Allied soldiers in Rhineland, Germany during World War II. A truck drives through muddy road. A truck crosses a bridge during a flood. Water in the river gushing from under the bridge. United States Third Army soldiers advance across an area in Rhineland. A soldier looks through binoculars at the enemy position. An aircraft drops bomb on German position and explosions occurs. Soldiers cross over a newly built foot bridge. Smoke screen being laid down. Smokescreen machine emits smoke. Smoke screen canisters are floated downstream. Troops carry crates containing medical and ammunition supplies to the other side of the river. Smoke envelopes the whole river. Tanks and trucks cross over the bridge. Troops advance and tanks fire guns. A dead German soldier lying in the mud. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) are led away by Allied troops. A map of Belgium and the Netherlands. First Canadian Army under General Harry Crerar attacks east of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Sign reads “Stadt Goch Kreis Kleve” in Kleve (Cleves), Germany. Red Cross and army trucks and ambulance advance into Kleve. British General Bernard Montgomery with British soldiers. Tanks advance and British and Canadian troops fire artillery in battle. Shells being loaded. Machine gun (Lewis gun) being fired. Canadian troops marching to Goch, Germany. Tank rolls past a damage building. German civilians watch the arrival of Canadian troops in Goch. Some German refugees leave town.
U.S. Army soldiers fight against the Germans during the Battle of Bulge in World War II. U.S. soldiers retreat and engineers prepare and lay mines and barbed wire fences. U.S. soldiers on a snow covered field. A map of Belgium depicts the Nazi drive into the region of Bulge. Allied aircraft bombard German town. Nazi prisoners of war being marched. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47B aircraft drop supplies to U.S. troops at Bastogne. U.S. 3rd Army advances in the regions. Damaged buildings in the city and dead bodies in streets. Soldiers fire rifles in a street in Haguenau, France. Credential being checked by officers. Soldiers fire rifles and artillery and speak over field phone. Alsatian women being freed from a prison. Senator James F. Byrnes speaks about the U.S. soldiers fighting in the war during a war bond drive.
View of General Dwight Eisenhower, Omar N Bradley and Lieutenant General William H. Simpson entering the building. MP salutes to Generals. Generals including General Eisenhower walking out of the building. View of Generals traveling by car.
The United States 30th Infantry Division talk and rest in a snowy, damaged Belgian village during World War II. Two US soldiers shake hands in a damaged village with heavy snow. The two men talk. Destroyed houses and piles of rubble are seen behind the two men. The soldier introduces his comrades to the other man. Soldiers put their gun slings. An officer gives instruction to the troops. Close up faces of weary and tired American soldiers. Some soldiers light their cigarettes. The soldiers walk toward their Jeep. They get in their Jeep and leave the village.
The United States 30th Infantry Division carry equipment outside Malmedy during World War II as they recover victims of the Malmedy Massacre (also know as the Baugnez Massacre.) A bulldozer clears snow from the road. United States soldiers walk behind in heavy snow. A soldier carries a large cable spool on his back. Group of men carry equipment and a stretcher while walking in deep snow. A snow covered tank drives past soldiers. A snow covered Sherman tank-dozer passes. Soldiers carry body of victim of the Baugnez Massacre on a stretcher through deep snow Military truck with trailer parked in snow near La chapelle Saint Henri de Géromont in the outskirts of Malmedy on E421 Rte de Waimes. A sign reads “Geromont Malmedy” (the German word “Kreis” is scratched out).