Army Specialist Fred Cochran wearing headphones speaks over microphone at AFN (American Forces Network) studio in West Berlin, Germany. Announcer reads from sheets of papers kept on desk. Disc Jockey Cochran after his midnight shift prepares to go home. Radio engineer checks instruments at master control room in the radio sound studio.
German Führer Adolf Hitler's military emissaries bring greetings to famous 85-year-old German Field Marshal August von Mackensen during World War II. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other officials converse with von Mackensen and present him a laudatory document. At one point, Mackensen appears to be lecturing Field Marshal Keitel in attendance. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szálasi and other leaders of the nationalist Arrow Cross Party visit Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany. Szálasi and Hitler speak to each other while walking. Szálasi and Hungarian officials are seen wearing the Arrow Cross Party armbands.
The United States First Army enters Roetgen, Aachen and other German border towns without opposition during World War II. Map showing the capture of the Ardennes, Albert Canal, Aachen, and Trier by the First Army. View of Luxembourg’s Ardennes. A dugout in Wallendorf, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. A captured pillbox displays sign in German reads “Der führer besichtigte diese anlage am 15. mai. 1939” (“The Führer visited this facility on May 15, 1939” in English). The town of Wallendorf with heavily damaged buildings from recent Allied shelling. Civilians saving their belongings outside the bombed “Gastwirtschaft von Franz Wenzel” in Wallendorf. Troops on moving M4 Sherman tanks and Jeeps. Soldiers climb the hill and enter Germany. The troops maneuver over fields. Troops occupy the Roetgen, located approximately 16 km (10 mi) south-east of Aachen. 'Roetgen' written on building. White flag on building of 'The Deutsche Reichsbahn'. View of village and huts. Belgian White Army lights fire for supplies by airborne. They gather hay to make bonfires. A White Army soldier with bayonet scans the sky. Another soldier holds a rifle. Soldier watches through binoculars towards plane. A passing bomber drops supplies for the Belgian White Army. Parachutes landing on earth. Supplies and arms are dropped to and retrieved by Belgians. Parachute are rolled and returned to England. Men load supplies into a truck. Horse cart moves away.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. A traveling electric news billboard in a business area at night. News about the U.S. Town Commandant of Berlin Sectors Albert Watson II and the Soviets.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. Buildings in the background. Crane lifts coal from the barge. It dumps the coal onto the pile.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. C-131B, C-47, British European Airways (BEA) and Vickers Viscount 701 at Tempelhof airport. DC-6 and C-54 in flight over apartments. Television antennas on the top of the apartments. Plane lands.
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