As German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter hovers over a snow covered field, a man climbs down a ladder from the helicopter and then back up again. The helicopter in flight with a vehicle suspended on its sling. The helicopter picks up an airplane fuselage and flies away with it. The helicopter lands, without any cargo, at a field.
Aircraft gun camera footage shows tracer bullets travel toward a German Messerschmitt Me-109 and Focke Wolf Fw-190 fighter aircraft in flight over river. Fw-190 leaves behind a white smoke trail.
Two girls practice gymnastics in garden. Same girls, nieces of Arthur Kannenberg, pose near headlights of Mercedes car and hold out a small Nazi flag mounted near the headlights. (The older girl is likely Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, born March 5, 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark). Arthur Kannenberg arrives and kisses the girls. In next scene, the two girls and a third, younger girl, present a bouquet of flowers to their grandfather on his 73rd birthday. Their grandmother stands next to them. The grandmother and the girls walk along a sidewalk and are met by another man and woman, possibly the girls's parents, outside the Villa Luise. Camera pans upward showing identifying sign on the building.
Soviet officers, under cover of camouflage netting, look through binoculars, during World War 2. Soldiers remove foliage camouflage from T-34 tanks hidden in a forest. A T-34 moving out of the forest shedding some foliage as it proceeds. The tank climbing a hill. A group of BT tanks moving across a field while under fire. Smoke rising all around from shells bursting. Infantry running , under shell fire. Marshal Georgy Zhukov and staff looking skyward from bunker under camouflage netting. Wide view of infantry charging across a field with shells exploding all around. Marshal Zhukov speaking on field telephone. Soviet soldiers hurriedly removing foliage camouflage from amphibious trucks (American Lend Lease DUKWs). Closeup of soldiers riding in one. Many are seen in various views as they proceed toward a river and plunge into the water. Closeup of two DUKWs underway. filled with armed soldiers. A woman soldier drives one of the amphibious vehicles. A soldier in one, uncoils wire from a large spool, as the vehicle runs in the water. Wide view of the DUKWs heading across the wide river. Then German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attack the amphibious vehicles. View upward to a formation of them peeling off and diving toward the Soviet amphibious vehicles. Bombs bursting all over the river. On the river shore, batteries of Soviet antiaircraft guns fire at the German planes. Soviet soldiers rush ashore after reaching the opposite river bank, as attacking German planes fly overhead. Gun camera views from a Soviet aircraft engaging a German plane in a dogfight. Another view of Soviet soldiers leaving their amphibious vehicles. Two are burning at the shoreline. More views of German Ju-87s diving. Soviet aircraft gun camera view of German airplane being hit by its gunfire and exploding. Another view of Marshal Zhukov observing the battle front. A piece of the downed German airplane falls into the river..
U.S. infantrymen in a German town during World War II. U.S. troops and vehicles move along a cobblestone street. Group of German women stand in circle on sidewalk, not looking up. American soldiers standing about. U.S. infantrymen get into a truck which is towing a piece of field artillery through a forested area.
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.
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