13:00:47:00,War planes on United States aircraft carrier prepare for takeoff, Deck crewman gestures (repeat), CU pilot in cockpit, CU men watch, Deck crewman gives thumbs-up sign, Plane taxis (repeat), Takeoff (repeat), Rear view POV from plane of carrier during takeoff, Aerial of plane over carrier, Planes in formation, Aerial of wing, ocean in background, Aerial of planes in formation (repeat), Pilot in cockpit, Planes peel off (dive into action), Plane lands on carrier (phone narration indicating the war is over), Pilot's POV as plane lands on carrier, White House, Crowds wave at passing camera, White House in background, MP's control White House crowd, President Harry Truman tells news conference of Japan's acceptance of surrender terms, unconditional surrender, words on soundtrack, Reporters run from conference, Reporters on phones, Boy with newspaper ("EXTRA! IT'S PEACE!"), Soldier jumps, WAC jumps, Women run, cheer, Crowds wild in street, TImes Square mobbed, United States flag waved, Man holds baby, baby holds small United States flag, Radio announcer above crowd, Dancing in street, Servicemen on lamppost, CU people mug, Man wears Japanese battle flag as hula skirt, does hula, Men lift pretty girl, People lift man, Pretty girl on sailor's shoulders, Sailor kisses girl, almost on ground, Woman slugs beer, Hand points to soldier's stripes, Soldier drinks, Man shampoos self with champagne, Soldier, girl kiss (repeat), Sailor, girl kiss, Soldier, woman dance, Revelers in car, flags, Ticker tape, Big United States flag, People drown each other in ticker tape, Huge mess, Church steeple, United States flag, Small town street, Empty sidewalk, trees, Dad home from work, child runs to him, Kids play under sprinkler, Kids' jumping feet, Kid in mud, Boy drinks from hose, Girl drinks from hose, Hose squirts boy in face (CU), Hose squirts girl in face, Boy helps dad mow lawn, Boys fix wagon, Little girl helps mom hang wash, CU girl shakes clothes (CUTE), Bored boys sit on curb, Small town Main Street, Men talk on street, Boys hang out, Women talk on street, Woman writes in notebook, Sign: NOTICE THE POINTS ARE MARKED ON THE ARTICLE & SHELF OF ALL RATIONED FOOD, Grocer, customer, Store window ("NO MILK, NO EGGS, NO LARD, NO BUTTER"), Half-empty shelves, Sign on shelf: SORRY NO MORE PINEAPPLE, Sign: PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR BUTTER TODAY, Sign: NO BEEF TODAY, Women buy food, CU ration stamps, Grocer counts stamps, CU hands count stamps, Butcher sharpens large knife, Butchers cut meat, Crowded meat market, Smiling butcher holds up chicken, Steak on scale, Smiling woman takes bag (repeat), Price tags changed, 78c to 95c, 59c to 74c, etc, Gas station, sign: GAS RATIONING OFF NO STAMPS REQUIRED, Men fill up tank, Pump ("THIS SALE $2.33"), Man tears up card, CU hand scrapes "A" decal off windshield, Aerial of aircraft carrier, deck crowded with men, Soldiers in foreground see lower Manhattan skyline, Soldiers look, New York City pier, banner reads "WELCOME HOME", Troops on ship wave, CU smiling woman waves, Soldier waves from porthole, Grandma waves, woman hugs her, Women wave to aircraft carrier, Servicemen run off ship, Man, woman hug, kiss (famous shots), Woman runs to hug man, Sailor picks up little boy, Aerial of troop ship, War brides, babies wave, CU brides, babies (NICE, repeat), Women off ship, luxury liner at sea, Men kiss babies, Statue of Liberty, People on ship see Statue, Crowd at pier waves, Refugees on ship, CU women show concentration camp tattoos, just barely visible, Refugees leave ship, People kiss, hug (VERY TOUCHING, MOVING), Army camp, sign: SEPARATION CENTER, Group of soldiers, one steps forward at a time, gets discharge in front of United States flag, Soldiers wave hats, Soldiers wave discharges, Rows of quonset huts (military buildings), Man takes bedding into quonset hut, Child, man take belongings from car, Women hang laundry, Tethered child plays, man