U.S. aircraft parked and operating at German airfield near end of World War 2. United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning and German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (stork) German liaison aircraft parked on the base. P-38 twin engine fighters, P-47 fighters, and C-47 transport aircraft taxiing and taking off from the air base. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft parked at the air base.
Four P-47s of the 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, operating from rough field at advanced landing strip Y-54, Keltz, Germany, near end of World War 2, in Europe. United States Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft taking off on the dirt airstrip raising much dust. They are equipped with 150 gallon drop tanks. The P-47s flying in formation overhead.
United States Army Air Forces aircraft in Germany during World War 2. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft landing on a runway. An antiaircraft machine gun and crew seen intermittently in the foreground. After the landing P-47s clear the runway, others, that were lined up waiting, take off.
U.S. Army Air Forces mechanics performing routine maintenance on a P-47 fighter airplane in Germany during World War 2. A crew chief wipes off the engine cowling, which has been removed from the airplane. A mechanic makes adjustments to the engine. A pilot, in leather jacket, paints paints an area in red on the fuselage, below the cockpit.
American airmen engaged in routine work at a base in Germany near the conclusion of World War 2, in Europe. Three airmen mechanics open tailgate door of a mobile shop. They pick out tools from the shop. They work on an improvised washing maching. GIs hang up laundry on a line. An improvised GI laundry. A crewman reads while sitting on a tub. Airman cleans out Commander's staff car. One of the crewman eating K-ration. Crewmen rig up the washing machine. Several airmen smile as they jointly pull on handle of a pipe wrench. Airmen washing a 6x6 Army truck. Water running out of the truck bed.
U.S. soldiers in Milan, Italy, near end of World War 2 in Europe. German women, Luftwaffe girls and Red Cross women are transported to other places in trucks. German prisoners of war (POW) driving their own convoy, unescorted, heading towards U.S. lines.
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