AID, UNDER FIRE.
MEDICS RUN TOWARDS CAMERA CARRYING WOUNDED ON STRETCHER. OTHER WOUNDED ARE CARRIED OUT OF THE NARROW RAVINE. |
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TURKEY'S ENVOY BURIED IN WASHINGTON TURKISH EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON WITH TURKISH FLAG AT HALF MAST. CHINESE AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA AMBASSADORS ARRIVE IN LIMOS. SOVIET AMBASSADOR GROMYKO ARRIVES FOR FUNERAL.
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| 00:37:58 998 |
CASKET IS CARRIED OUT BY MILITARY PALLBEARERS AND PLACED IN HORSE-DRAWN CAISSON. LONG MILITARY PARADE PROCEEDS CAISSON TO ARLINGTON CEMETERY FOR TEMPORARY INTERMENT. TURKISH TROOPS FIRE RIFLES IN SALUTE.
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| 00:38:58 1058 |
U.S.-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP RALLY HUGE RALLY IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IS ATTENDED BY SECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS, LORD HALIFAX OF BRITAIN & ANDREY GROMYKO OF SOVIET UNION. GROMYKO & STETTINIUS MAKE SPEECH. HUGE AUDIENCE WATCHES.
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GERMAN GARRISON SURRENDERS AT AACHEN AERIAL PAN OF THE DEVASTATED, BOMBED OUT CITY. U.S.
TROOPS RAISE AMERICAN FLAG. MONTAGE HUGE GARRISON OF GERMAN TROOPS SURRENDER, ONE HOLDS WHITE FLAG ON STICK. AACHEN IS 1ST GERMAN CITY TO BE CONQUERED SINCE NAPOLEONIC WAR. |
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GROUP OF GERMAN CIVILIANS WATCH SADLY.
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| 00:44:51 1411 |
SAIPAN: BASE FOR B-29s.
ARMY TENT CITY ON SAIPAN. BLACK AND WHITE ARMY ENGINEERS PERUSE PLANS FOR AIRSTRIP. BLACK GI PEERS THROUGH SURVEYOR'S TRANSIT, GIVES MAKES HAND GESTURES TO ANOTHER BLACK GI HOLDING THE POLE AT A DISTANCE. |
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GIS CONTROL HUGE AUTOMATIC JACK AS IT DRILLS HOLE IN GROUND FOR TNT. GI PUSHES PLUNGER, RUNS AWAY.
HUGE EXPLOSIONS OCCUR. MONTAGE ALL SORTS OF GROUND MOVING VEHICLES IN OPERATION. FLEETS OF TRUCKS TRANSPORT CRUSHED ROCK TO SITE. |
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ASPHALT PLANT IS ERECTED AT THE SITE. ASPHALT RUNWAY IS LAYED. STEAM ROLLER SMOOTHS RUNWAY.
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GENERAL HENRY "HAP" ARNOLD MEETS WITH PILOTS AND CREW OF B-29, BOUND FOR SAIPAN, AT FIELD IN WASHINGTON. PILOT WRITES WITH CHALK ON BOMB: "TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN, WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN - THE B-29s WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN".
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| 00:47:07 1547 |
FIRST B-29s LAND AT SAIPAN. WORKING GIS WHO BUILT AIRFIELD, WATCH. GENERAL HAYWOOD HANSEL GREETS THE DREWS. ANIMATED MAP SHOWS CLOSENESS OF SAIPAN TO JAPAN.
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| 00:47:31 1571 |
PHOTO OF GENERAL EMMET O'DONNELL ON LIVING ROOM TABLE AT HIS HOME IN LONG ISLAND. O'DONNELLS SMALL SON SITS NEXT TO PHOTO READING NEW YORK DAILY NEWS WITH HEADLINES, "TOKYO BOMBED BY B-29'S. YOUNG O'DONNELL LOOKS AT PHOTO, SAYS, "NICE GOING DAD".
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| 00:48:11 1611 |
SECRETARY HULL RETIRING, HONORED BY COUNTRYMEN.
