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WAR DEPT. COMBAT BULLETIN 55 V-E DAY // GERMANY SURRENDERS B-29s RAID JAPAN 80884 (1945)

1945 · Short film · 28 min

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Combat Bulletin No. 55, produced in 1945 by the Army Pictorial Service, gives viewers a look at Germany’s surrender to Allied forces, the fall of Rangoon, the development of the Allied base on Iwo Jima, captured Japanese weapons, and the heavy damage the USS Franklin sustained on 19 March 1945. The bulletin opens with additional surrender films. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, commander of the British and Canadian 21st Army Group, reads the Instrument of Surrender at Luneburg Heath. The…

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