Fleet of Allied A-26 warplanes of United States Army Air Force fly over the Alps in Germany, during World War II. Colonel talks to U.S. Army Air Force pilots at an airbase. The Colonel illustrates strategies of bombing, on a map as pilots listen to him. Wrecked building of air base behind the Colonel.
U.S. Army Air Forces P-47s drop napalm incendiary bombs on German military fortifications and military site in Germany a month after the Allied victory in Europe during World War II. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft drops bombs over a pillbox and an explosion occurs. Bright orange flames and black smoke arise from the bombing.
U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bomber planes drop bombs over targets in Germany during World War II. Aerial view shows clusters of incendiaries fall over targets. Billows of smoke rise from bomb explosions. A group of B-26 Marauder bombers fly over country terrain. Smoke rises from explosions on ground. Bomb explosions throw billows of smoke up in air from German factory area.
A British officer describes the conditions at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany near end of World War II. A British Commander of Royal Artillery describes the conditions at the concentration camp. A woman doctor, a prisoner herself, describes the conditions at the female section of the camp. Other liberated women stand in the background. The commander of the Bergen-Belsen Camp, SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Kramer, is shown taken into custody by Allied troops. German Army SS (Schutzstaffel) guards taken prisoners by Allied troops.
Conditions at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany immediately after World War 2. Liberated prisoners at the camp. Corpses lying on a field show signs of brutality. Prison number tattooed on the hand of a dead prisoner. Captured German Army SS (Schutzstaffel) guards are forced by Allied troops to bury dead prisoners. German women guard and SS guards bury the dead bodies in mass graves. Allied troops on a truck. A bulldozer pushes piles of dead bodies into mass graves.
Allied air operations near end of World War 2, in Europe. Gun camera footage from a P-47M of the U.S. Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron, strafing German aircraft on the ground at an airfield in Germany. The pilot is Captain Walter L Flagg, of Conimicut, Rhode Island. He is flying P-47M, Number: 44-21140, UN-F, "Shoot You're Faded". Burning German aircraft on the ground. Aerial view of bomb damaged city.