reads paper in front of quonset hut, Young men leave school, meet wives, kids, Couples walk with babies, People walk home to tiny trailers, Rows of hundreds of warplanes (repeat), Rows of plane engines, Bomber ("DEADEYE II"), Bomber ("CALAMITY JANE", nose art), Bomber with kill markings, Bomber ("OUR BABY"), Bomber ("DRAGON LADY"), Bomber ("EVASIVE ACTION"), Bomber ("FOREVER AMBER"), Crane stacks planes on end, Welders dismantle plane, Molten steel poured, steelworkers shovel, Men, machines make cars, Car engine hoisted along, Men weld cars (car manufacturing), Men put door on car, Men paint car (repeat), Car body hoisted along, Car finished, Car driven out of factory, Cars drive, Textile bobbins spin, Nylons being made, Women mob "Sultana Hosiery" store, Woman inspects nylons as crowds watch, Man buys nylons, Crowds run through street, Women mob man under sign: WE ARE GIVING AWAY NYLONS, People scramble, Man throws nylons to crowd, Crowd dives, fights for nylons, Person, stretcher loaded into ambulance, Crowd of women don nylons on street, CU legs, "Cheesecake", Models parade, nylons emphasized, Women raise skirts (a little), drop them (a little), "New look" long skirts, Models at lunch, CU Christian Dior, Legs, skirts, Line of models in bikinis, Bikini babes parade, Crowd watches Henry Ford's funeral procession, Woman cries (repeat), Onlookers, Sad boy in baseball uniform, New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's funeral procession, LaGuardia, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello on steps of New York City City Hall, LaGuardia, Abbott, Costello up steps, Costello trips on purpose, LaGuardia with fire chief, Firemen spray hoses, CU LaGuardia, LaGuardia runs steam shovel, with Casey Stengel (I think), Steam shovel, Walks in parade with General Dwight Eisenhower, With Eisenhower in motorcade, man in weird costume runs up, hands unofficial key to city to Ike, Speaks on radio (WNYC), Reads, dramatizes funnies on radio (SOT, very long version), LaGuardia waves, Original Yankee Stadium, United States flag at half mast in foreground, Game at stadium, Ruth walks on field past uniformed boys, CU Ruth grips bat, Ruth homers, Ruth signs autographs for crowd of kids, CU older Ruth, Ruth waves goodbye to kids, Sickly Ruth at Yankee Stadium for his farewell speech, Crowd, Kids watch, Ruth applauded at microphones, Mel Allen in background, CU Ruth says farewell in pitiful, raspy voice, Mel Allen on verge of tears, Crowd, Ruth smiles (CU), Stadium, United States flags at half mast, Crowd enters Ebbets Field, Man sells programs, wears hat lettered ("BROOKLYN"), Crowd cheers, jeers, calls players "bums", fan gets hat pulled down over his face, CU Jackie Robinson smiles, Fan Hilda Chester with sign "HILDA", CU Robinson (repeat), Robinson gets hit, Fans cheer, Robinson greeted after homer, Crowded street, pushcarts, CU fish put on scale, Fish market, Signs: KNISH 10C, KNOCKWURST 10C, Man eats hot dog, items taken off scale, Strollers, Street scene, Engineer's POV as train passes train, Engineer, Train crosses bridge, POV from train as fields pass, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaves train, Churchill, President Harry Truman into car, Car moves, secret service on fenders, Two leaders in motorcade, Churchill makes famous Iron Curtain speech at Fulton, Missouri (SPEAKS NICE, long version), Audience, Flags at United Nations headquarters, United Nations headquarters, "NEW YORK CITY BUILDING AT FLUSHING MEADOW PARK, NOW AN ICE RINK!!", Marines guard building, VIP's enter, Cars pull up, exit Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, United Nations Security Council session, Soviet representatives, including Andrei Gromyko, Soviets walk out of session, CU Soviet seats empty, Parade, Marchers carry sign: WAKE UP AMERICA PEEKSKILL DID, Poster advertising concert by Paul Robeson, Protesters, Cops control crowd, Enter more cops, Crowd, Sign: OUST THE