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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 (UE45031)
PRESIDENT TRUMAN AT WORK
Early in the A.M. President Harry S. Truman leaves Blair House, his new temporary home, and briskly walks to the White House.
Matthew J. Connelly, his confidential secretary, and Leonard Reinsch, his press and radio relations man, are busy at their tasks. The President nominates John W. Snyder, St. Louis banker, to become Federal Loan Administrator. Mr. Truman confers with the U. S. delegates to the forthcoming Golden Gate conference, then later, in the presence of Congressional leaders, he signs a bill extending Lend Lease.
348 members of the press, a record number, crowd into his office to attend his first press conference. In the evening, the President goes on the air, to talk to U. S. service men all over the world. He explains he is an ex-serviceman, and that he is carrying on, as the entire country expects them to do.
EISENHOWER’S ARMIES ADVANCE
Supreme Commander Eisenhower personally observe the attacks of his armies. He sees terrific artillery bombardments. U. S. infantrymen advance into towns, and blast out Nazi snipers. White flags are everywhere.
The German military road system of super-highways, the Autobans, are utilized to race Yank infantry into advanced attacks, and as improvised air fields for light observation planes. Miles of wrecked and burning Nazi equipment are passed. Rail lines are torn and twisted, munitions factories are utterly destroyed. And the flood of Nazi prisoners continues to mount to staggering proportions.
ERNIE PYLE KILLED
Ernie Pyle, the G. I.’s favorite writer and comrade, is killed on Ie, Jap island off Okinawa. Our record shows him very recently, modestly living with the doughboys on Okinawa.
MOTIVE POWER . . . COOLIES
Labor teams of coolies in their human harnesses, pull junks through torturous rapids in Chinese rivers. Other coolies bring in hundreds of heavy U. S. gas drums for re-fueling.
QUEEN COMES HOME
Queen Wilhelmia returns to Holland where thousands of her liberated subjects greet her and await her aid. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45032)
GERMANY IN RUINS
The Allies continue to pile up crushing defeats on the Nazis as they rush eastward from the Rhine. At COBLENZ, the huge bridge lies broken in the Rhine, and doughboys maintain the “Watch on the Rhine” while General Bradley and General Patton attend flag raising ceremonies at Ehrenbreitstain Castle. Heidelberg University is entered. Only shells of the ancient buildings are standing, while a modernistic building built by U. S. funds, reveals the generosity of American financiers.
Duisburg, Limbourg, Osnabruck and Munster are entered. The streets are filled with hills of broken buildings and wreckage. Mayors try to rally their citizens. The pathetic Volksturm – the home guard – surrenders, to join the thousands of combat troops previously captured. Frantic, hungry civilians break into ruined stores and stalled trains to steal food and clothing.
JUMBO AEROPLANE TIRE
Wright Field, Ohio. An aeroplane tire measuring 110 inches and weighing three quarters of a ton, is rigidly tested on a machine which is equally unique.
GERMAN ATROCITIES
Allied armies free thousands of slave laborers—both men and women—from the infamous concentration camps. The victims hands had been mutilated, and numbers tattooed on their arms. One tremendous graveyard contains 30,000 dead! The occupant of each grave had been sent there by Nazi torture and barbarism.
MOLOTOV IN WASH., D. C.
At the invitation of Pres. Truman, the Soviet Foreign Commissar arrives in Washington to confer with the President, Sec. Stettinius and Anthony Eden before the West Coast United Nations meetings convene.
FINAL SEATTLE B-17
When Boeing’s Seattle, Wash. Plant turns out it’s last Super Fortress the 30,000 employees make a gay occasion of the event. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45034)
SECURITY CONFERENCE IN SESSION
San Francisco, Calif.—In plenary session the leaders of the various delegations address the United Nations conclave. U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius speaks for the U.S. He is followed by Foreign Commissar Molotov of Russia and T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister of China.
The leaders of the Big Four, elected to the presidium, then preside in rotation.
The premature announcement of PEACE electrifies the entire convention, and throws the populace of San Francisco into ecstasies.
OKINAWA ADVANCES
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner directs the attack of his 10th U.S. Army on Okinawa. The infantry advances southward using high explosive grenades on Jap infested caves.
Norhtward, the Marines use the same tactics to root out the enemy. When Japs slither out of their caves they are shot down or made to disrobe before questioning. The natives, who are either very young or very old, learn to trust the U. S. Marines.
IL DUCE OBIT 1945
BeNITO Mussolini orates before hi Black Shirt Legions and confers with his arch conspirator, Hitler. Reverses strike and Hitler rescues him from the Allies. Currently, he returns to Milan only ot be tried and killed in the same inglorious way that he had meted out punishment to his political foes.
