Summary

[V-E Day Celebrations, London] Part 1, continued on DN-B-098

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Title: [V-E Day Celebrations, London] Part 1, continued on DN-B-098
File Number: DN-B-097 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 01/01/1945
Subjects: WWII - Celebration - VE Day - Surrender; CU - Siren; WWII - Destruction - England - Clean-up; Crowds - Celebration - England; Dancing - Street - GI's; Party Hats; Dancing - Irish; Pub - Soldiers - Drunken; Flags - Allies; Royalty - England - 1945
Description: 13:25:51:21 - 13:31:10:00 B W 1945 05 08 [VE Day Celebrations, London] Part 1, continued on DN-B-098 England, London GIs read Germans surrender siren rubble in England & cleaning up American flags & British, French, USSR flags flying People in park & crowds around fountain Prayer(?) in streets as everyone stanidng Members of Parliament walk through crowd in formal procession Churchill waves Into church GIs & WAACS into church Praying leaving Guinness sign HA buses easing through crowds Street filled with people GIs & women People on cover over fountain w troops on top & around base Smiling GIs in pub Drunken soldiers younger guys carry statue of lion King & Queen on balcony w princesses Crowds wave back Dancing in street in party hats & irish dancing (13:31:10) guy & older woman Churchill, Winston - 1945
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