U.S. soldiers of the 8th Armored Division in Hinsbeck, Germany during World War 2. Street scene in the town, as civilian residents return after temporary evacuation. Some push carts with belongings. A woman carries a mattress, followed some steps behind by a man with a bed spring. A woman carries a sleeping child. A young boy pushes a wooden wheelbarrow filled with large lumps of soft coal. Camera focuses on him as he turns in from sidewalk toward his house. A U.S. soldier sits in a jeep at an alleyway as a young woman pulls and a boy pushes a heavily laden small wagon, past him in the street.
The U.S. soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division in Niederhausen, Germany near end of World War II. Infantrymen seated atop M-4 Sherman tanks (with salvaged armor welded to the bow and also sandbag 'soft' armor for close quarters protection from Panzerfausts) and M-26 Pershing tanks. Tanks loaded with soldiers moving out of the town. The soldiers hold rifles. Houses line the street. Vehicles parked in the background. M-26 tank driving through the street. BAR gunner prominent amongst the infantry on the rear of the tank.
United States soldiers in Germany during World War II. Freed prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp seated on the ground and cooking food over open fires. Numerous German citizens of Weimar forced, under armed guard, to walk through the grounds of Buchenwald Concentration Camp where dead are piled up in a truck in a courtyard and against a wall of a building. A crematorium in the background. Some of the citizens show anguish and horror at the sights.
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.
United States Army Air Forces operations in Germany during final days of World War 2 in Europe. United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts taxiing on a ramp in front of an open hangar at Fritzlar Air Base. A group of crew chiefs conversing. Trees in the foreground. P-47 takes off. Crewmen pushing a bomb trailer. A crew chief reading the pony edition of the "Times." Mechanics work on jeeps. An airman, followed by a pet dog, climbs steps to a trailer. Enlisted man talking to a Tech Sergeant who leans out window of a building. An L-5 liaison airplane taxis in a parking area. Three U.S. soldiers walking across the perimeter strip. Enlisted men shake hands with pilot of the L-5, who carries a German cavalry sword as a souvenir. They walk into building through door with sign reading: : "Colonel Stecker, Commanding." (Colonel Ray Stecker is Commander, U.S. 365th Fighter Group, of the 84th Fighter Wing.) ground crewman washes down ramp with a hose. P-47 and refueling truck in background.
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