Repatriated French soldiers being processed at a reception center in Paris, France, at the end of World War 2, in Europe. A repatriated French Colonial soldier speaks with two French soldiers assisting with the processing. The repatriated soldiers are processed by women at a long counter. 'Identite' written beside the counter. Several officials seated behind the counter talking to the repatriates. A woman behind the counter talks to a soldier and annotates a document. She stamps the document. Two women seated at a desk. A repatriated soldier is fingerprinted by a soldier who presses the index fingers of both his hands on the stamp pad and rolls his inked fingers on a document.
German troops defending against allies, after the Normandy invasion. German antiaircraft crew firing at American bombers over German-occupied France, in World War 2. Destruction from Allied bombing. A wrecked French cathedral. Formations of U.S. B-17 bombers overhead. German antiircraft guns firing. One American bomber hit and falling. French civilians fleeing bombed area, with meager belongings. French emergency vehicles responding. burning wreckage of a downed B-17. Crosses and helmets mark graves of French soldiers. Allied flier POWs carrying their opened parachutes. Others being escorted to prison compound holding many American prisoners of war.Artwork decorating their lying jackets. One POW is from 101st Airborne Division. Waffen-SS General,Josef Dietrich, Commander,5th Panzer Army, consulting with field officers. German troops in camouflage, walk through woods. A huge explosion near the camera. Destroyed Allied armor. Knocked out M4 Sherman tank named "Pistolpackinmamma!"and one named "Blondie," and another,"Alice II."
Map showing the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. German soldiers carry supplies and load them into trucks. German army trucks, heavily camouflaged with foliage on a road in France. Closeup of a soldier in truck. A soldier scanning skies above for Allied aircraft. The truck pulls to side of road and soldiers stand looking up at planes overhead. German antiaircraft batteries firing. Allied bombs exploding near a German installation. Contrails overhead from U.S. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Fires burning from Allied bombs. German trucks moving at night, through area of fires. Buildings in a city being destroyed by Allied bombing. German infantry moving past destroyed buildings. German troops pose at side of a road. Closeups of the battle-weary German soldiers. A German Stug IV tank destroyer. A German one-man armored car. Other German armor moving on road. German infantry and one soldier with a bicycle. Two soldiers carrying MG 42 machine guns with folded tripods, over their shoulders. One carrying a Panzerfaust recoilless anti tank weapon. Soldier putting foliage on his helmet. German troops moving through wooded areas and running while under fire. Shells or bombs exploding only yards away. German soldiers hunkered down in ditches. More explosions extremely close to the camera. Troops smoking cigarettes during a brief lull. German armor moving in foliage. Soldiers stacking artillery shells and firing artillery. A knocked out Allied Sherman tank. German soldiers moving cautiously along roadside ditches. An American Sherman tank seen passing a farm building. German troops carrying antitank Panzerschreck and Panzerfaust weapons. An American M4 Sherman tank moving rapidly and a soldier firing a Panzerschreck. More U.S. tanks and more Panzerschreck anti-tank rocket launchers are being fired. German soldiers covered in foliage crawling through underbrush and running past U.S. tank. Soldiers sending out a Goliath Sd.kfz 302 remote controlled mine. Knocked out American armor. Weary and wounded German soldiers.
German forces battle against invading Allies in France, during World War 2. German German ME-109 and FW-190 aircraft starting engines on an airfield. Three ME-109s take. Pilot point of view from inside cockpit as aircraft strafes ground targets. An FW-190 in flight. View from cockpit during strafing run. View of pilot's hand on control stick. View from cockpit of strafing run against targets on village streets. German machine gunners in trenches look through binoculars. Huge explosions nearby from Allied counterfire. German artillerymen fire heavy guns, at zero elevation, from positions in forest. Germans in assault guns and tanks covered with foliage camouflage. View from inside a tank as it crushes foliage in its way. Tank commander in Tiger tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101 talks on radio. Panther tanks firing. Marder III tank destroyer. Tiger tank of s.Pz.Abt.505 fires. Destroyed and disabled Allied armor, including Assault guns and Sherman tanks. GermanTanks and infantry fire at Allied positions. German infantry engaged in house-to-house battles and using flame thrower, in ruins of a French town. German rocket launchers obscured by smoke as they fire rapidly.
Opening scene shows ground crew loading bombs on a Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft of the USAAF 323rd Bombardment Group at Denain-Prouvy Airdrome, France (A-83) in World War 2. The aircraft is parked on pierced steel planking (Marsden Matting). Glimpse of aircrew members, carrying their parachutes, as they climb into the back of an open truck. Next, ground crewman steadies a bomb as another man operates controls to lower it from an M6 bomb service truck. Ground crewman screws fins on the bomb. View shifts to inside the truck carrying aircrew members, as more climb aboard it. Several crew members climb down from the truck, as it arrives at their aircraft. Others are seen already at their respective aircraft parked nearby. Rough slate identifies the airfield as A-83, and day as 22 April. An officer, bombardier, is seen strapping himself into the nose of a B-26. Bombardier makes adjustments to his bomb sight. Pilot and copilot close their respective canopies. Name: "Wild-Bill" seen painted below copilot's window.
Film opens showing armorers riding atop bombs being towed by an M6 Bomb Service Truck, at Denain-Prouvy Airdrome, France (A-83) in March, 1945. The truck drives slowly along the field, past parked Martin B-26 Marauder medium bombers of the 323rd Bombardment Group. One of the airmen plays a harmonica as he rides along. After a while the truck turns to a parked B-26, tail number 41-34942, where the armorers climb down and begin loading bombs on the aircraft.
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