U.S.S. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
Brooklyn Navy Yard—Eleanor Roosevelt, Admiral King and General Marshall arrive to witness the drydock launching of the giant 45,000 ton aircraft carrier, fittingly named for the ex-president, an ardent navy enthusiast.
FAT SALVAGE
Maj. Gen. Hardigg stresses the need for saving fats. At Hallogan Army Hospital quantities of fat are saved in the kitchens. The neighborhood butcher gives the housewife 2 red points and 4c for each pound of used fat. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45035)
REDS ROLLING TO BERLIN
As Marshals Zhukov and Rosokofskey direct wide flanking attacks on Warsaw, Red tanks and cavalry wheel into line to carry out the orders. Heavy artillery opens its murderous fire. The infantry advances using machine guns and heavy grenades. Die hard Nazi snipers are wiped out.
Ruined Warsaw is entered, Chopin’s conservatory is ruined, in fact all buildings are mere shells. Warsaw had been Germanized, even the street cars had been reserved for Nazis.
The same story is repeated at Poznan, but here there is human ruin—a horror camp. Disfigured people walk about. The courtyard is filled with corpses and wailing women relatives. A chamber is loaded with torture implements including a guillotine. A parade of Nazi prisoners is attacked by freinzied Poles who punch right and left indiscriminately, just so they land on Nazis. Warsaw and Poznan are freed, and the drive for Berlin is on.
ARGENTINA INVITED TO S .F. PARLEY
The question of Argentina’s entry into the United Nation’s Security Conference causes the most dramatic floor discussions which have occurred there thus far. Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico’s able Secretary for Foreign Affairs speaking in behalf of the Latin American Nations, pleas for Argentina’s entry. Russia’s Foreign Commissar Molotov, through an interpreter, speaks against the plan, adding that Russia will ask nothing else of the conference. Secretary of State Stettinius pleads with the conference to admit Argentina and get on with the other matters on the agenda. When Chairman Anthony Eden calls for a vote, Argentina is invited to the parly by a vote of 31 to 4.
ARGENTINA INVITED TO S. F. PARLEY
The question of Argentina’s entry into the United Nation’s Security Confence causes the most dramatic floor discussions which have occurred there thus far. Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico’s able Secretary for Foreign Affairs speaking in behalf of the Latin American Nations, pleas for Argentina’s entry. Russia’s Foreign Commissar Molotov, through an interpreter, speaks against the plan, adding that Russia will ask nothing else of the conference. Secretary of State Stettinius pleads with the conference to admit Argentina and get on with the other matters on the agenda. When Chairman Anthony Eden calls for a vote, Argentina is invited to the parly by a vote of 31 to 4.
U. A. NAVY VS. JAP LAND PLANES
Jap planes, desperately trying to defend their homeland, rise from their air fields to attack the U. S. fleet off Okinawa. Some of the most vivid and spectacular actionof the war takes place. U. S. guns completely fill the sky with their fire; low flying Jap planes are picked off by highly accurate fire into which they fly.
THE ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR
Washington, D. C. –When Garcia Arias, Argentina’s newly appointed Ambassador arrives, he is warmly greeted by statesmen of the U. S. and South American republics. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45036)
WAR ENDS IN EUROPE
PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS V-E DAY
President Truman officially proclaims V-E Day, as Germany submits her unconditional surrender to Gen. Eisenhower’s headquarters in Reims.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NAZIS
Militant Germany is shown on the march against Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. The rush of the Panzer divisions through the Lowlands causing the downfall of France—the humiliating British retreat from the beaches of Dunkirk—the terrible air blitzes on London—the advance on Moscow, all these slashing moves portray the power-crazed Hitler and his Nazi cohorts in the full prime of their conquests and glory.
Pearl Harbor precipitates America into the global conflicts. Lend-Lease aid bolsters the Allies until D-Day! From that time on German power spirals downward. Her factories are laid waste, her railways are destroyed, her Luftwaffe is driven from the skies, and her troops are captured by the hundreds of thousands. The Nazi banner is struck to earth, nevermore to fly again in a world of peace loving nations.
N. Y. MILLIONS CELEBRATE
Overjoyed by the victory news from Europe, New Yorkers jubilantly celebrate in the canyons of Wall Street, and in the playground of the world—Times Square. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45037)
GERMANY IN RUINS
Air views of Leipzig reveal it to be a city of skeleton buildings and rubble. Industrial Magdeburg has been gutted by dive bombers of the U. S. Tactical Air Forces. The huge Krupp tank factory is destroyed as are hundreds of partially finished tanks on the assembly line. The rail center, as a parade ground for Yank troops who blast a surmounting stone swastika to bits – then replace it with the Stars and Stripes.
“IKE” CITES “G. I. JOE”
General Eisenhower credits Allied generals with genius, but states that the real hero of the war is G.I. Joe and his buddies in the other armed services of the Allies.
