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WWII - 1945, Carrier Franklin Hit; U-Boats Surrender; Berlin Surrender Ceremony

Reel Number: 250028-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany,USA

Location: Berlin,Cape May,Germany,New Hampshire,New Jersey,New York City,NYC,Pacific,Portsmouth

TC Begins: 07:04:29

TC Ends: 07:14:14

Duration: 00:09:45

Titles. 07:04:56 Title: Carrier Franklin Survives Savage Japanese Bombing. 07:05:02 Aerial of two planes w/ carrier below. View from aboard aircraft carrier w/ battle & flak filling sky, tracer at Japanese plane & hit & explodes as it hits ocean. Gun camera of twin-engine Jap plane hit, wing falls. Sky of flak & plane & wing spiraling down. 07:05:50 Carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) burning heavily & exploding, 19Mar45. View from on deck & nearby. Firemen fighting fire on deck. Wounded treated; MS Chaplin Father Joseph O’Callahan w/ wounded on deck prays. LS exploding bombs onboard. 07:07:02 Heavily listing & smoking CV-13, line thrown aboard; deck strewn w/ debris; men removed & jumping onto ship deck alongside & in water w/ rope pulling them out. LIfe raft. 07:08:11 Battle torn flag, ship heading to port. 07:08:21 O’Callahan leading service on deck, hospital ship in background. 07:08:38 Entering Panama Canal; wounded receiving combat decorations from officers. CU of award. Crew at attention. CUs of surviving crew. 07:09:23 Ship entering New York City harbor past Statue of Liberty. 07:09:37 Title: German U-Boats Surrender At Atlantic Port. 07:09:42 Dirigible over ship taking submarine captive off Cape May, New Jersey. Navy ship alongside looking down on sub U-858 (10May45), planes over & escort vessels alongside. Crew searched on deck, taken off at gunpoint & marched on dock. 07:10:27 U-Boat off Portsmouth, New Hampshire seen surrendering. Crew off under gunpoint, posing by bus; marching. 07:11:00 Title: Germans Sign Surrender in Berlin. 07:11:06 Allied Officers in destroyed city streets, outside devastated Reich Chancellery & Hotel Adlon. Brandenburg Gate. German planes on airfield, arrival of RAF Marshall Arthur Tedder & Carl Spaatz, w/ USSR delegation. General Wilhelm Keitel arrives (08May45), walks to German Army Engineering School building in Karlshorst to confirm previous surrender at Reims, France. 07:12:28 French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny w/ USSR ??. Allied officers to surrender table, MCU Zhukov. Keitel enters w/ Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg & Colonel General Hans-Jurgen Stumpff representing Luftwaffe. MCUs. 07:13:25 LS & MCU signing. 07:14:06 The End. Military Newsreel; 1945; WW2; WWII;

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