In Defense of Peace

Shot List:

00:01:03:00

Scenes of fighting on the Eastern Front in WW2 WWII between the Soviet Union Nazi Germany. German Troops wave white flag in surrender. Thousands of German POWs marching into prison camps in Russia.

00:01:21:17

Scenes of the greatest armada of ships in history on D-Day June 1944 as Allied force land on Normandy France beachheads in Operation Overlord. Allied Troops wading ashore from landing crafts onto Omaha Beach. Allied troops fighting street by street in a French town. CU of tank firing machine gun. Hundreds of captured German troops marching to POW camps and prison enclosures.

00:02:26:16

February 1945 Yalta Conference, the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-WWII World.

00:02:51:22

Iconic meeting of U.S. and Russian troops at the River Elbe. Excellent footage of the the U.S. Army blowing up the Nazi Swastika on top of the Zeppelin Grandstand. Berlin Germany in ruins, aerial view of destruction of Berlin. German leaders sign surrender documents in a school house in Eastern France. President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Dictator Joseph Stalin meet at the Potsdam Conference in 1945.

00:04:12:24

Combat footage of the U.S. Marines fighting island by island in the Pacific. U.S Marines raises American flag on Iwo Jima in iconic scene. Aerial view of the ruins of Tokyo Japan. Scenes of the Japanese surrender to General Douglas MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in early September 1945. General MacArthur speaks the words “pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always”.

00:05:30:00

V-J Day celebrations in France and Times Square New York City and around the World, large crowds celebrate the victory over Japan and the end of WWII. Delegates of Nations, among them Soviet Ambassador to US Andrei Gromyko and Soviet First Deputy Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, meet in San Francisco and sign the United Nations Charter.

00:06:59:04

American troops arriving back in America from WWII. Returning U.S. troops disembark down the gangplank of ships at U.S. ports and are discharged. The tools of war either put into mothball or destroyed. WWII bombers being destroyed by explosive charges. Factories are converted back to peacetime production of engines, office products, tires, and automobiles. Scenes of an automobile assembly line and a brand new car being driven out of automobile factory or car plant.

00:09:22:26

Soviet Representative to UN Andrei Gromyko walks out of the United Nations Security Council during a debate. The U.S. introduces the Marshall Plan and is approved by the members of the UN over the objections of Russia. Equipment and supplies for Europe are loaded onto ships at U.S. docks and unloaded in Europe. Flashes of reconstruction work in Post-WWII Europe are shown.

00:12:03:07

Violent Communists demonstrations rock Berlin Germany. East Germany & Soviet Russian troops block all roads into West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade leads to the Berlin airlift where for 15-months U.S. planes fly supplies into the blockaded city daring the East Bloc troops to escalate.

00:15:08:15

German citizens in Soviet controlled East Germany flee to West Berlin before Berlin Wall is erected.

00:15:26:18

In Korea a temporary boundary was established at the 38th parallel for administrative purposes. The political forces of the Soviet Union, Russia, occupied North Korea refuse to a free election. South Korean voters go to the polls and the Republic Of Korea ROK is established. U.S. troops are evacuated from Korea after a duly elected Government is formed.

00:16:37:23

The Korean War begins. Without warning North Korea attack South Korea on June 25, 1950. Scenes of Democratic South Korean troops battling Communist North Korean Troops. Korean war refugees flee the battle front.

00:17:15:00

At Lake Success Members of the United Nations Security Council meet to deal with the Korean War situation. After the Communist North Korean Government ignores the UN cease fire order, the United Nations votes to send troops to assisted the South Korean Army. Scenes of U.S. troops landing at Pusan under the battle flag of the United Nations to aid South Korea. U.S. and Canadian troops entrain for overseas service. British naval units and Swedish nurses leave for Korea. Turkish, Netherlands, and Australian troops arrive in Korea and are greeted by grateful Korean civilians. Scenes of UN Forces fighting in the Korean War.