A film depicts the use of demolition equipment by the paratroopers during World War II. Paratroopers arrive near a bridge. They stand on the bridge and the officer instructs them. They practice on the bridge. They climb the pillar and fix the demolition charges. They discuss the strategies and the plans.
A film depicts the use of demolition equipment by the paratroopers during World War II. Paratroop engineers aboard a truck arrive at the air base. Airplanes parked on the air base. The paratroopers come out of the trucks. They pack and carry their demolition bags. They discuss a map of the target area over which they have to jump from their airplanes. The paratroopers are divided into two squads, the security squad and the demolition squad. They board the airplanes and the planes take off. The paratroopers jump out of the airplanes over the target area and descend with the help of parachutes. The paratroopers land and advance on the field towards the bridge. The demolition squad arrives and fixes the demolition charges on the bridge. The security squad guards them from enemy. The bridge explodes. The wrecked bridge.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along the sides of the street. Debris on the street. Tank crew and other soldiers seated on an M4 Sherman tank, in front of a damaged building. U.S. infantry moving along a sidewalk and followed by a Sherman tank. Glimpse of a white flag displayed on nearby building. View over the shoulder of American infantryman, firing his rifle, from rubble at side of road. An M26 Pershing tank and a jeep are parked in the street. The Pershing is firing at a building. The infantryman fires his rifle again. Two M36 Jackson tank destroyers drive past the firing Pershing tank.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. A dead civilian lies near a wrecked truck. U.S. tank passes in the background. Destroyed buildings along street sides. Debris on the street. Soldiers standing near a ruined building.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. German soldier with hands raised surrenders to United States Army soldiers. Destroyed buildings and wreckage along the street sides. Debris on the street. View from camera position looking out of at a street-level city window as a German Panzer tank is hit by fire from an Allied tank and goes up in flames, near the Cologne Cathedral. Smoke rising from the burning tank. (This is a slightly more distant view of the well-documented attack on a German Mark V Panzer tank, by gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in an American M-26 Pershing tank).
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along Old Town Cologne. Debris on the street. A tank's gun traverses. Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) in the foreground. A soldier standing beside a Jeep uses a field phone. Soldiers advance on the street.
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