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World War II in the News

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Take a visual journey through World War II, from the early buildup through the Japanese surrender in 1945! These authentic World War II newsreels helped bring news of the war back to those on the homefront.

Name Description Released Price

1 VideoFuneral of President Roosevelt (etc.), 1945 President Roosevelt's body moves by train from Warm Springs, Georgia to Washington, DC; funeral ceremonies are held in Hyde Park, New York, and more. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

2 VideoMarines Raise Flag Over Iwo Jima (etc.), 1945 The 5th Div. Marines take Iwo Jima; Russian prisoners are liberated, German atrocities are discovered, and more. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

3 VideoJapan Surrenders, 1945 A retrospective of Japan's military and international activities 1931 - 1945. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

4 VideoGigantic Parade Marks May Day in Moscow (etc.), 1945 Stalin reviews a parade in Moscow; shows capture German officers and scenes of Himmler's suicide; British troops liberate Bergen Belsen prison camp; the 10th Army uses tanks in the final assault on Okinawa, and more. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

5 VideoSan Francisco Conference Moves Ahead (etc.), 1945 New York City celebrates VE Day; Preident Truman announces the German surrender; U.S. and Russian troops meet at the Elbe; U.S. troops blast Japanese positions on Okinawa, and more. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

6 VideoPresident Roosevelt Inaugurated (etc.), 1945 President Roosevelt take the oath of office for the fourth time; a Japanese airbase on Puerto Princesa Island is bombed; the 38th Infantry Division fights in Burma, and more. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

7 VideoU.S. Turns to Japan After German Defeat (etc.), 1945 Allied leaders meet in San Francisco; blackouts are lifted; General Montgomery accepts the surrender of German troops in Germany; General Jodl surrenders in France, and more. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

8 VideoFranklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945 A retrospective of FDR's life; President Truman is sworn in. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

9 VideoPresident Roosevelt Meets Middle East Leaders (etc.), 1945 President Roosevelt is visited by African and Middle Eastern heads of state; several Army units participate in liberating Manila, and more. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

10 VideoU.S. Navy Carrier Planes Sweep China Sea (etc.), 1945 The Yalta Conference in Russia takes place; Japanese oil fields and ships are bombed, and a tanker is torpedoed. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

11 VideoJapanese Sign Final Surrender, 1945 The final Japanese surrender documents are signed aboard the battleship Missouri on September 2, 1945. 12/31/1944 Free View In iTunes

12 VideoU.S. Bombers in First Daylight Raid on Berlin (etc.), 1944 Bombers, including from the U.S. hit Berlin and return to England; recently freed American POWs return to New York; Italian refugees are evacuated to southern Italy, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

13 VideoAllied Patrols in Action on Anzio Beach (etc.), 1944 Allied troops fight at Anzio; Navy nurses on Guadalcanal; surfing in Australia, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

14 VideoGlobal War Finds United Nations on Many Fronts (etc.), 1944 Allied troops fight in New Guinea, the Italian Alps, and at Anzio; German POWs receive medical care; Mrs. Doolittle christens the aircraft carrier Shangri-La, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

15 VideoAllies Win Myitkyina Airstrip (etc.), 1944 American servicewomen sightsee in Egypt on camels; Allies win the Myitkyina airstrip in Burma; French schoolchildren sing "America," and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

16 VideoMacArthur Returns to the Philippines (etc.), 1944 The amphibious assault begins; Red Cross personnel pack up food and supplies for American POWs in Germany; Marines capture pillboxes and dugouts on Peleliu, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

17 VideoU.S. Soldiers Become Citizens at Battlefront (etc.), 1944 General Clark presides as members of the 5th Army receive their naturalization papers; Sergio Osmena is sworn in as President of the Philippines; Manuel Quezon's body is interred at Arlington National Cemetary; Marines land on Guam. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

18 VideoAmerican Army Women Serving on All Fronts (etc.), 1944 The Allies bomb Italy and advance on the ground there; women contribute to the war effort in many military branches, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

19 VideoNew Films of U.S. Victory in the Marshall Islands (etc.), 1944 U.S. troops advance on Kwajalein; Japanese prisoners receive medical treatment, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

20 VideoAllied Drive on in Italy - Planes Smash Foe in Air (etc.), 1944 Artillery continues to pound positions in Italy and Allied infantry advances; tanks and infantry advance through New Guinea jungles, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

21 VideoLast Liberty Ship Launched (etc.), 1944 Charles de Gaulle comes to America, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

22 VideoU.S. Prepares More Paratroops for Battle (etc.), 1944 Paratroopers practice jumps; a volcano hits Mexico, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

23 VideoD-Day 1944 The invasion of June 6, 1944. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

24 VideoNavy Planes Down Japanese in Pacific Battle (etc.), 1944 U.S. bombers on a carrier in the Pacific repulse a Japanese air assault; a military parade in New York City, and more. 12/31/1943 Free View In iTunes

25 VideoU.S. Forces Blast Japanese from Attu (etc.), 1943 An amphibious landing in the Aleutians; German soldiers are captured, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

26 VideoNovorossisk Recaptured by Soviet Forces (etc.), 1943 Russians enter Novorossisk, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

27 VideoLatest News Films from the Tunisian Battle Front! (etc.), 1943 Tanks and artillery hit German positions; air defenses of Washington, D.C.; and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

28 VideoLatest War Films From U.S. Forces in South Pacific (etc.), 1943 U.S. troops land on a Pacific island and clear an airstrip; 7th Army advance through Sicilian villages; President Roosevelt speaks about the Facist decline in Italy, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