COMMIES, Cops search man, Cops confiscate baseball bats, Cops, crowd push each other, Man arrested, CU Gary Cooper testifies at HUAC congressional session, Coop says he doesn't like Communism (speaks), Crowd (repeat), Crowd, press, Women knit, Reporters (repeat), CU Ronald Reagan testifies, says no Communist ever used films for ideology, stands up for movie industry, Chairman raps gavel, Herbert Biberman testifies, is asked whether he is a Communist, defies committee, criticizes committee's purpose, refuses to cooperate, Photographers, Hostile witness, don't know who (Hollywood 10 member), CU Congressman Richard Nixon, Committee, Alger Hiss sworn in, Hiss speaks, no sound, Whittaker Chambers testifies, accuses Hiss, speaks, CU Hiss, CU Chambers, Astor Theatre in New York City, huge sign for premiere of "THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES", CU Myrna Loy, CU Virginia Mayo (at opening of movie), CU Dana Andrews, Photographers flash bulbs (VERY NICE), Shirley Temple weds John Agar, CU couple, Fans wild, Fans rush Rita Hayworth-Aly Khan wedding, French cops, crowd, Couple in car (CU), Fans, CU couple CU, Photographers, Couple, violinists, Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rosselini walk on street, Couple drink in cafe, CU Bergman smiles, Princess Elizabeth marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, couple in carriage, crowds watch, Crowds rush palace gates, Multitude, Couple, family wave from balcony, Crowd, Extended royal family, CU King George VI, Queen Mary, CU Elizabeth, Philip, Ext. United States Capitol Dome, Newspapers on printing press, Secretary of State George Marshall at committee hearing, speaks of Marshall plan committee, Street scene, Woman hangs out wash, Women talk, Men talk, Men talk in diner, Crowd, announcer at microphone, Woman says Joe Louis and Joe Walcott should fight again, Black man expresses opinion on fight, Crowd on golf course, Enter Bob Hope, Hope jokes, words on soundtrack, Hope gets set to drive, Crowd, Hope drives, hams it up, Future President Dwight Eisenhower on golf course, tries to hit out of sand trap, CU Ike, Ike, press, Ike refuses once again to run for president, CU Ike (NICE), Truman leaves White House with bodyguard, Truman, bodyguard walk (repeat), Truman's legs, cane, Shakes hands with woman, Shakes hands with man, Photographers, Shakes hands with black man, others, House Speaker Joe Martin bangs gavel at 1948 Republican Convention, Indian chief, South Dakota sign, Men, Kansas sign, Aged Herbert Hoover waves, Signs for Taft, CU Robert Taft, Confetti, Balloons, Drum majorette, Man wears goofy-looking mask, Photos of Dewey, Signs for Dewey, New York Governor Thomas Dewey waves (repeat), Papier mache donkey head, Democratic Convention, "ILLINOIS" sign, Delegates fan themselves, Man, towel around head (FUNNY), Sign: WE ARE MILD ABOUT HARRY, Sign: THE WORLD'S HOPE TRUMAN, Delegates, Sign: TRUMAN FOR PRESIDENT, Delegates make noise, Man looks like beardless Gabby Hayes, Fat lady dances, Signs, delegates (repeat), Truman on dais, Truman, Vice President candidate Alben Barkley hold hands aloft, Seal of the President, Truman waves from train observation car, Kids cheer, Truman leaves on train, People wave, POV from train town passes, CU Truman, Dewey writes on train, CU Dewey, CU from train as countryside passes (repeat), Crowd hears Dewey speak, Crowd, CU Truman speaks at microphones, Old man watches, Old couple watch, Old lady with funny hat, CU Dewey speaks at microphone, Truman holds bouquet, Boy holds flag, Dewey gets stick of fish, Dewey waves, POV from train of crowd waving, Reporters work on train, Truman in motorcade, People go to town hall, Sign: TOWN HALL, People enter building, Voters line up, Workers help voters, Couple with baby vote, Voter at machine, X for Dewey, Man casts ballot, X for Truman, Woman casts ballot into ballot box, Truman votes, People vote, Dewey votes, NBC news room, Sign: POPULAR