Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. SECRETARY STIMSON AND GENERAL MARSHALL MAKE V-E DAY STATEMENT [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. SECRETARY STIMSON AND GENERAL MARSHALL MAKE V-E DAY STATEMENT [ETC.]

1945

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Part 1, Stimson warns of future German aggression; Marshall affirms rapid redeployment. Part 2, Marines advance on Okinawa, flushing civilians from caves. Japanese planes are downed by planes and ships in heated battle. Part 3, in the Philippines oil is pumped from an LCM onto Caballo Is. and ignited to rout Japanese troops. At Ft. Drum (Reel 2) 38th Div. engrs. pour oil into ventilators and explode it. Part 4, in Germany, Schweinfurt citizens are questioned by intelligence officers. Cached gold and art treasures are removed from a salt mine. Nordhausen citizens are forced to return looted goods. Shows ceremonies as Fr. prisoners are released. Part 5, scenes of Nordhausen concentration camp show dead and sick prisoners. Germans are forced to bury the dead. Gens. Eisenhower. Bradley, and Patton view torture techniques at Ohrdruf. Hungarian women leave the Penig camp. Shows prisoners who were shot to prevent U.S. rescue (Reel 3). Weimar citizens are shown evidences of atrocities at the Buchenwald camp. Shows a camp where prisoners died in a dining hall fire. Part 6 shows men, women, and boys captured with Ger. army in the Ruhr Pocket. A Ger. tank battalion surrenders. Troops are greeted at Bologna, It. Shows Gen. Clark and the signing of the Italian surrender. Part 7, Eisenhower praises Americans in a V-E Day speech.

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