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Motion Picture MP59-2

Memories of World War II

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
1600 feet
1200 feet
Running Time
55 minutes
40 minutes
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
silent
Color
Color
Produced by
Army and Navy Photographic units, Col . Kirke B. Lawton
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Well captioned, good quality personal footage of people and events in France and Germany at the end of World War II. People in the film include Truman, Stalin, Churchill, DeGaulle, Eisenhower, Jodl, Marlene Dietrich, and Kay Summersby. Events covered include the surrender of Germany and the Potsdam Conference.

Date(s)
November 11, 1944 - November 8, 1945
Available Format(s)
Motion Picture
Video Tape
DVD

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
00:00   Memories of World War II (title)
00:02   Still photo of Stalin, Truman, and Churchill
00:18   Still of the unconditional surrender of Germany at Reims, France, which ends the war in Europe for World War II
00:28   Kirke B. Lawton, photographer
00:53   Churchill and DeGaulle at Unknown Soldiers Tomb, Paris, France, November 11, 1944
01:37   Churchill and DeGaulle
01:45   British Guard of Honor
02:25   Churchill and DeGaulle
02:33   French Sailors or Marines
02:46   Churchill and DeGaulle
03:25   Eisenhower decorates the 101st Airborne Division, March 1945
03:39   Eisenhower and Gen. Maxwell Taylor
03:53   101st 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
06:40   German field with sheep
07:15   First 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
10:00   British work on east shore of Rhine River
10:18   American Intelligence Headquarters for examining German prisoners
10:25   Mine detectors
10:37   German prisoners
10:55   Return to west side of Rhine River
11:02   Cemetery used as defense area in German retreat
11:08   Ferry made by Britain
11:38   Supplies and food
12:03   German Rhine village burning
12:12   British Military Police
12:57   Brereton, Lewis H.
13:25   Buffalo tanks
14:11   Pontoon Bridge – March 26, 1945
14:17   British troops moving
14:41   Field set up with G-2 or Intelligence Information
15:40   Jeep made into an ambulance
15:45   German Cemetery
16:02   Goebbel’s home on left – church center – servants quarters on right
16:16   Moat around castle
16:45   G.I.’s look for souvenirs
16:59   West side of Rhine River
17:13   German prisoners
17:33   Ambulances return from front
18:12   South of Colfax – American 6th Army cross the Rhine River
18:45   Steel balloons
19:17   German trenches
19:40   Steel balloons to protect the pontoon bridges
19:52   Leave Heidelberg, cross Rhine over the Bailey Bridge – May 5, 1945
20:12   Vineyards at Heidelburg, Germany
20:22   Reims, France, surrender of Germany
20:47   Colonel General Alfred Jodl meets British Chief of staff of the British 21 Army Group
21:06   Emblem of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
21:08   Supreme 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
24:42   General Bull
24:51   Spaatz, Suslaparoff, Smith, and interpreter for Russians
25:08   Jodl signs the surrender
25:52   The surrender paper
26:10   Eisenhower and British Air Marshall Arthur Teder – May 7, 1945, 2:41 a.m.
26:55   Signal Corps photographers
27:22   Leave Reims for Paris
29:01   Arc de Triomphe from the Champs de Elyssee
29:27   French Army celebrates surrender of European War- June 18, 1945
29:39   French Senegalese troops from North Africa
31:09   Planes 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
32:11   DeGaulle and the Sultan of Morocco
32:15   LeClerc’s Second Armored Division
32:30   General 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
34:11   Russian 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
36:16   Russian convoy – animal drawn
37:11   Monument in Tiergarten
37:25   Russian monument of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill
38:25   Russian Military Police
39:03   Russian Secret Police
39:13   McCloy – 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
42:25   Truman, Churchill, and Harry Vaughan leave the Potsdam house
43:18   Churchill and daughter – Mary – at Potsdam house
  • Reel 2
00:00   Memories of World War II (title)
00:17   Templehoff Airport
00:50   Berlin, Germany
01:08   Two Polish girls
01:27   High ranking Nazi women work for Russians
01:48   Luftwaffe Headquarters taken over for American Headquarters
02:32   Reichstag – Berlin, Germany
03:09   Monuments from France – Prussia War
03:24   Apartments in Berlin
03:57   Reichschancellery – where Hitler made his speeches
04:19   Truman and Stalin
04:32   Byrnes, Truman, Stalin, Molotov at Potsdam Conference
05:07   Stalin, Truman, Pavlov, Gromyko, Bohlen
05:33   Truman 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
09:20   Stalin and Molotov shake hands with British and Americans
09:43   Potsdam 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
13:42   Army 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
16:25   German 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
19:46   Salzburg, Austria
20:57   Berchtesgaden, Germany
21:29   Hitler’s chateau
23:18   Hexagonal building used as a lookout – Eagle’s Nest
25:48   Bavarian Alps
26:08   October 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
30:53   Lawton
31:03   End