Combat Bulletin Number 14:
Axis Surrender Films
(Signal Corps)

A compilation of various film segments taken from newsreels and official Signal Corps historical films showing the following highlights: 1. German high command surrenders to General Montgomery. 2. General Eisenhower comments on the surrender. 3. Formal ratification of unconditional surrender in Berlin. 4. Officials of the German Government including Speer and Dönitz are arrested, and Heinrich Himmler dies. 5. German garrison surrenders to British in Oslo, Norway. Vidkun Quisling is charged with treason in court. 6. German midget subs are captured in Copenhagen. 7. Damage to German ships is shown at Kiel, Germany. 8. The German liner Europa is captured undamaged at the port of Bremerhaven. 9. General Patton describes his impressions of what he saw on a recent flight over bombed German cities to an audience in the San Francisco Coliseum. 10. Mussolini's body is hung at a gas station in the piazza at Milan. Police attempt to control the enraged mob. Mussolini's mutilated body is photographed at the local morgue. 11. The atomic bomb, greatest secret weapon of the war, is revealed to the public. An explosion in the New Mexico desert is shown. 12. Russia declares war on Japan. 13. President Truman announces full acceptance of Japan's unconditional surrender. 14. Peace celebrations in major US cities. 15. Japanese Foreign Minister signs surrender documents before General MacArthur on board the USS Missouri on September 2nd, 1945. 16. Admiral King expresses his gratitude to victorious US Navy men. USA, 1945, B&W. 30 minutes.

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Combat Bulletin Number 14: Axis Surrender Films (Signal Corps)
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