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U.S. Army Air Force General and U.S. Army General visit the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II.
U.S. Generals visit the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force General Carl Andrew Spaatz and U.S. Army General Omar Nelson Bradley visit the Liberty Bell. They touch the bell and smile. Philadelphia Mayor, Bernard Samuels,shows them inscribed names and a crack in the bell. The Generals pose with, an unidentified Major General, for a camera. Military officers, in a reviewing stand, rise to applaud the Generals. The American flag in the background.
Rescued inmates talks about their experiences at concentration camp # 3 in Linz, Austria towards the end of World War II.
Rescued inmates of the concentration camp # 3 talk about their experiences in Linz, Austria towards the end of World War II. The rescued assembled outside a wooden house. Those who were inside the house look outside through a window. The inmates are emaciated. An Italian talks about the adverse living conditions they faced at the concentration camp. He states that they had very little food, they slept 3 or 4 to a bed and there was no way to wash. He said he was also at Mauthausen for a time before being transferred. In total he had been in concentration camps for 8 months and considered himself very lucky to have lived. He said that in Linz there were 50 men in his quarters and each day 3 to 4 men died. He tells how he worked in a forced labor factory in Linz building tanks for the Germans, working 12 hours a day as a welder.
Inmates at concentration camp #3 in Linz, Austria discuss their experiences while held prisoners by the Germans in World War 2
Near the end of World War II, three freed inmates at a German concentration camp in Linz Austria (camp #3) discuss their treatment while at the camp. They speak in English but with varying accents including French. They speak in an open yard of the camp, with barracks in the background. The former inmates talk about lethal injections, cold baths, whippings, hangings, and extermination camps. They also talk about the joy when the camp was liberated by the Americans, which was preceded by the Americans bombing the Nazi forces in the area. They mention that the bombing cut off the water to the camp so the SS forces could no longer subject inmates to the cold baths. They discuss hangings of three prisoners from a scaffold in the yard behind them, and how all the camp inmates were assembled and forced to look at the hung inmates. One of the freed inmates talking is named Alex. They discuss how the jews in the camp had been rounded up and locked in a room with no food. They were in the room two days before being saved by the Americans. They also talk about the camp at Mauthausen where prisoners were subjected to hard labor, torture with heavy rocks, and executed by the SS after 5 days. Also they speak of inmates put in chains and dogs used at Mauthausen.
Hungarian Lieutenant General Vitéz Kassai Farkas László talks to a U.S. Army officer in Linz, Austria (WW2)
Hungarian Lieutenant General Vitéz Kassai Farkas László accompanied by his staff, talks to an officer of the U.S. Army in Linz, Austria towards the end of World War II. An American officer orders his sergeant (interpreter) to ask the Hungarian General for his correct name and rank. The sergeant translates the officer's question into Hungarian . He answers with his name, Vitéz Kassai Farkas László, and rank: Lieutenant General. The officer asks him more questions about his men and about the Nazi Germans. The sergeant translates the questions and their responses for both men. The General smokes a cigarette. The sergeant also smokes a cigarette. The officer states that the American Army will not take the General's men prisoner, and will help them to return back to their country. The General stands on the bonnet of a jeep for a thanks giving speech. He thanks the U.S. Army for their humane treatment. His men also join him and cheer the news from their General about the Americans' statement.
