Presidential Citation in Reiff,Germany during World War II. Soldiers march past holding American flags and rifles. Mountains in the background. Officer delivers a speech. Major General Lowell W Rooks awards Presidential Citation to the United States Army 3rd Battalion,358th Infantry Regiment,90th Division soldiers. He congratulates and addresses the soldiers. Troops march on field.
United States Army 4th Cavalry Regiment advancing through Grevenbroich,Germany during World War 2. Soldiers look at encouraging German messages to workers written on the Erftwerk factory walls. Soldiers aboard M8 Greyhound Armored Car fire 50 caliber machine gun and 37mm gun at buildings on the outskirts of the factory, where German forces may still linger. Vehicle moves forward and soldiers fire machine gun.
United States Army 4th Cavalry Regiment advance cautiously, firing small arms, as they enter the Erftwerk factory in Grevenbroich,Germany during World War 2. Soldiers fire rifles,carbines and Thompson machine guns at buildings. Damaged buildings in the background. Soldier interacts with a German woman, living nearby. Severa; factory workers are enticed out of air raid shelter. U.S. soldiers talk to the workers and allay their fears.
United States Army 4th Cavalry Regiment advances through Grevenbroich,Germany during World War 2. Road sign reads 'Grevenbroich 5 Km'. U.S. M10 tank destroyer, of the 4th Cavalry, moves into the town. Civilians happily wave white flags from building windows. M10 tank destroyer maneuvers in street. Woman holding white flag stands outside building. Soldiers fire the tank destroyer's gun and then drive it into a large open field.
Allied attack in Germany during World War II. Tracer bullets travel toward and hit railroad trains moving on tracks. Smoke column mushrooms up. Heavy foliage in the background. Tracer bullets travel toward and hit a German Messerschmitt ME-109 fighter aircraft in flight over grasslands. A United States Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft flashes by. Tracer bullets travel toward a German ME-109 aircraft in low flight over the ground, as seen in aircraft gun camera footage.
U.S. A-26 aircraft in the European Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) A-26s Invader bomber aircraft fly in formation. Pilot at controls in the cockpit. View of the bomb bay of aircraft.