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Newsreels: 1945 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1945 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1945. Our Public Domain Stock Footage newsreels cover every major world event, the not so major events, strides in technology, the lives of public figures, fads and trends. Newsreels 1945 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1945. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45021)
THE TOER OFFENSIVE
The U. S. 1st Army and the U. S. 9th Army open their concerted attacks on the Roer River fortresses which guard the approach to the all important Colgne Plain. Intensive bombardments precede their fighting advances into Julich, Linnich, Neuss, Baal and Erklenz. Pontoon bridges approach to the various cities reveal them to be in ruins.
Gen. Simpson, Commandant of the U. S. 9th Army, accompanies Gen. Eisenhower on a tour of inspection of ruined Julich and its famous citadel. Celebrant G.I.’s parade through the streets, Nazi prisoners and refugees march to the rear, and the foundation is laid for the advance on the Rhine.
BATAAN PRISONERS IN U. S.
San Fransisco wildly welcomes the 274 U. S. Army heroes from Bataan. All of the heroes, freshly uniformed and in normal health, form a striking contrast to their lot when they were discovered in their Jap prison.
SNUFFING OUT A CITY
In 20 minutes of saturation night bombing, the R.A.F. wipes out Pforzheim, medium sized Nazi industrial city. Huge oxygen consuming bombs are the anwer.
WORK AND LAUGH
The Toronto Rehabilitation Training Center is devoted to fitting Canada’s ex-servicemen for profitable trades. It’s all very interesting, especially barbering. Joe Blow, the customer, explodes right in the student’s face, if he slices too deep.
POLITICAL PRISONERS FREED
Yanks entering Duren free hundreds of Poles and Russians from a concentration camp. The smiles of the comely women prisoners are returned with compound interest by the doughboys.
THE HORRER OF BILIBID
U. S. Naval men held prisoner in Bilibid, in the Philippines, are reduced to living skeletons. Some of their buddies starved to death on the daily ration of several ounces of grain.
HORSE AND GAS RODEO (Exclusive)
Los Angeles, Calif.—When the Coliseum is cleared of broncs and Brahmas and their spilled riders—the gasoline buggies come out to add some new upset thrills. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45022)
U.S. NAVY STRIKES TOKYO
Plowing through tempestuous seas the U. S. Fifth Fleet takes positions several hundred miles off Tokyo . . . the huge carriers of Task Force 58 emerge from the armada . . . and fleets of war planes swoop away, their destination Tokyo.
En route, Jap ships are plastered and sunk by air cannon. Tokyo’s docks are pounded. Mammoth Imperial air fields are strafed repeatedly. Intercepting Zeros are destroyed. Gun cameras record power dives on sprawling Jap factories. Rockets peed down into an aluminum factory, and huge fires mount from Tokyo.
Combat loss – Jap 817 planes, 51 vessels – U. S. 9 planes and 4 pilots.
THE BANKER’S MILE (Exclusive)
Chicago Stadium – Gunder Hagg, twice beaten this season by Jim Rafferty—America’s Mile King, finishes a good second by this rare Rafferty (a Universal Pictures Employee) thereby wins his 8th consecutive indoor mile classic.
MARCH 17TH PARADE (Exclusive)
Fifth Avenue—Fifty thousand Irishmen, with steps straight and true, pay tribute to St. Patrick as they parade before one million admiring New Yorkers. Archbishop Spellman, Mayor LaGuardia and James Farley review the procession which is so ably marshaled by Monsignor O’Donnell and the Honorable Commissioner, Patrick Walsh. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45023)
THE BATTLE OF MANILA
(Additional pictures, just received, showing the details of the terrible battle between MacArthur’s Armies and the fanatical Japs).
The Japs, content with delaying actions against the Yanks, as they retreated southward in Luzon, resolved to put on one of their fanatical “death stands” within the confines of Manila. The motorized U. S. 1st Cavalry Division enters Rizal Stadium, where Jap fire meets them from the bleachers and the stands. Tank fire and machine guns turn the stadium into a death trap for the Japs.
Huge fires are raging throughout the city. Hundreds of huge Yank guns fire across the Pasig River into Jap hideouts. Then foot soldiers of the U. S. 8th Army use rifles machine guns, liquid fire and grenades to finish off the Japs. Charred Jap corpses Jap corpses are seen. American wounded receive American Red Cross blood plasma.
Fighting converges on Intramuros—the old city, surrounded with 30 ft. walls. U. S. artillery breaches the walls, Jap machine gun nests are silenced, and fighting in Manila ceases. Nuns and Filipino civilians, used as shields by the Nips, leave Manila. Scores of corpses of other civilians are found, tied hand and foot—then coldly stabbed and butchered by the fiendish Japs.
