Aerial views of Italy and France during World War II. Aerial view of a town. A river and bomb craters on a field. A flooded farmland. Buildings on the flooded farmland. A road across a farmland and continues over flooded farmland. Clouds over a mountain.
German and Hungarian troops advance on the Carpathian Mountains during World War II. German and Hungarian troops lay barbed wire and construct tank traps. Half-tanks being washed in a stream. German soldiers bathe in stream. Volkswagen Schwimmwagen amphibious cars move through the water. German forces lay mines. Hungarian infantry crosses a bridge. Field guns being loaded and fired. A smoldering Russian tank. Hungarian Zrínyi SP tracked gun advances. Shows street fighting in a village. German Marder III Ausf.H and Bison Ausf.H tracked guns firing. Damaged trees and huts in a village.
American troops invasion force group in large numbers in tent area. General Dwight D. Eisenhower walks and talks among the paratroopers and soldiers on the evening before the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. Allied Invasion troops march onto landing craft. LST (Landing Ship Tank) loaded with soldiers. Normandy beaches: fires are burning and smoke is seen along coastline. Troops walk down gangplank into water of Normandy beaches on D-Day. Formation of USAF Boeing B-17s Flying Fortress in flight. Top turret of B-17, large formation of B-17s in the background. German Me 262 aircraft in flight, plane descends toward earth. B-17 bomber going down, engines on fire.
African American soldiers on board a ship heading for Europe during World War 2. Two black soldiers wearing small life preservers labeled as "Board of Trade Standard Life Jacket" over their uniforms on deck of ship. Another soldier talks to the two black soldiers with life preservers. Soldier hands out night identifying light devices for the soldiers to clip on their life jackets. Two African American U.S. Army soldiers attach their night identifying light devices on the shoulder straps of their life jackets. A black soldier lights a cigarette and smokes. African American soldiers crowding the deck of a ship heading to Europe.
Day time life in London, United Kingdom while night-time raids by Germany on London were still common in World War II. The Big Ben clock tower. A double decker bus on the street. U.S. soldiers visit Westminster Abbey (Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom). Traffic near the Marble Arch (London W2 2UH, United Kingdom). Citizen speakers address various crowds in London's Hyde Park. Several speakers take their turn. Policemen talk to a man. Allied officers and soldiers in the crowd.
Allied troops in Cherbourg after the Normandy Landings on D-Day in World War 2. A former German Headquarters in the town. A portrait of the German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. A U.S. soldier and MP (Military Police) point towards the portrait. The soldiers use it as a pin board, throwing darts at it.