WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:24.220 General Eisenhower visits the Third Army, which is doggedly battling its way toward 00:24.220 --> 00:43.840 heavily fortified Mets, another key to the Siegfried Line. Our big guns open up. In the 00:43.840 --> 00:52.800 Mets area, everything in the arsenal is used. Signal Corps pictures show the devastation wrought 00:52.800 --> 00:58.480 by General Patton's Armored Divisions as they batter their way forward yard by yard. And some 00:58.480 --> 01:05.360 of the battering is a real pleasure. The battle for Mets is rugged, but its fall is inevitable. 01:13.360 --> 01:18.640 The day of Greek liberation is at hand as a flotilla of British war vessels and transports 01:18.640 --> 01:24.480 nears Piraeus, the port of Athens. A landing in force is made for a campaign that was to be of 01:24.480 --> 01:36.920 short duration. As British troops enter Athens, they're greeted by citizens wild with joy after 01:36.920 --> 01:42.520 four years under the Nazi heel. Constitution Square is the center of celebration for a people 01:42.520 --> 01:52.800 who have known starvation and misery. Greek partisans who fought relentlessly joined the 01:52.800 --> 02:03.240 welcoming throng. Premier Papandreou lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The glory that 02:03.240 --> 02:09.060 was Greece, Athens, the city eternal, with the famed Acropolis miraculously undamaged by the 02:09.060 --> 02:25.080 Nazis. Greece, to whom civilization owes so much, is free. While Marines captured another island in 02:25.080 --> 02:35.920 the Palau, mopping up is completed on Peleliu. Armor and flamethrowers methodically blast the 02:35.920 --> 02:53.800 Japs from their hiding places. Watch this Jap carefully, he won't go far. These Marine Corps 02:53.800 --> 03:03.120 pictures show the ruthlessness of war in the Pacific. A cave is blown up. A flock of sons 03:03.120 --> 03:07.920 of heaven who found their war in the Pacific a little too rugged after the Yanks got going. 03:07.920 --> 03:24.480 Our ambassador returns to Paris and France. Jefferson Capri sees the stars and stripes 03:24.480 --> 03:36.520 unfurled once more at our embassy on the Place de la Concorde. The return of our ambassador to 03:36.520 --> 03:49.480 France is symbolic of the end of Nazi tyranny in Europe. A brave nation has risen again. Mohandas 03:49.480 --> 03:55.480 Gandhi meets with Muhammad Ali Jinnah in an attempt to bring the Hindus and the Muslims together. In 03:55.480 --> 04:01.360 an India always torn by the strife of castes, Mahatma Gandhi has tried for some semblance of 04:01.360 --> 04:07.600 unity. Again, it is something he failed to achieve. He parted friends with Jinnah, he says, but the 04:07.600 --> 04:21.280 Indian problem remains. Official Army Air Force pictures reveal General Twining and General Acre 04:21.280 --> 04:27.720 being received by Romanian Army and Air Force officers as they arrive at Bucharest. The Ploesti 04:27.720 --> 04:36.640 oil fields are their immediate destination. These were the famed oil fields which received 04:36.640 --> 04:42.280 repeated air poundings from the US Army Air Corps in a plan calculated to deprive the Nazis of one 04:42.280 --> 04:47.800 of their main sources of petroleum. That the plan succeeded is evidenced on every hand. 04:47.800 --> 05:02.160 Two years and six months after he was forced to flee from the Philippines, General McArthur 05:02.160 --> 05:08.440 makes good his promise to return. Vice admirals Wilkinson and Kincaid and Lieutenant General 05:08.440 --> 05:14.120 Krueger head up the greatest amphibious force ever assembled in the Pacific. Leyte Island midway 05:14.120 --> 05:18.680 between Luzon and Mindanao is the target. The Japs expected this attack at Mindanao, 05:18.680 --> 05:36.280 but McArthur smashed at the middle and split the enemy's forces. McArthur and Sutherland 05:36.280 --> 05:49.280 watch the landings from the flagship. The Jap Air Force is conspicuous by its absence as is the 05:49.280 --> 05:55.600 Jap Navy. The enemy lost 2,600 planes to our carrier forces in two months and the Jap Navy 05:55.600 --> 06:05.600 arrived a little late just in time to suffer its greatest defeat. The commander-in-chief goes 06:05.600 --> 06:11.200 ashore with Sergio Osmania, president of the Philippines. This is a great day for all the 06:11.200 --> 06:17.280 Filipinos, not only those being liberated on Leyte, but also the gallant Philippine guerrillas who have 06:17.280 --> 06:22.880 never given up fighting the invaders. It's a day of hope for all the islanders who were forced into 06:22.880 --> 06:41.720 Japan's greater East Asia prosperity sphere only to find themselves enslaved. The rich Leyte Valley 06:41.720 --> 06:46.960 is the objective of these armored forces. Others head for the airfields at Dulag and Tacloban, 06:46.960 --> 06:51.680 the island's capital. Since the original landings, other forces have gone ashore on 06:51.680 --> 06:57.640 Samar Island between Leyte and Luzon. Except for isolated enemy groups, both islands are 06:57.640 --> 07:07.400 now well under our control. As the battle rages beyond Dulag, Filipinos start the job of rebuilding 07:07.400 --> 07:13.280 their shattered town. These pictures were taken by Universals Irving Smith and Earl Crotches and by 07:13.280 --> 07:30.640 other newsreel and Navy cameramen. In front of the provincial capital at Tacloban, ceremonies 07:30.640 --> 07:35.960 precede the installation of the new cabinet by President Osmania and the friendly stars and 07:35.960 --> 07:48.280 stripes witness the momentous event.