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Motion Picture MP59-2

Memories of World War II.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Date: November 11, 1944 through November 8, 1945
Formats: 16mm, Copied to Betacam SP, DVD.
Sound: No.
Color: Yes.
Running Time: Reel 1: 55 min.; Reel 2: 40 min.
Footage: Reel 1: 1600 feet; Reel 2: 1200 feet.
Produced by: Army and Navy Photographic units, Col . Kirke B. Lawton
Copyright Restrictions: None.

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SHOT LIST

    Reel 1
00:00Memories of World War II (title)
00:02Still photo of Stalin, Truman, and Churchill
00:18Still of the unconditional surrender of Germany at Reims, France, which ends the war in Europe for World War II
00:28Kirke B. Lawton, photographer
00:53Churchill and DeGaulle at Unknown Soldiers Tomb, Paris, France, November 11, 1944
01:37Churchill and DeGaulle
01:45British Guard of Honor
02:25Churchill and DeGaulle
02:33French Sailors or Marines
02:46Churchill and DeGaulle
03:25Eisenhower decorates the 101st Airborne Division, March 1945
03:39Eisenhower and Gen. Maxwell Taylor
03:53101st Airborne Division
05:19 Kay Summersby – chauffeur
Captain Harry C. Butcher – naval aide
05:38 Marlene Dietrich with soldiers
06:00 Crossing of Rhine River near Wesel Germany – March 24, 1945
06:40German field with sheep
07:15First crossing of the Rhine Rive over the Ludendorff bridge at Remagan, Germany
07:37 Two Airborne Divisions
08:28 Trucks with pontoons to form portable bridge to the Rhine River
09:10 The pontoon bridge
09:47 50 miles North of Cologne ammunition, food and medical supplies are dropped by cargo planes
10:00British work on east shore of Rhine River
10:18 American Intelligence Headquarters for examining German prisoners
10:25Mine detectors
10:37 German prisoners
10:55 Return to west side of Rhine River
11:02 Cemetery used as defense area in German retreat
11:08Ferry made by Britain
11:38 Supplies and food
12:03German Rhine village burning
12:12British Military Police
12:57 Brereton, Lewis H.
13:25Buffalo tanks
14:11 Pontoon Bridge – March 26, 1945
14:17British troops moving
14:41Field set up with G-2 or Intelligence Information
15:40 Jeep made into an ambulance
15:45German Cemetery
16:02 Goebbel’s home on left – church center – servants quarters on right
16:16Moat around castle
16:45G.I.’s look for souvenirs
16:59 West side of Rhine River
17:13 German prisoners
17:33Ambulances return from front
18:12 South of Colfax – American 6th Army cross the Rhine River
18:45Steel balloons
19:17 German trenches
19:40 Steel balloons to protect the pontoon bridges
19:52Leave Heidelberg, cross Rhine over the Bailey Bridge – May 5, 1945
20:12 Vineyards at Heidelburg, Germany
20:22 Reims, France, surrender of Germany
20:47Colonel General Alfred Jodl meets British Chief of staff of the British 21 Army Group
21:06Emblem of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
21:08Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
21:44 War room where surrender of World War II took place
23:14 Jodl – center; Aviation Aide – right; Navy Aide Admiral Van Friedburg – left, German – English interpreter – back; May 6, 1945 Sunday
23:31 General Smith, General Suslaparoff, British Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham
24:03 General Smith signs 5 copies of surrender
24:10 General Spaatz, General Suslaparoff
24:30 General Sevez
24:42General Bull
24:51Spaatz, Suslaparoff, Smith, and interpreter for Russians
25:08 Jodl signs the surrender
25:52The surrender paper
26:10 Eisenhower and British Air Marshall Arthur Teder – May 7, 1945, 2:41 a.m.
26:55Signal Corps photographers
27:22 Leave Reims for Paris
29:01 Arc de Triomphe from the Champs de Elyssee
29:27French Army celebrates surrender of European War- June 18, 1945
29:39 French Senegalese troops from North Africa
31:09Planes flying the sign of the Lorraine Cross
31:21 French Tri-Colors skywriting
31:36 Place de Concord and American Embassy at left, Hotel Crillon on right
32:11DeGaulle and the Sultan of Morocco
32:15LeClerc’s Second Armored Division
32:30General Joseph P. Koenig, Military Governor of Paris, shakes hands with Sultan of Morocco
32:47 Parade ends
33:17 Alsace Lorraine Society costume
33:32 Madeleine Church
33:40 Potsdam Conference – July 12, 1945
33:59 Border line between Russians and British on Berlin road
34:11Russian soldiers
34:35 Seine River in Paris
34:45 Elbe River in France
34:59 Russian street signs
35:58 15 miles outside Berlin is the Potsdam house
36:16Russian convoy – animal drawn
37:11 Monument in Tiergarten
37:25Russian monument of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill
38:25 Russian Military Police
39:03 Russian Secret Police
39:13McCloy – Assistant Secretary of War
39:34 Secretary of War Stimson, General Parks, Commander of American Military District of Berlin
39:52 Gromyko, Stimson, and Secretary of State Byrnes
40:36 Truman arrives at Gatow Airport in “Sacred Cow” airplane
41:33 Truman and Commander of the Guard
42:25Truman, Churchill, and Harry Vaughan leave the Potsdam house
43:18Churchill and daughter – Mary – at Potsdam house
    Reel 2
00:00Memories of World War II (title)
00:17Templehoff Airport
00:50 Berlin, Germany
01:08Two Polish girls
01:27High ranking Nazi women work for Russians
01:48 Luftwaffe Headquarters taken over for American Headquarters
02:32 Reichstag – Berlin, Germany
03:09Monuments from France – Prussia War
03:24Apartments in Berlin
03:57 Reichschancellery – where Hitler made his speeches
04:19Truman and Stalin
04:32Byrnes, Truman, Stalin, Molotov at Potsdam Conference
05:07 Stalin, Truman, Pavlov, Gromyko, Bohlen
05:33Truman walking with Stalin
06:18 Cecilienhof Chateau
08:03 Street on Chateau grounds
08:31 U.S. Secret Service Photographers; Hugo Johnson from Washington with MGM
08:53 American officer and Russian Secretary
09:20Stalin and Molotov shake hands with British and Americans
09:43Potsdam Conference – Truman, Byrnes, Leahy, Gousev, Pavlov, Stalin, Molotov,Vishinski, Attlee, Birse, Churchill, Eden, Cadogan, Davies, Bohlen
10:35 Cameramen from Russia, Britain, and America
11:18 Churchill, Truman, Stalin – pose for pictures
13:01 Churchill, Truman, Stalin, Vaughan, Pavlov
13:42Army Communications Service
14:30 Truman’s Birthday Cake
14:50 Hugo Johnson, Charles Ross, International
15:33 Captain Vardaman and Attlee after British elections – Attlee is visiting Truman
16:25German farm lands
16:35 Bombed runway
17:06 Frankfort, Germany – Colonel Watson and Lawton
17:27 German train station
17:38 Heidelburg, Germany – castle from 17th century
19:10 Bavarian Alps
19:18 Autobahn Bridge blown up by Germans in retreat
19:46Salzburg, Austria
20:57 Berchtesgaden, Germany
21:29 Hitler’s chateau
23:18Hexagonal building used as a lookout – Eagle’s Nest
25:48 Bavarian Alps
26:08October 25, 1945
26:25 The ship the Kemp P. Battle which took Lawton home
29:40 St. John’s, Newfoundland
30:08 November 8, 1945 – Sunrise in Boston Harbor
30:53Lawton
31:03 End

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