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U. S. NAVY CARRIER PLANE SWEEP CHINA SEA MONTAGE HEAVY SEAS POUND WARSHIPS IN CHINA SEA.
HEAVY WINDS SWEEPS ACROSS DECK OF CARRIER AS PLANE READIES FOR TAKE-OFF.

AERIAL JAPANESE SHIPS UNDER ATTACK OFF SAIGON, VIETNAM. BOMB SCORES DIRECT HIT. SAIGON OIL FIELDS BURN.

RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ROLL OUT COMMUNICATIONS LINES FOR PALACE, FROM BEHIND TRUCK. RUSSIAN SOLDIER CLIMBS TELEPHONE POLE. RUSSIAN, U.S., BRITISH FLAGS FLY TOGETHER.

WINSTON CHURCHILL EXITS PLANE PUFFING ON CIGAR IS GREETED BY MOLOTOV.

CHURCHILL AND EDEN ARRIVE AT CASTLE ARE GREETED BY FDR'S DAUGHTER MRS. ANNA BOTTINGER.

SARAH OLIVER, MRS. BOTTINGER AND CATHERINE HARRIMAN POSE OUTSIDE MEETING ROOM. CHURCHILL, STALIN AND FDR POSE FOR HISTORY MAKING PHOTOS.

KING SAUD SITS ON THRONE ON SHIPS DECK SURROUNDED BY ARAB BODYGUARDS. COLORFULLY ROBED ARABS SIT AND POSE. ARAB POURS DRINK FROM PITCHER FOR ANOTHER ARAB AND BOTH DRINK.

EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE IS WELCOMED ABORD CRUISER BY NAVAL HONOR GUARD. FDR WAVES HIS HAT FROM HIS CHAIR AS SELASSIE APPROACHES. FDR'S DAUGHTER IS THERE.

LIBERATION OF MANILA.
MONTAGE MEN & TANKS OF U.S. 8TH ARMY BATTLE JAPANESE ON ROAD TO MANILA

BUILDING NEARBY BLOWS UP IN BRIGHT FLASH. U.S.
UNIT CROSS BRIDGE UNDER HEAVY FIRE.

WAVING CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF MANILA GREET GIS AS THEY MARCH IN. YOUNG WOMEN HAND BOTTLES OF BEER TO THE AMERICANS. LARGE CHURCH BELL IS RUNG.

SOLDIERS BATTLE HOUSE-TO-HOUSE INSIDE MANILA.
HUGE FIRES SET BY RETREATING JAPANESE HINDER ADVANCE AS CITY IS IN FLAMES. MONTAGE FIERCE FIRES INUNDATE BUILDINGS. PEOPLE FLEE WITH BELONGINGS.
PEOPLE FILL THE STREETS.

FIRE AND SMOKE RISE FROM BURNING CITY IN DISTANCE.
MAN RUNS THROUGH SMOKE FILLED STREET IN SHORTS AND UNDERSHIRT. MONTAGE GIS BATTLE IN THE STREETS LITTERED WITH JAPANESE DEAD.

U.S. SENDS RAW MATERIALS TO FRANCE JEAN MONNET, REPRESENTING FRANCE, CONFERS WITH WILL CLAYTON, U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE.
MONNET READS FROM PREPARED SPEECH AS CLAYTON LISTENS.

CLAYTON READS WRITTEN RESPONSE. STOCK PILES OF TANKS AND OTHER ARMS ARE SEEN. CARGO BEING UNLOADED FROM FREIGHTERS.

3,700 CIVILIANS FREED FROM MANILA PRISON.
MACARTHUR, IN SURPRISED VISIT, DRIVES UP TO SANTA PUMA PRISON IN MANILA, FREES THE MOSTLY BRITISH AND AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN PRISONERS.

PITIFULLY UNDER-NOURISHED MEN CHOP AND SAW WOOD TO COOK THEIR NEW ARMY RATIONS. WOMAN DRINKS FROM JAR, ANOTHER WOMAN TAKES LOG DRAG ON CIGARETTE, SMILES. WOMAN INTERNEE READS LETTER FROM HOME GIVEN TO HER BY RED CROSS WORKER. WOMEN SOB AS THEY READ LETTERS.

INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE OPENS IN MEXICO.
SECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS ARRIVES IN MEXICO CITY AIRPORT, IS MET BY NELSON ROCKEFELLER ON GROUND. CROWD.

THROUGH THE SIEGFRIED LINE TO THE RHINE.
FRENCH TROOPS IN STIFF STREET FIGHTING IN KOLMAR.
FRENCH SOLDIERS CARRY WOUNDED IN STRETCHERS, PASSING DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER ON GROUND. WOUNDED ARE LOADED INTO AMBULANCES DRIVEN BY WOMEN RED CROSS WORKERS.

AMERICAN TROOPS WITH WHITE CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORMS WALK ON SNOWY ROAD AS HEAVY SNOW FALLS. GI TRIES TO MOVE IN WAIST DEEP SNOW DRIFT. MULES ARE USED TO MOVE SUPPLIES ON SNOW-BOUND ROUGH TERRAIN.

