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
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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 |