U.S. 1st Army, 23rd Regiment, 2nd Division soldiers attack on Mechernich, Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers crossing field and entering Mechernich. Soldiers enter houses. Soldiers break window and climb into house. U.S. officers including Brigadier General Truman E Boudinot, Major General Maurice Rose and Brigadier General Doyle Hickey on the steps of cathedral in Cologne during its capture by U.S. 1st Army. Ruined buildings in surrounding area.
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff exit the plane at Rheinman airport, Germany. Control tower at Rheinman airport. U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster nicknamed 'Independence' taxis on airstrip. U.S. JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) get off the plane. JCS walk across airstrip. JCS descend the stairs of plane. U.S. Admiral Donfield, General Omar Bradley and General Hoyt Vandenberg descend the stairs and talk with other officers and civilians near the plane and walk away. JCS stand at attention before a color guard. Airport MPs (Military Police) at attention. Generals talk to each other and with the press. Crowd of army personnels in front of them. Chiefs get into a car. Motorcyclists escort the car.
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff exit the plane at Rheinman airport, Germany. U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster nicknamed 'Independence' taxis on airstrip. U.S. JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) descend down the stairs of the plane. JCS walk across airstrip. JCS descend the stairs of plane. U.S. Admiral Donfield, General Omar Bradley and General Hoyt Vandenberg talk with other officers and civilians near the plane and walk away. JCS stand at attention before color guard. Airport MPs (Military Police) at attention. Generals talk together and with the press. Crowd of army personnels in front of them. Chiefs get into a car. Motorcyclists escort the car as it moves away.
U.S. soldiers raid houses in Munich in search of suspects during World War II. Line of tanks, jeeps, and half tracks along roads and streets of Munich on swoop raid. Army vehicles move through bombed out Munich. Infantrymen run along street of Munich. Soldiers raid house for suspected under grounders. Soldiers search a house. A man being arrested. Suspect enters a Command Post. Officer questions the suspect. Suspected homes being raided by soldiers, arrests are made and suspects being brought in for questioning. Suspects leave the Command Post afterwards.
Raid on stolen car dealer in Vienna, Austria during World War II. Group of U.S. MPs (Military Police) walk along a sidewalk. MPs enter an office of a suspected garage. Suspected man's briefcase being emptied, contents being examined by raiding officers. People with their hands behind head. Another suspect being searched and a car being examined. Soldiers examine the belongings of a suspect. Woman suspect hides her face.
Camp for Russian prisoners in Plattling, Germany soon after World War II. Russian prisoners being placed in line by a U.S. soldiers. Prisoners walk along a field and being lined up. Prisoners carry their meager possessions. Line of U.S. trucks. Russian and U.S. soldiers on guard. Line of Russian prisoners being marched to trucks for return to Russia. Prisoners getting into a truck guarded by rifle carrying U.S. soldiers. Truck pulls off. Trucks drive up to a train. Prisoners being searched for knives or weapons of any kind. Historical record accompanying the footage indicates that these Russian prisoners were former Russian soldiers, captured by the Germans, and that some of them then joined and fought for Germany.
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