Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on radio equipment in the United States. The exterior of a U.S. Army Signal Corps building with "Squier laboratory" written outside the building. The interior of the laboratory. Engineers conducting experiments and working on various equipment for communications, including Radar, Color Radio Telephoto, and single sideband transmission for long haul radio communication. A machine that appears to be spinning and heating hot glass. An engineer operating a machine beneath a sign that says "Thermionic Shake Tests." An engineer tests various signal lights. Signal Corps men observing a radio tower. Instructors teach and demonstrate various kinds of radio relay equipment to other Signal Corps personnel. A large board reads "Multiplex terminating." An officer explains a diagram to the Signal Corps personnel. Soldiers examine disassembled radios. Demonstration of a map being transmitted to a soldier in the field via facsimile machine. Close views of a spinning drum on the facsimile machine and the map visible on it. A dramatized shot of a B-17 bomber aircraft in flight. The pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The pilot looks at the signals transmitted through the radar. The aircraft navigates with the radar in bad weather. A map locates Boston, Lynn, Nantasket and Quincy and it is compared to the radar image of the same region.
The United States Army 415th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along a street in Cologne. A soldier fires a rifle. Another soldier observes the surroundings through binoculars. Soldiers advancing on the street and firing rifles. Debris and rubble on the street. Destroyed buildings on both sides of the street. Wrecked vehicles on the street. Two soldiers talking.
The United States Army 415th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along a street in Cologne. Soldiers advancing through the street. The soldiers fire rifles from inside buildings. The artillery crew firing 60 mm mortar. A U.S. soldier gently removing rings from hands of a wounded German prisoner. United States Army soldier places a captured German weapon on the ground directly in front of the tread on M10 tank destroyer which then rolls over it. Debris on the street. Prisoners of war marching on the street.
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).
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