HULL POSES WITH PRESIDENT FDR & CABINET MEMBERS OF FDR ADMINISTRATION. |
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HULL MAKING SPEECH, POSES WITH INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATS AT DUNBARTON OAKS MEETING. HULL SHAKES WITH HIS REPLACEMENT AS SECRETARY OF STATE, EDWARD STETTINIUS.
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HULL IS HONORED AT VARIETY CLUBS OF AMERICA BANQUET. HUGE CROWD OF DIGNITARIES. LARGE PHOTOS ON WALL. STETTINIUS SPEAKS.
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| 00:50:24 1744 |
AVIATION NEWS ARMORED VEHICLE DRIVES INTO BELLY OF "FLYING BOXCAR", C-82 TRANSPORT PLANE. INTERIOR VIEW SHOWS GI DIRECTING THE VEHICLE INTO ITS HUGE CARGO SPACE, C-82 TAKES OFF
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AN AIRBORNE RESCUE LIFEBOAT IS ATTACHED TO BELLY OF B-17 BOMBER. PAN OF ATTACHED LIFEBOAT TO NOSE GUNS ON B-17.
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SLOW MOTION CAMERA SHOWS LOW-FLYING B-17 DROP THE LIFEBOAT WITH PARACHUTE INTO OCEAN IN RESCUE EXERCISE. "SURVIVORS" CLIMB INTO BOAT WHICH CONTAINS LIFE SUPPORTS FOR 60 DAYS AT SEA.
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MAIL FOR THE SAILORS DOZENS OF SAILORS SORT OUT & SEPARATE TONS OF PARCELS AND PACKAGES AND TOSS THEM INTO CANVASS BINS. SAILORS CARRY SACKS OF MAIL ON A MAIL SHIP'S DECK.
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| 00:52:54 1894 |
DESTROYER WITH WAVES INUNDATING ITS DECK, RIDES ALONGSIDE MAIL SHIP AND TAKES ON MAIL ON BREECHES BUOY WHICH IS USED TO HAUL PERSONNEL FROM ONE SHIP TO ANOTHER WHILE SAILING. GROUP OF SAILORS SIT ON DECK AND READ MAIL.
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| 00:53:20 1920 |
ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN IN LEYTE BATTLE SKY IS FULL OF SHELL BURSTS FIRING AT JAPANESE PLANES. JAPANESE PLANES PLUNGING INTO SEA AS THEY ARE HIT WHILE TRYING TO BOMB U.S. WARSHIPS.
KAMIKAZE PLANE CRASHES INTO AMERICAN LANDING CRAFT. |
| 00:54:13 1973 |
MONTAGE AMERICAN ARTILLERY CREWS BOMBARD JAPANESE FORCES ON LEYTE WITH BIG GUNS. TRUCK DUMPS METAL PREFABRICATED SECTIONS FOR RUNWAY. HUNDREDS OF SHIRTLESS GIS ASSEMBLE THE RUNWAY SECTIONS
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| 00:54:33 1993 |
GENERAL MACARTHUR WATCHES AS AMERICAN P-39 FIGHTER PLANES LAND ON NEW RUNWAY.
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ARMY BEATS NAVY IN TRADITIONAL FOOTBALL CLASSIC.
MONTAGE CADETS AND MIDSHIPMEN MARCH ONTO FIELD IN BALTIMORE. |
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ARMY CHIEF-OF-STAFF GENERAL MARSHALL, AIR FORCE CHIEF GENERAL ARNOLD, COMMANDER OF FLEET ADMIRAL KING IN STANDS WITH 67,000 FOOTBALL FANS. NAVY MIDSHIPMEN GIVE ARMY A HUGE CHEER SPELLING A - R - M - Y. CADETS POSE ARMY MULE & NAVY GOAT MASCOTS FOR CAMERA. MIDSHIPMEN IN STANDS SING ARMY MULE SONG, GESTURE WITH HANDS TO EARS.
