German forces evacuating German civilians from the Eastern Front during World War 2. Baltic Sea convoy officers assist in the evacuation of German civilians from the eastern front, where they are threatened by advancing Soviet forces. German civilian refugees, mostly women, board a ship. Girls talk aboard and a mother feeds her child on the ship. Convoy of warships escorting transports back to Germany.
Latvian aviation volunteers, who serve with the German Luftwaffe, parade in a ceremony, following training, in Latvia, during World War 2. Opening scene shows the Latvian and German flags flanking a speaker's stand. An honor guard of helmeted Latvian soldiers, with rifles, is seen closeup. A German Luftwaffe (German Air Force) officer stands at the podium and speaks, as large number of young Latvian aviation volunteers listen. Then the Latvian volunteers march, passing in review before German and Latvian officers who render the Nazi salute. Closeup of the parading volunteers. (Not all wear wings, presumably, because many will be serving as mechanics, and in other aviation ground support roles.)
German Air Force (Luftwaffe) operations in support of the German 990th Regiment (990th Volksgrenadier Regiment of the 277th Infantry Division) during battle of Normandy, following Allied invasion in World War 2. German Focke-Wulf FW-190s take off from a field in France and proceed on tactical mission interdicting Allied lines of communication in Normandy. View of FW-190 dropping bombs, and of others strafing roads, and ground targets where Allied military movements are underway.
German forces defending against Soviet attacks on the Eastern Front in WW2. German officers in the field confer over maps. German infantry walking through mist in a forest. German halftrack Camouflaged with foliage, pulling camouflaged artillery field piece. A halftrack pulling an 88mm Flak gun. Closeup of German soldier smoking a cigarette. German Stug IVs moving through forest. Infantry walking along a dirt road interspersed with Stug IV tank destroyers camouflaged with foliage.German soldiers carrying MG 42 machine guns. German tank camouflaged in branches and foliage. Tank destroyers and infantry armed with panzerfaust, to combat Soviet armor. A Soviet tank hit and smoking across a field, and two more burning on a dirt road. An MG34 machine gun. German infantry hunkered down in woods. A lone Soviet tank speeding along a dirt road, as a German soldier, armed with panzerfaust, watches while lying in grass. Explosion as tank is ostensibly hit by panzerfaust. Shell striking Soviet tank. Closeups of several knocked out Soviet tanks. German soldiers examine wrecked Soviet T-34 tank and SU-100 tank destroyer. German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-87 dive bomber aircraft flying low overhead and then bombing a building near Warsaw. Close up views of Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in flight during dives. Spectacular explosion following a strike by Stuka.
Formations of B-24 Liberator bombers are seen in flight, headed for Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943, during World War 2. Next, vertical columns of bombs are seen falling from the planes. Animated map of Europe shows Romania and Ploesti. It show paths of oil from the Ploesti oil fields to Germany. (Narrator states Ploesti provides 30% of Axis oil.) Map show path of 9th Air Force bombers from Libya to the Ploesti oil fields. Scenes shift to captured German films from 1944, showing the fires and destruction resulting from the constant B-24 raids. Huge black clouds rise from the area. Firefighters rush to combat flames. They direct streams of water on the conflagrations. (Commenter states: "Delayed action bombs prevented firefighters from rushing in, until too late.") Nighttime views of large fires and heavy smoke from 6 of Ploesti's 7 refineries ripped wide open. Film advances to August, 1944, showing Ploesti with the fires out, following Rumania's capitulation. Next, with some fires still burning, King Michael I of Romania, tours the site with military officers. They walk amidst the debris. Smoke rising near a rail marshaling yard. Against a background of dense smoke rising, a Slate is displayed showing the cost to the United States of the Ploesti raids, as 300 bombers and 3000 American airmen were lost.
German Army fights with the Allied infantry and tanks on the Western Front in France and England, during the summer of 1944 in World War 2. Animated maps show English and French invasion coastlines. During Battle of Caen, German soldiers load ammunition on a camouflaged truck. The truck driven on roads. A German soldier on truck observes American bombers in sky overhead. Truck parks to the side and German antiaircraft guns fired. Night view from ground of bombs being dropped and buildings burning in the distance in Caen, France. German military trucks move at night on roads passing by burning fires. View from inside cabs of moving German vehicles. Daytime view of heavily bombed and destroyed city of Caen with ruins of houses and shops; German infantry walk through the streets of the destroyed and empty city. German soldiers fully loaded with their weapons ready for a battle. Close views of their faces with determined expressions. German tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry move on roads. Among them are two Borgward IV remote-controlled demolition vehicles (Schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV, or heavy explosive carrier Borgward B IV) each driven by one man. Soldiers of German Army observe approach of U.S. Army forces. A German soldier arranges shells for artillery to fire as they fire on Allied positions. Wehrmacht infantry soldiers advance cautiously along roads. German soldiers take cover and prepare to attack as American tanks pass through a village. German soldiers fire on U.S. Army tanks. German soldiers direct an unmanned, remote-controlled small armored vehicle laden with explosives across a field and detonate it near U.S. Army vehicles (it is known as a Goliath Tracked Mine, or Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath (Sd.Kfz. 302/303a/303b); also known as a "beetle tank" to Allied forces, or a German robot tank). Large explosion as the remote-controlled demolition vehicle is detonated. Dead U.S. Army soldier along a road side, and injured German soldiers are aided by other German soldier
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