The last month of combat in World War 2, in Europe. Gun camera footage from a U.S. 8th Air Force P-47M of the 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron. The aircraft strafes German targets of opportunity on the ground including German aircraft. Smoke rises from exploding building. A number of German aircraft burn. Aerial view of green fields and burning German buildings. The pilot is Captain Walter L Flagg of Conimicut, Rhode Island. His aircraft is Number: 44-21140, UN-F, named "Shoot You're Faded."
Near end of World War II in Europe. United States 9th Air Force P-47 aircraft, virtually unopposed, strafe German targets on the ground. Gun camera footage from P-47s of the 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron, flown by pilots Dugan, and Pantoliano, respectively. Burning German airplanes on an airfield. Other targets being struck. Slate at start of clip identifies home airbase as A-82 (Verdun Airbase, France).
U.S. M3 Stuart Light tank speeds into view and circles around. View from foxhole, underneath, as the tank drives over it. Tank crew quickly boards and moves out, leaving a trail of dust behind. The tank maneuvers on sandy hilltop, overlooking a German town below. The crew poses in combat stations.
Nazi concentration camps seen after being liberated at end of World War II in Europe. Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, visits the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Surrounded by crowds of U.S. soldiers, he views the remains of dead victims. A man demonstrates how a device is used to punish inmates. Scene shifts to the Buchenwald camp, where political prisoners were kept,. and then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Survivors are seen in pitiful condition from starvation, torture, deprivation and sickness. Burned skeletons of human bodies in the ovens. German female concentration camp guards (SS guards known as Aufseherinnen) walking in a line and then seen in formation. SS (Schutzstaffel) concentration camp guards, both men and women, and their leader, Josef Kramer, Commandant of the Belsen camp, seen forming up, and then marching off and being taken into custody.
Views of an unfinished underground German factory found after World War 2, near Muehldorf (Muhldorf) am Inn, east of Munich. It was intended to manufacture Me 262 jet aircraft engines and parts. A person walks out of the underground factory site. A truck moves on a road. Large equipment working. Construction materials and equipment at work. Small houses built.
Concentration camp scenes used in evidence during post-war World War 2 prosecution of Nazi war criminals. A Nazi concentration camp. U.S. troops standing outside a building. Medics treat and carry emaciated prisoners from a camp. A U.S. Naval officer, prisoner at a camp, is interviewed. He speaks about execution of U.S. prisoners of war and describes various atrocities and means used to kill prisoners. Man shows a club with barbed wire on it used to beat prisoners. View of dead bodies of prisoners in rail car under layer of snow. Dead bodies of people piled up on the ground.
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