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| Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage |
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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| NTSC Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| PAL Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| AVAILABLE IN HIGH DEFINITION HD - CALL FOR DETAILS! |
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| keywords: daylight raid over berlin, us pows, elenor roosevelt, german pows, general dwight d. eisenhower |
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Synopsis: US Bombers Make First Daylight Raid On Berlin, Freed POWs Arrive In New York From German Camps, Australia Honors Returning Veterans, Eleanor Roosevelt Inspects Bases In Puerto Rico, German POW's Volunteer To Do Manual Labor, Italian Refugees Evacuated From Southern Italy, General Dwight D. Eisenhower In England... (read more) |
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Information: 1944 11 min BW |
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U.S. bombers in the first daylight raid on Berlin. Many American and British bombers strike Berlin and many failed to return to England. Shows airmen and air crews posing on and around a U.S. bomber.
The Swedish ship Gripsholm arrives in New York harbor with soldiers recently freed from German prison of war (POW) camps. Also onboard are war correspondents and diplomats released by the Nazis. Shows Douglas MacArthur arriving. Passengers wave from the deck as ship docks.
Australia hails veterans home from overseas after four years of battle. Parade scenes as veterans receive thunderous welcome as they march through the streets of Sydney. People line the street as ticket tape drifts through the air. General Blamey reviews these veterans as they parade past.
American women in the news. Eleanor Roosevelt inspects garrisons in Puerto Rico. Mrs. Douglas MacArthur christens the Australian destroyer Bataan at an Australian shipyard.
Nazi (German) prisoners of war in the United States volunteer for work as lumberjacks, shoveling snow, work in a shoe shop. Shows German POW’s in mess hall, recreation hall, and playing in their own band.
Italian refugees, including children, are evacuated from battle areas to southern Italy. Shows refugees moving toward collection points. Footage of children refugees.
Shows Chiefs of the Allied Invasion Command with General Eisenhower at headquarters in England. Shows stockpile of supplies and war material. Show General Montgomery and Air Marshall Tedder with General Eisenhower as they watch new military equipment in action. Hundreds of parachutes fill the sky as Airborne troops float through the sky. No scenes, close-up or otherwise, of paratroopers jumping from the planes.
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