29 VideoNazi War Plants Blasted by R.A.F. in Night Raids (etc.), 1943 RAF bombers strike Essen; paratroopers take their puppy mascots airborne, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

30 VideoThe Capture of Tarawa from Japan (etc.), 1943 The Pacific invasion fleet reaches Tarawa; President Roosevelt meets with Churchill, Chiang Kai- shek, and Stalin, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

31 VideoSoviet Army Hurls Back Nazis on 2,000 Mile Front (etc.), 1943 Russian troops advance across the line; a German submarine is sunk; North African civilians receive food, medicine, and clothing, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

32 VideoU.S. Bombs Japanese From New Base in the Aleutians (etc.), 1943 U.S. troops land in the Aleutians and planes take off from the new island airfield; Allied artillery blast German positions; Germans surrender en masse, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

33 VideoRoosevelt Inspects U.S. Army Camps (etc.), 1943 President Roosevelt travels to camps and air fields; Allied troops capture land in Tunisia; Army nurses evacuate wounded soldiers, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

34 VideoChief Executives of U.S. Hailed in Latin America (etc.), 1943 The President and Mrs. Roosevelt review a parade in Mexico with President Camacho; B-25 planes take off from the carrier Hornet to bomb Japan, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

35 VideoTwo New Cruisers Join U.S. Navy (etc.), 1943 The Biloxi and Astoria are launched; the Red Cross packs and ships boxes to U.S. prisoners of war; Allied troops advance in New Guinea, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

36 VideoUnited Nations Leaders Confer with Roosevelt (etc.), 1943 Air mail celebrates its 25th anniversary; troops land on Attu Island; Australian planes bomb Japanese bases in New Guinea. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

37 VideoU.S. Army Prepares for Invasion of Europe (etc.), 1943 U.S. troops practice storming a beach and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

38 VideoJapanese Routed From Buna Stronghold! (etc.), 1943 American and Australian troops fight in New Guinea; Chile joines the United Nations; a batallion of Australian soldiers thought lost on Timor Island receive supplies and equipment by air and then attack Japanese positions, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

39 VideoWar News From the South Pacific (etc.), 1943 Nurses in New Guinea evacuate wounded soldiers; Clark Gable receives aerial gunner's wings; paratroopers capture a Tunisian airfield, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

40 VideoRommel's Defeat in Africa (etc.), 1943 Allied forces defeat Rommel; German prisoners are taken, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

41 VideoItalian Islands First to Fall as Invasion Begins (etc.), 1943 Allied troops begin to bomb Italian islands; Madame Chiang Kai-shek reviews WAVES, SPARS, and women Marines, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

42 VideoLatest Films of Allied Drive in North Africa (etc.), 1943 British Army muddles through the mud in Tunisia; Marines get back from a raid on a Japanese outpost; a 240mm Howitzer is tested, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

43 VideoNew Reservists Swell Ranks of American Navy (etc.), 1943 Allied forces capture Bizerte, German prisoners are taken, and more. 12/31/1942 Free View In iTunes

44 VideoU.S. Marines on Guadalcanal Push Back Japanese Troops (etc.), 1942 American planes take off from a Guadalcanal airfield; Generals Eisenhower and Clark and Admiral Cunningham establish Allied headquarters in Algiers. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

45 VideoWest Point Sends Her Men to War (etc.), 1942 General Marshall presides over graduation at West Point Military Academy as graduates prepare to go to war; men of Houston, Texas enlist in the Navy after the USS Houston was sunk, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

46 VideoEverybody Joins U.S. War Effort (etc.), 1942 Celebrities join the military. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

47 VideoU.S. Marines Battle Japanese in Pacific! (etc.), 1942 Marines train for battle in the U.S. and begin operations in the Pacific; children attend camp in New Jersey, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

48 VideoU.S. Bombers Blast Jap Bases (etc.), 1942 U.S. bombers at an Australian air base; lumber and steel mills on the homefront, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

49 VideoNew Guinea (etc.), 1942 Supplies are dropped for Allied soldiers in New Guinea; fighting in North Africa is shown; German prisoners are taken, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

50 VideoU.S. Reveals Armed Might for Churchill (etc.), 1942 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill watch a parachute drop; refugee children arrive in New York; tanks are made to support the war effort, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

51 VideoU.S. Rushes New Bases in Pacific (etc.), 1942 New bases are constructed on the Pacific front; women contribute to the war effort by joining the WACs; a Japanese cruiser is destroyed over Midway, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

52 VideoU.S. Troops on Alaskan Front (etc.), 1942 Reinforcements land on Attu Island; paratroopers practice a jump in Panama; troops board transport ships, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

53 VideoSoviet Commissar Molotov's Secret Visit to U.S. (etc.), 1942 American women do their part for the war effort on the homefront; tin cans are processed after scrap metal drives, and more. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

54 VideoNew York Hails War Heroes of United Nations (etc.), 1942 Allied troops receive a ticker-tape parade and Army motorcycle dispatch drivers take their final test. 12/31/1941 Free View In iTunes

Customer Reviews

Educational and outstanding

by Stephen Cohen

I have a mixed feeling as I avidly watch the time when America was resolute and prepared to lead as we emerged into Pax Americana.
Today the world has changed so much that we have seemingly lost our national sense of purpose. I wonder if those brave men and women from the Greatest Generation would be pleased to see the world we inhabit today.
Dr. SC, San Francisco

Great video source of history

by ipodtman

There is real historical value in viewing these.

Real Educational Value

by GigaPan

A five-star visual experience ... I am hoping that films from WWI, Vietnam and Korea can also be U/L.

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Category: North American History
Language: English

Customer Ratings

71 Ratings