General of the Japanese Imperial Army Tomoyuki Yamashita on official vist in Germany during World War II. The Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita enters a room. The General shakes hand with a German officer. General Yamashita presents a sword to the German officer. Other Japanese delegation officers and German officers stand in the background. The German General speaks to the Japanese General. Both of them shake hands. A Japanese officer takes out the sword from its cover. General Yamashita holds the sword in his hands. Japanese script written on the sword. The officer holds the sword in his hand.
Allied troops in Germany during World War II. Allied troops walk on a street. Damaged buildings on either side of the street. Rubble on the street. The troops on tanks and trucks advance. First U.S. Army troops in a trench with guns. The troops on tanks fire and advance. The troops on a tank advance. An insignia of the United States on a tank. The U.S. 9th Army troops on jeeps cross the Rhine river. A troop on a bridge crosses the river. The troops enter a German town Lich. The damaged buildings. A soldier fires a gun. The dead German soldiers. The captured German troops raise their hands and advance. The German people stand. A view of the damaged and wreckage in Julich. Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the U.S. 9th Army Commander W.H. Simpson inspect positions near Julich. A view of the damaged town. The civilians walk on a street. The captured German soldiers walk on the street. Russian and Polish prisoners are liberated. The U.S. Army soldier greet the Russians and Polish prisoners. The prisoners are liberated and meet each other. A soldier stands with a woman. A view of a German concentration camp. The buildings at the camp. Barbed wire fence around the camp.
The U.S. 510th Tank Battalion, of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, in Germany. The unit's roots go back to 1866 (Buffalo Soldiers). Troops lined up for a fun ceremony welcoming their 100 pound baby Buffalo mascot, from Allentown, Pennsylvania. An Army truck with canvas cover sits as backdrop. The canvas is painted with their buffalo unit insignia and the word "Geronimo." A Lieutenant Colonel and a noncom bring the calf forward and it drinks from a container held by the Colonel, who then places large "dog tags"around the calf's neck. The tags read " Allen T. Geronimo" and give its serial number as 12345678, and key dates as 1954. Unit band then plays.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany (Gerszewski Barracks, Knielingen) for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). Several shots of officers keeping money boxes on a trolley. The boxes with money are loaded in a truck. The officers keep a watch. Trucks carrying money drive on a road. The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The boxes are piled up. The money is burnt. Officers pick up MPCs and put them into the fire. The whole committee witnesses the burning of the scrip money. The officers collect money and put it into the fire.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The money burning. An officer light a cigarette from burning bills. The officer uses a stick to put the money in fire. The money burning. The convoy met by MP car speeding on the icy autobahn. A U.S. truck carrying money backs up towards the building. A man directs the truck. The officer unload boxes. They open a box. Money inside the box. The officers look at the box. An officer pushes the money in fire. The officers one after the other sign on a document
African American U.S. Army infantry soldiers bivouacked among shrubbery near a field in Germany during World War 2. Large canvas tarpaulins set up as temporary shelter. Several African American soldiers preparing breakfast. One slices bacon into a frying pan set up on the hood of a jeep. Several other soldiers gathered around the jeep. A soldier using a long handled shovel to dig a deep foxhole. A view of him sitting down in the foxhole. View of the bivouac site with a statue, of Christ on the cross, in foreground, and tents; several troops at a campfire; and an antiaircraft machine gun in the background. Two M20 armored cars parked near a German house.
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