Germany surrenders in Austria at the end of World War II in Europe. German officials arrive for surrender. German General and Commander of 19th German Army Erich Brandenberger signs capitulation in an Austrian city. U.S. Army General Edward H. Brooks receives German surrender in Austria. German Naval Commander Admiral Karl Donitz is captured. British sailors board captured German U-boats at Antwerp, Belgium. German prisoners aboard a U-boat.
U.S. soldiers in Germany near end of World War 2, in Europe. An M26 Pershing leads a column of M4A1(76)W Shermans through a muddy street. Some have improvised armor plate welded over the driver's position. Medium and light tanks carrying infantry are seen on an open field. They are loaded with infantrymen. More U.S. tanks move in formation across the field. A German civilian mounts an M5A1 and converses with the crew. U.S. infantrymen search houses. Sherman tanks move through a German street. German civilians watching the tanks and American infantrymen. A Sherman parked on roadside while driver watches several ducks waddle across the road. Infantrymen walking down the street. A tank in the foreground.
U.S. forces invading Germany in the final days of World War 2 in Europe. German civilians hold white flags of surrender along sides of road. A German officer and soldiers sitting against a wooden fence at the roadside. German civilians loading belongings into horse drawn wagons. Abandoned and trashed wagons. A U.S. tank firing level at a large building, as Infantrymen run past. United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt airplanes attack a hilltop building with machine guns and bombs. Burning buildings behind trees.
United States soldiers in Germany near the end of World War 2, in Europe. American soldiers standing around a jeep and sitting on. two Sherman tanks parked in a German town. American soldiers rouse German prisoners who gather their belongings and stand to march off. Crewmen sitting on a Sherman tank in a field. They fire the tank's gun at a hilltop target. Smoke rises from exploding shells. U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft strafe and bomb German positions as U.S. tanks and their crews watch.
Four P-47s of the 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, operating from rough field at advanced landing strip Y-54, Keltz, Germany, near end of World War 2, in Europe. United States Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft taking off on the dirt airstrip raising much dust. They are equipped with 150 gallon drop tanks. The P-47s flying in formation overhead.
United States Army Air Forces operations in Germany during final days of World War 2 in Europe. United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts taxiing on a ramp in front of an open hangar at Fritzlar Air Base. A group of crew chiefs conversing. Trees in the foreground. P-47 takes off. Crewmen pushing a bomb trailer. A crew chief reading the pony edition of the "Times." Mechanics work on jeeps. An airman, followed by a pet dog, climbs steps to a trailer. Enlisted man talking to a Tech Sergeant who leans out window of a building. An L-5 liaison airplane taxis in a parking area. Three U.S. soldiers walking across the perimeter strip. Enlisted men shake hands with pilot of the L-5, who carries a German cavalry sword as a souvenir. They walk into building through door with sign reading: : "Colonel Stecker, Commanding." (Colonel Ray Stecker is Commander, U.S. 365th Fighter Group, of the 84th Fighter Wing.) ground crewman washes down ramp with a hose. P-47 and refueling truck in background.