U.S. Quartermaster Corps salvaging war materiel during World War II, in Italy
Film opens showing a burning building collapsing during World War 2, in Europe. A burning U.S. millitary vehicle on a street explodes. Another one catches fire and black smoke billows from it. American troops gather in the area, along with a truck, a jeep and an ambulance. Next, a bulldozer driven by a U.S. soldier, is seen moving debris from the scene. Then a large salvage depot is seen, with huge pieces of metal and parts stacked in it. Camera pans across the acres of materials, as it follows several soldiers walking along a path in the depot. The materials seen include pieces of American and German airplanes and armaments. A so-called mop-up crew of a Quartermaster Salvage Company is seen driving in a truck along a highway. They pull up next to the hulk of a crashed airplane. They pick up gasoline Jerry cans. They raise remains of a knocked out tank, by means of cables. One soldier is seen picking up personal military gear. A mop-up crew uses a derrick to retrieve parts of destroyed railroad cars. A soldier retrieves abandoned small arms near a river, as another fishes military clothing from the river, itself. Trucks are seen carrying retrieved items along a road to the depot. Two trucks enter the depot. One carries several German airplane wings. Several loaded trucks are directed to areas of the depot where they are to dump their loads. Views of the depot show how similar items are relegated to the same parts of the depot. Rubber tires are stacked in one area, and aircraft parts in another. Heavy trucks and tanks are seen being transported into one section of the depot.
Numerous scenes of U.S. Army Quartermaster salvage operations in Italy during World War II; also brief aircraft crash scene.
U.S. soldiers in the textile repair section of a Quartermaster Salvage Depot, are seen sorting military clothing of all types to be recycled an reissued, or otherwise used as rags for cleaning purposes. Workers from the local populace are hired as paid employees in these salvage operations. A woman removes bundles of used army uniforms from a horse drawn cart and gives them to children who carry them to other women and children who are seen working on various levels of a building, where they mend and otherwise repair and restore the garments. A man works at a sewing machine on the ground floor of the building. But the women and girls seen are all engaged in hand sewing. Scene shifts to a section of the depot yard where tents are being examined, sorted and repaired. Large tents are suspended from a crane to facilitate inspection. The next scene shows interior of a mobile repair shop designed for the Signal Corps, where soldier technicians work on electrical and electronic equipment. A soldier repairs an SCR 536 (better known as handy talky) and an Army Technician fourth grade (T/4) works on an SCR-508 mobile Signal Corps Radio. He tests each tube and connection. A Staff Sergeant removes parts from a BD 72 field switchboard. Outside, several local civilian men employed by the Depot, are physically salvaging useful items, such as brass knuckle joints from metal tubing. Another pulls worn copper wire from an armature. Elswhere in the yard, soldiers and local helpers salvage lead plates from old storage batteries, where they are melted down over a fire and poured into old army helmets, serving as improvised ingot molds. A huge collection of spent artillery shells covers a vast area in the depot. They are loaded aboard barges and brought to ships for transport back to the U.S where they will be repacked and reused. Soldiers collect unserviceable tires for reshipment back to the U.S. Soldiers inspecting a pile of tires. Soldiers inspecting rubber tubes and checking them for leaks. A pile of inflated tire tubes left to sit awhile before being inspected. Outside the infantry too repair shop, soldiers repaint pick mattocks and set them out to dry. Using tools they invented, two soldiers remove wooden handles from shovel blades and from ax handles, in the infantry shovel repair department. Inside the building, soldiers are seen repairing stoves in the stove repair department. One ignites a stove and checks its flame. In a corner of the shop, a worker repairs gasoline lamps. Several are seen illuminated. Soldiers hammer out dents in mess kits and use compressed air and stone molds to take dents out of canteens. One disinfects mess gear by dipping in a lye bath and then in water and repeating that procedure again. He hangs them in the sun to dry. At one spot (where no smoking is written on the wall in Italian) a soldier works repairing 5 gallon (Jerry) gasoline cans using air pressure and water immersion to detect any holes. A jerry can is brazed by a worker using an acetelyn torch and rod. A warplane is seen crashing in flames. Signs advertising salvage as savings, are seen in various places. Salvage trucks and cranes are seen along with glimpses of salvage crews at work. A cartoon sign by a destroyed building shows a GI with ax holding Hitler's head. It reads: "Behead Hitler. Turn in Salvage." Another cartoon sign shows a girl and reads: "You will bet back to me sooner, if you turn in your salvage." A GI whistles in admiration as he passes the sign to pick up two discarded jerry cans. He salutes the sign as he walks away.
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