COMMUNICATION OFFICERS OF ARTILLERY POSITION IN UNDERGROUND HEADQUARTERS GET CALLS FOR ARTILLERY STRIKES. CU GI SHOUTS, "FIRE" AND HEAVY ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT COMMENCES.

ALLIED TANKS AND TROOPS PASS THROUGH CONCRETE "DRAGON TEETH" OF SIEGFRIED LINE.

CONGRESS MEETS TO HEAR FDR. SEATED IN WELL OF HOUSE, FDR TELLS OF HIS MEETING WITH STALIN AND CHURCHILL. CONGRESSMEN LISTEN INTENTLY. FDR TELLS OF PURPOSE OF YALTA MEETING.

CAPTURED AMERICAN DEFENDERS OF CORREGIDOR WITH HANDS UP, ARE GUARDED BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS.
GENERAL JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT SURRENDERS TO BALD HEADED JAP GENERAL

PAN OF U.S. WARPLANES, EQUIPMENT & SOLDIERS ON AIRFIELD ON MINDORO ISLAND PREPARE FOR ASSAULT ON NEARBY CORREGIDOR. SHIRTLESS GIS CLEAN THEIR RIFLES AND EQUIPMENT. PARATROOPER IS HELPED ON WITH HIS CHUTE. PARATROOPS BOARD CARGO PLANES.

PARATROOPS JUMPING FROM PLANE & CORREGIDOR ARMY BARRACKS BELOW AS SEEN FROM PLANE FLYING ABOVE.
MONTAGE PARATROOPS HITTING GROUND HARD, RAPIDLY ASSEMBLE. NAVY STARTS BOMBARDMENT. AERIAL FIGHTER PLANES STRAFING

WOUNDED WEST FRONT VETERANS COME HOME SOLDIERS, SOME WITH CASTS ON ARMS WAVE TO STATUE OF LIBERTY AS TROOPSHIP ENTERS NEW YORK HARBOR.

CHEFS COOK BEEFSTEAKS ON GRILL AT HOSPITAL. NURSE SERVES TRAY WITH BEEFSTEAKS AND MILK TO SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL BED. SOLDIER TAKE BITE OF BEEFSTEAK.

GREATEST ONE-DAY BOMB ASSAULT ON GERMANY.
BOMBERS TRAIL VAPORS AS THEY FLY TO GERMAN TARGETS OVER LUDWIGSTLUST AND NUREMBERG. AERIAL HUGE CLUSTERS OF EXPLOSIONS ARE SEEN OVER NAZI TARGETS AS BOMBS HIT. MONTAGE BOMBS FALL ONTO NUREMBERG.

AERIAL BOMBS FALL ON LUNEBURG AND EULZEN RAILROAD YARDS. HUGE EXPLOSIONS BELOW OBLITERATE AREA.

WARSHIPS FIRE DEVASTATING BOMBARD AT MOUNTAIN.
MONTAGE HUGE EXPLOSIONS FROM BOMBARDMENT ARE SEEN ON SHORE.

CU FEET OF DEAD JAPANESE AMONG OTHERS LITTERED ON MOUNT SURIBACHI. MONTAGE NAVY DIVE BOMBERS DROPPING BOMBS ON MOUNT.

MARINES RAISE U. S. FLAG ON MOUNT SURIBACHI IN NOW FAMOUS SHOT WHICH INSPIRED MEMORIAL.

MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER PADILLO SIGNS PACT, REPRESENTATIVES OF BRAZIL, PERU AND CUBA. FOLLOW.
SECRETARY STETTINIUS SIGNS FOR U. S.

AERIAL MONTAGE COAST OF TOKYO AND TOKYO BAY AS SEEN FROM BOMBER. DOCKS, STORAGE SPACES AND AMMO DUMPS ARE STRAFED AND BOMBED.

SNOW-CAPPED MOUNT FUJIYAMA

JEEPS CROSS BRIDGE ALONG RUHR RIVER. GI RUNS ACROSS PONTOON BRIDGE. GI FIRES SUB-MACHINE GUN INTO BASEMENT WINDOW IN TOWN OF LINNICH.

MONTAGE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS AND AN ENTIRE AREA ATTESTS TO THE FEROCITY OF BATTLE.

GROUP OF GERMAN CIVILIANS, INCLUDING MAN CARRYING CHILD ARE ASSEMBLED FOR QUESTIONING. MORE CAPTURED GERMAN SOLDIERS.

MEN AND WOMEN WASH DISHES IN OUTDOOR KITCHEN.

MANILA ENTIRELY FREE IN LAST-DITCH BATTLE.
BURNING MANILA, SET FIRE BY RETREATING JAPANESE.

HUGE EXPLOSION FROM AMERICAN ARTILLERY SEEN IN DISTANT AMID GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS. ARTILLERY GUN CREW FIRES FROM BEHIND WALLS, INSIDE BOMBED OUT BUILDING.

