Allied troops in Germany during World War II. 40 mm gun crew in Germany. A Nazi Swastika and an eagle mounted on a pillar with a gun in the foreground. A building damaged due to Allied bombings. Allied multiple 50 caliber gun and its crew. German prisoners loaded onto a truck as it pulls away. A destructed rail road trestle in Chantilly, France.
Allied aircraft in Germany during World War II. Allied aircraft in flight. United States P-47 aircraft on an air field in Germany. They taxi along the perimeter and take off. Military trucks and jeeps at the field. P-38 aircraft flies around the field. P-47 aircraft taxis off the runway. P-38 buzz off the field for pull up.
General Eisenhower confers with British Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory and British Air Chief Marshal, Sir Arthur Tedder, in front of a map of Europe on a wall. New York Post, June 6, 1944, headline reads "INVASION Smashing Inland." U.S. troops assault beach at Normandy on D-Day and several fall from enemy fire during World War II. German troops surrendering as Americans advance. Dead German soldier. Adolf Hitler sits in a room. B-24 bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 2nd Bomb Wing, 446th Bomb Group, in flight on mission over Germany. Bombs falling on target. View through gun camera of fighter strafing German aircraft on the ground and strafing a railroad train filled with ammunition, that explodes. Sun newspaper headline reads: 'Allies plunging deep into Reich.' U.S. troops move through grassy field. U.S. artillery crew fires M-114, 155mm Howitzer under camouflage net. New York World Telegram newspaper headline reads: 'Allies swarm across Rhine'. U.S. troops crossing the Ludendorff Bridge, at Remagen, Germany. View of dead victims at German concentration camp. Journal American newspaper headline reads: 'Mass surrender of foe underway'. German prisoners of war double-time march running along a road with hands held high in surrender. Emotion and distress show on face of very young German boy soldier as he unbuttons his coat. A German woman sits quietly in background. A mile long line of German prisoners march in a field. A Nazi Swastika flag burning on the ground.
Fall of Berlin, Germany. Russian Army soldiers in Germany. Rubble on streets of Berlin. Damaged buildings. Flames and smoke rise up from the buildings. Soldiers and tanks on street. A wounded man with other men. Animated map shows street by street capture of the city. Men stand near damaged buildings. People are helped out of the ruined buildings. (World War II period).
The different implements and torture devices at the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany during World War II. The gas chambers at the concentration camp in Germany. The shower in the bathroom through which the poison gas, Zyklon, used to be inducted when the prisoners shower. The blast furnaces used for cremation of dead bodies of prisoners. The garments of the prisoners being inspected by the officials. Women's clothes, infant shoes, toys and dolls in a room. The storage room in the mills with sacks of prisoners' hair packed. Prisoners' jewelery, watches and wedding rings in the room. The instruments used to pull out the teeth of prisoners. An official holds a prisoner's teeth.
Activities on the Victory in Europe Day, World War II at an American airfield in Germany. The Administration buildings at the American airfield in Germany. Men sit and listen to Commanding Officer (CO) on Victory in Europe Day (VE Day). Men seated on grass. Officer speaks on phone. Air force personnel standing at the back. The Commanding Officer speaks over phone. Signboard reads "Spearshaft C P" in the background. Men disperse. CO talks to men over phone.