United States troops in Germany near end of World War II. United States tanks and armored vehicles, including Sherman Calliope rocket launcher, drive across a pontoon bridge. Soldiers aboard half-tracks and along the bridge.Views from underneath the steel tracks as tanks and vehicles pass overhead. View from inside a vehicle crossing the bridge to the other side. Troops walk on the bridge.
United States aircraft strafes German boats in a river during World War II. An open green field with houses in the background. A fleet of large boats in the river. Aircraft strafe he ships. Explosions on the ships. Houses and green fields along the river.
United States troops move through wreckage of the town of Gemunden, Germany near the end of World War II. U.S. M4 Sherman tanks and tank destroyers loaded with infantrymen of Seventh U.S. Army, XV Corps, 7th Infantry Division move through wreckage of the town. The troops riding on tanks. Damaged buildings in the background. U.S. insignia on the tanks. The tanks cross a bridge. U.S. trucks, DUKWs (amphibious vehicles), ambulances, Jeeps and M4 high speed tractors, tow guns and soldiers cross the bridge and through the narrow streets of the town. Military Policemen (MP) direct the military vehicle traffic. The vehicles move through narrow streets. Heavy bomb-damaged city visible in the background.
German prisoners of war arrive at the town square or Hauptplatz (Hauptpl., 4020 Linz, Austria) in Linz, Austria during last few days of World War II. View of Dreifaltigkeitssäule or the Holy Trinity Column (Dreifaltigkeitssäule, Hauptplatz, 4020 Linz, Austria). Trucks bring more prisoners into the town. The prisoners climb off the trucks and stand in the town square. Trucks loaded with prisoners drive past on a road in the foreground. The prisoners unload from the trucks.
Views from a boat circling around the American troop transport ship, USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) while she is underway carrying troops of the American 9th Armored Division back home from Germany following World War 2. The opening scene shows the Mount Vernon from her forward port side as she passes. Series of portside closeups as the ship passes. Next she is viewed from starboard. The Mount Vernon is filled with troops returning home who can be seen along her top decks.
U.S. aircraft parked and operating at German airfield near end of World War 2. United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning and German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (stork) German liaison aircraft parked on the base. P-38 twin engine fighters, P-47 fighters, and C-47 transport aircraft taxiing and taking off from the air base. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft parked at the air base.