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ARMY'S "DOC" BLANCHARD KICKS OFF TO NAVY'S SCOTT FOR A LONG RUN BACK. SCOTT PLUNGES OVER FOR TOUCHDOWN THREE PLAYS LATER.
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ARMY'S BLANCHARD CROSSES OVER FOR TOUCHDOWN AFTER MAKING SEVERAL LONG GAINS. ARMY'S DAVIS MAKES TOUCHDOWN, ARMY WINS 23-7. CADETS GO WILD IN STANDS.
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"PIGMY" FLATTOPS CARRY GRAIN.
AERIAL CANADIAN SAILORS CLEAN SNOW OFF DECK OF PIGMY AIRCRAFT CARRIER. CHUTE POURS TONS OF GRAIN INTO HOLD OF SHIP FOR SOLDIERS OVERSEAS. CU TWO HANDS SCOOP UP GRAIN, FILTER IT THROUGH FINGERS. |
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AERIAL THE SMALL CARRIER SAILS AMID LARGE CONVOY.
VINTAGE BI-PLANE IS GUIDED ONTO DECK CREWMAN. |
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STETTINIUS TAKES OATH AS U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JACKSON SWEARS IN STETTINIUS AS GENERAL MARSHALL AND MEMBERS OF FAMILY WATCH. |
| 01:00:18 2338 |
SUPER-FORTRESSES BOMB FORMOSA.
B-29s TAKE OFF FROM SECRET BASE. SQUADRON OF B-29s IN FLIGHT. AERIAL BOMBS FALLING AND EXPLODING ON ISLAND OF FORMOSA. HUGE B-29 COMES IN FOR LANDING AFTER ATTACK. |
| 01:01:09 2389 |
CREW OF BOMBER "TOKYO ROSE", FIRST B-29 TO FLY OVER TOKYO POSE BY THEIR PLANE. PAN
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| 01:01:32 2412 |
GENERAL HANSEL PINS DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS ON CAPTAIN RALPH STATELY. LT HAROLD MCCONNELL RECEIVES AIR MEDAL ON BASE IN SAIPAN.
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ALLIED AID REACHES TITO IN YUGOSLAVIA.
CREWMEN LOAD MILITARY SUPPLIES ON ALLIED TRANSPORT PLANE IN ITALY. GI'S LOAD INTERIOR OF PLANE. |
| 01:02:10 2450 |
CARGO PLANES LAND ON FIELD IN YUGOSLAVIA ARE UNLOADED BY PARTISANS. WOUNDED MALE AND FEMALE PARTISANS LAY IN FIELD ON STRETCHERS WAITING TO GO BACK WITH PLANES FOR TREATMENT. SMALL CHILD IS LIFTED OFF STRETCHER BY AIRMEN.
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| 01:02:41 2481 |
WOMEN PARTISANS SING AS THEY POLISH BULLETS ON BANDOLEER. MARSHAL TITO IS WELCOMED BY PRESIDENT OF LIBERATION COMMITTEE, WHO HE KISSES STRONGLY ON HIS LIPS.
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| 01:02:58 2498 |
"LOST BATTALION" RETURNS.
ARTILLERY CREW PLACES FOOD AND MEDICINE IN EMPTY SHELL CASINGS AND FIRE OVER ENEMY LINES TO BATTALION OF 36TH DIVISION SOLDIERS TRAPPED THERE. |
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AMERICAN TROOPS OF JAPANESE DESCENT MOVE OUT TO RESCUE THE BATTALION. GERMAN DEAD LIE ON GROUND NEXT TO CROUCHING JAPANESE AMERICANS. RESCUED GIS SHAKE HANDS WITH THEIR JAPANESE RESCUERS
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| 01:04:41 2601 |
JAPANESE AMERICAN SOLDIERS STAND AT ATTENTION TO RECEIVE DECORATIONS FROM GENERAL.
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| 01:05:54 2674 |
BOMB JAPANESE BASES IN BURMA AERIAL MONTAGE BOMBS FALLING OVER JAPANESE LINES BELOW. BRIDGE IS HIT. ANIMATED MAP OF BURMA SHOWS AREAS WHERE BOMBS FALL.
