Footage from the US during World War II

Color Footage of various scenes from the Battle of Iwo Jima

Part 1 shows campaigning, voting (Apr. 10), and tabulation in Japan. A Communist incites a riot on Premier Shidehara's home. Part 2, MacArthur deplores war before the Allied Council for Japan. Part 3 shows the annual marathon in Boston. Part 4, Brit. and Indian representatives confer at New Delhi on Indian independence. Shows Gandhi, Nehru, and Richard Cripps. Part 5, old cars parade in Detroit, celebrating the automobile golden jubilee. Part 6, Truman, Sec. Anderson, and UNRRA Director La Guardia confer on Europe's food crisis. Truman asks Americans to eat less. UNRRA shipments are loaded aboard ships.

Part 1 shows delegates and the meeting at Jersey City, N.J. Herbert Lehman speaks on international understanding. Part 2 shows internal and external views of the flying boat Mars on the ground and in the air. Part 3 shows inside and outside views of a circular aluminum house. Part 4 shows arctic tests of the carrier Midway. Sailors show cold-weather dress; decks are cleared of snow; planes take off. Part 5, trout are caught at a New Zealand hatchery; eggs are taken; fry are placed in streams. Part 6, delegates arrive at Hunter College for a meeting of the UN Security Council. Shows scenes of the meeting as Sec. Byrnes speaks on international cooperation.

SUMMARY Part 1, Sec. of State Stettinius, Anthony Eden, Molotov, and Mackenzie King meet in San Francisco. Shows lights going on in New York City and Washington, D.C., as blackouts are lifted. Part 2, a Chinese orphan is adopted by the 14th Air Force. Part 3, survivors are taken from a bombed hospital ship. Part 4, President Truman greets his mother at the White House. Part 5, Gen. Montgomery accepts the surrender of German troops in Germany. Part 6, Gen. Jodl surrenders to Gen. W.B. Smith in France. Gen. Eisenhower is present.

SUMMARY Part 1, 5th Div. Marines advance on Iwo Jima behind artillery, naval, and aerial bombardment. Part 2, Sec. of State Stettinius signs the Chapultepec Pact at the Inter-American Conference, Mexico City. Part 3, carrier-based planes bomb the Tokyo area. Part 4, the 9th Army crosses the Rhine. Gens. Eisenhower and W.H. Simpson inspect positions. Russian prisoners are liberated. German atrocities are discovered.

Part 1, Japanese oil fields in Indo-China and ships are bombed, and a tanker is torpedoed. Part 2, preparations are made for the Yalta Conference in Russia. Supplies arrive and communications lines are strung. Delegates arrive and are shown in conferences. Personages: Anthony Eden, Sec. of State Stettinius, Ambassador Harriman, Winston Churchill, Pres. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.

SUMMARY Part 1, a U.S. carrier task force in Japanese waters repulses a Japanese aerial assault. Part 2, Gen. Somervell speaks at a West Point graduation. Cadets pass in review. Shows Mrs. Eisenhower and her son John. Part 3, Chinese air cadets see an Indian dance festival in New Mexico. Part 4, shows a military parade in New York City launching the 5th War Bond drive. Part 5, Gen. Clark reviews allied service women in Italy. Part 6, airborne troops jump from transports and troops land in gliders in a practice assault.

SUMMARY Part 1, WAC mechanics service airplanes in Arizona. Part 2, the Boeing aircraft plant in Seattle celebrates the completion of its 5,000th Flying Fortress. Part 3, shows poses of military cameramen who will cover the invasion of Europe. Part 4, shows Air Force heroes in Washington, D.C., and one at his home in Piqua, Ohio. Part 5, allied planes bomb Italy. British troops advance toward Cassino and Americans toward Anzio. Shows German prisoners of war and aid to Italian citizens.

Shows the signing of the Japanese surrender documents aboard the battleship Missouri in the Bay of Tokyo on Sept. 2, 1945. Includes shots of the destroyer Buchanan and airplanes flying overhead. Personages: Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gene Yoshijiro Umezo of Japan; Gen. MacArthur; Gen. Wainwright; Brit. Gen. Arthur E. Percival; Adms. Halsey and Nimitz; Chinese Gen. Hsu Yung-Ch'ang; Brit. Adm. Bruce A. Fraser; Russian Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko; Australian Gen. Thomas Blamey; Canadian Col. L. Moore Cosgrave; French Gen. Jacques LeClerc; Adm. C.E.L. Helfrich of the Netherlands; Air Marshall Leonard M. Isitt of New Zealand.

