Return of forces to Germany III (REFORGER III) exercise in Panzing, Germany. Mobile bridge Armored Vehicle Launch Bridge (AVLB) opens at riverbank and span over river. U.S. M-60 tanks and M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APCs) cross a bridge. Ambulance crosses the tank. Tanks fired and explosion on ground. Friendly forces in defensive position. Troops run and board U.S. Army UH-1D helicopters. Helicopter takes off. M-113 APCs cross armored vehicle launch bridge.
A long line of German soldiers happily make their way along a road in Germany on the American-occupied side of the Elbe River, at Tangermunde, Germany after the German surrender in World War 2. A German soldier, wearing only underclothes and dog tags, emerges from swimming across the Elbe River just as an American Field Grade officer is escorting some German officers along the river bank. The American motions for the swimmer to join them. Next, the swimmer is he is seen with another successful swimmer, being escorted by American soldiers.
A United States soldier visits a German family for Christmas dinner in Bad Tolz, Germany. Interior of house shows Otto Holler speaking. He welcomes his Christmas dinner guests, Private First Class Fuchs and American soldier Townsend. Townsend speaks in German at dinner table. “Mein Deutsch ist nichts so gut” (“My German is not so good” in English) the United States soldier said in German. Mr. Holler speaks in English at table. Holler's child and wife seated at table. Townsend thanks Holler.
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler walks with another officer. The leaders pose. Hitler confers over maps with top Generals and officers.
View of the Tempelhof airfield. One of Reinhold Tiling's recoverable rockets is fired and rises high above the field. As its fuel is exhausted, it levels off and begins to glide down to earth on its extended fin-wings. Tiling, his assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, examine and pick up the recovered rocket as official observers gather around them. Tiling and his team pose, with the revovered rocket, for cameramen and reporters, Closeup of the rocket as Tiling touches the expended fuel cylinder. They then unfold fins and Tiling explains their function to reporters. Tiling and his team carefully raise another rocket on its launch frame at a different location, on sand dunes.Angela Buddenboehmer sits on the sand with the launch control as Tiling gives her the signal to close the circuit. The rocket fires and rises rapidly until its fuel burns out, when it begins to glide down on its wings.
Picture of Johann Heinrich Graf Von Bernstorff and his wife. He was the German ambassador to the United Nations and Mexico from 1908 -1917. Huge crowd gathered on the road. Two officers talking amongst themselves. United States soldiers stand holding a banner that states 'The stars and the Stripes forever'.
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