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Military Newsreels: 1945 - Issue 22
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keywords: wwii, queen wilhelmina, welsh politician david lloyd george, french latecoere 631 seaplane, allied central europe campaign
Synopsis: Queen Wilhelmina Returns To Netherlands From Exile, Last Rites For Welsh Politician David Lloyd George, Giant French Seaplane Is Flight Tested, Allied Central Europe Campaign - Mopping Up In Germany...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:09:44
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Netherlands, Wales, France, Germany
Queen Wilhelmina Returns To Netherlands From Exile
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands returns to the Low Countries after an absence of five years in WWII. Shows the people of Belgium and Holland turning out in large numbers to greet the Queen. Shows Queen Wilhelmina talking with the people that never stopped fighting the Germans for their liberty. Queen Wilhelmina reviews the Dutch Marines veterans of WWII.
Last Rites For Welsh Politician David Lloyd George
Last Rites for David Lloyd George, famous Welsh politician, and the last member of the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Great Britain. Pallbearers carry his casket to a horse drawn wagon and then to his grave site on the banks of the River Dwyfor. Shows image of David Lloyd George.
Giant French Seaplane Is Flight Tested
Rare footage of the French Latecoere 631 seaplane, a large six engine trans-ocean flying boat, that was dismantled and hidden from the Germans in WWII making it's first flight on March 6, 1945 at Biscarrosse, France. Shows interior of the Latecoere 631 trans-atlantic flying boat. Shows the Latecoere 631 flying boat taking off from Biscarrosse Lake and in flight.
Allied Central Europe Campaign - Mopping Up In Germany
Footage of the Allied Central Europe Campaign and the overrunning of Germany in the final weeks of WWII. The German city of Aschaffenburg is captured after pin-point bombing by Allied dive bombers ahead of the U.S. 3rd Army troops. Shows damaged and destroyed German Army military equipment left along roadways of Germany. People in German towns wave white flag of surrender as tanks of the U.S. Third Army rolls through the towns and villages. Shows the U.S. armored column halting it's advance and deploying to attack a pocket of German resistance. Shows tanks and half-track firing guns as the infantry sweeps around to attack the German defenses. Shows Germans Officers with white flag surrendering troops under their command.
The U.S. 1st Army locates American POWs in a German prisoner of war camp for U.S. Airmen. Shows liberated U.S. POWs leaving prisoner of war camp in Germany. In the little village of Nieheim civilians loot goods from a train loaded with German Army supplies. Troops of General Patton's 3rd Army move into Frankfurt Germany. Shows street by street fighting by U.S. Infantry in Frankfurt Germany. Shows bodies of dead German soldiers. Civilians with somber expressions watch as U.S. troops move into Frankfurt. Shows thousands of German soldiers that surrendered to Allied Forces as Germany is overrun in final weeks of WWII.
