Epic Pictures of World War II,
Castle Films, 1945

Group 7 - Pictures 37 through 42

37. CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT ARRIVE AT YALTA February 12, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta, in Russia, and the President and Prime Minister inspect the Moscow Guards.

38. FLAG-RAISING ON MT. SURIBACHI The most famous picture to come out of the war is made by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on Iwo Jima, when five marines and a navy hospital corpsman battle their way to the summit of Mt. Suribachi and raise the flag.

39. U. S. S. FRANKLIN DISASTER OFF JAPAN In March, 1944, while preparing to launch planes for a strike against Kyushu, the 27-thousand ton aircraft carrier, Franklin, is hit by two Japanese bombs which cause terrific damage. After heroic efforts of her crew she is saved, though suffering the greatest loss of life of any ship in the history of the United States Navy. Two months later, her sister ship, the carrier Bunker Hill is to experience a similar ordeal, almost as tragic, off Okinawa.

40. JAN. 30. 1882 . APR. 12. 1945 NATION MOURNS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT On ApriL 12. 1945. the nation and the world are shocked by the news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s sudden death. The funeral cortege moves along Constitution Avenue in Washington enroute to the Union Station and thence to the family home at Hyde Park. New York.

41. NUREMBERG CAPTURED Two months after the start of General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s great offensive to sweep across the Rhine. troops of General Patch’s 7th Army salute the flag in bomb-blasted Nuremberg on April 20. 1945. Here, the biggest rallies of the Nazi party were held., More than 90% of the city lies in ruins but the cathedral escapes serious damage.

42. RUSSIANS AND AMERICANS MEET AT ELBE (Apr. 1945). On April 26. an historic moment is pictured when the American and Russian Armies make contact on the River Elbe, seventylive mles south of Berlin.

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