Rear view as Sherman tanks of the U.S. Army 4th Armored Division carry troops into Schuttenhoffen, Czechoslovakia 2 days before the end of World War 2 in Europe. The area appears relatively untouched by bombing or shelling. Local people line the street on both sides, welcoming the Americans. Front view as the tanks proceed toward the camera. People waving enthusiastically. A U.S. M3 half track follows, pulling an artillery piece. Closeup of a man standing next to the camera, smiling, as the M3 half track passes. View from high place of the half track riding through cheering people forming a corridor in the town square. It is followed by a compact covered fully tracked vehicle (possibly an artillery tractor). Camera pan across the town square, showing people sitting on park benches and standing about. A fountain is in the center grassy area. The people line the route of the American armored vehicles passing the end of the park, and they wave and cheer.
U.S. 4th Armored Division in Czechoslovakia during World War II. People walking on a street. Buildings along street sides. Trucks parked on the street. People gather outside a building. Soldiers in the building with some officers.
German troops on the move in Czechoslovakia, following their surrender, near the end of World War II in Europe. Some of the troops rest in a field and do their best to clean up in water from small roadside stream. A continuous convoy of German military vehicles and troops move along the road in background. Several German officers converse at side of road.
A crowd of German soldier prisoners of war in a field in Czechoslovakia. A United States Army soldier frisks a German soldier P.O.W. Large mass of surrendered German troops in the field. Surrendered German equipment parked in the field. (World War II period).
German soldiers in a field in Ejpovice, Czechoslovakia, at the end of World War 2 in Europe. . A large group of surrendered German troops rest in the field. They sit on straw and rest. Many are stripped to the waist and sunbathing. Closeups of the German soldiers in various activities. such as shaving and sharing a bottle of wine..They are all in generally good spirits, and smiling (glad that hostilities have ended).
Stacks of surrendered German weapons and equipment lay outside the gates of an establishment in Czechoslovakia at end of World War 2. A soldier walks slowly along the road past the arms.