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| 01:07:15 2755 |
COTTON PICKING BY MACHINE MECHANICAL COTTON PICKERS AT WORK IN MISSISSIPPI FIELD. CLOSE-UP VIEW SHOWS HOW MACHINE WORKS IN THE FIELD.
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| 01:08:25 2825 |
NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS MADE IN NEW YORK SWEDEN, NORWAY, ICELAND, DENMARK AND FINLAND MINISTERS, NORWAY'S CROWN PRINCESS MARTHA SIT AT DAIS AS NOBEL AWARDS ARE HANDED TO SIX U.S.
CITIZENS INCLUDING: DR. OTTO STERN FOR PHYSICS IN 1943; DR. ISIDOR RABI FOR PHYSICS FOR 1944; DR. JOSEPH ERLANGER, SHARES 1944 PRIZE FOR PHYSIOLOGY & MEDICINE WITH DR. HERBERT GASSER; DR. HENRICK DAM DIVIDES 1943 AWARD FOR MEDICINE WITH DR. EDWARD DOISY. |
| 01:09:44 2904 |
ENEMY-HELD MANILA HIT BY CARRIER PLANES.
WARSHIPS OF ADMIRAL HALSEY'S THIRD FEET AT SEA OFF MANILA. PLANES PREPARE TO TAKE OFF FROM CARRIER. PILOTS MEET BELOW DECK, GET FINAL ORDERS FOR MISSION. PILOTS RUN OUT TO PLANES ON DECK. MONTAGE HELLCATS AND AVENGERS ROAR OFF FROM DECK. |
| 01:11:23 3003 |
ADMIRAL RADFORD PEERS SKYWARD WITH BINOCULARS, LOOKING FOR RETURNING PLANES. AS PLANES LAND JAPANESE PLANES ATTACK CARRIERS. JAPANESE BOMB EXPLODES NEAR CARRIER. SMOKE RISES FROM CARRIER IN DISTANCE HIT BY JAPANESE PLANES. FIRE & SMOKE RISES FROM PLANE ON DECK.
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| 01:12:33 3073 |
COMMANDER DAVID MCCAMPBELL, NAVY'S TOP ACE IS GREETED BY OTHER PILOTS AS HE CLIMBS OFF PLANE SHOWING 34 JAPANESE FLAGS PAINTED ON PLANE.
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| 01:12:53 3093 |
ALLIES MOVE AHEAD ON WESTERN FRONT FRENCH VEHICLES PASS BY "MULHAUSEN" SIGN ON ROAD.
SOME OF 50,000 GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN IN OFFENSIVE, MARCH DOWN ROAD. EVACUATED CITIZENS OF TOWN RETURN TO THEIR HOMES, WAVE AT CAMERA. |
| 01:13:30 3130 |
ROAD SIGN: "STRASBOURG". HISTORIC CATHEDRAL, BUILDINGS, SHOW EFFECTS OF BOMBARDMENT BY GENERAL PATCH'S SEVENTH ARMY. PILES OF SMALL NAZI FLAGS LIE IN STREET.
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| 01:14:02 3162 |
GI DISTRIBUTES WINTER OVERSHOES TO OTHER GIS.
GERMAN PRISONERS UNDER GUARD. |
| 01:14:21 3181 |
AMERICAN TROOPS ENTER TOWN OF BAISWEILLER IN GERMANY UNDER HEAVY FIRE. GIS RUN THROUGH BACK YARDS AND CHICKEN HOUSES UNDER FIRE IN HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHTING.
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| 01:14:44 3204 |
WOUNDED GI CRAWLS TO AID STATION FOR HELP. AS HIS FACE IS BEING BANDAGED THE AID STATION IS HIT BY MORTAR FIRE. WOUNDED GI WRITHES ON GROUND
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| 01:16:15 3295 |
B-29s OVER TOKYO GI WRITES "ONLY THE BEGINNING" ON GIANT BOMB BEING LOADED ON B-29 SUPERFORTRESS. CREWS ARE BRIEFED INSIDE HANGAR, BEFORE MAKING THE 1500 MILE FLIGHT.
