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B-24J's and B-l7G's flying through flak in Germany.

Air invasion in Germany. Animated map shows attack on Germany. Consolidated B-24 Liberator, American heavy bomber and Bomber B-l7G's in flight. B-24J's and B-l7G's flying through flak. German planes are destroyed. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044548
General Dwight D Eisenhower inspects 9th Air Force base in England (WW2)

Air war in England during World War II. General Dwight D Eisenhower inspects 9th Air Force base in England. General Eisenhower inspects the plane and its readiness, shown by Air force personnel. General Eisenhower seated in cockpit fires mounted machine guns for testing. B-26C's take off and bombard over target. Aerial view of targets and explosions over target. B-26C's land and British Hudsons take off. Planes fire, smoke arises from explosions.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044549
B-29 bomber dimensions and scenes of B-29 in flight.

Japanese air front, B-29 raid on Japan. Aerial view of target area in Japan. View of destroyed buildings and harbor in Japan. Japanese crowds in streets of Yawata, Japan. B-29 is displayed. Diagram of new B-29 bomber shows its dimensions and scenes of B-29 in flight.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044550
U.S. Army forces build up supplies and advance positions in preparation for invasion of Germany during World War 2

Activities of American first Army in Germany. Aerial and ground views of an Allied supply depot at Liege, Belgium. U.S. Army soldiers arrange supply boxes. Signal Corps engineers work on readying communication lines from the rear to the front and are seen stringing communication lines and preparing communication hubs. New transmission equipment of various kinds are received and installed for news. U.S. Army engineers supervise steel manufacture and sawmill operation in Luxembourg at a protected steel works facility that was taken over by the Allied Supreme Command. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel walk on finished steel beams and check them before shipment front. Plank boards are cut and stacked for use in road projects. U.S. engineers repair a bridge over the Meuse in Belgium that had been damaged in the Battle of Belgium. Train crosses a repaired bridge over the Meuse, and U.S. military and civilian pedestrian traffic seen on the bridge road. Track connectors are installed to better grip in mud and allow passage of Allied tanks and tracked vehicles. Aerial view of Siegfried line and Dragons Teeth. U.S. forces seen using a tank bulldozer and mud to effectively bury Dragon's Teeth tank traps to allow passage through the Siegfried Line. Allied trucks and vehicles are repaired. A convoy of Allied supply trucks passes by through a snowy landscape bringing supplies to the front in preparation for invasion into Germany.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044551
1st Infantry and 3rd Armored Division advance toward Mausbach and 104th Infantry Division advance on Stolberg in Germany.

Activities of American First Army in its invasion of Germany during World War 2. Animated map shows 1st Army moves into the direction of Cologne plain east of the Hurtgen Forest for invasion into Germany. 1st Infantry and 3rd Armored Division move to Mausbach and 104th Division move to Stolberg on November, 16. Two barrage balloons manned by the British on outskirts of Aachen are seen rising up from the ground to be floated eastward marking the line of the German enemy positions. Aerial view of Allied bomber aircraft, both American and British, dropping fragmentary and incendiary bombs on Duren. Reconnaissance group of the 104th Division readies for drive through Stolberg. They are seen removing camouflage from vehicles, and watching the skies for completion of the Allied aerial bombardment of the forward target. 104th Division recon group seen holding a briefing and studying map. U.S. Army infantry advance through a forest area, while assault guns of the 3rd Armored Division cover their movement. Result of German counter fire: Casualties are evacuated from a demolished Allied batallion command post near Stolberg. Wounded American soldiers carried on stretchers and the town's civilians receive first aid.

Date: 1944, November 16
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044552
U.S. Army 9th Air Force planes strafe German positions and The 104th Division enters Eschweiler and smaller villages in Germany.

Activities of American First Army during offensive into Germany in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Force 9th Air Force planes strafe German positions near the town of Stolberg, then U.S. Army troops attack with machine guns (view from machine gun being fired at houses), heavy guns like the self-propelled 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage M12; and massed American 3rd Armored Division tanks acting as artillery in attacking Stolberg. Civilian refugees seen removing their belongings out of the battered city. An American soldier guards a German POW who assists a civilian in moving a loaded cart down a street. View of collapsed building and wreckage after the attack as Stolberg is cleared by forces of the U.S. Army 104th Division, facing booby traps and mines. U.S. forces blast structures that could not be safely cleared. After two weeks of attack, the American flag raised in the city. The 104th Division enters Eschweiler and smaller villages; mined buildings are detonated as tanks move through the towns. Mop up operations last two days as German snipers are cleared. Captured German prisoners are led through the town under U.S. Army guard. U.S. Infantry troops ride on tanks on streets of city. Soldiers carrying bedding walk on street on way to a dry night's sleep. Roadblocks are cleared by U.S. Engineer battalions, including an overhead bridge blown-up by retreating Germans. Units of the 104th Infantry and 3rd Armored division continue eastward and are seen fighting German forces in Weisweiler.

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044553