U.S. 99th Infantry Division enters Wetzlar, Germany. A platoon of infantry of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Regiment, first element of 99th Infantry Division enters the city and citizens watch. Soldiers carrying rifles walk along in the streets. German civilians carrying their belongings walk along the streets. An army tank filled with soldiers moves past. View of Ernst Leitz optical factory. U.S. soldiers in the foreground. (World War II period).
Traffic over Main River in Mulheim, Germany. Vehicles of U.S. 90th Division cross a temporary bridge over the main river. Various views of trucks passing over the bridge. Factories in the background. Soldiers seated in a jeep cross the bridge. (World War II period).
A prison camp for Allied airmen at Dulag-Luft near Wetzlar, Germany in World War II. Colonel Charles W Stark of Orlando, Florida senior officer at camp and Lieutenant Commander Robert E Jennings of the U.S. Navy. Smiling liberated prisoners stand behind barbed wire fence. Sign reads "Women Only". Views of individuals, liberated U.S. and Allied soldiers. Many prisoners wearing bandages and on crutches. Group of smiling prisoners pose with German Army doctor who attended to them while at camp. Colonel Stark speaks with some of the men.
A prison camp for Allied airmen at Dulag-Luft near Wetzlar, Germany. Views of German officers who ran the prison camp in World War II. Allied prisoners of war enter wooden building marked "staged Door Canteen". Liberated prisoners shake hands with some of the U.S. soldiers who were captured in the town. Many prisoners wearing bandages and on crutches. Plane fly over camp area. Prison camp, group of liberated prisoners wave and smile in front of signs indicating distances to London, New York and others.
A prison camp for Allied airmen at Dulag-Luft near Wetzlar, Germany during World War II. Prisoners leave camp on foot and in trucks. Prison camp area, liberated prisoners wave and smile. Many prisoners wearing bandages and with crutches. Several German soldiers under guard are marched past liberated men. They enter a building. Trucks filled with prisoners. Prisoners seated in truck wave. Trucks leave the camp area.
Russian and American troops meet in Torgau Germany during World War II, at the River Elbe. U.S. soldiers being photographed. American Major-General Emil F. Reinhardt, Commanding General of the 69th Division, with his Russian counterpart Major-General Vladimir V. Rusakov, Commanding Officer of the 58th Guards Division and American and Russian troops march on road. US, Russian, and British flags on display.
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