VOTE TABULATORS, Bob Trout broadcasts (repeat), Worker marks STATE CHART (repeat), H.V. Kaltenborn speaks (repeat), Operators at switchboards, Workers use adding machines (repeat), Tote board, Reporters type various broadcasters broadcast, Times Square (NIGHT), Times Building news ticker: TRUMAN TAKES LEAD AWAY FROM DEWEY (SIC), Banquet crowd applauds, Couple hug, celebrate, Empty Dewey headquarters, Glum group (four people look very disappointed), CU sad woman, CU sad man (repeat), Political cartoon of man with ass marked "ALL US POLITICAL EXPERTS" says "KICK ME", Banquet, Truman on dais, Crowd rises, applauds, Truman speaks, makes fun of, does accurate, mocking impression of Kaltenborn and his predictions of Truman's defeat, Nuclear bomb tests, Flashing sign ("DANGER"), Men in bizarre safety suits work with hazardous materials, Flashing sign ("RADIATION AREA"), Robot hands handle chemical in beaker, Worker moves radioactive material, Glow, Scientist works equipment, Man looks through eyepiece, Men work with radioactive chemicals (repeat), Chemical bubbles, Man smokes pipe, Instrument lights flash, Instruments operate, Blindfolded man in G-Force test, face horribly distorted (WEIRD!), Rocket sled speeds (repeat), Man in sled under G-Force, almost as weird, People look at sky with binoculars (repeat), Cat looks up (CUTE), Soldiers look at sky, Soldier on microphone, People talk to Air Force investigators, CU airline pilot, Pilots talk near jet fighter (trying to find flying saucers), CU Air Force pilot, People on sidewalk look into "Today" show window, CU men smoke, People look in store window, Early TV screen, wavy lines (repeat), Bartender, CU mug of beer, Men drink in bar, Horse race on TV, Man laughs, Bartender consoles patron, TV antennas all over roofs, People watch TV, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca do skit, CU Dave Garroway, Faye Emerson, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, Milton Berle dances with Carmen Miranda (guess which network made this film), TV studio, Microphone boom operator, Camera WNBT NBC, CU Albert Einstein speaks of danger of nuclear suicide, Thermometer reads 97 degrees, Crowded beach, People on beach blanket, Kids run on beach, Woman, child with bare ass (the child, not the woman) on beach, Girl plays in surf, Crowds on Coney Island beach, People descend on parachute jump, People on revolving swing ride at Steeplechase Park, POV from front seat as people ride roller coaster, Starter waves flag at auto race, Autos race, Race accidents, End of horse race, Crowd, Bob Richards does pole vault, People at fair, CU balloons, Carnival rides, Barker barks, Man hits bell with mallet, People watch, Cotton candy made, Kid with cotton candy, Man holds son, Rides, CU clown, CU boy with father, Goats on leash, Truman says goodbye to wife at plane, Plane engine starts, Truman onto plane (repeat), People wave, Airliner taxis, Aerial of airliner in air, Aerial of Washington, DC, CU landing gear goes down (NICE), POV from plane as it lands, Plane taxis ("INDEPENDENCE"), Secretary of State Dean Acheson in parking lot (A COUPLE OF FRAMES ONLY), Truman exits plane, Truman's car leaves, Men raise flags at United Nations, Sign: COUNCIL IN SESSION, United Nations Security Council session, Soviet seat empty, Korean representative, empty USSR chair, Korean refugees flee battle (repeat), Refugees, building burns in background, Burned buildings, Naked baby cries, Legs of marching soldiers, Troops march to ship, Troops board ship, Dog watches, Troops up gangway ("SAN FRANCISCO PORT OF EMBARKATION"), Hand beats drum ("SAN FRANCISCO PORT OF EMBARKATION"), Navy band plays, Crane removes gangway, Men untie ship, Smoke from funnel, Ship leaves, People wave, Men wave from portholes, Troops wave (repeat), Woman waves, CU baby waves, Aircraft carrier at dock, Ship in harbor, View from ship, Soldier on ship, CU sailor, CU soldiers, sailors, Aircraft carrier at sea

