Overview
- Description
- Airplanes parked. Plane taxis away from parking area, passes camera. CU, red nose, parked planes. Strafing train, German town. MCU, German ranking officers climb aboard plane. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg's plane taking off. Nose of aircraft in FG, formation flies overhead. Strafing on road, strafing parked aircraft. (4/19/45 366 FG 391st SQ RAFAEL) German officers awaiting air evacuation to England. They board plane. GIs standing around as they watch German officers climb in plane. Door of plane is closed.
Crowd of Parisians as they parade through the streets for VE-Day in Paris. CU, Eternal Light under Arc de Triomphe. Panning up to Unknown Soldier's Grave decorated with flowers and civilians paying respects (some wearing prison camp uniforms). MCU, Parisians applaud. CU, floral piece of Free French insignia carried by two British soldiers. Ceremonies around Tomb of Unknown Soldiers. Loud speaker. Airplane dives and goes into a Victory Roll.
02:05:30 MS, through barbed wire of American airmen in Moosburg prison camp - Stalag 7A. They cook outside tents. Two American airmen as they cook bacon over improvised stove. Two airmen as they eat K-rations. They cook Red Cross provisions. American airmen exercise and sunbathe at prison camp. Four airplanes fly overhead. CU, American airman. Prison camp identification tag around neck of airman. Men standing around Red Cross food packages. They stack Red Cross food packages. Swiss Red Cross truck delivering food to camp. CU, insignia of Swiss International Red Cross on truck. Displayed contents of Red Cross food package. Men cook and sit around in camp. Group of American airmen as they wave to camera. They lounge on bales of hay, tents in BG. Men cook food over improvised stove. CU, refuse pit, panning to makeshift tent and homemade oven with airmen cooking. LS, men working in camp, cooking, exercising, etc. CU, American airmen with patch over right eye. Bunker outside of prison camp. Liberated American airmen as he reads stars and stripes. CU, more airmen. CU, another airmen wearing a German hat. CU, African-American pilot (Lt.). MS, American airmen stand around panning barracks, bicycle, barbed wire. (CARTER 5/7/45 VE DAY) - Duration
- 00:13:44
- Date
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Event:
April-May 1945
- Locale
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Paris,
France
Germany
Silesia
Moosburg, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
United States. Army Air Forces. Combat Camera Unit, 4th.
Camera Operator: Lindsay
Camera Operator: Rafael
Camera Operator: Hurst
Camera Operator: Ewell
Camera Operator: Ellis Carter
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:00:00:00 to 02:13:44:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Master 2903 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2903 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large- User
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
User 2903 Video: DVD - b&w and color
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- AIR FORCE (U.S.) AIRPLANES ARC DE TRIOMPHE BARBED WIRE BARRACKS CEREMONIES CIVILIANS COOKING EATING EVACUATIONS FOOD GERMANY GRAVES LIBERATION NAZI OFFICIALS NEWSPAPERS POW CAMPS POWS (AMERICAN) RED CROSS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) STRAFING TENTS UNIFORMS V-E DAY
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in March 2010.
- Note
- Moosburg - Prisoner of war (POW) camp known as Stalag 7A which housed 29,284 Allied prisoners, including Francis J. Morrissey of Dayton, Ohio. (Half were Americans, mostly Air Corps; included among remainder were Russian, British and French prisoners.)
- Copied From
- 16mm INSK
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5452
Source Archive Number: 18 SFP 9165 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:05:26
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