Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels. 1943 - 1945. WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 213 [JUNE 4]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels. 1943 - 1945. WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 213 [JUNE 4]

1945

Part 1, U.S. transport planes fly over flooded Dutch fields and drop Army field rations onto dry ground. Shows the planes flying over the Amsterdam airdrome. Part 2 shows masses of Ger. prisoners near Munich. Ger. Gen. Keitel, Marshall Zhukov, Gen. de Tassigny, Marshall Tedder, and Gen. Spaatz are shown at surrender ceremonies. Part 3, crowds cheer Winston Churchill, King George, Queen Elizabeth, and other members of the royal family as they appear outside Buckingham Palace.

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