End of World War II. Soviet Army officers lined up at a ceremony in Soviet Union. Officers decorated with a number of medals at a ceremony. Location: Soviet Union. Date: 1945.

RUSSIAN WWII FOOTAGE (1945), RL. 6

Soviet leaders on the tribune of Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow include, Semyon Budyonny, Georgy Zhukov, Kliment Voroshilov, and Joseph Stalin. Spirit transferred from film to D-5, available in all HD and SD formats.

After his 1953 death, a look at Joseph Stalin's tenure as leader of the Soviet Union

Unused / unissued material - dates and locations unclear or unknown. <br/> <br/>Red Army Day - Berlin. Germany. <br/> <br/>LS Elevated shot of platz and memorial in the Russian sector of Berlin, where the celebrations were held. LS The memorial with people standing on steps. LS Elevated Russian troops marching up to the memorial. MS Soviet troops standing on steps of memorial. Large wreath in foreground. MS Part of memorial. Soldiers marching in background. MS Soldiers and civilians carrying wreaths up steps of memorial. LS Elevated GV of the scene. LS Ground shot troops. Memorial in background. Statue in foreground. <br/> <br/>MS Wreaths. CU Ribbons on wreaths with messages on. LS Memorial. MS Wreaths at base of memorial on which is written 1941 - 1945. MS Two soldiers placing wreath on memorial. Pan down to another wreath. MS Tank on standing foreground. Brandenburger Tor in background (Brandenberg Gate). LS Soldiers marching along carrying wreaths. LS Soldiers marching. along carrying wreaths. MS Soldiers carrying wreaths up to and placing them at foot of memorial. CU Ribbons on wreaths. <br/> <br/>Cataloguer's note: German newsreel item.

HISTORICAL B/W VIDEO OF UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL MATERIAL RELATING TO THE MEETING AT YALTA WITH CHURCHILL ROOSEVELT AND STALIN RUSSIAN / SOVIET TANKS WWII - WAR ENDS IN EUROPE - 1945 - STALINGRAD FIGHTING. BERLIN ATWAR - ALLIED TRIUMPH. GERMAN ARMY - TROOPS AND DESTRUCTION.

b&w WWII newsreel w/ audio - Allied nations leaders meet 1945 - Yalta Conference - Crimea, U.S.S.R. - Big Three - world leaders - meeting w/ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill - U.S. President Franklin D.Roosevelt - Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin - Soviet Ambassador to U.S. Andrei Gromyko, American Secretary of War, Henry Lewis Stimson and U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Vincent Forrestal - Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Allied armies in Germany - Russian and American soldiers greet each other after battle - New York newspaper headlines of WWII ending War Ends - celebration in street - over - ending - end - Italian Fascist leader and dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress dead - hanged upside down in Milan 1945 - German shot by American firing squad - execution - cyanide pellets, German Nazi leader, Heinrich Himmler dead on the floor after committing suicide - American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George S. Patton and U.S. General Omar Nelson Bradley - war dead - concentration camp - skeleton in oven at Auschwitz, skin lampshades made from Jewish bodies, shrunken heads - atrocities - Shoah - holocaust - genocide

During WWII, footage shows paratroopers falling through the sky. At a military camp, Red Army soldiers stand at attention as Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin walks while being followed by other Soviet Union leaders, Russia, 1942. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1941 until his death.

