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Victory in Review

Reel Number: 220643-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: France,Germany,Japan,USA

Location: New York Berlin Tokyo Normandy

TC Begins: 05:17:09

TC Ends: 05:27:12

Duration: 00:10:03

Victory in Review Titles over shots Japanese fighter plane being shot down. Crowds celebrating VJ Day in Times Square - Zipper sign re Japanese surrender. Huge crowds. Sailor does jitterbug with young girl. 05:18:16 Battleship West Virginia firing broadsides. Artillery crew firing 155mm howitzer. Pacific - Kamikaze plane - flak - Japanese plane crashes into sea. US troops land on Pacific Island - US soldier using flame thrower - Japanese soldier runs from foxhole in flames. Montage battle scenes. 05:19:16 Animated Map showing German and Japanese incursions. Formation of C-47s taking part in D-Day operation. Paratroopers - mass parachute drop over Normandy. Gliders landing one tips up on nose. Shooting down German planes including FW-190 and strafing Messerschmidt M-109 on airfield. Camera gun footage strafing installations - railways etc. Good explosions. 05:23:08 Squadron of A-20s in flight - flak - engine of plane catches fire, pilot ejects. Bombs dropping on German city - good bombs away at fairly low level. Saturation bombing of RR marshaling yard. Pan over armaments factory, almost completely demolished. Street scene showing devastation. AV Synthetic fuel plant destroyed. MS Some of the wreckage in the fuel plant AV Messerschmidt airplane works that has been bombed out. 05:26:22 B-29 dropping a salvo of bombs, and strike in Tokyo, Japan CU Shot through bomb bay, as a salvo of bombs released, and hits the ground. AV Saturation bombing of Tokyo; dust and smoke all over. WWII; WW2 Compilation film;

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