Allied victory

An Encyclopaedia Britannica educational film covering the history of the Second World War commencing with the entry of the United States in December 1941. Introduction on camera by Louis L. Snyder, Ph.D City College of New York. Uses newsreel and combat footage from US, British, Australian, Russian and German sources to brief illustrate the main events of the war. Historic footage includes: US combat film of the battles at the Coral Sea and Midway; footage from Damien Parer's "Assault on Salamaua"; Guadalcanal; Allied landings in French North Africa; Casablanca Conference; Russian film of the fighting at Stalingrad; Allied landings at Salerno; deposed dictator Mussolini arriving in Germany greeted by Hitler; bombing and capture of Monte Cassino; liberation of Rome; RAF Bomber Command night raids on Germany; US 8th Airforce B-17s in aerial combat with Luftwaffe fighters; Operation Overlord, invasion of Normandy - aerial and naval bombardment and landings - German film of the West Wall defences; US Army at St Lo; liberation of Paris - collaborators being beaten up and Allied victory parade; Russian summer offensive of 1944; Yalta conference and political implications for post war Eastern Europe; linking up of Us and Soviet Forces; liberation of German concentration camps and their emaciated victims; Victory Europe celebrations; US Marines in action at Tarawa; General Douglas MacArthur landing in the Philippines; Iwo Jima including US flag being raised on Mount Suribachi; Japanese Kamikaze attacks on the US fleet at Okinawa; B-29, Enola Gay and devastation of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb; surrender aboard the USS Missouri including speech by General MacArthur; Victory celebrations around the world including Sydney and "the dancing man".