3/10/2024

b&w newsreel - documentary short about Kremlin - pre and post-revolutionary Russian leaders 1916 - Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra with army personnel, soldiers, officers - w/s soldiers march in street - 1917 - Bolsheviks - massive crowd in streets, revolutionary pamphlets handed out to people, peasants in street - female revolutionary speaker on platform, speaks to masses - c/u male speaker, wears heavy coat and fur hat, winter time - army officers revolt - Leon Trotsky talks to people as he stands on train at station - revolt in street - h/a down to cavalry soldiers charge through street on horseback - c/u people, civilians, rush to camera - 1924 - death of Vladimir I. Lenin (founder of Bolshevism & Soviet Communism) - people march past Lenin's Tomb in Red Square - winter - h/a down to people march in street - zoom to Joseph Stalin marches w/ people - c/u Stalin speaks to people via radio transmission - c/u Stalin & other Soviet officials raise hands at Kremlin platform - h/a down to w/s state function at Red Square - St. Basil's Cathedral visible - c/u Stalin wears military uniform - with one hand in jacket - Russian election - c/u register w/ list of voters names - Stalin votes at polls - puts ballot into box - c/u and h/a to soldiers march past camera w/ machine guns - show might - h/a w/s tanks in parade in Red Square - 1945 Yalta Conference, Crimea, U.S.S.R. - c/u Stalin at Conference w/ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seated together - Big Three - c/u Stalin applauds - walks w/ various officials - funeral of Mikhail Kalinin - pallbearers carry coffin - men march in funeral procession, hold floral wreaths - Malenkov at funeral - 1948 - interior Communist State funeral - Moscow - c/u Soviet leader V. Molotov, vice premier Georgi Malenkov - Beria - interior assembly - Russian politicians applaud - Malenkov takes over - c/u Stalin waves goodbye - 1953 - w/s Kremlin buildings - Russian government - h/a down to Red Square - massive funeral procession for death of Stalin - c/u still of Malenkov named premier - 1955 - c/u Nikita Khrushchev, Nicolai Bulganin - various shots with others - Khrushcev holds bouquet of flowers - Csar - Tsar

Full title reads: "BIG THREE CONFERENCE AT YALTA". <br/> <br/>Yalta, Crimea Soviet Union (USSR). <br/> <br/>Several shots of the ship carrying members of the British delegation for the Big Three Conference approaches Crimea. Soviet sea pilot boards the ship to take over the bridge. Long shot of the Sebastopol harbour. Long shot of the town of Yalta in the Crimea. <br/> <br/>Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea, scene of the Big Three Conference 1945. Close up shot of the sign reading 'Palace' in Russian and English. Several more shots of the Palace with famous 'Potemkin lion' seen in close up. Close up shot of the flags of UK, USA and USSR flying together. <br/> <br/>Several shots of Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov greeting Field Marshal Alexander. Close up shot of the Russian sailor on guard. Molotov, U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius and Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden posing to press photographers. Red Army guardsmen marching past. <br/> <br/>Close up shot of the American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Close up shot of the Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Delegates leaving for the Palace. <br/> <br/>Delegates arriving to Livadia Palace. Close up shot of the Soviet President Joseph Visarionovich Stalin arriving at Livadia Palace. Close up shot of Churchill in Russian hat arriving at Livadia Palace. Several shots of the Big Three conference room. Various shots of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, at the conference. Battery of cameramen taking pictures of the Big Three. Close up shot of a cameraman taking pictures with Eyemo camera. <br/> <br/>(Mute & Track Negs.)

