Engineers place TNT (Trinitrotoluene) charges to blow up bridge in Malmedy sector, Belgium. Vehicles in city cross bridge. Engineers place TNT charges over bridge. Soldiers guard bridge near demolition charge. (World War II period).
90 mm gun set up in Malmedy sector, Belgium. 90 mm gun in snow covered woods, set up to cover road. Soldiers near the gun. View of gun. (World War II period).
Activities of military police and soldiers in Manhay, Belgium. Camouflaged half-track, motor carriages, M-4 tanks set up by 3rd armored division as roadblocks. 36th infantry regiment soldier concealed by tree near road. Military police and soldier with 45 caliber submachine gun directs traffic. Signs "Erezee", "Stavelot" and two other designations and their distances. Busy intersection in town of Manhay with directional signs. (World War II period).
Refugees in enemy held chateau, Belgium. Belgian refugees evacuate area in horse carts. Refugees on road. Foggy and snow covered field. Soldier in foxhole on snow covered field. View of enemy held chateau. (World War II period).
Execution of German spies at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. The prisoners include: Unteroffizier Manfred Pernass, Oberfähnrich Günther Billing, and Gefreiter Wilhelm Schmidt. They participated in Otto Skorzeny's Waffen SS Commando force Operation Greif, in which English-speaking German Commandos operated behind Allied lines, masquerading in U.S. uniforms and equipment. They are brought to execution spot of the 482nd MP guard station by military police of 509th MP. Spies are tied to stakes and blindfolded. MP firing squad composed of twenty four men fire. Execution of the spies. Officer checks to insure they are dead. View of slumped bodies of spies still tied to the stakes. The firing squad marches away. (World War II period).
German Panzer division entering a Belgian town in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge (World War 2). A map showing cities (written in German) in the Netherlands, Belgium, North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, and the French Grand Est region. A Panzer infantry division enters a Belgian town. German troops stand on top of Panzer tanks parked near houses. Panzer IV tank on a town street as Belgian civilians standing and with bicycles watch the Panzer division enter their town. Low camera angle view looking upward toward an approaching Panzer V ("Panther") tank on a narrow road. German field marshal Walter Model observes German soldier carrying gasoline container. Three German soldiers with Panzerfaust weapons catching their breath during the cold winter. Field marshal Model talks with an officer and a young soldier (wearing a Stahlhelm painted in white for winter camouflage). Close-up view of a Panzer V tank (Panther) moving, with a German soldier wearing headphones standing up through a hatch on top of the moving tank. Panzer tanks moving through the Ardennes region. 7th Army Wehrmacht soldiers wearing winter coats and machine gun belts moving through muddy roads on foot. The first soldier in the line carries a Panzerfaust also. A soldier carries a spade. An abandoned artillery gun. A dead U.S. soldier lies down beside a Browning M1919 machine gun and machine gun belts. A Panzer V tank turning away in the near distance. Smoke beside a destroyed M4 Sherman tank. Destroyed artillery guns in a Belgian town. Destroyed U.S. Army vehicles in front of damaged houses and trees. Dead American soldiers lying beside destroyed vehicles. A German soldier wearing a camouflaged helmet. A Panzer V "Panther" tank rolling on the street.