U.S. .Army Air Corps (USAAC) fighter planes operating at Florennes/Juzaine airfield (A-78), Belgium, near the end of World War 2, in Europe. P-61A serial 42-5575 "No Love, No Nothing II" of the 422nd Night fighter Squadron, holding short of the active runway, as several P-47s, of the 365th Fighter Group, land. The P61 takes the active and departs. A P-38 Lightning fighter taking off. It has red diamond on outer sides of its tails identifying it as from the 429th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group. An olive drab P-47 , without markings, parked across from a junkyard of airplane parts. An airman rummaging through the parts. Army vehicles and ground crews amongst several parked P-47 thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
Houses burning after Wingene, Belgium is retaken by Allied forces during World War II. A house with its roof covered in flames. Soldiers driving on a Jeep pass by burning house. A United States helmet and helmet liner with shell hole. Wrecked and burning United States vehicles such as Jeeps, trucks in deserted streets. A doorway blocked by burning debris. Thick smoke covers the streets as houses burn. Remains of a bombed house with only its façade left. More burning homes in Wingene, on the Belgian province of West Flanders. Pillars of smoke rises in a battlefield outside Wingene.
United States Army 101st Airborne soldiers marching in double file along snow-covered road in Bastogne, Belgium during World War II. Soldiers march on road between barbed wire fence and snow-covered trees. Soldiers’ boots are covered in snow as they move. Group of officers around field telephone in woods. Brigadier Gerald J Higgins, Deputy Division Commander of 101st Airborne talks to officers in the forest. Brigadier Higgins and officers study map together as snow falls on them.
U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division advance in Belgium during World War 2. U.S. Army Captain examines a snow-covered disabled M4 Sherman tank, with shell holes in it, in Sterpigny, Belgium. Damaged buildings all around. American soldiers look at a damaged German Panther tank. View of jeep approaching on road. Shattered trees along the roadside. (Note:This footage was shot in the town of Sterpigny, Belgium just after 16 January 1945. The 2nd Battalion, U.S. 330th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 3rd Armored Division and fought alongside tank units of the 3rd Armored Division against elements of the 9th SS Panzer Division to capture the town on 16 January.)
Elements of U.S. Army arriving in a town in France, in August, 1944, during World War 2. Local people line the sides of the roads to welcome them. Young French women reach up to American soldiers in the back of an open stake truck and later mingle with them on the ground. Some of them kiss the soldiers. Some American flags are displayed by people in the crowd of well-wishers. One American soldier holds up a souvenir Nazi flag.Large crowds of French people gathered in a square to welcome the Americans. Many display the "V for Victory" sign with their hands. Film fades to a brief glimpse of a fallen soldier, and new slate reads: "Counterattack." Next, U.S. Medical Corpsmen are seen carrying American wounded to ambulances in the field in December, 1944.Several views of medics attending to American wounded soldiers. American infantrymen advancing across a field beside a Pershing T26E3 tank. (Note: It has 6 bogey wheels. Not designated M26 until 1945.) American infantry advancing into area of burning buildings and then into built up part of town, where they take up defensive positions inside a building. A U.S. soldier firing out a building window. Other U.S. soldiers firing from positions behind a wall. One is next to a mortar. Buildings burning and destroyed all around them. Close-up of American soldiers firing M1 Garand rifles from behind the wall. Infantrymen hunkered down behind a stone wall with light snow atop it. An explosion from a hand grenade raises smoke. A medical Corpsman checks a fallen American soldier for sign of life. Next, a Chaplain is seen reading from a small bible or prayer book, as he stoops over the fallen soldier. Fallen and wounded soldiers are carried to a truck, from the battlefield, on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to captured German film depicting two junior officers conversing in the field and then to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel conversing with an artillery assault gun officer. Rommel holds a pair of eyeglasses in his right hand. The gun officer wears binoculars around his neck. A war torn city. German Volkssturm (People's Militia) parading. Some carry panzerfaust anti-tank weapons over their shoulders. A field full of German King Tiger II Ausf. B Heavy Tanks. One being driven out of the field. A German SdKfz 251 halftrack maneuvering in woods. it is covered with foliage for camouflage. German soldier in an open single seat courier car. It and he are spattered with mud. Close-ups of the mud-spattered driver smoking an cigar. German infantry moving across a field and moving along a road, in the mist. German infantry moving along a muddy road near a forest. A German V-1 Buzz bomb seen overhead with engine running. It flames out. Next an explosion and rising smoke is seen inside a town.
Breendonck Concentration Camp in Belgium during World War II. Views of the camp. Blood-stained coffins at the camp are exhibited as an evidence of brutality and atrocities by Nazi German guards.
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