WORLD WAR 2 COLLECTION #1 French Resistance Japanese Russian tank convoy Atom Bomb Japan Rocket launch; view from space; Albert Einstein Hitler Normandy D-day Germans Enter Paris headline Kamikaze pilo

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  • Title: WORLD WAR 2 COLLECTION #1 French Resistance Japanese Russian tank convoy Atom Bomb Japan Rocket launch; view from space; Albert Einstein Hitler Normandy D-day Germans Enter Paris headline Kamikaze pilo
  • Date: 9th June 2003
  • Summary: WORLD WAR 2 COLLECTION #1 French Resistance Japanese Russian tank convoy Atom Bomb Japan Rocket launch; view from space; Albert Einstein Hitler Normandy D-day Germans Enter Paris headline Kamikaze pilo
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  • Story Text:#1 THE WORLD WAR 2 COLLECTION G-ITN042 Material collated from French Pathe and Reuters featuring some of our best World War 2 footage.

    Tape 1: (French Pathe Material):
    14.01.33 Resistance story: Boy posing with medal; gives message to Resistance man; supplies hidden in haystack; boy takes supplies to Maquis

    14.02.46 The Jap Strikes Back: South Pacific; Japanese air strike on ships; direct hit on a munitions ship;

    14.04.08 Russian film: Russian tank convoy; cavalry; artillery pulled; motor patrol baost landing; troops attack; street fighting; hill attacked; Japanese surrender; flag planted onto hill; bombing at sea; Japanese Kamikaze pilots take drink; Kamikaze pilot into plane carrying flowers; departs to cheers; Japanese planes shot down; advancing troops on battlefield; massed artillery firing; tanks advance; cavalry charge; planes flying over massed tanks; tanks past waving crowds in town

    14.09.41 Smouldering ruins; bodies; planes take off; flight in formation; German pilot; airfield attack; air to air of planes being shot down; Nazi palnes in formation; more air to air combat;

    14.11.37 Attaque aerienne de Londres: British palnes take off and in flight; ground ack ack crew; aircraft shot at

    14.12.52 Evans Signal Laboratory exterior; radar mast; graphic on how radar works; technicians at work;

    14.14.48 Flying torpedo; bomb loaded onto US bomber; bomb launched and hits target ship - several times;

    14.16.12 Japan: Blasted & Atomised!: airviews devastation after Atom bomb; Atom bomb explosion; devastation at ground level; people walking amongst ruins;

    14.18.10 US bombers air to air (to drop Atom bomb?); devastation after Atom bomb dropped - ground level; wrecked buildings; imprints left by fireball; wounded in hospital treated; airview atom bomb blast; more devastation & wreckage; skeletons; more wounded treated;

    14.27.10 US bomber in flight; Atom bomb explosion; devastation in city; soldier pointing out direction of fireball; pointing out imprints;

    14.20.31 Airmen hit German ship, rail centres: airviews UK fighters in flight; attack on ship in fjord airview; night bombing airview;

    14.32.14 South Pacific: US troops; ships firing; troops into landing craft; troops land and raise US flag; flam-thrower used; grenade thrown; dead in trenches

    14.34.44 Rocket launch - fails and explodes; another rockets fails to take off and explodes on launch pad; successful launch

    14.35.55 White Sands USA: rocket on launch pad; control room; launch

    14,37.29 Rocket launch; view from space; Albert Einstein

    14.38.15 D-Day: Allied bombers drop bombs along Normandy coastline; aerodrome shot at - planes destroyed on ground; mass of parked planes pre-landings; planes take off; troops board ships; massed ships at sea; landing craft; ships firing at coast; landing craft fired at; airview beachhead; troops landing; first casualties taken back to ships; wounded arriving back in UK; supplies brought to beach; troops at Berniere station; tanks coming ashore; German prisoners

    14.48.11 Wrecked Cathedral (in France?); German troops firing; German position at Calais

    14.49.11 Germans Enter Paris headline; Germans attacking and firing; tanks in street; tanks on road to Paris; Paris GVs with German troops marching past Arc De Triomphe; Swastika raised; surrender signed in train carriage; Adolf Hitler with Hermann Goering; Hitler in car past waving troops; Hitler in Paris

    14.52.02 Hitler (?) in car; arrival at the Ritz in Paris

    14.52.44 Hitler car convoy past troops; Hitler feeding horse; Hitler with troops; Hitler convoy on road; Hitler viewing damage; Hitler views Cathedral; convoy carries on past cheering troops

    14.56.32 US troops along snowy road; US tanks

    14.58.19 Convoy of UK trucks in desert; British plane over

    14.59.39 The Great Offensive: night firing; mine detection; tanks through desert; convoy; artillery set up; firing from inside tank; US planes dropping bombs; bombs dropping out of hatch; UK artillery firing; wrecked German transport; troops running in attack; German prisoners; Field-Marshal Bernard Montgomery out of tent; map of campaign; more firing in desert; more bombs dropped; tanks and soldiers advance

    15.05.22 Wrecked German tanks and transport; UK troops in desert; tanks unloaded from ships; convoy in Western Desert; airview convoy; more unloading; German officers; bombs dropped; guns fired by ship at sea; UK submarine interiors; German troops in desert; German artillery; German planes in flight; German plane attack; British response; Winston Churchill amongst troops; UK tanks in desert; dogfights; plane hits ground; UK planes; more artillery; Red Cross area; dead bodies; German prisoners; Montgomery with binoculars; more artillery & wreckage; massed troops walking; tanks in desert convoy

    15.13.56 The Hun On The Run: burning buildings; horse-drawn artillery; dead bodies and grieving women; railway line dynamited; supplies at beachhead; Germans loading artillery & firing; plane attack; German landing craft; US artillery firing; German signs removed; cheering locals; artillery fired in city

    15.18.54 Atom bomb cloud; Atom bomb exploding

    15.19.52 Los Alamos?: Atom bomb exploded (several shots); President Truman reading statement (overlaid French commentary)

    15.23.08 Ship at sea; US troops around A bomb; US planes on deck; map on atom bomb attack; the bomb on trolley; planes take off from carrier

    15.29.05 Los Alamos?; firing on board plane; aircraft carrier; planes on ship; the atom bomb on trolley; planes take off; Japanese industrial works - shells being manufactured; US plane in flight; bombs dropped

    15.32.44 US convoy in snow; long line of troops walking

    15.33.16 French Advance: transport through mud; US troops in mud; General Dwight D. Eisenhower with troops; US troops firing in village; German prisoners taken; US troops advance; troops eating on Thanksgiving Day; mine detecting in forest; digging in after Ardennes breakthrough; refugees on road; plane attack; US wounded; Ack Ack firing at plane; wreckage; bodies; position at Bastonne; firing squad shoot German impersonating US soldier; artillery fired as offensive starts

    15.42.35 Japanese troops seated; Japanese troops singing - wearing Kamikaze head bands; Kamikaze pilot waved off; planes take off

    15.45.14 Japanese plane in flight; shot ointo sea; Kamikaze attacks; many planes shot down; fire on board ship; ship abandoned; men into lifeboats
    END TAPE 1 BETA SP(French Pathe) 108mins B0234417/G-ITN042
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