Liberated Allied prisoners of war in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. A Red Cross car and a truck carrying supplies arrive. The Red Cross insignia on the car. A British soldier opens a box of supplies. Liberated Allied prisoners walk towards the car. The British soldier distributes supplies to the Allied prisoners mainly the British and the Americans. Another box being opened. The supplies being distributed. A liberated prisoner eats.
Map sketching positions of German forces at Alcheren and Arnhem separated by Allied forces at Antwerp and Numegen, Belgium, during World War 2. Views of the port at Antwerp silent and unusable due to German control of the Scheldt River downstream. British forces attacking those German forces at Walcheren, as Canadian, and Polish forces secure the South bank of the river. Royal Navy and Marines and Norwegians operating in the river itself. British minesweepers in the Scheldt River. View from the mine sweeper as mines are destroyed raising large plumes of water. The first supply ship arriving at port of Antwerp after Allied forces secured the river to the sea. The restored derricks and port facilities busy handling Allied ships and supplies. American Army trucks carrying supplies from the Port of Antwerp to Allied forces. Closeup of an African American soldier driving a truck. Supply trucks maneuvering around obstacles in a town. British soldier directing truck convoy traffic. Allied artillery barrage at night.
U.S. Army soldiers arriving in Army trucks, one company at a time, for 24 hours rest on the West band of the Moselle River, after combat on the East bank, during World War 2. The soldiers receive a hot meal, a hot shower and shave,issue of clean clothing, and get to attend a movie.(Poster advertises the film Bathing Beauty, starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton.) The next morning, troops board trucks to return to the front line again. Scene changes to U.S. troops in snow, as winter arrives. Squadron of British Spitfire aircraft seen on snow-covered field as airmen refuel them from hand-carried gas cans. An American Army woman nurse clears snow from military vehicle in Paris. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander of French Army B, consulting with Major General Wade Haislip, Commander of the U.S. XV Corps, during Winter campaign in Vosges Mountains. French forces firing a mortar. British forces entrenched and machine gunner trying to keep warm. Uniformed British women volunteers trying to keep warm in their office bunker. Allied infantry entrenched and moving across a field. American soldiers in the Ardennes forest suddenly find themselves under attack by German artillery and tanks (Battle of the Bulge). Shells exploding near camera position. Camera shakes. Soldiers taking cover and a jeep driving by as an explosion rocks the area immediately behind it in the trees of the forest.
Allied troops advance towards Cologne in World War II, Germany. Map depicts Allied invasion of Western Europe and advance towards Germany. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of UK Winston Churchill, and Soviet President Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta conference in Livadia Palace, Crimea, Russia. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery is seen consulting with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley. A group of American Sherman tanks firing their guns from a field. A building collapsing from shellfire. American troops firing truck-mounted machine guns equipped with huge enclosed drums of ammunition Glimpse of surrendering German soldiers running toward the camera. Barrages from rocket launchers. British soldiers running into a town with shells bursting and fires burning. An American soldier running behind two German soldiers he is taking as prisoners. US Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft diving to attack. View from cockpit of an aircraft flies through an explosion and fireball. Tanks and infantry advancing and firing. A U.S. P-51 fighter plane with white striped wings flies overhead. American troops riding in an M3 half-track. British soldiers manning a gun. Bombardier in a U.S. bomber bent over his bomb sight. View from aircraft of bombs bursting on the ground raising huge smoke clouds. More German soldiers running forward to surrender. Canadian soldiers moving forward through flooding waters. Canadian Commanding General Henry Crerar is seen with an aide. Canadian troops descending a hill into a town and fighting in the streets. Canadian troops firing mortars and artillery. American armor and infantry occupying a German suburb of Cologne. A woman hangs a large white flag from upper window of her house. Destroyed houses and German soldiers running with their hands held up. U.S. troops entering city of Cologne, with Cathedral in the background. Sherman tank moving toward the Cologne Cathedral.
First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Eric Geddes visits the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland towards the end of World War I. Sir Eric Geddes, British Admiral Alexander Duff, U.S. Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels and U.S. Navy Admiral W.S. Benson walk out of a building at the Naval Academy followed by other U.S. and British Navy Admirals. The group of officers descend the steps of the building. Bancroft Hall dormitory and Mahan Hall of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Japanese attack on Singapore during World War II. British civilians gather at a harbor. British soldiers and sailors stand near a ship and help the people, mostly British women and children, arriving at the harbor. Evacuating the war zone, civilians board the ship and wave toward shore as ship departs.
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