GI FIRES FLAME THROWER INTO GULLY. BATTLE-SCARED MANILA POST OFFICE IS FIRED UPON IN DISTANCE.
MEDICS CARRYING WOUNDED SCATTER, AS SNIPERS OPEN FIRE. MEDIC HOLDS UP BOTTLE OF PLASMA HE IS GIVING TO WOUNDED GI.

PONTOON BRIDGE IS LAYED ACROSS RIVER AFTER MANILA'S LIBERATION, TO CARRY ACROSS FILIPINO HOSTAGES. MAN WITH FACED BANDAGED, CROSSES BRIDGE WITH NUDE BABY IN ARMS. FOLLOWED BY WOMEN CARRYING BABIES AND TWO NUNS.

MONTAGE GRIM SCENE OF DOZENS OF FILIPINO DEAD SCATTERED ON GROUND AFTER BEING BAYONETTED BY JAPS WITH HANDS TIED BEHIND BACKS.

75,000 TONS OF U. S. CLOTHING FOR LIBERATED PEOPLES. SHIP UNLOADS BUNDLES OFF SHIP. WOMEN VOLUNTEERS FOLD AND PACK CLOTHING. MAN TAKES SUIT AND SHOES OUT OF CLOSET FOR DONATION. AS SON WATCHES MAN LOADS CHILDREN CLOTHING IN CARTON.
WORKERS IN GOVERNMENT WAREHOUSE PACK PILES OF CLOTHING. SHIP-BUILDER HENRY KAISER HOLDS UP POSTERS.

AMERICAN DELEGATES INCLUDING STETTINIUS MEET IN WASHINGTON. DELEGATES POSE WITH PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. STETTINIUS SPEAKS.

MONTAGE SHELL EXPLODES DOWN STREET AMID TALL BUILDINGS. SECTIONS OF BUILDING TUMBLES DOWN. GIS RUN FORWARD OVER RUBBLE. CU SOLDIER WEARS HELMET WITH BULLET HOLE IN IT.

LUDENDORF BRIDGE, CAPTURED INTACT AFTER INFANTRYMEN REMOVED EXPLOSIVE CHARGES. TROOPS AND MATERIALS CROSS BRIDGE FOR 10 DAYS BEFORE ITS COLLAPSE. NAZI PLANES ATTACK BRIDGE. MONTAGE HUGE COLUMNS OF GERMAN PRISONERS.

MONTAGE JAPANESE PLANES PLUNGE TO SEA IN FLAMES AFTER BEING SHOT DOWN BY WARSHIP GUNNERS.

U.S. NAVY FIRE BOMB.
WEAPON AGAINST JAPAN. NEW FIRE BOMB, NAPALM, ATTACHED UNDER FIGHTER PLANE IS TESTED. HUGE FIREBALL RISES AS BOMBS ARE DROPPED BY TWO PLANES.

U.S. SHIPS FOR FRANCE.
LARGEST CARRIER LAUNCHED. 1ST OF 50 AMERICAN BUILT CARGO SHIPS LIE IN DRY DOCK IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.
SHIP IS TURNED OVER TO FRENCH OFFICIAL IN CEREMONY. CU FRENCH SAILOR LOOKS INTO CAMERA AS HE STANDS AT ATTENTION.

ALLIED ARMIES ON MARCH INTO CENTRAL GERMANY.
SMOKE RISES FROM CITY OF SPIEBRUCHEN BEING POUNDED BY U.S. SEVENTH ARMY WEAPONS. TANK EQUIPPED WITH ROCKET LAUNCHER FIRES SCREAMING VOLLEYS OF ROCKETS.

TROOPS OF U.S. 7TH DIVISION, 7TH ARMY MARCH INTO SAARBRUCKEN. GERMAN PRISONERS.

REMAINS OF BRIDGE CROSSING RHINE. GI SEARCHES GERMAN PRISONERS. CU GRIM FACES OF YOUNG AND OLD PRISONERS.

FILM OF FDR AS YOUNG MAN, SHAKING HANDS WITH GROUP OF POLITICIANS VISITING HIS HOME. FDR POSES WITH WIFE ELEANOR AND HIS MOTHER PRIOR TO HIM BEING STRICKEN BY INFANTILE PARALYSIS. PIPE SMOKING FDR ON SAILBOAT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

FDR FROLICS IN LAKE WITH CHILDREN. HOLDS GRANDCHILD IN ARMS, IN WATER.

FDR MEETS WITH CHURCHILL ON WARSHIP, STANDS, HOLDING ON TO AIDE.

FDR POSES WITH CHIANG KAI SHEK, CHURCHILL IN CAIRO

CROWD GATHERS ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN AS FDR IS INAUGURATED FOR UNPRECEDENTED 4TH TERM.

FDR MAKES LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AS HE ADDRESSES CONGRESS ABOUT YALTA. FDR SPEAKS.