[Interview w 2 Red Army Ex-POW's Who Served Germans]

Austrians celebrate Soviet liberation of Vienna in 1945

11/14/2024

HISTORICAL B/W NEWSREEL CUT STORIES. 00:00 AMERICAN PATHE NEWSREEL. BIG THREE YALTA CONFERENCE. VS THE CRIMEA AND LIVADIA CASTLE, FORMER SUMMER RESIDENCE OF CZAR NICHOLAS II AND SITE OF YALTA CONFERENCE. MILITARY CONVOY BRINGS IN SUPPLIES. COMMUNICATION LINES ARE STRUNG TO CASTLE. AT AIR FIELD, SOVIET FOREIGN SECRETARY MOLOTOV GREETS: BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER ANTHONY EATON; US SECRETARY OF STATE EDWARD STETTINIUS; HARRY HOPKINS, ADVISOR TO FDR; AVERELL HARRIMAN, US AMBASSADOR TO BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL; AND US PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. SOVIET PREMIER JOSEF STALIN ARRIVES AT CASTLE. VS IN CONFERENCE ROOM. PHOTO OP FOR CHURCHILL, FDR AND STALIN. 1945. 06:15 UNITED NEWSREEL. LIBERATION OF PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA FROM THE NAZIS. GERMAN SIGNS BEING TORN OFF BUILDINGS. PEOPLE OF PRAGUE REVOLT AGAINST NAZI SOLDIERS STILL PRESENT AFTER GERMAN SURRENDER. VS FIGHTING IN STREETS, BURNING BUILDINGS. SOVIET TROOPS AND CZECHOSLOVAK ARMY ENTER CITY. EDUARD BENES, PRES OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, RETURNS. 1945. 08:50 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL. FREIGHT TRAIN OF US BUSES AND PATTON TANKS IS STOPPED AT A CHECKPOINT JUST OUTSIDE BERLIN IN WHAT US VIEWS AS A COLD WAR INCIDENT AND A POSSIBLE SECOND BERLIN BLOCKADE. 09:45 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL. AERIAL OF WARSAW. FIRST POST WAR ELECTION IN POLAND. PRES BOLESLAW BIERUT, HEAD OF COMMUNIST PARTY, AND STANISLAW MIKOLAJCZYK, LEADER OF PEASANT PARTY AND VICE PREMIER, CAST BALLOTS. VS PEOPLE ON LINES, DROPPING BALLOTS IN BALLOT BOX. PEASANTS IN THE PROVINCES TRAVEL BY HORSE AND WAGON TO VOTE. VS MASSIVE CROWDS. 1947. 11:00 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL. HUNGARIAN REFUGEES CROSS BORDER INTO AUSTRIA. HUNGARIAN SOLDIERS. 12:00 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL. VS FIGHTING BETWEEN SOVIET ARMY AND CIVILIANS OF BUDAPEST, HUNGARY. VS SHOOTING IN STREETS, FLAGS BURNING. REFUGEES CROSS BORDER INTO AUSTRIA, CARRYING THEIR POSSESSIONS.

Silent film showing the start of the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa. This was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland (coded Operation Downfall). Four divisions of the U.S. 10th Army (the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th) and two Marine Divisions (the 1st and 6th) fought on the island. Their invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces.<p><p>The battle has been referred to as the "typhoon of steel" in English, and tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bofu ("violent wind of steel") in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle resulted in the highest number of casualties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Based on Okinawan government sources, mainland Japan lost 77,166 soldiers, who were either killed or committed suicide, and the Allies suffered 14,009 deaths (with an estimated total of more than 65,000 casualties of all kinds). Simultaneously, 42,000–150,000 local civilians were killed or committed suicide, a significant proportion of the local population. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki together with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria caused Japan to surrender less than two months after the end of the fighting in Okinawa.

During the Battle of Berlin, a wide shot shows a view from above the city's buildings, including the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. Followed by Red Army soldiers firing several 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) artillery towards buildings. A building explodes after a shell makes impact. Germany, 1945. The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.

Demobilization of Red Army at the end of World War II in Soviet Union. Soviet Army cavalry unit returning home in a mountainous region. One soldier being greeted by well-wishers upon his return to village. Location: Soviet Union. Date: 1945.

On April 20, 1945, the Soviet army launches an attack on Berlin. Residents flee as Soviet soldiers enter the streets and buildings. Master in Apple Pro Res 422 HQ 29.97fps 1080p.

9/15/2024

RUSSIAN WWII FOOTAGE (1945), RL. 5