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| 01:16:47 3327 |
GENERAL EMMET O'DONNEL, MISSION LEADER, CHECKS FINAL DETAILS WITH GENERAL HAYWOOD HANSEL.
O'DONNELL'S LEAD PLANE "DAUNTLESS DOTTY" IS CHECKED OUT. B-29s TAKING OFF AND IN FLIGHT |
| 01:18:14 3414 |
AERIAL VIEW OF TOKYO, B-29s DROPPING BOMBS. B-29s HEAD BACK TO SAIPAN.
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| 01:19:07 3467 |
JAPANESE PLANES ATTACK B-29 BASE ON SAIPAN IN RETALIATORY RAID. MONTAGE BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT HIT BY RAID. B-29 ON FIRE
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| 01:20:06 3526 |
SIXTH ARMY ADVANCES ON LEYTE.
COLUMNS OF SOLDIERS ADVANCE BEHIND A SLOW MOVING TANK IN JUNGLE. GI HELPS WOUNDED BUDDY WALK DOWN ROAD TO AID STATION. DEAD GI LIES NEXT TO JEEP. MEDICS TAKE CARE OF WOUNDED ON GROUND. |
| 01:20:37 3557 |
TWO GIS PULL BODY OF DEAD PHOTOGRAPHER, FRANK CRIST FROM JEEP, LIE HIM ON GROUND. CHAPLAIN READS AS OTHERS STAND IN SILENCE OVER BODY WHICH WAS BURIED WHERE HE DIED.
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| 01:21:20 3600 |
MONTAGE PHILIPPINE CIVILIANS RECEIVE CLOTHING AND SUPPLIES FROM AMERICANS. WOMAN COMBS CHILD'S HAIR WHO POSES IN HER NEW DRESS AS OTHERS WATCH.
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| 01:21:36 3616 |
PLANE IN FULL FLIGHT RESCUES LOST AIRMEN SHEEP IN HARNESS IS PULLED INTO AIR WITH GRAPPLING HOOKS, BY LOW-FLYING PLANE, IN RESCUE EXERCISE
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| 01:22:16 3656 |
MAN IS STRAPPED IN HARNESS FOR FIRST TEST ON HUMAN MAN IS SCOOPED UP AT 130 MPH BY LOW FLYING PLANE.
THE PICK-UP IS SHOWN IN SLOW MOTION. MAN IS HOISTED INTO PLANE WITHIN THREE MINUTES. |
| 01:23:31 3731 |
METZ, STRASBOURG, BELFORT, FALL TO ALLIES.
FRENCH TROOPS PARADE IN METZ. SMILING OLD MAN WITH BEMEDALLED CHEST PROUDLY WATCHES PARADE. |
| 01:23:52 3752 |
MAJOR GENERAL WALKER, REPRESENTING U. S. ARMY AND FREE FRENCH TROOPS SALUTES AS HE EXITS BUILDING.
WALKER HAND OVER CITY TO FRENCH GENERAL DODY IN OUTDOOR CEREMONY. NATIVE GIRLS APPLAUD. |
| 01:24:35 3795 |
NAZI GENERALS AND OFFICERS SURRENDER STRASBOURG TO PROVO MARSHALL MACINTIRE OF SEVENTH ARMY. CU NAZI GENERAL BONNEROTH POSES SADLY. HIS OFFICERS ARE PILED INTO TRUCKS
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| 01:25:08 3828 |
FRENCH CIVILIANS WATCH FRENCH TANKS ROLL INTO BELFORT, GATEWAY TO GERMANY. TANKS AND ARTILLERY FIRE INTO HUGE FORTRESS IN DISTANCE. FRENCH GENERAL LOOKS DOWN ON CITY OF BELFORT. PAN OF CITY
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