Shows Japan's international activities, 1931-1945: troops embark for Manchuria; Shanghai lies in ruins (1937); Japans delegation leaves the League of Nations; war rages in China; Italian troops invade Ethiopia; Franco's troops guard Madrid; a party celebrates the Axis pact of 1940; Chinese refugees clog the streets; Pearl Harbor is attacked; remnants of the U.S. fleet assemble; the amphibious assault on Guadalcanal; Gen. MacArthur returns to the Philippines; Iwo Jima is attacked; Gen. Buckner watches Japanese surrender on Okinawa; kamikaze planes attack aircraft carriers; B-29's bomb Japan; the Navy bombards Hokaido; the atom bomb devastates Hiroshima; the Potsdam Conference meets; a parade in Moscow; Hirohito rides in a procession; Pres. Truman announces the Japanese surrender; and New York City rejoices. Other personages: Adm. Halsey, Pres. Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, Adm. Nimitz, Sec. of State Byrnes, Sec. of War Stimson, Sec. of the Navy Forrestal, Cordell Hull, Adm. Leahy, Molotov, Stalin, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin.

SUMMARY Part 1, Chief Justice Stone swears in Pres. Truman. Part 2 shows family scenes in Pres. Roosevelt's early years; the 1932 Democratic convention; the 1933 inaugural address; the 1941 signing of the Atlantic Charter off Newfoundland; F.D.R. at Casablanca, Cairo, and Teheran in 1943; the 1945 inaugural address; and F.D.R. at Yalta in 1945. Other personages: Joseph Stalin, Churchill, Molotov, Chiang Kai-shek, Gen. Marshall, Adm. King, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman.

Part 1, Georges Bidault speaks to delegates at the U.N. conference. Sec. of State Stettinius presides. Part 2, New York City celebrates VE Day. President Truman announces the German surrender. U.S. and Russian troops meet at the Elbe. Shows Gen. E.F. Reinhardt. German troops in Italy surrender. U.S. troops occupy Nuremberg. Part 3, artillery and tanks blast Japanese positions on Okinawa. Kamikaze planes attack U.S. aircraft carriers.

SUMMARY Part 1, Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes the oath of office and delivers the inaugural address at the White House. Personages: Harry Hopkins, Sec. and Mrs. Stimson, Sec. and Mrs. Forrestal, Sec. Ickes, Adm. King, Sec. and Mrs. Stettinius, Gen. and Mrs. Marshall, Vice Presidents Wallace and Truman. Part 2 demonstrates a sea rescue by a Coast Guard helicopter. Part 3, a Japanese airbase on Puerto Princesa Island is bombed. Part 4, ice breakers clear a path across Lake Michigan and men tie down airplanes on an aircraft carrier during a typhoon. Part 5, the 38th Inf. Div. fights in Burma. Shows Gen. Daniel I. Sultan.

SUMMARY Part 1, naval guns bombard the beaches of Leyte and carrier-based planes bomb the island defenses. The amphibious assault begins. Shows Gens. MacArthur and Wainwright and Adm. Halsey. Part 2, Red Cross personnel pack food parcels for Americans imprisoned in Germany. Part 3, cadets parade at Uruguay's military academy in Montevideo. Part 4, a MARK I calculator at Harvard University solves math problems. Part 5, Marines capture pillboxes and dugouts on Peleliu Island. Part 6, the 5th Army breaks through the Gothic line in Italy behind artillery and tanks.

SUMMARY Part 1, shows an amphibious assault on the islands and troops fighting on Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. Part 2, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek inspect an airbase in China. Part 3, 10 dirigibles are used to train pilots in California. Part 4, service men on leave visit the Taj Mahal and the ruins of Pompeii. Part 5, fighters of the 8th Air Force down German planes.

New Films of US Victory in the Marshall Islands - 1944

SUMMARY Part 1, allied troops fight in New Guinea, in the Italian Alps, and at Anzio. German prisoners of war receive medical care. Nurses arrive, tend the wounded, eat, and draw equipment. Part 2, in a practice rescue, a doctor reaches a soldier by parachute and dog sled. Part 3, Italian naval cadets train on a sailing vessel. Part 4, rockets are used as practice targets for antiaircraft gunners. Part 5, U.S. and British sailors on leave play winter games. Part 6, Mrs. Doolittle christens the aircraft carrier Shangri-La. Flashbacks show B-25's taking off from the Hornet to bomb Japan. President Roosevelt decorates Gen. Doolittle.

