ID

FBW000758      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

V.E. Day. 5th Armed Div. Volary. Czechoslovakia [08-May-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Appearance

Winston Churchill

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 08 May 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

Catholic and Protestand chaplains conduct V-E thanksgiving services in open field. Group of soldiers listening to broadcast. (Prime Minister Churchill's official announcement of the war's end.)

Subject Terms

1940-1949; End of war; Radio; Soldiers; Czechoslovakia; US Army; Volary; Forced labor camps

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC; 35mm; 111 ADC 4410; 3. von 3 Filmen, zus. 304,8 m / 11'08"

Materials

- National Archives, Washington, DC; Protokoll

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist:
- Seq: Catholic and Protestant chaplains conduct V.E. thanksgiving services in open field
- CUs: Radio receiver in jeep
- MCUs: Group of soldiers listening to broadcast (Prime Minister Churchill's official announcement of the war's end)
- MSs, CUs: Individual German prisoners
- MSs: Piles of surrendered rifles and panzerfausts (type of rocket launcher).