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.
Aircraft in flight overhead in Frankfurt, Germany during World War II. United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt in flight overhead. A formation flight of the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over the clouds.
United States soldiers in Germany during World War II. A fire burning in a village. Houses in the town of Niederaula on fire. Heavy columns of smoke rising up from a burning village. Houses in the foreground. Vehicles driving past on a street.
A film about the conditions at Nazi German concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. Camp area with buildings. A dead body on ground with mutilated face. Dead bodies near a live wire fence. Dead include Russians, Poles and Czechs. A Russian woman liberated from a slave camp look at the dead.
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