Allied aircraft in flight and dropping shells toward enemy targets. Explosions on the ground seen from the air as bombs hit targets. Gun camera footage of Allied aircraft attacking and strafing parked German aircraft, roads, and railroads. Newspaper headline announcing Allies penetrating further into Germany. U.S. Army soldiers advancing on foot. U.S. soldiers firing artillery. Artillery in action, explosion can be seen.
Allied military in Germany after World War II. German General Hans-Ulrich Rudel, ace German Air Force Ju-87, Stuka dive bomber pilot, meets American officers. He appears to have lost a leg and walks with crutches in a garden with his aide and American military officials. They sit on chairs and talk. Numerous medals and awards displayed on General Rudel's uniform.
Allied military in Germany after World War II. High ranking German prisoners move into a C-47 aircraft. Among the prisoners are German ace General Adolf Galland, ace German Luftwaffe pilot Hans-Ulrich Von Rudel and other officials. Officials smiling and talking with each other. General Von Rudel with one leg (peg on the other) walks using calipers.
Germany after Allied military forces take over at close of World War II. Destroyed railway marshaling yard after the bombardment by Allied bombers. Wrecked freight wagons carry a destroyed camouflaged car. Wrecked equipment and railroad tracks mangled by bomb explosions. Destroyed fuselage of a German warplane on a wrecked freight car. Swastika on wrecked Nazi airplanes.
Scene in Germany as World War Two winds down in Europe. Russian troops in class A uniforms, ride on a captured German Sdkfz.251/21 Drilling half-track ,on street of a German town. They get down from the half-track and converse.
Troops of the U.S. 1st, 3rd, 7th and 9th Infantry Divisions assault cities in the Saar Basin, including Zweibruecken, Saarbruecken, Remagen, Bad Godesberg, and Bonn, during World War II. They attack the cities with tanks and rocket launchers mounted on top of tanks. U.S. Army soldiers of the 3rd Division enter the ruined city of Zweibrücken. U.S. Army 3rd Division commander Major General John O'Daniel ("Iron Mike") is seen discussing strategy with officers and soldiers. The troops of the 7th Division of the 7th Army moving forward into devastated and bombed Saarbrücken. A group of captured German soldier prisoners of war is shown in Saarbrücken. Wreckage of plaque mounted on Rathaus St. Johann (city hall) in Saarbrücken commemorating the Saar plebiscite and Saar status referendum results of 1935 which was announced by Hitler at the Rathaus St. Johann (Rathauspl. 1, 66111 Saarbrücken, Germany) in 1935. Army vehicles crossing the Rhine on pontoon bridge at Remagen. U.S. Army forces entering Bad Godesberg, where citizens are seen waving white flags of surrender from windows in the town. German civilians in Bad Godesberg read a poster on a building wall giving instructions from the Allied Military Government. German citizens with weapons stand in a line to turn-in the weapons, by order of the Allies. Scenes in Bonn, where the 1st Division of the 1st Army drives to the wreckage of the bridge at Bonn over the Rhine River. Views of the largely destroyed bridge at Bonn. American Army forces guard captured German military prisoners of war in area of Bonn. Views of captured German POW in uniform.