DESCRIPTION Part 1, U.S. planes bomb German cities. Gens. Clark and Alexander meet in Italy. Artillery pounds Nazi positions in Italy and tanks and infantry advance. Part 2, Mustang fighter planes fly from California to New York in 6-1/2 hours. Part 3, nurses are sworn into the Army. Part 4, a newly-formed infantry division parades in the U.S. Part 5, airplanes spray farm lands with insecticide. Part 6, U.S. troops land at Hollandia, New Guinea, supported by aerial and naval barrages. Tanks and infantry advance through wet jungle terrain. Shows Gen. MacArthur and Gen. Walter Krueger.

Part 1, paratroops train and jump from planes. Part 2, Gen. de Gaulle presents the Legion of Honor to Gen. Mark Clark. Part 3, shows a Navy salvage crane at work off the Atlantic coast. Part 4, WAVES in Cedar Falls, Iowa, pick corn during a farm labor shortage. At Hunter College in New York City, WAVES pass in review for Mayor La Guardia. Part 5, Adms. King and Nimitz visit Saipan. Shows Marine Gen. Holland Smith. Part 6, a volcano erupts at Paricutin, Mexico. Lava advances, wrecking homes, as citizens flee.

Part 1, troops fight at Anzio. Part 2, Under Sec. of State Stettinius returns from London. Part 3, SPARS, WAVES, and WACS model uniforms. Shows Navy nurses on Guadalcanal. Part 4, shows a baby contest in California. Part 5, the Forest Service uses a snow plow to clear Montana roads. Part 6, Adm. John Beardall is decorated at the Naval Academy. Midshipmen pass in review. Part 7 shows the Kentucky Derby. Part 8 shows surf riding in Australia.

Part 1, transport planes and gliders land troops on Myitkyina airstrip in northern Burma. Shows Gen. Stilwell and Gen. Frank Merrill. Lt. Col. Seagrave operates on wounded in a field hospital. Part 2, U.S. service women sightsee in Egypt on camels. Part 3, all U.S. artillery pieces in Normandy fire on the 4th of July. Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Joseph Collins participate. French school children sing "America." Part 4, carrier-based planes land on Saipan, refuel, and then bomb Japanese positions on the island. Marines advance.

Part 1, allied planes bomb Pantelleria Island. Part 2, Gens. de Gaulle and Giraud inspect French troops in North Africa. Giraud decorates Gen. Eisenhower. Part 3, U.S. farmers sow potatoes. Part 4, Hindus gather for a religious ceremony in India. Part 5, shows work on the "Big Inch" pipe line. Part 6, Greece receives a lend-lease destroyer in Washington, D.C. Shows President Roosevelt. Part 7 shows the world's largest synthetic rubber plant in the U.S. Part 8, Madame Chiang Kai-shek reviews WAVES, SPARS, and women Marines. Part 9, Argentine President Castillo is overthrown by revolution in Buenos Aires.

Part 1, many bombers strike Berlin and return to England, some badly damaged. Part 2, the Gripsholm arrives in New York harbor with soldiers recently freed from German prison camps. Part 3, Gen. Blamey reviews Australian veterans parading in Sydney. Part 4, Gen. William Shedd and Eleanor Roosevelt inspect garrisons in Puerto Rico. Mrs. MacArthur christens the Australian destroyer Bataan at an Australian shipyard. Part 5, German prisoners in the U.S. shovel snow and work in a shoe shop. Part 6, Italian refugees, including children, are evacuated to southern Italy.

Part 1, Russian troops advance through villages behind artillery and tanks. A Russian ship in the Black Sea is bombed by German planes. A German submarine is hit by a depth bomb. Part 2, a Canadian soldier is furloughed to mine coal. Shows scenes in the coal mine, in steel plants, and in factories. Part 3, elephants, native bearers and planes haul supplies for U.S. troops in India. Part 4, Australian veterans parade in Sydney. Part 5, civilians in North Africa receive food, medicine, and clothing. Part 6, Liberators bomb New Guinea airfields. Fighter planes patrol over mountains.

Part 1, U.S. troops land on one of the Aleutian Islands and battle winds to put up tents. Airplanes take off from an island airfield. Shows Gen. Lloyd E. Jones. Part 2, the Dionne quintuplets are present as 5 cargo vessels are launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Part 3, tanks of the British 8th Army roll forward in Tunisia. Gen. Montgomery and Gen. Eisenhower meet. Allied planes patrol the Mediterranean. Allied artillery blasts Nazi positions by night. Germans surrender by the thousands.