General MacArthur walks through Manila, which now lies in absolute and complete ruin—the Stalingrad of the Pacific. Pres. Osmena’s government assumes power and Gen. MacArthur takes a PT boat to Corregidor. He stands before Parachute Troop formations up on the Parade Grounds, and touchingly orders the Stars and Stripes to be raised, “nevermore to be hauled down by any foe.” |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45024)
THE CAPTURE OF COLOGNE
Tank units of the onrushing U. S. 1st Army rumble into Cologne’s suburbs, with all guns blazing at heavy pockets of Nazi resisistance. Stalled street cars are hauled out of the way, and Yank foot soldiers fight their way into Colgne, block by block.
Colgone lays in absolute ruin, after having been a “saturation attack” target for allied bombers for three years. In sharp contrast, the Cathedral stands almost undamaged. Near the Cathedral, a Nazi tank is caught in U. S. gun sights, to be set afire with a direct hit.
Nazi prisoners are rounded up, Cologne natives return, while in back of the whole scene, the giant Hohenzollerrn Rhine bridge lies, mangled and twisted. Colgone is truly a “dead city.”
THE SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE
Prior to the opening of the momentous United Nations Conference in San Francisco on April 25th, the U. S. delegation convenes in Washington with Pres. Roosevelt. The U. S. members are Congressmen Eaton and Bloom, Senators Vandenburg and Connally, Dean Gildersleeve, Naval Commander Stassen and Sec. of State Stettinius.
Pre-convention views of San Franscisco reveal that the attractive West Coast metropolis is ready and waiting for the arrival of the dignitaries of the world.
In a film interview, Sec. Stettinius states the aims and purposes of the parley.
THE LUDENDORFF BRIDGE
After this majestic 1,300 ft. bridge at Hemagen, Germany was seized by the U. S. 9th Armored Division, Yank troops and supplies raced across it to the Rhine east bank in ever increasing numbers. Nazi precision bombers are driven off by anti-aircraft fire, the Remagen bridge head widens, and hordes of Nazi prisoners are bagged.
KAISER OPENS DRIVE
New York City—Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, chairman of the national drive to collect clothing for war sufferers in foreign lands, announces that the campaign will extend from April 1st to April 30th. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45025)
M 69 JELLIED BOMBS
First revealing pictures of America’s incendiary bombs which are turning sections of Jap homeland cities into flaming and gutted square miles of destruction.
Tests at an East Coast Proving Grounds show them to be 500 lb. clusters of 28 individual containers of jellied gasoline which burns at 1000 degree temperature. Actual battle use of these “clinging fire” incendiaries against the Japs in Pacific outpost island warfare is shown.
THE RED OFFENSIVES
Russia’s Armies gain momentum in their terrific offensives as giant guns, rocket batteries and Stalin tanks mow down the Nazis. The enemy death toll is enormous, they surrender in droves, and their cities are methodically destroyed by shell and by torch.
INDUSTRIAL CODE
Washington, D. C. – Eric Johnson, Pres. Of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, William Green, Pres. Of the A.F. of L., and Philip Murray, Pres. Of the C.I.O. sign a code committing management and labor to joint national interests in the post-war period. Mr. Johnson explains the action is a statement.
“ON STAGE EVERYBODY” (Exclusive)
N.Y.C.—At the radio finals of “On Stage Everybody,” C.D. Prutzman, v.p. of Universal Pictures, presents screen contracts to the finalists, who thereby win roles in the forthcoming film production. “On Stage Everybody.”
EXPLSION AT SEA
When a U.S. ammunition ship in convoy is struck by enemy dive bombers it explodes in one terrific blast which fills the entire screen, sending one gigantic smoke ring whirling skyward.
FIGHTS ON PIER 88
When some sluggers from Pier 92 Receiving Station meet U.S. Navy Salvage School leather pushers in the squared circle on Pier 88, you see better fights than the Garden stages. And there’s a laugh in every punch. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45026)
THE ATTACK ON THE RYUKYUS
Giant ships of the U. S. Fifth Fleet—immense new battleships and huge aircraft carriers—plunge through very heavy seas to get in position for the air assault on the Ryukyu Islands, less than 350 miles from Japan proper.
The carrier planes take off and soon they are destroying vital airstrips on Okinawa, ships in harbors and other targets. Missions accomplished, they return to their flat tops to find a furious battle going on between the fleet and swarms of Jap planes. Exceedingly accurate anti-aircraft fire sends a succession of Jap planes spinning into the sea.
EASTER OBSERVANCE
N. Y. C.—Easter begins in Gotham with the annual Sunrise Service on the Mall in Central Park, with many wounded service men being noted both in the crowd and on the platform.
After Archbishop Spellman pontificates at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, worshippers leave to join the Fifth Avenue Easter Parade of 800,000. Yvonne De Carlo, Universal star, is prominent among the style paraders. Only the outdoor Lily Show at Radio City attracts more attention.