WASHINGTON AGLOW
When full outdoor illumination is restored to Wahington, D. C. the shining dome of the nation’s capitol commands the most attention.
7TH WAR LOAN DRIVE
Washington, D.C.—Sec. of Treasury Morgenthau speaks, telling the urgency of buying War Bonds.
HOSPITAL SHIP ATTACKED
OfF Okinawa, the U.S.S. Comfort, a hospital ship, was attacked by a Jap suicide flyer, wounding 31 Yanks and killing 29. Burial services are held at a military cemetery on a Pacific island.
LIGHTS FOR MISS LIBERTY
New York Harbor returns to its nighttime normalcy as the lights which flood the Statue of Liberty are turned on again.
“NOW JAPAN”
Seattle, Wash.—Spiritual Boeing employees celebrate news of victory over Germany by wheeling out a giant B-29 bomber carrying “On To Tokyo” sign.
THE IWO JIMA FLAG
Washington, D. C.—Three of the heroes who raised the Stars and Stripes at Mr. Surabachi, Iwo Jima, hoist the same tattered flag over the U. S. capitol.
B’WAY IS “WHITE WAY” AGAIN
When all the lights are turned on again in Times Square, the dazzle and brilliance convince all Broadwayites that V-E has been achieved. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45038)
THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Reims—Nazi General Jodl, representing Admiral Doenitz, strides intot he “war room” where Allied Generals await him and his party. After the surrender terms are understood, Jodl fills a third of a page with his scrawly signature, then his associates sign. U. S. General W. B. Smith the Allied Chief of Staff signs as do the remainder of the Allied Generals.
In an adjoining room, General Eisenhower, wreathed in smiles forms the signature pens into a V for Victory sign. Unconditional surrender is an accomplished fact.
3,000 NAZI PRISONERS
N.Y.C.—3,000 assorted Nazi prisoners arrive in America. They range from the haugty officers down to awe stricken youngsters, and are the last who will be sent to this country.
COLORADO HEROES
Denver, Colo.—The Congressional Medal of Honor is presented to Corporal Robert Maxwell in person, and the parents of Private Elmer Fryar receive his posthumous congressional Medal award.
85 AND OUT
Fort McPherson, Ga.—Sgt. Rondall Stroud of Clyton, Ga. With 132 service points (47 over the required 85 discharge points) empties his duffle bag for the quartermaster, gets a huge check from the paymaster and bids adieu to the U.S. Army, one of the first to be mustered out under the new plan.
7TH WAR LOAN
Times Square—Iwo Jima statue is unveiled by the 3 of the heroes who took part in the original flag raising, on which the statue is patterned.
PRESIDENT’S MOTHER
Washington, D.C.—Mrs. Truman, 92, arrives from Missouri by plane to spend Mother’s Day in the White House with her famous son.
N.Y. TRACKS GETTING READY (Exclusive)
N. Y. C.—Workmen redecorate the stands at Belmont Park and Jamaica Track as horsemen put their steeds through final workouts prior to Opening Day.
MUSSO MUSSED UP
Milan—An indignant mob aims well-placed kicks at the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress lying in a public square. Later, their corpses dangle head downward, high above the leering crowds.
RACING RETURNS (Exclusive)
30,000 fans crowd into Narragansett Park, Rhode Island, as horse racing resumes in the U.S.A. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1945 (UE45040)
U.S.S. FRANKLIN
(1ST Pictures By Official Navy Cameramen)
Fighting a terrific battle sixty miles off the Japanese coast, the 27,000 ton carrier, USS Franklin, is struck with two, five hundred pound armor-piercing bombs released by an enemy pilot.
Immediately, loaded planes on the flight and hangar decks burst into flame—bombs, rockets and machine gun ammunition explode, turning the great war vessel into a dangerous, raging inferno.
Only the superhuman efforts of her crew save the gallant ship from utter destruction. Eleven hundred men are lost or injured. Many of the survivors owe their lives to the bravery of the chaplain, Lieut. Commander O’Callahan.
The Japs reported the Franklin sunk, but the battered and torn ship is safe in the Brooklyn Navy Yard after a twelve thousand mile voyage, via the Panama Canal. The heroic survivors are fittingly honored after suffering one of the most terrific ordeals in naval history.
WELCOME HOME!
New York—Troops from the European war zone arrive for furloughs, hospitalization or redeployment. As the ships enter the harbor, entertainers come aboard to welcome the boys who crowd the decks for a look at the good old U. S. A.
AMERICANS RALLY
New York—“I Am An American Day” is celebrated in Central Park’s Mall. A mammoth crowd—one and a half million strong is on hand. Everybody, including Mayor LaGuardia, is present on this great patriotic occasion. |
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