Germany after Allied military forces take over at close of World War II. Destroyed railway marshaling yard after the bombardment by Allied bombers. Wrecked freight wagons carry a destroyed camouflaged car. Wrecked equipment and railroad tracks mangled by bomb explosions. Destroyed fuselage of a German warplane on a wrecked freight car. Swastika on wrecked Nazi airplanes.
Formation of U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 bombers in flight over Germany during World War 2.Gunners firing 50 caliber machine guns from various positions in a B-17, as attacking German interceptor aircraft race past. One German aircraft is hit and pieces of it fall off. B-17 enters bombing run. View of bombardier and bomb sight image. German aircraft continue attacks and gunners continue defending as the bombardier announces "bombs away." This is a high altitude mission and all crew members are on oxygen. Glimpse of pilot and copilot in cockpit. Pilot alerts gunners to a German FW-190 aircraft attacking them. Waist gunners pause to look at a German fighter smoking, as it falls, and strikes the ground in an explosion. Sequence shifts to formation of B-24 Liberator bomber on a mission with bombs visible dropping from bomb bays. Sequence shifts again, rapidly, to a formation of B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs. Nighttime view of incendiary clusters being dropped on Japan. (Note: One of the B-29s seen is serial number 42-24547, assigned to the 6th Bomb Group, 315th Bomb Wing. This B-29 crashed short of the runway on 31 Dec 1944, at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, where the 6th bomb Group underwent combat crew training. And the B-29s shown do not display any tail codes.)
German aircrafts return after successfully shooting down American planes in Germany during World War II. Pilots get down from the planes. Two German Pilots explain to an Officer how they could successfully shoot down American planes. German Pilots being congratulated by an Officer as they explain their successful attack on American bombers.
Reenactment. View of customers dining at a Jewish restaurant in germany. Nazi Brown Shirts enter the restaurant and attack the customers.
Mother with newborn infant, surrounded by family,in hall hung with oil paintings. A Nazi German officer can be seen in background. Woman holds the child. A man makes a speech extolling the virtues of Motherhood, family, and having children in Germany.
German women and children stand in line to buy heating coal during time of need and shortages in Germany following World War I. American troops march by as German civilians gather to buy coal from parked railroad train cars. Man weighing coal bag and woman pays man. A young boy stands by and watches the camera curiously, and making some funny face expressions. German woman seen paying a younger girl also.
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