U. S. ROCKET TANKS
In the Rhine offensive, giant U. S. tanks mounting 69 rocket tubes lay down terrific rocket barrages either in salvo, or in rapid fire.
ZWEIBRUCKEN CAPTURED
Gen. “Iron Mike” O’Daniel’s U. S. 3rd Infantry virtually razes this Nazi industrial and mining center before they enter it and round up all the civilians and bitter young Nazi troopers.
PEACE AT GODESBERG
When the Yanks enter Godesberg they survey the Hotel Dreesen, site of the famous Chamberlain-Hitler conference of ’38 which was meant to avert war. To prevent the Huns from engaging in any more fighting, the Yanks disarm the citizens of all their weapons, including lances.
CAPTURE OF SAABRUCKEN
The U. S. 7th Army rolls through the ruins and wreckage of this once proud city—site of the 1935 plebiscite. Now A.M.G. takes over. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45027)
CAPTURE OF COBLENZ
(First 150ft. Deteriorated)
With tanks leading the way, units of Gen. Patton’s U. S. 3rd Army advance on Coblenz, the thousand-year-old transportation center. Repeated air bombings and heavy artillery fire have reduced the city to ruins, from which the Nazis offer scattered resistance.
Tom Priestley, Universal cameraman, covers the entire action. Soldier dead litter the ground. A loud speaker is used to demand and direct surrender and several thousand Nazi prisoners are collared. White flags flutter from the few remaining ancient homes. Ancient Ehrenbrightstein Castle, used by the Germans as a fortress, is a battered pile of ruins American tanks rumble through the narrow streets, and head eastward, deeper into Germany.
101ST AIRBORN CITED
In a stirring speech, Gen. Eisenhower awards the Presidential Citation to the famous 101st Airborne Division for its heroixc defense of Bastogne. Steel-helmeted Mariene Dietrich joins the entire reviewing party in saluting the 101st.
FLAIL TANKS
The Canadian First Army uses huge tanks with heavy …. In front of them which ….and all hurried Nazi road. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45028)
THE INVASION OF OKINAWA
Conferences at Guam ended, Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Nimitz sends an armada of 1,400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukus. En route, the men of the new U.S. 10th Army stage their won deck entertainment, and secure their issue of invasion money.
Land sighted, the big guns of the fleet bark into action, and tons of rockets are sped shoreward. Landing craft race in, and unopposed landings are made. Inland, Jap dugouts and pill boxes are destroyed with grenades. Past broken forts, natives climb down from the hills, the Stars and Stripes are run up, and the Yanks prepare fro their campaign on Okinawa—360 miles from Japan itself.
RETURN TO MANDALAY
British and Indian combat troops capture Mandalay ending three years of Jap occupation. Burmese campaign continues to gain momentum as the mechanized might of the British splits the Jap hold of Burma into two segments.
BATTLE ROCKETS
U.S. uses mobile rocket projectors to hurl banks of rockets into German towns. They are fired by remote control so that the crews may escape the terrific discharge fires.
BIG FOUR CONFER
Washington, D.C.—Sec. Stettinius meets with the Ambassadors from Britain, Russia and China in first meeting of the four powers prior to the San Franscisco parley.
SEC. MAC LEISH SPEAKS
Washington, D.C.—Asst. Sec. of State Archibald MacLeigh explains the urgency of the Dumbarton Oaks principles being accepted by the United Nations and citizens of the U.S.A. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45029)
Roosevelt is Dead – Special Release - |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45030)
U.S. HONORS ITS FALLEN LEADER
The last remains of Franklin Delano Roosevelt are drawn past the tearful patients and towns people of Warm Springs, Georgia and placed on the funeral train, for the long trip home.
A half million saddened people watch the long military funeral cortege slowly pass through Washington’s streets. At the White House, Mr. Roosevelt’s body lies in state in the East Room.
The mighty of the nation are gathered at Hyde Park, N.Y. to be present at Mr. Roosevelt’s interment in the garden of his huge estate. Mrs. Roosevelt and members of the immediate family are at the graveside. Nearby are President Truman, General Marshall, Admiral King, Herbert Lehman, Congressional leaders, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, and hundreds of other dignitaries.
A platoon from the assembled West Point cadets fire a volley over the grave, the flag draping the casket is given Mrs. Roosevelt and she stoically walkes away. Death has claimed the dynamic President, Franklin Roosevelt, but his name will live in American history forever.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S MESSAGE
Congress loudly acclaims President Harry S. Truman as he mounts the rostrum of The House to outline his views …them on the immediate conduct of his administration. He states that the present … will continue, that the Axis nations will be brought to unconditional… the United Nations must concur in permanent peace …. America’s new President gratefully smiles to the … which greets him. |
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