German troops of the 5th Panzer Army advance to engage invading Allied forces on the Western Front during World War II. Camouflaged German tanks and assault guns moving rapidly along French road while infantry walk alongside. Tanks position in a wooded glen, where German General of the Panzer Troops, Hasso von Manteuffel, confers with his staff. German tanks and infantry move across a field. A bandaged German soldier is assisted walking. Smoke rises due to artillery fire. German soldiers with bicycles. American prisoners of war are marched in a group. Artillery being fired. German tanks and troops in the streets of Luneville, France. A German soldier looks through binoculars. A U.S. armored vehicle in flames. Several captured U.S. halftracks.
The Soviet campaign against the Germans on the Eastern Front of World War II. Soviet aircraft in flight as they bomb German positions. Soviet infantry advances along a hill side as smoke rises in the background. The aircraft in flight. Soviet soldiers and tanks advance across a field. Artillery being fired and explosions occur. Dead German soldiers in trenches. German equipment and shell cases. German prisoners being made to march.
Dead German soldiers lying among destroyed German armor and artillery, in a snow-covered battlefield in Russia, during World War Two. Among the destroyed armor and artillery , two wrecked Pz.IV tanks and field guns are seen. Footage is from the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket as Soviet forces reclaimed Ukraine.
Russian troops fight against Germans in Eastern Front during World War 2, in the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket. Russian troops in the Ukraine on trucks, horse drawn artillery and tanks move forward near Chanderoki. The Soviet troops wearing woolen coats and hats move forward in wind and snow blizzard conditions. The Soviet troops with horse drawn artillery advance on the snow during the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive. A Russian soldier looks through a cross shaped binocular device or range finder as another soldier stands beside him atop a lookout platform erected in a tall tree. A column of German troops advancing at a distance. A soldier looks through binoculars. The Russian Infantry troops carrying guns advance. The troops load a field artillery gun and fire the field guns. The Soviet field guns firing. Russian fighter aircraft fly in formation low across the front, bound for the German line. Troops near an artillery gun load and fire the gun. Russian Infantry advances. An officer looks through binoculars. The troops load guns and fire the guns. The Russian troops fire mortars. A soldier carries a shell. The soldier loads the shell in an artillery. The troops loading guns and firing the guns. Explosions on the battlefield as artillery shells hit targets. A dead German soldier lying in the snow. Animated map shows the Cherkasy - Korsun region of the USSR, Dnieper River, and Soviet troop movements. Russian troops firing guns and wheel mounted machine guns give cover for Russian soldiers advancing across an open battle field. Explosions in the background. The troops firing. A group of frozen dead German soldiers on the snow covered field.
Frozen battle field scene as Russian forces advance through bombed out German positions in the Battle of the Cherkassy pocket of the Ukraine region. Destroyed German tanks, artillery equipment, and German horses and dead soldiers lie on the frozen battlefield following battle. A captured German soldier is huddled on a cart. Piles of abandoned and wrecked German equipment. Soviet forces approach and identify the body of dead German Commander, General Wilhelm Stemmermann, who died with many of his forces after being encircled by the Russians. A long line of German prisoners, four deep, moving over snow under Russian guard in snowy and windy conditions. The Russian soldiers escort the prisoners. The prisoners cross a bridge. View of a snowy field covered with frozen bodies of dead German soldiers, some still holding rifles. A Russian officer addresses troops near Potchemky. The dead Germans are strewed over the snow. Various views of the wrecked German equipment and dead bodies of the soldiers frozen on the snowy battlefield. Low aerial view of the destroyed German front as seen from a Russian aircraft. Long line of destroyed German vehicles and dead Wehrmacht soldiers defeated in Battle of the Korsun - Cherkassy Pocket.
Russian troops celebrate their victory against Germany in the Eastern Front Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket during World War 2. Russian T-34 tanks and Infantry enter a village in the Ukraine. The Russian troops roll into town. Russian Military Commander Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin stands in front of a jeep. Russian Military Commander Ivan Konev and Commander Vatutin stand together. The troops on armor and tanks advancing. The Russian troops fire artillery guns at night in synchronized patterns to celebrate the victory. People watch the guns being fired filling the air with flares and fireworks over a town. Soviet citizens look on and smile.