Destruction of German war factories in Ebenhausen, Germany soon after World War II. U.S. General Lucian Truscott sets off dynamite detonator. U.S. soldiers walk through ruins of the German war plant in a wooded area after the blast.
Destruction of German war factories in Ebenhausen, Germany soon after World War II. U.S. soldiers walk through ruins of German IG Farben war plant in wooded area after the blasting.
U.S. infantrymen and tanks advance towards Munich, Germany during World War II. A U.S. motorized column moves towards Munich. A tank laden with infantrymen fords a stream. U.S. troops cross a stream in small boats. Infantry patrols move through fields and into the streets of Munich. Infantrymen talk to German civilians after entering Munich.
International Military Games under auspices of CISM (Conceil International Du Sports Militaire). View from a moving bus as it proceeds along an autobahn (highway) in Munich, Germany. About a dozen bluish colored flags are seen grouped in the space between the highway lanes. The view shifts to inside the bus, filled with military athletes in civilian clothes headed to the military olympics. The scenery outside is pleasant, with many green spaces and occasional housing units. The bus approaches a built-up area where another cluster of bluish flags is seen. The Olympiaturm (Olympic tower) marking the Olympiapark for the 1972 Olympic Summer Games, is seen out the bus window. (Note: those games will commence right after the CISM military games.)
Military athletes (in civilian clothes) sightseeing at Linderhof Palace, during their time in Germany for the International Military Games of the Conceil International Du Sports Militaire. They are assembled outside the Palace, on warm sunny day .A sign on the palace reads "English tours." View from a distance in the grounds shows beautiful woods and tall hedges of a formal garden surrounding a pond containing a gilded neptune fountain. Closeup of the fountain (not spraying). Statue of Venus and Cupid on a parapet. . View of the military athletes starting to move into the Palace, on the English-speaking tour. Other visitors strolling past a Neptune fountain with three horses in a semi-grotto on the grounds. Closeup of the fountain, with water flowing. The Golden Angel fountain in Western part of the Linderhof park.
U.S. Army Air Forces mechanics performing routine maintenance on a P-47 fighter airplane in Germany during World War 2. A crew chief wipes off the engine cowling, which has been removed from the airplane. A mechanic makes adjustments to the engine. A pilot, in leather jacket, paints paints an area in red on the fuselage, below the cockpit.
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